He's the Phil Jackson of soccer, actually pic.twitter.com/9lzvGByxJC— - (@chilwellout) June 7, 2025 He can’t even win a charity match with YouTubers and streamers (which he did instead of doing something related to his 6 million dollar job), lost to a Panama team that barely beat Belize, calls up players like Agyemang, and we’re supposed to think he’s a good manager? https://t.co/vGecbr702P— American Ultras Talk (@usmntaut) June 8, 2025 (I don't follow NBA, assuming Phil Jackson is best known for never winning trophies outside PSG)
At the end of the day I think Poch will have a good WC so I am willing to live with the current growing pains. Here is Klinsmann's take after the Turkiye match. Sounds very reasonable to me.
I'd much rather be having pains now with a chance to rectify them than sort of be cruising and get a black eye in the first WC game. Poch has a chance to reset the team and succeed. It largely depends on health though as Adams is back out again so maybe only Richards, Turner and one of the other CB's are likely WC starters.
Kind of like how we beat Morocco, they fired their coach, and went on to finish fourth at the World Cup?
That could be us! More likely it takes a Herculean effort to meet minimum expectations and Poch says farewell.
Big sigh of relief from Team Chunkz x Speed 🚨⚪️ Thomas Frank will become new Spurs head coach, here we go!Agreement done with the manager on contract terms and staff, Brentford set to release Frank for fee in the region of £10m.He’s the replacement for AngePostecoglou. pic.twitter.com/1vZAJ3bbN6— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 10, 2025
LOL. I’m not sure I have ever seen a group of studio pundits phone it in as often or as casually as the ESPN soccer crew.
You found a one counter example. Are there more? I mean I think if the players absolutely detested Poch that has a chance to work but I don't get that impression.
if you want a real opinion from nichols say liverpool are interested in poch. hell find a couple of nits to pick real quick in that case...
I agree with Klinsmann up to a point. Problem is Gold Cup used to interfere with European pre-season more than any other tournament iirc, especially if USA were going to be in it to the end. This year is a little different in the sense that we have a new manager as of October window last year and he's still combing thru the pool looking for depth he'll need in the WC finals.
The coaching change was already in the bag when they played us. There was an issue with their prefered manager not being ready to take over. You probably read posts to that effect back in 2022 and forgot. We played Morocco on June 1, 2022. Meantime, per wiki, Walid Regragui - Wikipedia On 30 May 2022, he (Regragui)( led Wydad AC to win its third CAF Champions League title, after beating defending champions Al Ahly in the final. So who do you want to take over from Poch or is this just more "baby wants his bottle" stuff? Do you have somebody better than Poch ready to go? Let me guess: Bruce Arena #1and Pep if Bruce turns it down.
If the Gold Cup goes particularly bad “someone better” becomes a pretty low bar. Might as well give Bob Bradley a call.
When Greggg was the manager all I heard was praise for how he changed the culture. Now apparently the culture needs to be changed again? You saw the video? This culture stuff is all above my pay grade. I just want the manager to select our best players, the plays to do their best and that will result in 90 minutes of high emotional involvement and happiness for me and most fans.
The issue isn't so much whether Poch is right about 'culture', it's whether it's useful for him to keep banging on about it publicly. It's as if Tom Thibodeau had taken to give regular press conferences complaining about the Knicks' lack of a bench, how championship teams need to go more than six deep, etc. It is what it is. Poch has to work within the limitations presented to him- particularly if he's a short term hired gun. He's prefabricating excuses for WC underperformance. 'What could I do? I was hired late in the cycle, and the problems were unfixable.' The ongoing Pulisic family soap opera is a portent of the discord to come.
I think he's been pretty clear this entire time that he feels that the team is not competing hard enough or bringing enough intensity. A lot of people agree with him. And whatever he's doing beyond the public statements, it seems to be working, as this last game was more like the intensity we saw in Qatar and previously.
I don’t think he’s getting fired but Cherundolo is probably available also given he’s already on his way out. Maybe Pat Noonan. And Matarazzo doesn’t have a job. Jim Curtin I guess also currently free. If we crash and burn at the level it’d take for Pochettino to get fired I’m guessing we wouldn’t hire a foreign coach.
One approach to tackling the culture issue is giving the manager more power. The federation could look into extending him.
It’s hard to tell how much Pochettino cares. Certainly, less than Berhalter did? Matarazzo, although American, did very poorly with Hoffenheim; only seven wins compared to the last place BL team. However, whatever the “investment” of the coach, it is the players that matter the most. So, if the usmnt doesn’t play any better than Hoffenheim, LA, Philly, etc. the coach doesn’t matter.
I mean I don’t think he’s getting fired no matter what happens, but there’s no way we wouldn’t hire a domestic candidate if he was.
Good point, didn't they already solve the culture issue before Poch arrived, what happened to that?? Can a cultural anthropologist please weigh in!
Like they did with Klinsmann before the 2014 World Cup due to made up Spurs rumors? Some things never change!
Certainly, it’s not easy coaching, a group of privileged Americans, and the culture, it’s a bit of concern. One has to wonder, if the message regarding culture might be easier to accept from an American coach than an Argentinian one? Anyway, Pochettino is the first USMNT coach with a three-game losing streak in his first 10 games since Manfred Schellscheidt in 1975. $6 million a year for this?