Brian McBride recently announced that he would not be returning to Fulham for another season in the English Premiership, and that he wants to return to the United States. Right now Toronto FC would have the rights to get McBride because they have the highest allocation ranking due to their last place finish in the league last year.
So would McBride be coming back to play in Toronto? A more likely situation would be that he ends up at the Chicago Fire. McBride grew up near Chicago and has said that he’d like to return to his home. So Chicago would likely have to make a deal with TFC to get the rights to McBride unless TFC wanted to pass on him in order to keep the top allocation spot open in case someone better comes around. I can’t imagine they’d see someone better than McBride coming into MLS this season.
The Chicago Fire are currently tied at the top of the league and looking pretty good. With the addition of Brian McBride they could be a very dangerous team looking for another MLS Championship. What do you Fire fans think? I’d be quite happy to see McBride joining my team.
Is there any chance that McBride would end up anywhere other than Chicago? Would he go back to his former team – Columbus Crew?
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I think it would be good for MLS for him to come back and play for MLS for a season or two and then be an MLS coach, with his world class knowledge and experience to improve the league he can only help improve the league.
Where he is going to end up to play doesn’t really matter as much to me but I think he is going to need at least a couple hundred thousands a year so not sure if Toronto FC can afford him.
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