If the summer transfer window were a soccer match, Minnesota United would be a team that only seemed to come alive when the clock hit second-half stoppage time.

Khaled El-Ahmad, the Loons’ chief soccer officer, saved his summer business for the final day of the transfer window, finalizing one signing and zeroing in on several others as the Thursday night deadline approached.

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