The Chicago Fire Post
Squad5 Sep 2044
A fracture rules Nazareno Kihm out for 77 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chicago Fire will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Sep 2044
Up for the corner, and Alex Johnson delivers — 7.86
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Alex Johnson scored, was marked 7.86, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad5 Sep 2044
Mbekezeli Mbokazi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mbekezeli Mbokazi and Chicago Fire agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Sep 2044
Sergio Oregel 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.
Squad5 Sep 2044
A move DeAndre Aaronson would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. DeAndre Aaronson is living that version at Chicago Fire, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match3 Sep 2044
Alex Johnson’s goal not enough for Chicago Fire
Alex Johnson scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Columbus Crew, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market5 Sep 2044
The Mbekezeli Mbokazi question follows Chicago Fire around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mbekezeli Mbokazi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings5 Sep 2044
Nobody could get near Jordan Weah
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market5 Sep 2044
DeAndre Aaronson joins Chicago Fire on a free
No fee and no drama: DeAndre Aaronson has signed at Chicago Fire, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
- Player ratings Aaron Morris ran the game
- Market Chicago Fire put Jordan Acosta up for sale