News: MLS Coaching and Front Office - News & Discussion Thread 2025-26

Is Wilfred Nancy available?

 

They can have Rene Weiler.

Thx,

Jay!

 

Not League specific, but there was an interesting article about the Rapids that showed up in the Denver Business Journal yesterday.

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/04/13/colorado-rapids-lionel-messi-april-18-match.html

It's pay-walled but here are some of the highlights and my takeaways:

• It confirms a long-held suspicion I had that the League was hesitant to give the Rapids a Messi game, and that the club had to essentially put together a bid to host one.
• The League clearly views the Messi games as a finite resource that needs to be carefully allocated to maximize the return on investment. The biggest obstacle for the Rapids was MLS didn't view them (KSE) as invested enough in the league to be deserving of that kind of payday.
• They were apparently competing with Portland and Salt Lake with their bid.
• An interesting bit focused on the Rapids specifically was about how KSE and the club are now actively making it a priority to change the bad reputation the Rapids have, both from the public and internally in MLS.
• The rebrand stuff is part of a broader goal of improving the awareness of the club in the market.

There are some other more Rapids-specific takeaways as well, but I won't bore you with that.

 

Not MLS specific but Matt Crocker has quit US Soccer to take a $imilar job in $audi Arabia.

 

Thanks for sharing this.
Kroenke seems strange to me. Of course I know only his public persona, but it's strange. I don't know why you'd own a team in MLS and treat it -- no disrespect intended to Rapids fans -- like such an afterthought. I recognize there are business decisions behind all of it, and he's not the only MLS owner appearing to lack ambition or commitment, but he bugs me and I'm not even a Rapids supporter.

 

The eating isn't finished yet, but I haven't much been impressed by his pudding so I'm not sad to see him go.

 

Montreal fans say hello.

 

To be honest, I think he initially acquired the Rapids because he thought it'd be a low maintenance vehicle to grift some real estate out of a municipality via a stadium play. KSE wasn't even confident the Rapids would survive long after that stadium got built, hence why the seats are still institutional prison gray instead of team colors. Dick's was never intended to just be a Rapids venue, but that's the way it panned out.

I do wonder if the sudden changes are being forced by a couple of external factors. Perhaps MLS brass and the other owners are getting tired of KSE's shit and have been more vocal about it behind closed doors. Perhaps also the Summit coming to town has played a role because they now provide a direct contrast to the public of how a club can be run.

 

Personally I think its a joke that teams have to "bid" to get a Miami home game. Miami is an equal team in this league. They play 3 games a year on the road in the Western Conference. Over 5 years they should travel to every Western Conference team. Period, that's it. If you want to put Colorado in year 5 because we suck that's fine, but making us "bid" to host a league team is ridiculous.

 

Agreed, but we know the League's philosophy in recent years has been more akin to a traveling circus than a balanced competition. This mentality also helps to explain things like the asinine playoff format, the Leagues Cup, or moving to a winter calendar.

 

HUH?

BREAKING: Javier Mascherano is OUT as Inter Miami head coach. pic.twitter.com/IgzNoIm6pi

— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) April 14, 2026

Mascherano ex-Inter Miami employee.

 

I'm going with HR complaint.

 

Hasn't been enough bizarro world stuff from Miami in the last year or so. Welcome back!

 

LTTP, but Lagerway did some color commentary on local DC United broadcasts and he was great.

 

As a soccer decision, this makes zero sense to me.
As an Inter decision, it makes perfect sense . . . as in, what can we dramatize this week?

 

Miami's press release says Mascherano is leaving for personal reasons, so apparently it's his choice.

Guillermo Hoyos is taking over as head coach.

 

It must be one hell of a personal reason when the entire coaching staff is leaving with you.

 

Welllll, it is Miami, so who the f*** knows.

 

Can it be a personal reason if he has another gig lined up? Or is that against the rules, not sure how those contracts usually work.

 

Post-Matchday 7 in MLS has turned into a veritable soap opera. Two coaches gone, the inner workings of MLS scheduling to maximize exposure and profits revealed, as well as the reminder that Stan Kroenke is a knothead as a sports franchise owner!

 

That could certainly be termed a personal reason in this case, if it helps the league avoid any hint of discord at Inter.

 

Could you call the dedication to leadership turmoil in Miami a Vice?

 

Or the situation in Montreal manic? (for you NASL fans)

 

It's certainly making and Impact.