The scales aren't even remotely close. Snyder bought a a solid franchise and destroyed it. Levien bought into a failing team, helped build a stadium, and then just let it languish as a playoff team, but a pretty bad one. Skins can't even sniff that.
The wheels were coming off the Redskins when Snyder purchased the team. The team wasn’t good and Jack Kent Cooke stadium (which was rushed to be finished before Jack kicked the bucket) was too new to be torn down and built properly.
I was driving on the Beltway on my way to a match that I was playing. I could see the construction of the stadium from the highway. Said to myself, the old man probably won't even get a chance to see a game there. A few hours later, returning home, the radio had a news bulletin. Jack Kent Cooke had passed away earlier, right at the time I was driving by the stadium and made my remark. No love for Snyder but he did and does want the Redskins to improve. Just that he was foolish in how to do it. Not sure we can say the same about Levien.
Levien is merely an investor whose first love is basketball. He'll probably put the team and Audi Field on the market whenever he cobbles together enough cash to become the majority share owner of a NBA franchise. I don't think that Levien has been a malevolent force, like Danny Buy, and that it's probably unfair to lump Levien with Snyder. Levien simply lacks the big pockets to lavishly fund a championship contending team in MLS 4.0. I do think that Levien deserves full credit for getting the Audi Field job done and for bringing over Wayne Rooney for Wacca's swan song. Kasper deserves credit for scouring the trash heaps of professional soccer and coming up with some real finds like Frederic Brillant, Cristian Gomez, Luciano Emilio, Luciano Acosta, Hamdi Salihi and Branko Boscovic. It's not Kasper's fault that Olsen sometimes misuses players or sometimes gets outcoached.
Non-football people making decisions for a team out of the love of the game make up the most destructive type of owner you can have.
Chicago Fire just hired their new coach: Rafael Wicky, a former Swiss pro who was coaching the USMNT Under 17 squad.
It’s so boring. Everybody ready to get dumped out of the first round of the playoffs while never looking like a threat?
Carlos Corberan is the guy for me. Understudy to Marcelo Bielsa and actually prefers a small roster in a physical league with loads of games. That would fit will in MLS. Marcello Gallardo would be good as well.
Our top forward goes down. An outside defender goes down. The other forward gets tired. The savior from the Mexican league had a substandard game (and thats generous). The German guy from Atlanta had an awful game. Solution: Fire Olsen - ********ING SERIOUSLY ??
None of those injuries impacted the game. Estonian guy held the ball much better than Kamara. Mora didn't do anything. Why? Because we just sit back and try to counter route 1 all the time. That's ugly soccer and I'd fire him just for that. You could put LAFC's roster out there and we all know Olsen would play the same way and get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs.