MLS Coaching and Front Office - News & Discussion Thread 2019

Exactly! Why not just say that instead of saying MLS is of low quality?

 

Let's see:
Andrew Hauptman 2008-2019
David Greenly 2008-2010
Julian Posada 2010-2012
Nelson Rodriquez 2015-present

 

Because no one wants to admit that they are taking a giant payday...

 

i cant believe anyone expecting a turnaround sticks with rodriguez. his comments showed just a complete lack of understanding about how winning teams are built. truly a perplexing decision from mansueto

 

I do think there's some truth in this. Hauptman's Fire seemed to be treading water before he came on and it's not implausible that his role was to help transition out of the mess that the team got itself in in B-view. The soccer side of things have been putrid, but for all we know Nelson may have been considered successful by anyone with money in the game on the business end. Wouldn't shock me if part of Rodriguez's assignment from ownership was "keep off field costs as low as possible until we can get the deal done".

Ironically (maybe over-optimistically) I think the fact that Paunovic still being around shows that Nelson making soccer decisions isn't long for this world, either through his replacement or an Ernest Tanner type coming in. No one wants to hire a new manager if a GM/Technical Director hire is pending.

 

If that's the case, why would they have signed Schweinsteiger? A guy like that doesn't come cheap and if all they are looking for is to keep the costs low, there are plenty of COCACAF guys who would be willing to come in for $200k

 

Part of him still being around could be related to two different things. Presumably he has a fairly high salary and, as such, a higher buy-out cost. If Hauptman was as cheap as people suggest then he wouldn't want to pay that buy-out and pay for a new head coach. Hence, he is still around.

The second option as to why he is still around is related to the whole "not funding the team correctly" theory that surrounds the Hauptman area. The new owner could believe that it is ok to give everyone a fair shot because their results are tainted by the previous majority owner. Pauno was a fairly big deal in coaching when the Fire signed him after he lead Serbia to the U-20 title and they supposedly beat out Panathankios for him. So ownership my be willing to give them a year to prove they belong with appropriate backing.

I personally think that Pauno just isn't a great coach at this level and he may be a good national team (even if just a youth oriented) coach. I actually think that Rodriguez hasn't done a bad job of finding players for the past few years. Outside of Marcelo were there really any bad signings of players that were supposed to be first team players? Sapong, Gaitan, Frankowski, and Kronholm are all good signings. They probably could have done a bit better in 2018 with only Katai being brought in and 2017 saw the Bava signing but that was balanced with Nikolic. McCarty, and Bastian. I mean 2016 wasn't great but compare it to 2015 and it isn't that bad. Nelson arrived in September of 2015 and the signings made before he got there were Daniel Cyrus, Gilberto, Victor Perez, Shaun Maloney, Adailton, Guly do Prado, Kennedy Igbonanike, David Accam, and Joevin Jones. I understand why he has the rep he has, I just think that looking at it from a player scouting and recruitment perspective he isn't as bad as people say he is.

 

Not having seen Chicago all that much, I don't have a lot to go on, but I always got the impression that they had some decent players and should have been better. The whole was less than the sum of its parts. A lot like the pre-Arena Revs.

 

Tradition.

 

Almost as good as "Defy Expectations" from Orlando City. Accurate in that I expect franchises to make the playoffs at least once in five seasons, yet they defied that expectation.

 

Here's a sight I never thought I'd see:

Jay Sugarman giving high fives to fans in The River End. #DOOP https://t.co/PlWMMNYdlg

— Joe Tansey (@JTansey90) October 21, 2019

Jim Curtin celebrates with The River End. pic.twitter.com/e3pq7pm0sX

— Joe Tansey (@JTansey90) October 20, 2019

 

More changes a foot in Cincy:

Able to confirm this Luke Sassano news via an MLS source.

Scoop from Jeff, @samstejskal. https://t.co/wOmusdkGvU

— Pat Brennan (@PBrennanENQ) October 21, 2019

 

1186069389428346880 is not a valid tweet id

This has not been widely reported, so no confirmation on this yet.

As a RB fan i think this would be the right move. We end this season with a million more questions than last year. And above all, I feel like the team has really lost it's identity this year. At no point during this year did I think we would be anything more than playoff filler, just making up the numbers.

 

Less throats to choke?

 

Pretty sure that is a troll account. That guy has posted and later deleted a lot of BS about the Galaxy this year.

 

If you had Tab Ramos as the head coach of the Dynamo, you win Bingo on that one pick alone.

Granted not official yet but everyone, including those who never cover the Dynamo, are reporting it.

 

Dome has every right to be pissed about the striker situation and spending. He is also under contract for next season so I wouldn't be surprised if next season is his last. Possibly have Van Brockhorst as an assistant before he takes over the season after next. I'd be shocked if he was fired.