I rate these trades a wash at best.

The Columbus players have barely seen the field this year, Julius James has been first choice over Iro. What does that say? Johnson has 1 goal in the past 1 1/2 years. I would say that is a pretty poor run of form for a forward. Dunfield is a journeyman player, I liked what I saw for Canada, but he is still relatively unproven as an MLS player.

What I don't like about these trades, is that TFC will fail to benefit from the development of two young players in Tchani and Attakora. Attakora was one of our best players last year. The failure to re-sign him isn't all on Nana himself, TFC management bears a lot of responsibility here. Is TFC saying with these trades that they are just going to continue rotating a group of journeyman players instead of developing and keeping good young players? If so, how successful has that been in the last 4+ years?