Chance creation and speed. Those were two of the buzz terms coming into the offseason for the Houston Dynamo, and on Monday, the club believes they acquired both.
Houston landed playmaker Cristian Maidana and Andrew Wenger from the Philadelphia Union in exchange for an undisclosed amount of targeted allocation money, allocation money and the No. 6 overall pick in the upcoming MLS SuperDraft.
It was a steep price for the Dynamo to pay, but if they’re right about the players they got in return, it could be a trade that goes a long way to curing the ills experienced in 2015.