Osorio Can You See?

Could there be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel? On Monday, the Chicago Fire introduced new head coach Juan Carlos Osorio, who pledged Spanish flair and attacking football, presumably before he realized just what he's got to work with. Reading C.J. Brown's quotes through the coaching change has been entertaining, as the veteran defender has been insistent that the problem was not, and is not, coaching. He seems one bad result away from naming names.

Meanwhile, on the field, the Fire at least looked better on Saturday night against Toronto, but they looked better in the way right-wing pundits are trying to frame the surge as going "better than expected." When you play as badly as the Fire did against Colorado and L.A., there's literally almost no way you can do worse. But the team did successfully string together passes in the offensive end, and actually managed some shots, although not many on goal.

Even more meanwhile, it looks like AEG is divesting itself of the club, with the frontrunner being the Bronfman family of Seagrams/Warner Music fame. This has a subset of the Internet soccer fanboys fuming over Time Warner's role as bad guy in the online music "debate," but that doesn't really count for much of anything. The downside of these particular new owners coming in, as opposed to a local bid being shepherded by former Fire forward Frank Klopas, is that they may see this as more of an investment than a passion, and as a result, may be more inclined to keep the current front office in place. And if this team is going to be successful, is going to start getting fans to care about it again, that front office needs to be cleaned out but good.

If the Bronfman sale goes through as is rumored, there may be a silver lining, but I don't want to speak to that until certain wheels start turning.