Toronto FC takes first steps on ‘total rebuild’ [Video]

Toronto FC, taking the first steps in what’s been billed as a “total rebuild,” has declined 2025 contract options on defenders Aimé Mabika and Shane O’Neill, midfielder Brandon Servania and goalkeeper Greg Ranjitsingh.

The four players made a combined $1.24 million last season (all figures in U.S. dollars), led by Servania’s $602,708.

The fate of German forward Prince Owusu, the team’s leading scorer with nine goals in 31 league outings, is up in the air.

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Owusu, who joined Toronto in August 2023 from SV Jahn Regensburg of the German second division, ranked fifth on TFC’s salary list at $807,500. The 27-year-old forward, who started 20 games, split duties with 21-year-old Canadian Deandre Kerr, whose three goals in 26 appearances, including 12 starts, came at a cost of $105,319 this season.

A striker is at the top of the club’s shopping list.

“We want to improve the attack,” GM Jason Hernandez …