Juergen for the Galaxy? Ok, the recent descent of the managers of the Galaxy [late version Arena to Onalfo to Schmid to Kinnear to Schellotto] is pretty much as if Lincoln had begun with General Rosecrans and then had followed with Hood to Burnside to Bragg to McClellan. To replace Schelotto with Jurgen Klinsmann would be like Lincoln finishing up not just with someone truly awful in charge, such as Pillow, but as if he had gone straight to insanely awful... such as Custer. Sure, the sequence of failure upon depressing failure upon ugly failure would finally come to an end... but only by embracing truly spectacular failure... Why not go for a smart and seasoned manager, practical and fiercely dedicated to winning, as was early Bruce? A football equivalent of General Grant. And if Jesse Marsch cannot be persuaded, then why not try some of those solid managers still/soon to be underemployed in England?
Yea you're right. I am just sick of not even mediocre for years. I am clinging onto the hope that a more well known manager can come in and reshape us like Bruce did.
Coaches don’t have to be well known to be good. They just need to be good. But I have zero faith that Klein could recognize such a person.
Either you're being sarcastic, or are not totally up-to-date vis a vis Klinsmann's situation at Hertha Berlin. He resigned via Facebook post after a few weeks in charge, citing lack of support from the club (even though they broke records spending under him). He was subsequently removed from Hertha's advisory board.
Is it a Klein or te Kloese issue, though? At one point, we all thought Klein was a big, fat dummy who was going to give the job to his roommate Caleb Porter.
I met my wife in 2015 and introduced her to the Galaxy and Aston Villa. Galaxy proceeded to wooden spoon it, and Villa was relegated in 20th place.
On Porter : at this moment not giving him the coaching role seemed to be an error given how good Columbus are, but remember Porter has an history of being very streaky with Portland, alternating years of great playoffs runs and years not reaching the postseason. We could have done better. Was GBS better? Right now, clearly no.
Like I said at the time - GBS didn't have a good tactical rep when we hired him. My hope was he would bring in enough talent, especially Argentine talent, that it wouldn't matter. With Pavon and Polenta and even Gonzalez as a sub he got the talent influx started. Adding Corona, Antuna and Alvarez were ok as well. And I don't blame GBS for losing Ibra nor for him being replaced by Chich. But the rest? By the start of 2020 we lost our best cb Polenta, lost Antuna, released Alvarez, had gotten rid of our fastest player in Boateng, released reliable and cheap Romney and replaced them with a bunch of broken parts like Cuello, Juninho(?), an apparent racist and Insua. We were mediocre last season and needed to upgrade - instead we downgraded. Absolutely horrible off-season personnel swaps. So now we have neither tactics nor talent.
If the company fails year after year it's the fault of the man at top. Klein decided to hire GBS and he has failed like all the other coaches Klein has hired after Bruce left. Klein also has ultimate say on player signings - to put it mildly, they have been mostly horrible under his reign. Klein also hired DTK and he came in with a great rep but for whatever reason he hasn't improved our roster either. I don't know if he was overrated or Klein is handcuffing him. Bottom line - Klein is our either the Galaxy CEO or is picking the Galaxy CEO's (depends on who is making the final decisions). But either way - absolute failure. We are about to end 5 seasons with a cumulative playoff record of 0-1. Fire Klein!!!!!!!!!
I was certainly in the camp that wanted GSB over Porter and I still think there's some reason for it. Porter seems like a good fit for a small-market team. He could probably get the most out of Columbus. My concern is that MLS is changing in favor of the larger-market, higher-spending teams. That should be us. We need a leadership team that is: Good at recruiting the right stars Good at finding mid-priced players in South America Good at tactics Good at managing egos I was hoping that te Klose could do the first two and GBS the second two, but it hasn't worked out. But I'm not sure Porter could bring the gravitas to deal with world class players. On the other hand, Brian Schmetzer is doing well in Seattle and he didn't have much of a pedigree (although Seattle is not as star-crazed as the Galaxy). BTW, Schmetzer went to my high school a year after me. His family even had a sporting goods store about six blocks from my house.
I'm not saying I think Porter's the answer either or even that we should've hired Porter in retrospect. I just couldn't remember if Porter was Klein's guy or te Kloese's. That's not to excuse Klein, though I think the problems go beyond him. The real question is whether or not you think GBS deserves another real season to figure it out, as this one's been a bust. He did get the team into the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and won their first playoff match since...2014? Bringing in Pavon was a coup. We don't know what other moves he might've made with an uninterrupted 2020 season -- or how the team might've played with more reps under their belts (1 DP has been here half a season, another has played 3 matches). I don't think losing to Portland under the circumstances is that bad, for example -- but the Vancouver loss and this blowout to LAFC, as individual performances go are enough to want to pull the ripcord. Arena, both at the beginning and end of his tenure, had pretty flawed and imperfect teams and the first thing he did was stop bleeding goals that lead to embarrassing losses. Even if we have to tie half 75% of games in the season, we cannot lose games like these the way we have.
Three matches, one point, and a humiliating loss to LAFC. This team is unrecognizable to me. What bothers me the most is the way we're playing. We lack might, sight, and fight. We're at the bottom of the table. We got there playing our high-priced vets and it's clear that GBS can't make them into a cohesive unit. But can he work with our hungry youth? As far as I'm concerned, the fork in the road has been reached: Path A: Fire the coach. That's the easy solution. Path B: Play the kids the rest of the way. It's the path less traveled, especially for this team. Can GBS develop youth players? I believe he can. I'm in favor of Path B.
GBS has never shown an ability to develop youth. He was already known as a coach who lacked tactical acumen. Admit the mistake, fire him now, and let's rebuild - again...
Yeah, I'm done after watching us deliver another 34 crosses tonight. He's not the answer. Though kudos for FINALLY benching Gonzalez. Though I want to take back the kudos after watching DePuy play. Where has that guy been and why was Gonzalez playing over him?
GBS is not a good evaluator of talent, he is not a good motivator and he is not a good tactician. Klein is terrible evaluator of talent, both managers or players. We built a roster with exactly one true finisher and he has been both slumping and oft-injured. This team is hopeless and will stay that way until at least GBS is gone. Ideally both he and Klein would leave but I don’t see Klein going on his own or being sacked by his AEG friend. Sooner or later GBS will be fired due to poor performance and we will start rebuilding. Again. Hopefully we become a great team again. But my patience is pretty much worn out. I’ve grown attached to the great posters on this board but no longer any of the players. That’s a problem and I don’t know what to do.
Hopefully we'll get players that help you. The 49ers were in this boat (and have basically turned over EVERYONE), and I like the new team a lot. But it helps that the new folks embraced what the brand means. So hopefully a rebuild will do the same for the Galaxy.
on GBS, this is where I'm at. emphasis on "wildly": if your team is still wildly dysfunctional after 50 games in charge that's on you— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) July 24, 2020