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Fire Sale
By: Tom |
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The Fire are for sale. It was only a matter of time, given AEG has had a long and not very hidden plan to eventually divest themselves of all their MLS teams except for the Galaxy, but it looks like that time has now come. Three different groups have been in pursuit of the Fire [...]
Category: Off the field
Thoughts on Blanco
By: Tom | 9 Comments
By the start of next week, Cuahtemoc Blanco will be a member of the Chicago Fire. He won’t play for us until after Copa America, but as I spent the weekend watching Blanco live - the Fire sensibly having an off-week from MLS during the Gold Cup’s finale in Chicago - I figured I’d post [...]
Juan Carlos Osorio to coach the Fire?
By: Tom | 4 Comments
I’ve been told that the favourite to land the Fire job is Juan Carlos Osorio, a Colombian coach at Millonarios and former assistant for Manchester City and the Metrostars.
He’s obviously got quite a varied resume, he’s young (46), and presumably speaks Spanish and English. Under his brief watch, Millonarios have improved and qualified for the [...]
Peter Wilt and John Guppy on Dave Sarachan’s tenure
By: Tom | 2 Comments
Peter Wilt, the former Fire GM who hired Dave Sarachan, to me via email:
It should be remembered that Dave coached the Fire to four trophies in four seasons including the organization’s only Supporters Shield (regular season championship) ever. This is a difficult business, but he should be proud of his accomplishments. Dave came [...]
Category: Team NewsFire fire Dave
By: Tom | 8 Comments
The Fire have fired coach Dave Sarachan. More details on Luis’ blog. Looks like the website I linked to yesterday is redundant already.
It was an an unavoidable decision given fan pressure and recent results. Post your wild speculation/hopes on who should take over below.
More on this later.
Category: Team NewsIn Attack of Dave
By: Tom | No Comments
Yes, I know that’s a very poorly worded title, and this is going to be the shortest post I’ve ever written. But all I wish to do, in the interests of full coverage on the fire Dave movement, is to point you to the following url: http://www.firesarachan.info/
It’s not the most sophisticated website I’ve ever [...]
Category: Off the fieldA defense of Dave
By: Tom | 5 Comments
I’m not going to offer one, but there’s a man who knows more about MLS than me offering reasons (not excuses) for the Fire’s poor performance. His name is Peter Wilt, he hired Dave himself and when he ran the Fire we were pretty good. Check out his post on bigsoccer on the [...]
Category: Off the fieldFire lose, fire Dave
By: Tom | 5 Comments
OK. I haven’t seen the game yet, which I know means I have failed you as a Fire blogger and myself as a Fire fan, but this recap from the DCenters says much about the state of the Fire: “These are the kind of games I dream of. Games where we get an early lead. [...]
Category: Team NewsThe Fire are in limbo
By: Tom | 1 Comment
Whilst one good reason I haven’t been posting much this week is my obsession with my new pitchinvasion.net site, another is that the Fire seem to be going nowhere right now.
We’re waiting for Blanco to arrive (which has felt interminable)…We’re waiting for Sarachan to get fired…We’re waiting for Salas to sign (or probably [...]
Category: Off the fieldLack of updates
By: Tom | No Comments
My apologies for the lack of updates this week. For anyone not up to date, there was a bit from Goff on the Salas situation that was quite interesting.
Apart from that, though, not much news. I know many of you yearn to hear Sarachan has been canned, and I don’t blame you, but I [...]
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