US Soccer should go after 30 year old Reims coach William Still... and maybe that helps recruit Balogun (dual nats Jens Cajuste who chose Sweden and Amir Richardson also at Reims) Reims boss Will Still to Folarin Balogun: “Your French is absolutely shocking, absolutely terrible.” pic.twitter.com/MNoVqzljjX— Get French Football News (@GFFN) January 30, 2023 Taken about 5 minutes of casual twitter browsing and I’ve already found a better story than Wrexham… https://t.co/6Ur1edjmzf pic.twitter.com/up6nYqr1Io— Edward Walker (@edward_w97) January 30, 2023 https://t.co/oNnzOpES21— Joe Donnohue (@JoeDonnohue) January 30, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ue-1-club-30-couldnt-be-happier-neymar-mbappe At basically any point in my life, if someone had told me I’d be the head coach of a Ligue 1 side at 30, I’d have told them to punch me in the face. It would have been a totally ridiculous suggestion. The idea that, at 30, I’d be managing a team against Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, Sergio Ramos and Marco Verratti, and in the opposition dugout to Christophe Galtier, was equally mad.
USSF should use Nick Sirianni daughter to screen head coach candidates for excessive coach speak. Seems like she has a nose for it. Nick Sirianni’s daughter😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/u3cxnbzy7n— Jack Connell (@JackPConnell) January 30, 2023
You know, I just want this settled ASAP. I dont want to see a lot of screwing around like last time with the end result being another Gregg B. I want a foreign coach that comes in and only selects the best players. No favs, no over-the-hill players and builds for the future with a full roster of people that can actually be used. A coach with no connection to any current players. Everybody must win his position every game. I dont want Marsch or Curtin (too close to MLS, MLS players), though either would be better than GB. I have my fingers crossed but also am not confident what I want will happen
You are truly delusional. Every coach in every sport ever has their favs. Period. And those players became a coaches fav for reasons. So tired of this mantra. You could bring in a coach that has zero tie to any player. And after several camps they will have guys they are impressed by and guys they aren't. And they will rely on those guys that they have been impressed by more than others. And then fans like you will be crying from the hills because the coach has his favs.
I think you're twisting slightly his intention of the post. My guess, and I am assuming, is that he's just saying a coach with no prior ties or very little so he can come in and pick the players he feels are best. Yes, you're right though, eventually that coach will have his favorites. He may in fact, be biased towards players from certain teams, etc. But I agree that in the initial phase it would be nice if a coach came in with an open mind. But that's a perfect world and we don't live in a perfect world.
I am not sure I get your meaning. Are you saying that Chile was complex because of how you described them, or that they were not complex because of how you described them. Is your opening question rhetorical? Anyway, Klopp's original quote used the words "well drilled" and "synchronized", not the word "complex". Well-drilled and synchronized seems to describe that Chile team quite well. So, it proves my point that it can be done if the right coach and the right player pool coincide. Though I would say their offense was fairly complex with constant interchange of positions and overlapping runs.
One would hope but it wouldn’t be guaranteed I understand the desire to eliminate initial biases but biases will be there from the beginning regardless.
I don't see any arguments here for "keeping the devil you know". Humans are human, and coaches are humans. Any coach selected will have their own quirks and biases. It's a neutral and rational expectation.
Thing is any new coach will have to know the players to some degree or who would get called in? So even with a brand new foreign coach with no ties they are going a to have some notion of the pool. There is also unknown instructions a coach gives that players follow or don't. Some may not look great following those instructions but I bet the coach likes that player especially if it allows the team to carry out a plan and win games. A lot of times players that coaches don't like are the flashy types fans love like Hoppe and KDLF.
I don't think you can settle on a coach that has zero experience with our player pool ASAP. You have to do a lot of vetting and a lot of consideration if he fits and makes a good team with the players.
Thats ok if they belong but what I dont want is to see guys like like Roldan, Long, Morris ... taking roster spots.
The Devil you know is one idea but also... "a leopard doesnt change it's spots " is also true. GB is a failure IMO and giving him 4 more years will not change that. Move on. Its time
I'm not sure what about my post makes you think I am advocating for another cycle for Gregg. Because I'm not, and I haven't been. In fact, I've been active in this thread at discussing and assessing various potential coaching candidates not named "Gregg Berhalter". The point of the post you quoted (which should have been plenty obvious, as it was clear and direct) is that ANY COACH that comes in will bring their own baggage of biases. To think otherwise is a fool's errand.
Roldan, Long, and Morris are not likely to be on the World Cup roster next time around (and this would be true even if Berhalter were returning). But I'm sure the next coach whoever it is, will have a couple players on the 2026 roster whose inclusion you disagree with.
Such a coach would likely bring in an Anthony Hudson or some other US based assistant to have someone on the staff with familiarity with the player pool.
The French manager didn't even fill all of his slots. I'm guessing he didn't want those that wouldn't get any minutes to be around to have a bad attitude. So if you can fill those spots with know good attitudes that won't play then maybe favorites isn't the right word exactly.
I will say I get why you need end of the roster guys who will have a good attitude and won't complain if they don't play a ton. But we really did need an 8 who was capable of playing minutes and neither Roldan or LDLT were. I would have taken Arriola over Morris, but I don't think it would have a difference either way. I probably wouldn't have taken Long either, but whoever I would have taken wouldn't have played and it would have made zero difference.
McKennie on the next coach He spoke about the coaching search on Futbol Americas (@ESPNPlus) 👇 pic.twitter.com/tfaeksBgW3— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) February 1, 2023
I don't actually feel like the players need to have a big name European coach and that's the only person they'll respect. There was some speculation to that in the Athletic article and the source was one agent, and for all we know that was Gio Reyna's agent. In the end I imagine the player pool will respect any coach American or otherwise, if they think that person is a good coach who is good at connecting with the team. I'm not super worried about the team not respecting Steve Cherundolo for instance.
Exactly. McKennie has praised the national team setup under Berhalter in the past so we already knew he wasn't insulted at the idea of being coached by someone without a high level of achievement in the European game. It's just funny how some quotes aren't see as all that important or even entirely truthful, while others (like a player praising the high training standards of his new Euro club) are taken as simple honest truth.