Minnesota United ended up adding five players during the summer transfer window, but did the Loons’ roster improve for the final stretch of the year?

The pending loss of leading scorer Tani Oluwaseyi on an $8 million transfer to Villarreal in Spain’s La Liga is the main reason for pause. His exit will crimp what head coach Eric Ramsay will be able to do at forward to close out the MLS season.

But second-leading scorer Kelvin Yeboah — who has nine goals to Oluwaseyi’s 10 — remains with United, and that fact was where Chief Soccer Officer Khaled El-Ahmad went first when talking with reporters about the expected exit of Oluwaseyi on Tuesday.

“First and foremost, the leading striker has not left,” El-Ahmad said in reference to Yeboah.

El-Ahmad is tasked with trying to balance the short-ter

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