Brother Levien, please bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade of Scouse so thou might convince the residents of the anarchosyndaclus commune that you give a f_ck about them and winning...
I heard that if he does come to MLS, he wants to go to a team with a shot at the playoffs. And that's...uh...not us.
Until this moment, I had no idea how effective hallucinogens could be. Here's an entire thread on Wayne Rooney as DCU coach. So realistic, aside from his red face.
We're paying Rooney a million which excludes other compensation that probably doesn't need to be disclosed. The question becomes, why didn't the team seek to make more money by creating a winning team earlier with less money spent?
I thought our main game plan was to suck really bad for years to get a bunch of good picks at the SuperDraft[tm]. This allows us to make a move, get a name in here, and still stay at the bottom of the table. I know, brilliant! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_D.C._United_first-round_draft_picks OUCH.
i like rooney and so i'm upset...doesn't truly seem possible to succeed with this team & FO which means he'll eventually walk away or be fired with nothing more than a tarnished reputation for his efforts most of all i'm mad cause i can't honestly hope DCU fails with him at the helm (like i have since Losada's departure)
I wore my DCU tee with the Rooney and 9 on the back Saturday when taking the train back to DC. This is all my fault.
Goff's paywalled article is up on the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/07/10/wayne-rooney-dc-united-coach/ Ashton is EXPECTED to return as an assistant. So there's a chance!
a chance this all falls apart and he returns not as an assitant but permenant head coach? yeah. probably.
Does anyone else have an issue with this probably being an 18 month gig? Or is it just me that thinks 1.5-2.5 years is a short term deal that doesn't necessarily build anything?
Rooney probably does not care what people think of him - so maybe he can come in and blow it all up and help the rebuilding process start. This is going to take 5 years to fix the dumpster fire. Rooney can even call out the owner and the GM and whatever corner Ashton ends up .... I don't care ... blow it up.
yes horsemouth is who he is .... I hope he will call out the players that are complaining they aren't having fun.
No. At the membership forum last week, Stewart Mairs said the conventional wisdom now is that coaches have a shelf life of about 2 years. In MLS, there are some exceptions, Vermes is one (although that appears to be imploding), Schmetzer in Seattle is another (and Seattle is far and away the best run franchise in the league). Otherwise, it's about 2-3 years and rinse and repeat. The issue here is: does Rooney chart a course that is sustainable and leads to a consistently good product going forward? Ci vediamo.
Jim Curtin has been at Philly pretty long too. 2 years doesn't seem like long enough to do much of anything
I feel like I'm remembering 2019 very differently than everyone else here. The last time the stadium was actually full for a regular season game was when LAFC came to Audi for a nationally televised battle-of-the-unbeatens. Truly packed stadium. Rooney was invisible--just didn't show up. Bitched at the refs all game and got a deserved red card at 50' that everyone saw coming. When NY came around two months later for Rooney's last home game against Red Bull...he was invisible and got a deserved red card at 25'. He got suspended again for the final regular season game that we needed to win get a home playoff game (we didn't). Then he was invisible in the road playoff game in Toronto, just as he had a stinker in the prior year's playoff game against C-bus. He shut off for the last half of 2019, and sunk the team with him (and I know Lucho didn't help). To me, that seems almost undisputable. Textbook definition of big-money player collecting a paycheck. 0 goals in the last 13 games, three of which he missed because of red cards--not counting the Red Bull game when he played 22 minutes--and one because he got sick when the team let him fly home to deal with angry wife. Maybe he'll be a great coach, but pretty much everything that team did to turn it around and make the playoffs in 2019 came in spite of Wayne, not because of him. He often played like he just didn't give a shit, and that includes the playoff game. Zero goals in his last 13 games for us, and he's being hailed as the kind of guy every United player should emulate.
He did phone it in at the end, and I've been critical of him for that. But it's been argued that he was dealing with some personal issues and that affected things. I'm willing to accept that. He seemed like he was down to earth and the players liked him at the beginning, so I try and remember that.