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TORONTO – Drew Moor will return to Toronto FC in 2018.

But the linchpin of TFC’s improved defence says everything might have been different if he’d accepted another offer before last season.

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“It was basically between Toronto and Philadelphia,” Moor, 33, told the Sun in the build up to this weekend’s MLS Cup.

“Those were the two teams that came to me right away.”

Philadelphia piqued Moor’s interest “big time” given his wife, a Jersey native, had family nearby.

And the Union did its part, putting in a “very strong” offer that was better than TFC’s – an offer that nearly saw Moor give the Union his signature.

“I was probably within a day of calling them and saying, ‘I want to go (to Philadelphia).’” Moor explained. “But I said to myself, ‘No, this is a process.’

“It was the first time I’d ever been a free agent.”

So he took his time, agreeing to stop through Toronto on his way back to Colorado before, in all likelihood, ending up in the City of Brotherly Love.