It’s “Kaval’s Kickoff Syndrome”. When things are going well make sure to get your face out there. When going bad, and especially when they’re going *really* bad, you hide the best you possibly can.
yes, accountability isn't a thing for the Quakes. And our fans, be they high spending season ticket holders or single game patrons, are not seen as, nor valued as, stakeholders.
Brighton closing in on Diego Gomez from Inter Miami.🇵🇾- Package discussed around $18m- Won't be fully agreed before the Olympics- Loan-back until January or a winter sale both possible- West Ham also enquired but haven't bidStory with @tombogert.✍️https://t.co/AkrjqVC5gc— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) July 20, 2024 BREAKING: Brighton nearing deal to sign Paraguay int'l Diego Gomez from Inter Miami, sources tell @JacobsBen and me.No agreement yet, but talks on initial fee near $15m (€14m), w/ add-ons north of $18m (€17m).Gomez would remain with Miami til winterhttps://t.co/hdUZXOVjxa— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) July 20, 2024 What @InterMiamiCF is doing is showing the rest of the league that you can spend money and turn it into money very quickly if done right. Diego Gomez transfer for $18m to Brighton is the example. You can’t just buy young players and hope. You need top to bottom a team and…— Taylor Twellman (@TaylorTwellman) July 20, 2024 Huge move, and huge that Miami would be able to keep him through the end of the season.Chris Henderson = exec of the year in a landslide, btw. https://t.co/ZsqBEcxRkQ— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) July 20, 2024 Wow exec of the year, must be nice....
Will Kuntz assembling a team after the Quakes hired Leitch over him We have hired Mikkel Dencher as Technical Director from Danish Superliga side FC Copenhagen.Additionally, the club has promoted Michael Stephens to Assistant General Manager.📰: https://t.co/NCW8SRlETH pic.twitter.com/zCaWwBWA0Z— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) July 19, 2024
Why is Leitch still here? Time to flush and start over...again. Chris is a nice guy, but player development and selection have been mostly poor. Yarbrough - Poor Akapo - Average Gruevo - Poor Water Dude - Poor (not a fit for MLS) Wilson - Average Costa - Average TT - Poor (couldn't we have found another player to fill in our man-bun alotment?) Player Development (through draft and academy? Munie - Incomplete Niko - Good Stanford Players - Suck Cade - Average (Got money, but average results on the field) I'm done. Next.
Daniel — great (but injured) Hernan Lopez — near great (and would be on a better squad) That’s two excellent acquisitions in the past 18 months. Munie is a solid #1 draft pick and Ricketts (who’s hurt) looks like he will be, as well. Two more good acquisition in last 18 months. Jebo is fourth all time on Quakes goal-scoring list. With double digit goals in each of his complete seasons with the Quakes. His recent struggles can’t be pinned on Leitch. I’m not seeing that Leitch is the problem.
Which brings me back to the riddle I've been trying to solve. Why are we so bad then? Don't think it's the coaching either though just the right coach could undoubtedly coax some better results (and we need to give Ian more time). Best I've been able to come up with is 1) injuries (loss of some key players), 2) loss of confidence*, and 3) a lot of teams have improved more than we have. * On the loss of confidence you could watch it start to rise just after we got Hernán and then get slapped back down again after that fateful game in Portland. Not blaming everthting on that one game / decision but that was a key moment that set the momentum back in the opposite direction when we had a chance to turn it around.
you may not want to see that he's the problem, but he is. there was also Monteiro, Gregus, Hoppe, Akinola, Calvo, Mensah, etc., etc...Jebo had one decent season, he's been consistently poor for two years now... ...Lopez has been okay. I mean, you can blame his performance on a crappy team but whose job is it to build a competitive roster for him to play with? And shouldn't your big impact signing have an impact? We've only gotten worse since Hernan arrived. Leitch has failed, spectacularly. Never should've been hired as GM. And the fact that he's now having the worst season by any MLS team, ever (after being with the Quakes since 2009!!)...and he doesn't even address the fans...he's utterly useless. Dude promised us a competitive team at the end of crap season '21...remember that? Sorry, Rick Astley has been a complete disaster as GM.
We've been thru this many times. Our roster has arguably improved since last year. Not sure if you've noticed but none of "Monteiro, Gregus, Hoppe, Akinola, Calvo, Mensah" are still on the team. Therefore they can't be the reason for our horrible season. If the problem is the roster, and it's mostly the same plus some positive additions, then why are we doing massively worse this year?
It was a crap offseason (as per usual), Leitch cut more players than he added, and the few additions didn't move the needle. Leitch failed to sign DP until season was over. Team had a couple of injuries, which good teams can absorb and keep going, but Quakes have no bench depth. Academy hasn't been producing talent at a rate able to help first team. Quakes weren't ready for season opener, came out flat, fell into a hole early and have been in free fall ever since. no desire to do anything to address out 50th anniversary season of shame...no word, nada...Quakes are the embarrassment of MLS. thanks Rick Astley aka Chris Leitch.
We'd played what, 10 games when Hernán arrived. We've now played 150% more games than that. We had a little bump of good form when he arrived, and then slapped back down again. I think that has a lot to do with the confidence factor I've been mentioning.
yes, when you're on pace for the worst season MLS as ever seen, and clearly you don't have the players that you need, it can snowball on you. especially when the status quo is okay for Leitch and Fisher and there will be no help on the way. This is a failing organization with no desire to change. I know this is hard on these players and coaches.
we were poor from game #1, season was over by game #3. we were well and truly sunk long before Portland
Sharks are a whole 'nother kettle of fish, obviously. But Leitch has been the worst GM we've had yet...by miles.
Jebo is not the answer at CF for any team with competitive aspirations, this has been obvious for a very long time.
Not really "for a very long time". 17 goals in 2022 - very good, 10 goals in 2023 - OK, 4 goals so far in 2024 - not good. We need an upgrade but the "very long time" thing is not true.