Jonathan Bamba

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Chicago Fire
18 Aug 2026
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Marked for Jonathan Bamba

3 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market17 Aug 2026

Anton Salétros agrees terms with Cardiff City

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Chicago Fire people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Match12 Aug 2026

Cup progress for Chicago Fire

A 1‑0 win over Nashville SC, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match15 Aug 2026

Chicago Fire run riot against Philadelphia Union

5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Robert Lewandowski scores twice — 9.78

Two goals and a mark of 9.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Jonathan Bamba takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match15 Aug 2026

Chicago Fire make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Chicago Fire have 4 straight wins of it.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Gustavo Valencia turns down Chicago Fire

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: La Equidad keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Chicago Fire

Philip Zinckernagel 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Chicago Fire and Philadelphia Union in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

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1 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match1 Aug 2026

No mercy from Chicago Fire

Charlotte Football Club will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑3, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Chicago Fire were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Robert Lewandowski takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Robert Lewandowski yet — 9.81

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market3 Aug 2026

Robert Lewandowski wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Chicago Fire hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jonathan Bamba signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Bamba and Chicago Fire agree another 3 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Chicago Fire

Andreas Hanche-Olsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match1 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Chicago Fire and Charlotte Football Club in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Wilson Harris 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. Wilson Harris is living that version at Chicago Fire, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Chris Brady

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief