Real Salt Lake has, in some ways, been slightly ahead of the curve in MLS.
They helped spark an era of Argentine dominance in MLS, they produced a coach who many pegged for a national team contract at some point, and they managed to maintain the same starting XI for the better part of a decade.
But one thing the club hasn’t always been at the top of is the “big signing” — we’ve left that to the coasts, but things seem to be shifting in MLS.
Who were our top picks in 2015? The list looks a little different, as you might imagine.