Toronto FC have deployed the general in a different role this season, but is he a good fit there?
In Major League Soccer, coaches often have a dilemma of either playing their best players, or their best team. This is magnified even more when a highly paid DP has to be benched. Toronto has two outstanding strikers and a midfield core that needs to be properly balanced.
Greg Vanney has chosen to pick a midfield three of Jonathan Osorio, Will Johnson and Michael Bradley. This has meant that Osorio and Johnson have been deployed as box-to-box midfielders in front of a holding Bradley.