Real Salt Lake fans have been through it over the nine years.
And that’s not supposed to be exaggeration. We’ve lost player after player, we’ve had staff, front office and back office personnel depart acrimoniously, and we’ve dealt with Dell Loy Hansen as an owner.
Albert Rusnak’s departure is just the latest in a long string of eye-rolling moments around the club. His comments about his time in Salt Lake preparing him to play for Seattle? About their fans, and about how he was excited to play for a great team and challenge for trophies? Well, on the back of an extremely middling performance against Portland Timbers in the Western Conference Final, let’s just make clear it didn’t engender much sporting good will toward the departing captain.