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  1. It's a January camp for a couple of friendlies where we don't even have a real coach. Having a vet at each spot to help new guys acclimate to the environment is perfect. There should be zero complaints about this.

    Soccer fans also get way too excited about people "aging out". Dude turning 28 or 30 doesn't mean he's suddenly trash. It's very unlikely that any of our late 20s to early 30s (in four years) players are going to age out of the pool for the next world cup. They just likely won't be better than the younger talent that's coming up.

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  2. 4 hours ago, WBT said:

    We're to the point where most of the national team is getting elite European coaching but we continue to run out mls coaches for the national team.  The change has to be jarring and of course the players aren't going to respect them.  Hire a real manager.

    Is this a problem unique to the US? Our players can't respect an MLS coach, but every other nation can respect a coach that likely came from their national league and has zero experience coaching players of their level? Scaloni had no head coaching experience before taking over Argentina. Tite only coached in Brazil. If you look around at all of the World Cup teams, most of them have coaches that you would likely not consider "a real manager". Guys like van Gaal, Deschamps, and Luis Enrique who have experience at multiple big clubs is not the norm because a national team coaching gig just isn't the goal for a soccer coach.

  3. Gio himself didn't do anything. If they already worked through all his bullshit in camp and are fine with it, it's pretty likely he can work through this.

    Claudio is going to have some problems though.

  4. 52 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    Look I get Dike was hurt a lot, but why wasn't he seeing time when he was healthy?

    Dike was called in to friendlies and the 2021 gold cup when he was healthy. He hurt his shoulder during that gold cup. He could have been brought back in to the end of 2021 qualifiers after having not played that many MLS games since coming back from injury but it's not like he was core to the team at that point. Then he missed basically all of 2022.

    The whole "why wasn't this guy called in, he would have saved us!" that has happened in a lot of places after any player who wasn't on the roster scores a club goal (even in a friendly) is fucking stupid. And it's even dumber when the player wouldn't have even been available. It's like people don't actually watch the team or follow the players and just come here to bitch about things.

  5. 21 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

    I remember, but Gregg showed since September 2021 that he didn’t know what the fuck he was trying to do, nor how to call in players for qualifiers. Dike, Pefok, and Vazquez should have been brought into several camps to get looks. 

    There was literally not a time when Dike was playing in 2022 to be called in. He played 80 minutes over two games in January, got hurt, didn't play again until he got 12 minutes in July, got hurt, played half of a u21 game in November and then one single minute in the championship before the World Cup. Please complain about him not getting called in.

  6. 44 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

    You only want someone like Dike if you are planning to put in far and away more crosses than any team in the entire World Cup over the first 4 games.

    Have to be healthy to make the roster and he wasn't healthy so...

  7. 10 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    We certainly didnt look in control of that game. We were outclassed and the gap was evident. 

    The Netherlands were the better team and won the game by finishing their chances but outclassed isn’t the right word to describe what happened.

     

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  8. 19 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    The way the U.S. looked against the Netherlands was conformation that Group B was the weakest group in the tournament. 

    It blows my mind that people out there really think the US looked bad against the Netherlands.

  9. 1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    To be clear I am disgusted with both Gregg and Gio. Obviously a split vote from the players is an indictment on Gio's role but part of a coach's job is to manage egos and prevent situations like this from ever arising. I would like to know much more about this situation before we railroad Gio. Bottom line is, if he was this much of a cancer that they almost sent him packing, why play him at all versus Netherlands. Something is not adding up.

    Isn't that Berhalter's whole statement though? There was a problem with Gio. They addressed the problem. Gio apologized. Everyone moved on. All is well. No reason to be disgusted with either of them for what occurred. It's like the situation with Weston last year.

    Then this leaks to reporters after the fact, Berhalter's supposedly off the record statement is also released, and everyone makes a big deal out of it. I'm not sure why anyone cares other than to use it to reinforce whatever narrative they'd already bought into.

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  10. 10 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    BTW, I just gotta ask, have we fired this sack of shit yet?

    Is there a point in firing someone whose contract ends at the end of the World Cup?

  11. Klinsmann is the worst coach we’ve had in the last 20 years. We should stop talking about him.

    Berhalter is perfectly fine as a coach and I wouldn’t mind giving him a short extension while we do a coaching search, but the national team job should be a 4 year gig. We need new ideas.

    Infinitely more important than the coach is having the talent keep developing. The growth of MLS academies has been huge there. We really need a two deep roster on the level of our current top 8-10 players if we want to make a deep run in 2026.

