What benefit has he earned? Did you just start watching the team this year? We finished third his first year, second his second year, and hosted the fvcking cup final. If clark doesn't have a brain fart, and if one of two refs calls a ball out that is a couple feet out, we could have won that game. How does that not get you any credit?
But you're never wrong. If we go on a ten-game winning bender, you'll just disappear for a few months and wait for the next bad spell.
Well, after being unbearably boring and not making the playoffs for a couple years, GB came in and implemented a generally pleasing brand of soccer, as well as got us to mls cup final at home. I'm sure anyone could have done that though. Oh, and he helped finlay become perhaps MLS' best wide player the last two years and made tony tchani, a perpetual laughing stock, into one of the better CMs in the league as well as an US international. I'll explain the offside rule to you later.
This must be the way back machine. It feels so much like 2005. Andrulis won two trophies and wasn't spared from Chelsey's wrath. Sorry, can't do it here. There has to be some accountability.
The parallels to this situation are amazing! In the offseason following a Supporter's Shield win and playoff collapse, we traded Jeff Cunningham (who was tied with McBride for most goals in club history) to Colorado, and picked up Razov, ostensibly because Jeff couldn't play with our creative midfielder. Razov realized Andrulis was an ass and threw a temper tantrum until he was traded for - wait for it - John Wolyniec and Garber Bucks. http://bigapplesoccer.com/teams/redbulls2.php?article_id=2713 The Crew went on to crater and Andrulis was gone in July.
My husband just sent this message in a group text: "Someone should drop pink slips." I picked a good one.
So the position of technical director didn't exist at that time. Mark McCullers was named General Manager that winter after taking over from Jim Smith the prior July. But, my recollection is that the Razov trade and its aftermath was masterminded and conceived by Andrulis. Maybe Bill remembers better. I'm sure there's something in the archives.
I personally will not be satisfied until Berhalter is fired, Precourt is publicly hanged, and Mapfre Stadium burned to the ground and the earth salted so that nothing can ever grow there again.