Looks like Cameron shares my enthusiasm for the continued sage decision making by Sunil. The main thing we need to do is stay the course. Don’t even send a smidgen of a signal that anything should change. Remember - we missed the World Cup by two inches. Don’t do anything crazy over two inches. How can anyone doubt that we are on the right path?
I disagree here. Sarachan is not a holding pattern. He was selected to continue down the path we are on. We missed the World Cup by two inches. We can’t afford to blow this up. Since Bruce unfortunately resigned, the next best way to continue down this path is to turn it over to his staff to keep us moving in the right direction. Whatever we do, let’s be sure not to change anything because it is working so well that we only barely finished behind Panama and Honduras. Stay the course with Sunil and Sarachan!
It's not a good look to have the guys who were a part of failure sill being in there. Reasonable or not. This says a lot. I think we will see a very young roster.
Of all the dumb things we get worked up about on BS, which only exists for that purpose in the first place, this is one of the better, more useful things to get worked up over, because it is completely inconceivable that the coaches who masterminded the greatest embarrassment in US soccer history, not only still have jobs, but are going to coach the very next match. We hit rock bottom and then keep digging. Not giving a shit about stupid decisions like this is how we end up being a laughingstock.
The main thing was probably to name a coach who will take orders and call up guys like Kellyn Acosta ("youth movement") whom FCD don't want anymore while keeping other guys under wraps because they are good players on at low salaries with their owners. At least EPB got out. I still don't understand why he wasn't called to Gold Cup and didn't play more minutes with KC. US Soccer Kansas City didnt rate him, while Man City had a different view. At some stage, a guy like Pulisic is going to tell US Soccer they are making him - and the USA - look bad and turn down call ups. Bradley should already have been leading the way. There is a solution to this mess but I've already been warned I will get a lifetime ban for raising it. So....don't carry on, lol. In Mexico these things get sorted out by media giants who have a huge stake in the sport's progress, as I understand it. In the USA, the media giants see soccer cannibalizing their profits in baseball and football, I suppose. Otherwise, why the silence from media I wonder.
Listened this morning to the 10/19 MenInBlazers podcast with Atlanta United president Darren Eales. Fantastic interview overall, and one thing relevant to our discussion here was the timing of the manager hire for Atlanta United. Eales commented that he had the luxury of time in his hiring of Atlanta's first manager. He put the word out, kept a lot of potential hires warm, and waited because he didn't need to pull the trigger until a few months before the first preseason camp. That strategy paid off when Martino became available. We have exactly that luxury right now. There's a natural desire to reduce uncertainty and name a new manager. But a smarter strategy is to live with the opening for a while and use time to your advantage. Using time to your advantage is also a great way not to overpay on the contract side. So whether it's Sarachan or a rotation of interim managers (could you have special guest star managers like Wagner step in?), I don't really care. I just don't want to see any long term contracts signed until after the February election at the earliest -- or ideally after the World Cup.
lots of Jan camp talk in here that I see zero need for in 2018. Unless its to give Dempsey/ Bradley// Wondo their final game before retiring from USA duty.
Well I would agree insofar as Sunil is replaced at which point the next President would set in motion the process of hiring a permanent manager. If Sunil is there next March we are screwed totally. The next manager is going to do what Sunil tells him to do and Sunil takes orders from the GOB network, as it is called here. We are really bad at separating the public sphere from private interest in the US. It shouldn't be as difficult as we make it. Step one would be electing a US Soccer President who actually wants to try.
Unsatisfactory as opposed to what we just watched? This is a game in Europe. Play people based in Europe. It's not Europhile it's the fact this is the least important game in decades. What's the point of a coach, camp or travel costs? As far as sexy ass, we have a grand total of one player on the roster that fits the description. Unless you want to keep your mancrush on Bradley and Altidore alive.
I would say, who gives a crap what lame duck interim presides over the rest of this lame duck cycle? These games are less than worthless overall. The Portugal game is going to be like watching a wake and if they have a Cupcake game at HDC like usual they'll get about 2k people in the door. This coming January camp is nearly completely meaningless, as it was usually used for MLS players and Scandinavian based players. We don't have any of note on the latter, and the former is well worn territory in terms of who is getting looks and who isn't. Also, USSF isn't going to pay 3 managers, nor should they. Sarachan is around, he's cheap, and he is competent enough to call in 25 warm bodies to go play Portugal and whoever in January. There is zero compelling reason to get emotional about anything that comes out of the next 9 or so months from Soccer House in terms of the MNT, unless Sunil gets bounced in February or something. Care what happens next August, when we'll hire a permanent manager and start calling in the nucleus of what will be our team when qualifying starts again.
They should have flushed all those Arena's freeloading assistants down the toilet and hire any available MLS coach to coach the team till next August.
There is a chance that this is 10 months job what rules out MLS coaches or anyone in hope of getting MLS job. This one is for really desperate folks.
If that happens, and someone from the current "pool" of established candidates gets hired, go nuts. I'll go nuts, probably. But having any sort of reaction to Sarachan getting to play pretend NT manager for a game or two is meatballery. Albeit understandable meatballery given our current situation.
Geoff Cameron can cram it. He can post all the cutesy emoji's and vaguetweet all he wants; he gets to wear his performance in the loss to CRC at home for eternity. He and Ream let an MLS jobber run rampant on them and score twice. Pulisic, and maaaaaaybe Yedlin and Dempsey are the only 3 guys that can remotely hold their heads high right now. I don't want to hear from Geoff Cameron about anything.
Who would you want to see as an interim coach that is currently available? And for how long would the interim contract last?