MLS coaches (current and potential) and coaching thread

I always like to point out to Salt Lake fans that during their great years under Kreis they won the same number of trophies as the Rapids did in that period.

 

We love you, too, JasonMa.

 

You were right. I was wrong. I do not think that I was too vocal in my support for Kreis but I do remember thinking that the new fans of NYC FC didn’t really know what they were talking about.

I figure you deserve to have somebody come out and say that they were wrong.

 

Orlando reminds me of TFC when they came in. Great fans, great stadium, owners who want to spend, but none of it matters if you keep hiring the wrong coaches, bringing in the wrong players, and failing to develop a cohesive organization-wide plan dictating how you want to play and how things will be structured.

 

That's very cool. Frankly, it's the last thing I'd expect. Unnecessary, but still very enjoyable to have my moment.

Now, let's see how Dome does. If he can ever get a work visa, that is. Damnedest thing I've ever heard that the guy is waiting on papers to come coach...can't he just say he's on vacation when he gets to customs?

 

Add me to that list. I still like Kreis, but he's got to produce in his next hire.

 

A more nuanced view of Kreis's firing: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/06/16/stejskal-orlando-split-kreis-understandable-also-big-risk

 

I thought Orlando was the next hire?

 

Yeah, if he wants to be banned from the country for a decade.

 

This is...............interesting. The potential for this to end in disaster is pretty high. Flavio hiring his friends.......hiring your friends doesn't always go well.........

 

Here's to hoping then. If they're not going to be good (and with the players they have, they won't be), then at least let them be interesting.

 

10 months and 765 posts later and
I STILL cannot believe that Veljko Paunović has a job.

He is a terrible coach, tactically inept, easy to anger, awful line-up planning, plays favorites over better players, only concerned about players who "try hard" regardless of skill level, poor game management skills, atrocious substitution policy and he has a really crappy beard.

Other than that, I guess he is okay.

 

If you practice cheerfully you have a GREAT chance of starting the next game.

 

Bro you just described Jason Kreis's tenure with NYCFC expect the beard and I think that in Jason's case that may have been an improvement. It's shocking to me as well that Paunovic hasn't been fired, not as shocking as DC not getting rid of Olsen but its pretty close.

 

Because when you're job is to build a roster from scratch its probably a good idea to draft players that can actually take the field. In drafting John he's adding unnecessary dead weight to the line up and you need every hand you can get on an expansion team IMO.

 

Nah.. You shouldn’t build your team from the expansion draft. You might get a few starters, but it’s mostly a way to build your bench. Quite a few of the expansion teams take burner picks that might pan out. Montreal took Brian Ching thinking they could ransom him back to Houston. Portland and Vancouver took players that went abroad and weren’t likelynto return before their rights expired.

With expansion teams, the team is built from the giant pile of GAM and TAM they get that can be used to trade for actual starters, or bring in higher value players that can be bought down.

George John was a pretty good defender (by MLS standards at that time). Burning an expansion pick to get him was likely worth the risk. Obviously he never recovered from his injury, but it isn’t any worse than burning a pick on a player that isn’t even in thr league any more..

 

I'd been totally fine with the move if that was the case as you described but last I remember none of those expansion teams drafted a player that was unable to play for a year, had no interest from any other MLS team or elsewhere for that matter AND was kept on the roster for the whole damn year. That move is just plain ole idiotic.

 

George John was on the IR. He didn’t eat up any spots on their team.

 

But he shouldn't have been on the team anyway, they could have had Ben Sweat, Stephan Keel, AJ Soares. If he wanted to "take a chance" he could have drafted Andy Dorman or some other MLS starter level who wasn't coming off a major knee injury. In the end it was a dumb move and it couldn't have helped managements view of him.