International

When Real Salt Lake brought Yura Movsisyan back into the fold in 2016, they brought in an established player from a big club in Europe, Spartak Moscow. Obviously this is a different kind of signing than most: Movsisyan really started getting going at Real Salt Lake before departing for Europe at the end of the 2009 season — a journey did him a world of good.

He became an excellent second-tier European striker during that time, and although he never cracked the upper echelon, Movsisyan’s arrival at Real Salt Lake is probably our biggest signing to date. Whether he’s displaced by our next entrant depends on both of their performances in the coming season — but certainly, I’m convinced that the two of them will have a positive effect on each other.