I'll believe it when I see it. After that Canada performance, Pochettino is a fool if he doesn't ask for a 50% increase in salary before signing because USSF mislead him about the resources available for the job.
I’m less worried about who he plans on bringing from the outside than who…if anyone…he’s planning on bringing from either inside US Soccer or inside us soccer. This is his first go at international soccer. There is not a lot of time, nor are there many windows…to familiarize yourself with the pool and its breadth (as opposed to depth…we have lots of players of equal caliber that may bring a little more of what he’s looking for than other equally talented players…and they all play in a wide variety of leagues) My biggest fear is that there are quite a few players at big clubs who are rapidly approaching a place where their club pedigree should no longer afford them the benefit of the doubt…who are now going to be afforded even more of a benefit of the doubt because of that pedigree.
New coach, new start. I’m interested in seeing how he rates players differently than what we have seen. Although to be fair to Greg, he picked about as good of a line up as he could for the Copa America.
whats the virtue of carrying players you have no intention of using? is wasting a roster spot (or spots) positive in some way?
I think he was a backup, that was his purpose. You can think it was a bad choice, but hardly an important one The guy I responded to said Shaq played in The Copa America, he did not
I doubt it… He’s been around the block to know a broken team when he sees one, and also if that broken team can be easily fixed with the right changes. Any quality manager would be able to identify that our player pool alone is easily a top 20 program. And with the World Cup being played at home, this player pool could upset some teams in the top 10. It won’t be fixed overnight ~ but the right manager should be able to turn this program around within 2 years. Is Poch that right manager? I don’t know yet.
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, France, England, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium. I think most everyone would agree these nations have more talent. That’s twelve. I think the US is definitely in the mix for one of the next 8 spots in the top 20. The problem is the lack of high end talent, only Pulisic is close to world class and I don’t think he’s there personally. Even Poland has Lewandowski, you know? Even Canada has Davies. I’m hoping Gio can become that guy by ‘26 but it looks more like wishful thinking by the day. The lack of a true game breaker limits the ceiling while the relative depth raises the floor. No keepers or center backs worth mentioning maybe puts us outside the top 20 for me. That’s different than a year ago where I thought top 15.
Whether one thinks the USMNT pool is top 15 or top 20 or top 25 doesn't matter much because there's not much of a gap between teams in that tier, they change places all the time unlike the elite teams.
I don’t think any promises were made to Pochettino about the pool of players and it’s not that hard for him to just watch our games from the last year.
🚨 Mauricio Pochettino is set to be confirmed as the new USA manager after a meeting with US soccer chiefs. 🇺🇸🔜 (Source: @MailSport ) pic.twitter.com/PuxZqamUn4— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) September 10, 2024
This is coming from a dude on Twitter who's seemingly been coasting on accidentally guessing the correct day Gregg Berhalter was fired and is now being treated as a reliable source. He claims to work for TV Azteca but Googling his name and TV Azteca brought up zero results (though to be fair maybe Google Translate is letting me down). He's been trying to parlay that with an announcement date for Poch and keeps being wrong. So it's starting to become quite likely he's just full of shit EDIT: Also it looks like he deleted TV Azteca from his bio lol, he's definitely a fraud
I think the confusion comes from when Scally got injured and looked like he was going to need to sub off. Moore was ready on the sidelines but Scally eventually was able to continue. I think it was against Uruguay.
We may just agree to disagree. But I’ll stand on the hill that the USMNT still has more individual talent than it ever has, and it’s a top 20 player pool. The problem is we haven’t learned how to play well as a team. We have been performing worse than we actually are, which usually we get more out of our team than how good we actually are.
Even the players themselves have recently hinted at there being something wrong with the mentality of the team. And, I wager the whole house that this is not a recent phenomenon. All of us could observe this at the Copa America. What an embarrassment! But anyone who was paying attention should have been able to see that Berhalter struggled throughout his time as head coach. Covid saved his job. Two impressive wins against Mexico allowed us to overlook a very poor WCQ. I won’t take away his getting out of the group at the WC, but will also acknowledge that we were favored to go through regardless based on talent over Wales and Iran. And then, the wheels just came off the bus. Fact is Berhalter broke this team. He was a one dimensional coach who allowed complacency and mediocrity to creep in. I can only imagine that opposing coaches could sum up Berhalter in one word: predictable. The problem is not going to be fixed overnight. But if Poch is the right hire, the ship has time to be on the right course in 2 years. *Fingers Crossed*
vs Brazil Shaq got 5 + 7 stoppage... https://www.google.com/search?q=usa...ie=m;/g/11vq_x23xq;2;/g/11b66jrs60;tl;fp;1;;;