So, you’ve probably heard that the Chicago Fire have offered former German national team captain Bastian Schweinsteiger 16.5 million reasons to be thankful this year. At 5.5 million per year, the deal would put the Bayern and die Mannschaft legend among MLS’ elite earners - and, we whisper in our inside voices, fulfill the long-unfulfilled (and basically off-the-cuff) promise for a player making the kind of money Robbie Keane made to bolster the side.
The deal comes with Schweinsteiger’s career at the crossroads. His youthful exuberance a thing of the past, Pep Guardiola found him surplus to requirements in his inexorable laboratory experiment at building the world’s most dominant club side at Bayern.