A happy Djordje Mihailovic, is a good Djordje Mihailovic.
And he wasn’t always that in 2020, playing under Raphael Wicky for his only previous club, Chicago Fire.
Forced to play further left in a wider role than he’d prefer, and being benched during the MLS-is-Back tournament hardly presented a platform from which to get the best from the young US international.
And even though there was at least a cosmetic ‘burying of the hatchet’ between coach and player, the writing seemed to be on the wall, especially with Mihailovic (still a valuable asset at 22) entering the last year of his contract.