INTRODUCING BEERSCHOT, THE MOST ENTERTAINING TEAM IN EUROPE The trick will be to convince our hodgepodge of forwards they can score, while our supposed strength in defense returns to its stingy ways. One someone linked to in the Goff article comments: Head Coach Analysis: Hernan Losada at Beerschot Thx, Jay!
After sitting through too many Bennyball defensive snoozers, I look forward to some 5-4 wins (or even a 4-3 loss). But do we have the attackers capable of finding the net that many times?
Quoting myself to say that Kamara is totally not the type of forward this tactic embraces. The striker is going to have to be someone that offers a lot of movement in and out of the box and interchanges with the two attacking mids a lot. Not sure I saw that sort of capability from Kamara. He's a straight poacher IMO.
Seems like they only lost to the top three or four clubs. Brugge, Antwerp, Genk, Charleroi. All names you’ve heard of, all teams which probably have the best defenders in Belgium. Which leads me to believe we won’t come anywhere close to that here for a couple of seasons because MLS has a pretty deep defender pool across 15-20 clubs Outside the Rooney year-and-a-half you have to go back to 2015 for a double-digit goal scorer. Those guys aren’t on our roster now, and I have zero confidence we’ll get anyone like that without giving up a piece. Thx, Jay!
If you've been reading my posts for the past several years I've been asking for a Marcelo Bielsa protoge. Clotet (one of the candidates) served one year under Bielsa and now this... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A contact in Belgium says Losada prefers a "Full gas attack. He is a big fan of Bielsa."</p>— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) <a href="A contact in Belgium says Losada prefers a "Full gas attack. He is a big fan of Bielsa."— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) January 17, 2021 I'm optimistic. Bielsa's concepts thrive under a team on a budget. Fitness will likely be the #1 criteria on this squad.
Jordan Morris is being loaned by Seattle to Swansea. A perfect "Welcome to DC" present our joint DCU-Swansea owner Jason Levien could give Losada is for Swansea to loan Morris to DC. For an attacking coach we need attackers.
Great a foreign coach with zero knowledge an understanding of MLS "Calvinball Rules" this is gonna work out great............. So what two seasons and he is off to a real league.
He’s probably used to smaller payrolls with his old team. He doesn’t have to know how the sausage is made to ask for a sausage player.
The MLS has funny money but it’s still big bank take little bank at the end of the day. You don’t need to be familiar with the league to grasp that. Also, if this guy is good enough to go to a “real” league in 2 years he wouldn’t be coming here in the first place.
You're quite correct. Happily, our current interim coach has lots of MLS experience. Nothing but, actually. So, let's drop that silly "interim" tag and move on. Problemo solved.
For good or bad, Kasper is still with the team. He won't have to plumb the depths of MLS minutiae by himself.
. . . and Beckham's a fool for bringing-in Phil Neville (no MLS background). Just like Seattle and Sigi Schmidt (bound to fail). Likewise DCU with Thomas Rongren, to say nothing of Piotr Nowak. Now, Curt Onalfo (and his MLS experience), that was a great hire.
Transfermarkt is a hit or miss but I've compared Beerschot's roster valuation to DCU... and it's quite similar: $26.8 to 26.3 million
Schmidt and Rogen had exposure to this league prior. This guy has come from Argentina and Belgium. He is in for a rude awakening. "I want player X." "Well we must use 20%GAM, 15% TAM and trade them a player for him." "What!!! No we just offer him a big contract and them a transfer fee!" "Um sorry but we play Calvinball here"
Hoping and thinking this will be a good hire - just so glad they are not going to do the easy out with Ashton. Half chance I will keep my season tickets.
I think you're wrong. If you look at the history of Beerschott, it was bankrupt in 2013 or thereabouts and relegated to the bottom of the Belgian pyramid. This never has been a big money team and the method it used to return to the topflight was careful spending and, with Losada, coaching that maximized the abilities of its roster. That is exactly how most MLS teams must operate so Losada is quite used to dealing with budget strictures that coaches from much bigger clubs don't have to deal with. I think his biggest issues dealing with MLS will be the travel demands and the fact that games are played in sub-tropical conditions for most of the season -- something that does not exist in Belgium a relatively damp and cool country that you can drive across in 3 hours or less.
Official The New Manager ⚫️🔴Welcome to the Black-and-Red family, Hernán Losada‼️— D.C. United (@dcunited) January 18, 2021
I’m so bummed out. Here I thought that Beerschot was a brewery and we would get an influx of Belgian beers at Audi. Turns out it’s just Dutch for Bear.