Contract options declined
The total rebuild at Major League Soccer side Chicago Fire has begun. On Monday, the club announced that the club will not exercise the contract options on the following seven players: forward Robert Berić, defender Francisco Calvo, midfielder Elliot Collier, goalkeeper Kenneth Kronholm, midfielder Álvaro Medrán, defender Nick Slonina, and midfielder Luka Stojanović. Berić was one of the club’s ten most expensive signings when he joined from AS Saint-Étienne in 2020.
Giménez, Nikolics, Aliseda & Co.: Chicago Fire FC’s record arrivals
Boris Sekulic | Signed from Górnik Zabrze in 2020 | Fee: $440,000
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C.J. Sapong | Signed from Philadelphia Union in 2019 | Fee: $440,000
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Dax McCarty | Signed from New York Red Bulls in 2017 | Fee: $440,000
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Marcelo | Signed from Sporting CP in 2019 | Fee: $484,000
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Dipsy Selolwane | Signed from Vejle BK in 2003 | Fee: $550,000
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Luka Stojanovic | Signed from FK Cukaricki in 2020 | Fee: $550,000
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Piotr Nowak | Signed from 1860 Munich in 1998 | Fee: $594,000
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Shaun Maloney | Signed from Wigan Athletic in 2015 | Fee: $649,000
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Chinonso Offor | Signed from FK RFS in 2021 | Fee: $836,000
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Przemyslaw Frankowski | Signed from Jagiellonia in 2019 | Fee: $1.65m
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David Accam | Signed from Helsingborgs IF in 2015 | Fee: $2.2m
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Robert Beric | Signed from AS Saint-Étienne in 2020 | Fee: $2.2m
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Ignacio Aliseda | Signed from Defensa y Justicia in 2020 | Fee: $3.3m
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Nemanja Nikolics | Signed from Legia Warszawa in 2017 | Fee: $3.3m
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Gastón Giménez | Signed from Vélez Sarsfield in 2020 | Fee: $4.5m
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Federico Navarro | Signed CA Talleres in 2021 | Fee: $5m
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Furthermore, defender Johan Kappelhof and goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth will not receive new contracts. Both players are slated to become free agents when their contracts expire at the end of 2021.
“On behalf of the Club, I’d like to thank each of these players for their contributions to the Fire,” Chicago Fire sporting director Georg Heitz said in a club statement. “As we enter a very important offseason, we felt that these decisions were necessary as we begin to upgrade the roster. We wish the players who are departing all the best and look forward to providing additional roster updates in the coming weeks.”
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