Anyone hearing anything out of Quakes camp regarding Tommy and Jackson? I'm very excited to see this quakes team play in 2019
Tommy was first in the beep test recently , so that’s a good day but I’m expecting big things from both
I think Yuell is the kind of young player that could really benefit from a good coach like Almeyda. Probably mores than Tommy. I think Yuell has a higher ceiling and mostly just needs to clean up his occasional bonehead play. Maybe Almeyda can correct that.
I don't expect there will be much to hear until they play a preseason game or two. There's some social media coverage of Cancun but I don't know who'd really be there to leak impressions.
Yeah, I'm more of a Yuell fan and still have hope for him, especially with the new coach. Unfortunately, last year, I would say that he more than an occasional bonehead play. I think that he was just pressing too much. In TT defense, he had similar issues which may change with a new coach.
I have been hearing some rumors that the San Jose players have been very impressed with the new coach.
Some of these MLS coaches need loosen up their tactics. Everything is so rigid.... let the game flow and let the players follow their instincts.
A magic potion called not being utterly incompetent. While I do think Almeyda is a good coach, it's amazing how much better pretty much anybody looks after Stahre's complete lack of ability. Really makes you wonder how he got hired in the first place.
After last seasons first game, I also thought Stahre was a good coach. Giving Almeyda too much kudos now is very premature. We all want a great dynamic coach but other than watching him as a great player 15-20 years ago and seeing him coach a few CCL games where they beat TFC on pk's , most of us on the board don't have any idea how he will be as a coach in MLS. Just because he was a great coach with Chivas doesn't mean he will have instant success with the Quakes. Let's at least wait until he coaches half a season.
Stahre was successful in the Swedish first division, and Jesse knew him. That's how he got hired. It speaks to Jesse's biases that he thinks Euro players and coaches, at almost any level, must be better than what we have in MLS. Now with Almeyda, our bias has shifted to Latin America, which is fine by me. But we still have a tendency to think that all other leagues are better and that MLS isn't sophisticated enough, and US domestic players aren't skilled enough. Doesn't give me warm fuzzies. Go Quakes!! We're going to stink again! - Mark
Vergara had the same notion with Chivas USA thinking Latin players were far superior than regular run of the mill MLS , American based or college grads. That idea proved fatal after only one year and it took Bob Bradley and Preki to bring it back to the conventional North American way of doing things. The all Latin idea died fast and it also killed them in the end when Vergara threatened the Anglo coaches to leave the room for not speaking Spanish. We’ve seen so many WC superstars try and fail in MLS and therefore , you can no longer be successful in this league because of your nationality or the league’s you coached or played in.
He deserves it. I can't remember too many college players on the Quakes improving like he has from year to year. Lima may be an exception but he has been lacking something defensively this season. Hopefully he will come around but Jackson has been consistent and he is still lonly 22 years old... M Jackson Yueill (San Jose Earthquake)
I don't know if it's Almeyda or just maturity, but Yueill seems to have stopped doing the 2-3 bonehead plays every game that were completely erasing all the good work he was otherwise doing.
Yueill seems less averse to playing defense now, on top of other improvements to his game. In the combine interviews he said he didn't like to defend and apparently that was specifically why certain teams passed on him.