I think he will because I think that's the role Bob will have along with manager.
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Insigne is the type of player that any coach in MLS would take. If they say "no, I'd rather someone else", they're lying and should be fired. Coaches should always be able to be somewhat flexible in the system they'd like to play in order to integrate great players.
That said - totally agree with you that Insigne could just be us doing a favour to Italian agents, plus it helps raise TFC's profile globally.
A challenge for recruitment of any international DP will be the timing of the World Cup at the end of 2022. If we're looking at players that are in competition for their international team and the team is a potential World Cup competitor, they may hesitate to join TFC and come to MLS all together. Thinking about European based players specifically. A player in competition to play for an Italy/Spain/etc. would likely prefer to stay in Europe in what's viewed as a "top" league. Even the transatlantic flights for international windows would be a lot to add on to players.
We may be better off looking for players that are outside of the national team picture. Still lots of good players in that range - Pozuelo and prime Vazquez are perfect examples of a really good player who had no chance on the national team.
^ Let’s be honest, the management team that runs our club is likely to see it as a net positive. They say they’ve signed player X but he’s on loan and won’t report until after the WC.
The team sucks and they use the excuse their best player hasn’t arrived yet, buying them another year.
Straight out of the Mo Johnston school of extending your tenor (while accomplishing nothing).
Just remember Bob was the same guy who traded away Zimmerman for nothing and since that trade LA has been going downhill. I would also prefer we don't sign him but already looks like a done deal...
Not gonna post it here because it isn't worth it, but if anyone wants a good laugh go check out Rollins on Twitter trying to pretend he knows who TFC's DP targets are. He can't tell us, but he definitely knows.
Depends. Are they gonna try and re-tool on the fly or do a proper re-build?
Bradley might suit if they try a quick re-tool and squeeze another year or two out of the majority of the roster with an addition or two. Given LAFC have similar resources to TFC and LAFC fans cant wait to see the back of him I'm apprehensive.
On LAFC fans not liking Bradley anymore
They don't know what they have had. Wait until they get some person who really can't do the job but looks good to the media. Maybe not Armas bad but I'm thinking a guy like Almeyda who is promising but never quite there.
I'm not sold on Bradley because of the Zimmerman trade but LAFC people have about as much institutional knowledge as ATL 2 years ago.
On LAFC, the Zimmerman trade didn't work out, but they did get $950k-$1.1M in GAM. It's not like they let him walk for nothing. He was also due for a raise and received a TAM deal the following year. Similarly, they sold Kaye for $1M in GAM with one year left on his contract. Colorado is going to need to give Kaye a big extension.
They did a good job of cashing out on players while they could. They just didn't necessarily re-invest that money properly.
My point of contention with Zimmerman would be they sold an asset that was a needed part of their team and struggled to replace it with someone of an equivalent quality. Like very poorly thought out and horribly executed all around.
But I don’t know how much say Bradley had in the matter?
Who is their GM? Thorington is like their Manning? But there is no Curits in between Bradley and Thorington?
Yes he would be a good player however I still want the coach to make the decision.
How do you know if he doesn't want to prioritize a new DP midfield destroyer like Bradley in his prime? His options should be available, its not like we are talking about a Ronaldo or Messi.
In fairness, there were plenty of signs Armas was an odd ball. Playing players out of position, horrid communication skills, over zealous adherence to a philosophy that didn’t suit the team.
My “fear” with Bradley is he’s just an average dude making up the numbers. He might not suck but I have a hard time believing he’s a winner. I’ve seen LAFC in enough big games and they play okay in the regular season but look like perpetual first round exit candidates in the playoffs.
That's the thing. I've barely watched any LAFC over the last few years. I read they've been plagued with injuries and have been underperforming their underlying metrics but their fans are screaming blue murder about their signings and Bradley's lineups and in game management. There is also years of evidence of Bradley been a stubborn sanctimonious prick. So, yea, massive case of buyer beware for me.
