The Philadelphia Union’s signing of center back Oguchi Onyewu yesterday may have seemed a little anticlimactic. While it’s exciting to get a guy like Gooch on the squad, it wasn’t exactly a big surprise that this was going to happen. An out of contract guy with a ton of caps doesn’t just fall out of the sky into your preseason training if there’s not a job offer at the end of the line.
Regardless of whether or not it was a surprise, it seems to be a good move - although there are a few factors that remain to be seen.