Moreira’s interview on Soccerwise is worth a listen. He talks about Nancy’s coaching style (tough) and butting heads with him in defense of younger players. Sounds like Moreira and Cucho used to play good cop/bad cop and challenge him. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soccerwise/id1752138229?i=1000745326392&t=1339
I think that most people forget that the Dispatch are the ones to blame here. They just shove whatever green barely past intern type they have right into the Crew role, it is truly their cub reporter role in the Sports department. You get promoted up from there... Jardy ended up doing OSU men's Basketball if memory serves... Basically, after about 2 seasons, when they finally are getting the hand of things, the Dispatch rotates some noob into the spot again and promotes the person in the job. I kept hoping we would get our Goff but it never materialized. The closest we got to steady was Arace. Shawn Mitchell seemed to be allowed to stay on, he was good at his job. The problem is we are expecting these green ass reporters to somehow scoop the Tom Bogerts of the world. People who have a well-laid network to give them info. It is an impossible task.
She was ok. Professional writer at least, but I really soured on her when she started talking about how the fans were dumb and annoying.
Interesting responses from Moreira there. Thanks for posting. I would love to see what things were really like behind the scenes between Nancy and Cucho…
I thought she let herself get seduced by the FO. She was too inexperienced not to recognize it, and gradually moved from the dispassionate outside observer role which is so crucial to maintaining credibility, and started identifying with management. You have to grant that some of the Nordecke stupidity didn't make it easy, but a solid experienced pro manages to keep a certain distance. They probably don't teach that in J school.
Sounds like Nancy tried Moreira out in the midfield in training, and he couldnt take the ball off nagbe
Didn't Nancy do that with almost everyone, though? Had them play in other positions in practice, supposedly to give every player a broader understanding of their style of play. But yeah, as Ken says, not being able to get the ball off Nagbe puts him in good company.
Yeah, because 1) he's not Nagbe and 2) he lacks the agility and general mobility to play CM. He's mobile for a CB, not a true midfielder though.
That can be a good thing. I learned a lot about being a striker from being made to play defense (sweeper and what we then called fullback) one season
Yes interest on this topic will have cooled...alot...but interesting article posted in the guardian about Nancy's short stay at Celtic and Ramsay's stay at the Baggies Eric Ramsay and Wilfried Nancy’s post-MLS failures were born of context, not competence | MLS | The Guardian
I can't speak about West Brom and Ramsey because I'm not very familiar with that. However, Nancy knew (or should've known) about all the boardroom stuff going on there. Even with all that, the team was winning under O'Niell, Nancy could've just kept doing what was working, or maybe just slightly modifying it. Instead, he changed literally everything. He was telling vets how to properly trap a ball in training. He was the one talking too much in the media. He failed at literally everything. Failed with the politics. Failed with the media. Failed with the fans. Failed with the players. Failed with the results. There are different types of competence, but he failed at all of them. He did literally nothing right. I don't know how anyone could say his time at Celtic was anything other than purely incompetent.
Given the ease and accuracy of AI generated images, I can’t speak for the validity of this, but please say it ain’t so Wilf.
The other person is Corey Wray's wife. Im betting it is some sort of coaching class or some sort of professional connection.
She left at the end of last year, someone said. Well I believe it was @Suikoman444 who made that post that was screenshotted.
Her LinkedIn confirms this. But also: https://www.columbuscrew.com/club/technical-staff/jaime-mcmillan
Her webpage is still live on the Crew site (https://www.columbuscrew.com/club/technical-staff/jaime-mcmillan), but my guess is that the web intern just forgot to take it down. She appears nowhere on the FO staff page. Well, WN started coaching for the cheapest owner in the league, so it would make some sense to go to work for Precourt. Look, I know that Nancy's stock has fallen, but 12 months ago he was deemed one of the best coaches in MLS. Austin seems like too drastic a fall for a guy with his resume.
At some point with the new schedule, Austin will have to come to Columbus for a match. I truly hope that Nancy isn’t their coach then, it’d suck the fun right out of the event for me.
Well, we've seen how calamitous his approach gets after a couple years of limited rosters and handpicking "his players." He inherited some all-time great players here before it went sideways. He wouldn't have that in Austin. Their player pool and academy are horrendous. They don't have a Nagbe or Cucho or Morris on the roster and don't have a Farsi or Arfsten or Schulte to promote from Austin II. The owner is also poor and generally averse to investing, and likely now gunshy after his last couple big signings busted. I think it would be a trainwreck if it happens.