McClaren for Chicago

No, it's not a rumor. It's a crazy idea, but hear me out.

Let's say Juan Carlos Osorio gets snatched away by New York. Why not take a crack at the recently-disgraced England manager? It's not like he can get another job in England right now, and before he was a crap national team manager, he was a very good club manager in one of the top leagues in the world.

Sources tell me that, if there's anything particularly productive that Osorio has brought to Chicago, it's a more European/English style of training, so that would be maintained. And it seems likely to me that, much like Juan Pablo Angel demonstrated the obvious technical gap between the Premiership and MLS, that gap probably exists in some form on the coaching side. As it stands, plenty of the BigSoccer mob have pined for Chris Coleman -- who wasn't even a terribly successful Premiership manager -- to coach in America. Unless he can score a big payday somewhere like Qatar or Japan, where better for McClaren to rehabilitate his image outside of the spotlight?

That said, of course the spotlight would follow him. Chicago would immediately have gained the attention of the worldwide soccer media and the Europhile soccer fans in the United States. Chalk it up to "there's no such thing as bad press," as a good chunk of the attention will be rooting for him to fail. If there's already a chance of Chivas fans showing up to boo Cuauhtemoc Blanco, why not sit them right next to England fans who want to boo McClaren? As long as they paid for their tickets.

So, outside of a visceral distaste for the man because he may have just set back English football by four to six years, someone tell me why this would be a bad idea.