The Philadelphia Union have reached an agreement with the playmaker. I’m not sure how well that will go. Carlos Ruiz is no longer with the team and he was the kind of predatory striker who might have fed well on having a possession oriented #10 behind him. And Adu will be reunited with coach Piotr Nowak.

He was the young man’s coach with DC United, as well, but their relationship was famously contentious and you never felt like Nowak thought much of Adu. If that hasn’t changed, something’s going to break up in the city of brotherly love.