Following the close of the 2016 MLS summer transfer window on Wednesday night, Chicago Fire general manager Nelson Rodriguez held a conference call with local media members on Thursday to assess the team’s most recent acquisitions and look ahead to its next phase of development.
“Heading into the peak of this transfer and trade window, we had two primary objectives,” he said. “One was to find a target forward, someone who could play in a more advanced position than (forward) Michael de Leeuw, and another was just to overall try to improve our attacking depth. In terms of specific targets, we hit both objectives with top choices.