Walker Moore

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Chicago Fire
27 Jul 2042
Sunday
Process

Marked for Walker Moore

790 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

16 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Josh Brooks breaks a bone — 113 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jordan Weah keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chicago Fire may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Chicago Fire

Tomás Romero was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Chicago Fire beat the market to Walker McKennie from Nashville SC

Nashville SC will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Walker McKennie has pre-agreed a move to Chicago Fire, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Words at Chicago Fire training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louay Labidi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Chicago Fire pick up Ryan Johnson for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Ryan Johnson arrives at Chicago Fire with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

Back issues
775 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

3 Jun 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

14 seasons of Joseph Sulemana

119 appearances across 14 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Chicago Fire know what they have.

Squad

Puso Dithejane signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Puso Dithejane commits to Chicago Fire for another 2 years.

Market

Only the photograph left for Carlos Borda

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Carlos Borda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chicago Fire the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tomás Romero in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chicago Fire this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Louay Labidi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Walker Moore told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Walker Moore has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Chicago Fire.

In brief

774 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

27 May 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces

The mood at Chicago Fire has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Puso Dithejane in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chicago Fire this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Chicago Fire training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nazareno Kihm is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Tomás Benardoni the difference as Chicago Fire beat DC United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tomás Benardoni. 2‑1 against DC United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Louay Labidi was the difference for Chicago Fire

Marked 7.72. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

When it matters, Sergio Oregel plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

754 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

7 Jan 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Chicago Fire spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

18 seasons of Sergio Oregel

501 appearances across 18 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Chicago Fire know what they have.

Squad

The season belongs to Mbekezeli Mbokazi

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Chicago Fire have had the benefit of it.

In brief