Grading five years of RSL transfer windows

The Salt is a recurring column focused on opinion and analysis on the latest Real Salt Lake news from RSL Soapbox managing editor Matt Montgomery.

With the transfer window slamming to a close yesterday, I started taking a look at previous transfer windows to mount a little bit of a comparison. In doing so, I found that it’s a fair amount of work, and nobody’s really compiled it all in this sort of format that I could easily find, so you’re going to get a little bit of a limited look.

Ideally, though, this gives me a framework for looking at future transfer windows, so hopefully I remember this exists.

Anyway, on to the fun. I’m going to grade each of RSL’s last 10 transfer windows. Transfer…