Can I say, at the outset, that everything which follows is absolute speculation? (There, I guess I've just done that.) I've got no one on the inside. I am not privileged to the internal workings of the Chicago Fire, or MLS. I am just a person who is trying to make sense of some facts (and some rumors) about the current state of the club which, on their surface, don't seem to hang too well together.
Money doesn't buy CF97 much
The Fire assure us they're well-funded - every successive leadership group, from Franks Klopas and Yallop to the Nelson Rodriguez ExperienceTM, has answered questions about the willingness of Andell Holdings to spend money with great dollops of enthusiastic hyperbole.