Sporting Director Claudio Reyna and Head Coach Patrick Vieira were both delighted at how MLS SuperDraft 2017 played out.
NYCFC used General Allocation Money to move up the order to secure the services of Jonathan Lewis and Kwame Awuah in the first round, before bringing in Jalen Brown in the second.
Vieira told NYCFC.com: “I’m really pleased because in the last three days we had a clear plan about the players we wanted to pick – players who could play the way we want to play.
“It wasn’t easy at all to bring in these players but I have to say that David (Lee), Claudio (Reyna) and Khaled (El-Ahmad) did a great job to allow me to have the players I wanted to work with – all credit to them because they made it happen and they’ve been really smart with these moves.