He has a job coaching Chile, which believe it or not, he probably considers a better job. There is still an outside chance he will be back with Argentina. He would be great. Think he will take the job without control? Does he speak English?
No, he made a change: putting Klesjtan in for Adu. What a joke. It's must be a wonderful feeling seeing 3 of your sons playing on the field at the same time (Michael, Bornstein and Sacha). What a joke.
Here's why the time is now right for Bob to go: We need momentum. With a supporter base that must be constantly growing, we can not afford for fringe fans to lose faith and move on. Despite how it may seem in Seattle or Portland, these are still tenuous times for football in the States. Someone like Klinsmann would have style AND substance, and today, one is nearly as important as the other.
I'd call making the semis a huge success and then ditch this next guy, because that's what real countries do
The US needs to be a threat in a WC before you can even think of winning one. If it takes a foreign coach to get even that far then I am all for it.
Well, ok, but he started his last stint at Chelsea losing to Wolverhampton and ended it losing to Everton and giving Liverpool the title, which caused him to be sacked. He took a great team and lost to an average team. The USA has an average team and is losing to a team that is becoming great. You guys would eat him up.
Absolutely not Arena. There are a number of reasonable foreign options, and reasonable Yankee options. Bradley had one very good year with that highly talented Chicago team, led by Nowak. Otherwise, mediocrity personified. "Doing better than Fire Bob" won't be the hardest part. The hardest part will be seeing the USSF with sufficient cojones to Fire Bob, or seeing Bob with sufficient cojones to bear full responsibility for the failures of the USMNT [a responsibility he has never found difficult to assume when it came to its successes'.
Can someone name the current NT coaches in the rest of the world that have the "development" turned over to them? Because everywhere else in the world, it's done by the clubs. The U-whatever teams are just mini MNT's that come together for camps and roll out to where ever the tourneys are.
Since Hiddink is almost certainly out of our range, are there any Guus Hiddink-types for us to recruit? If we're going European (and I think we must) then we've got to spring for someone who is versatile, like him.
Tonight, the other team had better horses. How many U.S. players playing tonight have been the subject of multi-million dollar transfer fees? How many from México? How many U.S. players have played for Barcelona, or been the subject of their interest? How many on México? We went as far as we could with a defensive back line that has 1 player in a top tier league. That player went down. México bring a forward from Man U and another that was Barcelona material. Our back line went as went its best player. Is there really a surprise here? Seems pretty predictable to me. BB's offensive gamble was brilliant. It got us enough goals to win the game. Our lack of back line depth was the negative that overtook the positive. No, I would not have inserted Bornstein. First, I wouldn't even have had him on the roster. Second, I would have left Lichaj at LB, where he has assimilated pretty well. Third, given the players taken, I would have gone to Spector. Fourth, I would have had Simek on the roster and brought him in. Hindsight is 20/20. The patient has a broken leg. The witchdoctor wants to give him a lobotomy. Just fix the broken leg: Bornstein out; Chandler and Simek in.