Before the dust of the MLS Cup final had settled, there was a clear belief around Toronto FC that a new attacking midfielder would be the most significant item on the club’s winter shopping list.
After one or two deals seemed to fall through for different reasons in January, however, the thinking changed: maybe TFC could give the young-and-still-improving Jonathan Osorio and Jay Chapman the chance to impress in the first half of the season and reassess in the summer, when the European window reopened.
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As soon as that second scenario began to appear more likely than not, the Reds got their man.