D.C. United: Don’t make the Gonzalo Higuain mistake

D.C. United, LA Galaxy, Gonzalo Higuain (Photo by Harry Langer/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

Steven Goff of the Washington Post reports that D.C. United are in the early stages of a transfer for Gonzalo Higuain. It would be a terrible mistake.

Here we go again. Formerly brilliant European star who has hardly played and barely looks fit being linked with a ‘retirement league’ team.

In previous years, Major League Soccer teams were significantly improved by adding such players. The ageing veterans who no longer had the legs but had superior technical and mental skills could float through matches without having to exert themselves. They were simply better. It did not matter that they couldn’t…