Yes, we would have - and we gave up our right to compensation when we released him. If we kept him as a registered player (no pay, no letter of intent - just registered as TFC academy player) we could have been entitled to training compensation if he left us. When we released him, we surrendered that right to compensation because he is no longer a registered TFC academy player.
People keep saying that we made this move so that we wouldn't lose him for nothing, when in reality this move ensured that we would lose him for nothing.
We didn't get Dunfield for him. We traded allocation money and Aleman's MLS rights for Dunfield. We would have still owned Aleman's MLS rights if he left us for Europe, so its a deal that we still could have made with them.