One of my favorite soccer-related quotes comes from Bill Shankly. “Football is a simple game complicated by idiots.”
I’m not saying Veljko Paunovic is an idiot, but he and Nelson Rodriguez sure as hell have made it complicated for themselves trying to solve fairly simple problems to start the season.
If you had browsed the #cf97 hashtag around Twitter or read HTIOT the first couple of weeks of the season, it was clear the loan of Raheem Edwards, with a gaping hole at left back, made no sense. International spots aside, LB was a need and the Chicago Fire handcuffed themselves.