Click-bait headlines make me cringe, particularly when associated with potential MLS signings from abroad — the notorious low-hanging fruit for the league’s website. So I am racked with guilt assembling those words above.
But here’s the thing …
There might be something to this one. Probably not in the near future. Maybe down the road.
It involves Fabian Johnson, the Bundesliga-based, Champions League-serving, World Cup-playing American who has spent his entire career (and life) in Germany.
I’m told Atlanta United, a 2017 expansion side sitting atop the MLS allocation ranking order, has explored the possibility — as remote as it may seem — of acquiring the U.