Claude Makelele considering a move to MLS?

I doubt there's any way in hell Claude Makelele jumps from Chelsea to MLS, but that would certainly be interesting. Claude Makelele was the workhorse supporting the Galacticos at Real Madrid by doing all the the tough work in midfield, chasing down balls and maintaining possession, until they didn't appreciate him and he shipped off to Chelsea. The Galactico era promptly imploded, as I recall, and Makelele became the unfashionable ballwinner in Chelsea's army of supermen. For France, he partnered with Patrick Vieira and Zinedine Zidane in central midfield, giving them the freedom to wander as a playmaker and in Vieira's case, to crash the box and terrify defenders. He's the kind of guy that gives a group of great players the opportunity to be a great team, adding his cipher to their vastness to multiply it further still (or however the Shakespeare line I'm cribbing goes), but in MLS with less to magnify and no shortage of athleticism, that cipher may just be a big fat zero.

Supposedly since Beckham jumped ship, every aging European player dangles the prospect of leaving for MLS in contract negotiations, but so far only Becks and Juan Pablo Angel have actually signed, and they're more what MLS needs: creative talent and strikers. Supposedly Becks is back with the national team, since Aaron Lennon isn't up to the weight of the #7 jersey yet, and Angel seems to be scoring for Red Bull, so hopefully some more of these guys do turn out to be serious. Brian Laudrup had that disastrous spell when he thought he'd ease into retirement and go back home to Copenhagen and collect one last paycheck in the Danish league, but the pressure on a hometown star was so great that within weeks he was off in Amsterdam playing for Ajax. Given those situations, MLS might yet be an attractive destination for the soon to be retired, since you don't have to do the walk of shame back to some little club in your home country where all anybody can talk about is how old and slow you are. On a completely unrelated note, if Frank Ribéry is actually leaving l'OM and going to Bayern Munich instead of Arsenal, who are suffering since the loss of their goal-scoring wingers, I vow heads will roll.