Bielsa offered 3 million?

Discussion in 'USA Men' started by CU soccer, Jul 7, 2011.

  1. CU soccer

    CU soccer Member

    Mar 28, 2005
    Panama City Beach
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  2. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So he gets no credit for making a real offer to a real soccer mind? That seems a bit biased to me.
     
  3. CU soccer

    CU soccer Member

    Mar 28, 2005
    Panama City Beach
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Huge difference between a "real" offer and a "realistic" one.
     
  4. Scott e Dio93

    Scott e Dio93 New Member

    Jul 1, 2006
    Montevideo, URU
    Hmm...should add bonuses qualifing first, be first place in qualfiers, & $2million for getting a victory in the Aztec:)
     
    whip repped this.
  5. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ok wordsmith, what's not "realistic" about the offer? It seems to me that you don't like Sunil, so no matter what move he makes, you'll criticize. I'm not his biggest fan either, but complaining about making a serious offer to Bielsa is silly.
     
  6. orcrist

    orcrist Member+

    Jun 11, 2005
    Bay Area, California, USA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why is this not in N&A? That article is the first new actual news on this issue since the GC final.
     
  7. Lithium858

    Lithium858 Member

    Aug 11, 2002
    Baton Rouge
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The only problem about that article is that it doesn't say when the offer was made. If it happened during the time mlssoccer.com reported contact, then most likely this story is irrelevant now and both sides have already moved on.
     
  8. CU soccer

    CU soccer Member

    Mar 28, 2005
    Panama City Beach
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    Los Angeles Galaxy
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    United States
    That crossed my mind, but b/c of the date it was posted, I took it for current.
     
  9. StillKickin

    StillKickin Member+

    Austin FC
    Dec 17, 2002
    Texas
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Whether new or old, I don't like the "Bob Bradley would remain in charge of the senior national team" part of that article.
     
  10. HailtotheKing

    HailtotheKing Member+

    San Antonio FC
    United States
    Dec 1, 2008
    TEXAS
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    San Antonio Scorpions FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Mom/Pop tech can offer Bill Gates 5m to come run their company.

    That's real, but not very realistic.
     
  11. Barcasox

    Barcasox Member

    Mar 26, 2008
    Club:
    Athletic Club Bilbao
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Bielsa is 99% (we'll find out by the end of today) the new manager of Athletic Bilbao on a one year deal. It'll be interesting to find out how much he's making there, as I'm sure he's turned down much bigger deals. This guy would have been great for us
     
  12. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    3 mill for Bielsa is not remotely the same as 5 mill for a multi-billionaire Bill Gates. Sorry, but that's just a silly comparison.
     
  13. Domination7

    Domination7 New Member

    Jun 22, 2010
    Bay Area, CA
    Club:
    Atletico Madrid
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Would be a great step for us if it happens.
     
  14. CU soccer

    CU soccer Member

    Mar 28, 2005
    Panama City Beach
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Agreed. Chile has become one of my favorite teams to watch. Those offers out of the middle east were probably rather large... will definitely be interesting to see what they offered/what he turned down.

    Unless something has changed, that election is today, no??
     
  15. HailtotheKing

    HailtotheKing Member+

    San Antonio FC
    United States
    Dec 1, 2008
    TEXAS
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    San Antonio Scorpions FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The premise was you not getting "realistic."

    You now do.

    The comparison doesn't matter. The point of it does.

    Lesser entity offering overly qualified candidate a job position. The offer is very real, but it isn't realistic in terms of happening.
     
  16. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Agreed. It would begin to address the development/training issues below the Senior Nats & the amateur vs. professional issues that have plagued the USSF to date with development and that MLS will now be dealing with more and more via Academies.

    Not to mention, provide an outside technical view for the current staff to use as a resource w/o a full shake up of replacing a coach and having that person potentially not have a full grasp of the unique issues to US Soccer.
     
  17. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
    Club:
    DC United
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    United States
    The comparison absolutely matters, because one is clearly unrealistic (few million to a multi-billionaire), the other is so only depending on your much more tenuous valuation of Bielsa. What I DON'T know is how much Bielsa was getting paid to coach Chile. Do you know?
     
  18. Ball Chucking Hack

    Jan 21, 2005
    Raleigh, NC
    I also like the way Biesla's Chile squad plays, so on one level his involvement w/ the US seems like a good thing. On another level I'm not sure what it's supposed to accomplish.

    I don't mean to be dense, but what exactly would Biesla be hired to do? I get what his title would be. But what would he actually do on a day to day basis? Is he a sort of gm? B/c that seems silly in that he can't acquire players not in our player pool. Is his position different than the role Queiroz took years ago? If that's what he would be hired to do, does that really help? Even if the report that Queiroz wrote was spot on, did it really do any good?

    Put more bluntly: If he's not the coach/manager (and he's not going to be Bradley's assistant obviously), what power is he going to have, exactly? And how is he going to make the men's team better?
     
  19. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Improve the development of each successive cohort of the best 50-100 U14/U17/U20/U23 players for the USSF and hopefully change some of the amateur vs. professional issues in the USSF. Also, hopefully assisting MLS academies get players into domestic academies rather than be bench fodder for foreign teams and maybe convince more elite players that signing for Traffic is something akin sliding your career into a threshing machine.
     
  20. CU soccer

    CU soccer Member

    Mar 28, 2005
    Panama City Beach
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    TBD, I imagine.

    Although I think his involvement, on any level, would be a good thing.

    Would he be given the power that Klinsman wanted?
     
  21. HailtotheKing

    HailtotheKing Member+

    San Antonio FC
    United States
    Dec 1, 2008
    TEXAS
    Club:
    San Antonio Scorpions FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Did Klinnsman get it ? Nope. Is that why Klinnsman isn't on the job ? Yep.
     
  22. ant0n

    ant0n Member+

    Jun 12, 2007
    San Jose, Ca
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Bielsa has a better chance of getting it.
     
  23. soccaisthecoolest

    Jul 22, 2008
    To me, this looks like Bielsa's job is to restructure the youth system & get the National Team ready for the Olympics. My guess is that he would then take over as coach of the National Team, whether after the Olympics or for the next World Cup cycle.

    My only questions is, why are they willing to make Bielsa the technical director when they were so against giving Klinsmann that position?
     
  24. JohhnyCaps

    JohhnyCaps Member

    Jul 20, 2007
    NY
    Club:
    Sunderland AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Your assuming this is a real offer - as opposed to a non-starter offer that Bielsa had no intention of accepting. (i.e. an announcement for PR value only...)
     

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