Bob Bradley yes bring him on has an MLS Cup under his belt coaching Chicago in their inaugural season . Coached the US national team got them to the World Cup
and advanced out of their group. Probably the best coach out there that is available, he will be one of the better coaches TFC have ever hired if they hire him , bring him here and let’s turn around this mess.
Bob Bradley is for sure the best coach available right now within MLS and with a good MLS pedigree, and a name in US and Canada, but of course is underwhelming.
Only solution as TFC head coach for me who would be available and not underwhelming would be a coach from outside of the MLS realm, from South America (but just Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) or Europe. But this is unlikely to happen.
OK, so my rant…
Lets be honest this team is broken and fragile. We are not a possession team, we are not a full out pressing team and quite frankly i don’t see us having the personnel to be either. (So the whole Armas experiment was so naive to be implemented in 3 months, let alone over two seasons).
Now, we can be more direct, and that is fun to watch. We can be selective in our style because we do have some players with high IQ and we can sustain pressing appropriately.
We talk about Bono’s decline but maybe he is really a reflex goalie and his distribution wasn’t ever really that good. Remember, everything in 16-18 went through MB, so Bono would always look there first…. It was safe.
IMHO, the biggest thing we need to decide is what we want to be and build a team around it, i have patience but I have ZERO and I mean ZERO confidence in the Front Office’s ability, to do that right now (Manning wont pull the trigger on Curtis). I do remember one of Leiweke’s first quotes was that TFC was going to be one of the quickest of assets to turn around at that time. He understood the business, hope is not a strategy.
Soccer is going to be one of the hottest things for the next 5-6 years in this city, and this country, and when we qualify for 2022 even more so. So MLSE and TFC be decisive, ruthless and spend money the right way so TFC is back being one of the Big Clubs in NA.
It starts with management, theoretical 200 page plans don’t do anything but sit on a shelf….
Find the right GM/Coach, acquire players and support staff to implement his or her vision, then find the appropriate players and get back to playing good football. Don’t go signing players to fill the seats and lose miserably or that next DP will jettison as well.
Guess we didn't impress Insigne's agent.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1458420009311555591?s=20
Here's what TFC ought to do. Package up all the money they want to spend on Bob Bradley and maybe a bit more, and go get Daniel Farke. I Hear he's available, lol.
I suspect Curtis and Manning will end up signing some overpriced South American DP(s) nobody has ever heard of and the team will continue flounder.
They might try to sign a big European DP, but as we have seen for the past three years, they will fail. The magic in this team from '14-'17 is gone. We should have made Tim B our president when we had the chance.
Ali Curtis will continue to play internal politics and ensure he can't be fired. Until we cut out the cancer, Manning and Curtis, the club is going to struggle.
I knew the Insigne stuff was a pipe dream. You need a Tim Leiweke to pull that off.
So is the club really going to wait until after the cup game to release players/staff/coaching? Lets get the show on the road already.
If I had a dollar for how many times I've seen "those are completley fake" a few days or weeks before the reports turn out to be true, I could probably afford a nice vacation.
They knew Vanney was leaving last year and still took forever to finally get Armas named at the start of training camp if I recall. If they pull that crap again how is the manager going to have time to make any player decisions before the season starts.....they better get it right this time. Another failed coaching appointment in terms of selection or timing would be brutal. But to be honest I would not be surprised by anything these days.
He actually had a better record in his first eleven games than the guy he replaced. But he didn’t come ready; like Ange at Celtic he wanted a tinkering period to assess ideal squad and tactics but you don’t get any time leeway in the Prem. He might’ve come good eventually but the English press are absolute jackals about most things, particularly Americans, and particularly Americans managing football.
I believed the Defoe and Gio rumours.
I don't believe the Insigne one whatsoever. That player has legitimate options in Europe. He isn't facing going to Bournemouth or Parma or similar…
Pretty sure we heard about Pozuelo, Genk denied it and Pozuelo immediately stopped talking to the media. Next thing we knew they were threatening to take us to court.