Toronto FC has learned a lesson early this offseason: there is a price to be paid for being a quality franchise in a parity driven league. You can’t keep everyone, and three players have already left the team just weeks removed from their MLS Cup final loss.
All three will hurt the club’s depth, but none more so than Canada international Will Johnson, who has signed as a free agent with Orlando City. Johnson, when healthy, was a consistent starter for Toronto. On the back of fitness problems at the end of the regular season, he started only one - but appeared in all six - of Toronto’s playoff games.