The New York Red Bulls made the decision to shift club captain Dax McCarty to the Chicago Fire in January, and it remains the most significant decision of the team’s off-season - though perhaps only because there has yet to be an official statement about the fate of absentee sporting director Ali Curtis.
The current incarnation of RBNY announced itself in 2015 with the abrupt firing of head coach Mike Petke. That was quickly followed by the sudden trade of Ambroise Oyongo and Eric Alexander, a move that caught Oyongo unawares and knocked his career off course for a few months.