Wasatch Soccer Sentinel
Jefferson Savarino.
Damir Kreilach.
Danny Musovski.
Three of RSL’s top 10 goalscorers in 2023 have departed the club, scoring a combined 16 goals among them. Of the club’s 48-goal return, one-third of the goals have departed. A further 11 assists punctuate the offseason, and while we can’t just say “27 goal contributions” (because, well, what if Savarino assisted Musovski?) have departed, we can say that Real Salt Lake’s goalscoring is a major question mark ahead of the 2024 season.
2024. Can you believe it’s 2024 already? I certainly can’t. I started writing about this club in 2011, and that sort of still feels like yesterday. The pangs of agony from 2013 still resonate in my head. Maybe that’s a me-problem. It’s certainly not relevant to today’s discussion.
Hemming and hawing around goalscoring does ignore at least one of the major factors to consider moving forward: Chicho Arango joined Real Salt Lake late in the year, playing 11 games and scoring 6 goals. That’s a rate of return unseen at the club since the days of Alvaro Saborio, and should it continue, RSL will be in a fine position upon which they can build.
