The New York Red Bulls knew this day was coming: the day Dax McCarty would return to Red Bull Arena wearing the wrong shade of red, the red of Chicago Fire. Jesse Marsch has said the date was “circled on the calendar”. Even if it wasn’t, it has surely been impossible for the Red Bulls to ignore the press coverage of McCarty’s first game back at RBA since he was traded to Chicago for a fistful of MLS allocation money.
The Red Bulls training facility is still mostly populated by McCarty’s former teammates.