Ever since Pedro Pompilio left us, the club has entered a no way out situation. I heard yesterday that the President seems a swiss ... he doesn't feel the passion behind the blue-and-gold. For him, everything is fine ... it is follwoing the natural process. There is so much going wrong atm that Boca will risk its near future this semester. The Clausura is gone a while back ... probably since not being able to defeat Atl Tucuman at home. There were plenty of rounds to play, yet that was a true measurement of the inabilities in the coaching staff to read games and to build a starting 11. The fact is that letting Alves take over was a gamble. Talks with Guille were on their way, but el Melli didn't want to take over then. It is highly probable that Guille will leave Columbus in June and retire from active football to take over as Boca coach. But all this is for June talk. The reality is that Amor Ameal and Alves have given Boca its worst start in the professionalism. The tournament is gone. Qualifying to the Sudamericana is an almost impossible. But what about the Libertadores 2011? The points of this tournament and the Apertura 2010 will determine the teams that represent Argentina in NEXT YEAR'S Libertadores. What this simply means is that Boca will probably need to win the next tournament to qualify ... unless the team finds a magical correction (primarily defensively) in the 2nd half of this Clausura. The starting point could be River. Nevertheless, at Boca you can't throw away a semester. Alves should had been gone after the tie at home with Tucuman. Keeping him as the bridge to Guille was a mistake. Is a mistake. Will be a mistake. Elections are in December 2011. Without yet another Libertadores that year, what players are you going to atract? What team are you going to build? With what income? No Ameal. Everything is not fine, despite the apparent stability in the financial department. Boca built its success also on the field. Without it, you will undersell your players. And will go to red financially fast. Footballistically, Alves' teams have less argument than a porn movie ... as I heard yesterday. And Ameal doesn't notice it ... .
Since the MLS season runs through November, it is very unlikely that Guille will be leaving the Columbus Crew in June. It is possible that he will retire after this season, but if he wants to play one more, the Crew has an option to keep him. He may eventually become a coach, but it may be in the US rather than back in Argentina.
There're claims on the media that Schelotto himself says he'd return before next season begins, the matter is that if he decides to retire i guess his contract wouldn't matter. Now got to see what he has to decide and what he can do with that, because i heard Gimnasia supporters being mad at him claiming that his renewal or not depended on Columbus Crew and not him, Gimnasia supporters claim otherwise that it was entirely up to him, adding another scar to the relationship, Schelotto-Gimnasia's Supporters.
He signed a new contract at the beginning of this season, so it was indeed his decision to stay in Columbus this year at least.
Yes, is it known what were the terms of his renewal? Because more often i'm hearing on the media that he'd return in June, or some going as far as saying that his contract finishes there, which sounds odd seeing as MLS' season finishes in November. But then again it could just be that those disgrace of journalists that bring up that kind of speculation don't know the most basic details...
The contract is for the 2010 season. I suppose a player can retire at any time, but it would seem very unlike Guillermo Barros Schelotto to quit in the middle of a season unless he became physically unable to play for some reason. Columbus is expecting to have a very strong season this year, and Guille is a key player.
I'm looking forward to see how that season starts. I noticed on FSC Columbus plays in the CCL, will Guille be playing?
If he's a key player then it's another reason to think that his possible arrival is likely bollocks, at least for this year.
Guille scored 2 goals, one on a PK, Thursday at Toluca, but the Crew went out of last years CCL, losing 3-2 to Toluca, 5-4 aggregate. As 2009 regular season MLS champions, the Columbus Crew will also be in this year's CCL, which starts this summer.
Hmm, it seems there could be(as there could not) a players' strike on MLS, could Guillermo actually use that as an exit route from MLS? Because whoever gets to coach Boca will likely get do it soon, it looks like that Alves doesn't have much time left. However, the name of Angel Cappa began to float around too.
bhttp://www.goal.com/en/news/60/south-america/2010/03/19/1839560/south-american-dispatch-juan-roman-riquelme-leaving-la-bombonera- Not looking good at Boca at all, I know GOAL can be unreliable so I really hope this isn''t true.
Can some one explain to me why Alves insists on playing Luis Alberto? He was a complete joke last game. He made Luna look like Batistuta. Why does he get to keep his spot? I fear for our lives with this boludo playing.
IMHO, the ideal situation would be to have Bianchi as DT (not manager) for 2-3 yrs, being Guille his 2nd. Then Bianchi could retire and leave Guille with an oiled, re-structured team. The other thing I always had in mind was that Bianchi, when manager, was given the keys to buying and selling players. And that he would eventually ALSO become the DT. In other words ... something of the sort of Ferguson ... a true manager. And that no one cry over it since he was already doing the buying/selling. The main problem with this was that the Sr Management at Boca have to respond with their wallets to any deficit. But there could had been a way to work it around ... supervising that Bianchi doesn't over spend, etc. .