Klopp. You’re on the clock!
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PV is not a good coach. i'm going to just go ahead and say i'm the only person who's watched him actually coach a team - as in, watch the team week in and week out. he's not the worst coach i ever saw (that would be frank deboer, who lasted 4 games). here's what you get with PV:
* no players get better under him.
* offense had zero bite. like, nothing. there was a game 3 game span without a shot on target. read that again: 3 games w/out ONE DAMN SHOT ON TARGET.
* defense was pretty messy. guys out of position, couldn't defend set piece very well.
* on the positive side, he didn't play stupid formations or play guys out of position. i'll give him that.
he provided a very unique observation in that the guy he replaced, also replaced him. pretty much the same players. there was a clear difference in just the organization and efficiency of the team. PV brings zero creativity - when roy hodgson clearly shows more interesting gameplans and attacking options, you know the guy is out of his element.
and the USMNT needs some creativity. we don't have the best players so you need someone who can get more out of them. PV almost doesn't have a personality whatsoever - he's the anit-Klopp.
of all the managers on the planet, i have no idea why the USMNT needs this guy. he's somewhat competent - again, not the worst you'll ever see. but not even mediocre. if his name wasn't PV, you'd never have heard of him as a manager.
There he is!! Didn’t want to speak for ya, but I knew this was coming…
Again, with what we had, competence is an upgrade. And that’s my point. Would I want Patrick? Of course not. But also knowing how incompetent our federation is, the rumored shortlist and that this is the 2nd time Viera has been linked, I’d be ok with him given the circumstances.
On the womens side, Emma Hayes dropped in our lap. She wanted international soccer so that she could raise her son. She also lived in this country for a while. In the womens game there are only a handful of desirable jobs and ours is at the top. This is what we need on the mens side. It’s not the most desirable job by a long shot. But there are attractive components to it. And we need a guy to drop out of the sky and shock us.
i think we went 11 games in a row w/out a win under PV. he's pretty damn bad. there's no way he's our best option.
bora was pretty good - what's he up to these days?
Reports suggest we have our guy.
Report: US Soccer Has Offered USMNT Post to Pellegrino
Multiple reports in the German media have stated that US Soccer has its eyes on current Hoffenheim head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo to be the successor of Gregg Berhalter as USMNT coach, and have go…
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Reports suggest we have our guy.
Report: US Soccer Has Offered USMNT Post to Pellegrino
Multiple reports in the German media have stated that US Soccer has its eyes on current Hoffenheim head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo to be the successor of Gregg Berhalter as USMNT coach, and have go…yanks-abroad.co
an italian manager? what are we, chelsea?
He's American. Followed him a little in the Bundesliga. I thought he was a dark horse for the US job given that he's one of the few American coaches in a top league but didn't think he'd be a top priority.
He has a good season at Stuttgart a few years ago and got fired in their relegation season. Pretty solid year last year at Hoffenheim.
i know, i know. italian american - close enough for my joke's purpose.
It wouldn’t be the equivalent of getting Emma Hayes from Chelsea, but I’d take their former men’s coach in a heartbeat.
#yes2Poch
#yes2Poch
I just saw this splash across my Athletic feed. I would take Poch in millisecond. I mean say it doesn't work out and he doesn't do well, can't say they didn't try hard.
Everyone loves him. Which is the only thing. Tyler Adams thinks they need a ball buster and he could be right. Early last year, while I loved Poch, I questioned whether he was right for Chelsea and maybe too nice. Then the team started gelling so sometimes things just take time under new managers.
being serious for a minute: i really like Poch. getting spurs to a CL final is quite something. no idea why spurs moved off him - thought that was dumb. then obviously whatever the hell chelsea is trying to do didn't fit. would love to have him as USMNT manager.
