2012-13 Offseason Thread

That's the third time it's happened. Either he's getting bad information from his sources or the tail is wagging the dog.

 

He keeps sending up the alert flare on the McCallister hiring, now for the third time in 3-4 weeks.

 

where there's smoke there's fire----we have not dodged the McAllister bullet as a club just yet. Especially with Houllier obsessed with hiring him.... It's probably only a matter of time before McAllister signs on the dotted line.

 

Dyer's been all over this story from early on and reported the deal as imminent several times. One of his stories actually got taken down. Whether he ends up being right on this deal or not, he's been out in front of everyone else on at least three occasions.

 

Oh whatever. If you want to play princess on a pea be my guest.

 

If you want to drawn that fine a distinction it's your business. But, Dyer has been pumping this story as if it was going to happen any moment for the past few weeks, that McCallister was first choice, the only choice. As we've seen in more recent reporting, the truth is he's not the only one Red Bull have talked to about the position. IMO, Dyer's credibility has taken a hit this month because he chose to report the scuttlebutt first without all the other details. So he's been yanking our chain a lot longer than anyone else. Dyer saying the deal is done only to have another report come out and say it isn't sounds like it is just one more link in the chain.

OTOH, neither you nor he are my girlfriend so I don't have to indulge it and play nice. When the club makes an official report, it'll be official. Until then, I'm skeptical and still hoping it will be someone else.

 

We have overhauled our roster already without a coach. As long as the coach is there when training camp starts (I would assume there would be on by then) then it really doesn't make a difference at this point.

And as far as the draft, we only have one pick and the draft isn't going to make a huge difference on our roster. The front office people and scouts in place have already been preparing for the draft and I would imagine Roxburgh would be the one making the pick since player acquisition is his job. Plus the combine hasn't happened yet. So the draft is the least of my worries.

 

Well it is not going to be Reyna it seems. This points to a foreign coach, likely it is to be McCallister as of now, but $2 million can buy you a lot of coaching, certainly more than a guy who's primary resume item is knowing Gerard Houillier.

 

Petke and Reyna as assistants seems to me to be a good move--former players with league experience who can advise the new (foreign) coach once he gets here.

 

And there is also infighting.

 

that article just confirms one thing--this is a team that really does not know what direction it is going in. I wonder if it has always been this chaotic behind the scenes of the club but we just weren't aware of it?

As an example: I remember Chris Heck saying in his final interview to the fans that he wanted to have a real budget for marketing purposes but that HQ turned him down and tied his hands. That certainly sounded dysfunctional to me at the time--expecting someone to do a job and not giving him the tools necessary to succeed.

 

Big fan of bringing Reyna on board, hopefully with his resume and ties to the local soccer community we can start to shake that reputation of ignoring American talent.

The infighting on the other hand... I wish Houllier would just trust Roxburgh and de Bontin to do the job he hired them to do.

 

A assistant?...Isn't the one who make desitions he yest know to say, Yes Sr...

I will let Peke to be a interim coach, just to see, if he don't give some fruits in couple of months, well, bring somebody else. .....Beside all that, the RB admin will have a little of more time to look for some body around....

 

Ramos and petke combo would have been better................not a big claudia fan

 

You have any clue as to why Ramos would make a good coach? Or what he is even doing nowadays?

 

Believ he is U-20 Nat team coach and can develop talent and was firece competitor and local NJ guy as well. Guy is pure class with Jersey and MetroStar roots. Now tell me why he would not be a great coach?

 

If that resume would make him a great coach, then what do you have against Reyna as an assistant? Reyna has a nearly identical resume except that he was youth technical director for USSF instead of a youth coach.