The news that the Chicago Fire were among the first clubs sniffing around soon-to-be-dealt New England trequartista Lee Ngyuen reminds of the scene in The Departed where Matt Damon’s double-agent cop delivers a brief couplet for the ages on expediency: “Cui bono? Cui gives-a-shit - it’s got a friggin’ bow on it.”
A prospective Nguyen-to-Fire deal doesn’t sound close to done, but it would fit both a pronounced need on the roster and Nelson Rodriguez’s pattern in building same. Nguyen can play anywhere in the midfield, but he really excels in tight spaces around the goal - and unlike the elusive Juan Manuel Quintero, he can be had for MLS TAM/GAM funny-money instead of millions of actual US dollars.