    Anyone who thinks this World Cup was a failure is a dumbass. We were in a group with two teams around our level we were slight favorites over and one team better. We advanced and were arguably the best team in each game. Then we played another better team and lost, but if you think we looked like we didn’t belong on the field, I’m not sure what game people were watching. We’re just not good quite enough yet.

  12. 4 hours ago, ztejas said:

    That's a terrible explanation. But if this is the worst thing he does during the WC and Gio does get significant run against ze Dutch then I guess I can live with it (I'm not holding my breath there, though). 

    I would have liked him to get more experience. He will potentially be our best player in 2026. 

    I think it's a perfectly reasonable explanation that also doesn't really address the problem. When Zimmerman and Moore subbed on against Iran, putting in Reyna would have been the wrong choice and not at all fit the game situation. If they were being cautious with Reyna having some tightness earlier in the week, not putting in Reyna for the last 5 minutes again Wales also makes sense. Reyna played against England but didn't come on until the 83rd minute.

    The real problem being that the subs took too long against both Wales and England. For Iran, subbing Reyna on instead of Acosta to replace Weston (and shifting Aaronson into Weston's spot) would have likely been better.

  13. Weah at the 9 is the new "thing" that apparently is making the rounds. It doesn't make any sense. He's never been very good as a solo forward and is the perfect right wing for this team. His role should be exactly what it was against Wales, we should just actually get him the ball more when he has space. It's not reasonable to think we're going to completely overhaul the way we play with putting Weah at the 9. Maybe if we went to a two forward system, but again, we're not about to change that much about the way we play.

    The lineup against England should be the same as the lineup against Wales but with Aaronson over Weston. Reyna is the planned 60 minute sub in for Weah and Weston likely comes in at the same time if it seems like either Aaronson or Pulisic need to come out (or maybe for Musah if he's fading and we feel we need to go all out for offense but an Aaronson/Weston pairing ahead of Adams is asking so much of Adams).

    If we're panicking and throwing experimental shit at the wall, Reyna as a false 9 with Weah in his normal spot on the wing is way more appealing to me that Weah at the 9. Honestly, give me Weston as a 9 over Weah for this team.

  14. I wish we hadn't completely ignored Weah on the right basically the whole 2nd half. It felt like every time we had a decent break, he had tons of space there and never saw the ball. Also shocked that Reyna didn't come in at the same time as Aaronson.

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  15. Aaronson being listed with the midfielders is interesting. I think we see him get a start over Weston at some point.

    I would have taken Pepi over Haji and Arriola over Morris.

    No Steffen is a shocker but completely comfortable with Turner starting and either of the other guys playing if it comes to that.

    The biggest worry to me with the roster is what happens if Musah can't play every minute? Acosta can be fine backing up Adams but needs to play out of his mind to do anything other than kill off a game as an 8 and Weston/Aaronson are great but I don't think pairing the two together would work at all. And Luca isn't playing and has looked bad lately and Roldan is Roldan.

  16. 29 minutes ago, Juicy said:

    My shits borked. 

    With LDLT hurt I would honestly love going only two GK (I know, I know it will never happen) and being able to bring Pefok, LDLT, and as insane as it sounds Nipple.... give me an extra player over a 3rd keeper who if you have to play you are fucked anyway. 

    FIFA rules require you bring 3 GK. The US is also not super fucked if the 3rd GK has to play. The difference between Turner/Steffen and Johnson/Horvath isn't a situation where you might as well just not play the game if you have to go to 3rd or 4th string GK.

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  17. 17 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    has had a mediocre MLS season after being the 2021 MLS Defender of the Year

    Is making the MLS best 11 for the season generally considered to be a mediocre year?

  18. 26 minutes ago, Augustus said:

    There are tons of folks all over the internet arguing that if you don't believe The Stranger is Gandalf, then you're just in denial or willfully delusional because they've made it obvious that's exactly who he is.

    I disagree.

    There are several really popular YouTube channels that review fantasy/science fiction movies and tv series, and some of the better known and most watched of them believe that this isn't Gandalf, but a Blue Wizard.  

    When it comes to all things Lord of the Rings, then Nerd of the Rings is, in my opinion, hands down the best resource on YouTube or elsewhere.  Here's his video regarding the meteor man and his real identity.

     

    It's Gandalf. They aren't directly quoting Gandalf to have it be a blue wizard no one knows anything about. This video even starts with "I do believe there is a very good chance he could be Gandalf". This is a content creator making a video about something he hopes is true that he knows isn't going to be true.

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