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Eh, I'm optimistic. We have a lot of young talent coming up, we can figure out how to shed some of Bradley's salary. We're one solid attacker away from being a contender, I think.

Perhaps a discipline one, primadonnas in the dressing room. Just happened with Browne in Montreal, he's gone back to Panama. Happened with Plata when he was here (although he may have been right, you...

He may have lost it because the team knows it can't win and instead of defending himself as not being given the right players (which the players themselves never want to hear, they all think they...

It's not, there are multiple teams with less than a point a game since then. MLSsoccer.com had a chart the other day. I believe we were something like seventeenth or eighteenth since then, so not...

As is often the case, you and I are on the same page. This, to me, is the same GM clash Cutis had with Petke and Marsch, the same insistence the team could win players and rosters who were cheaper...

He started as a pro player at the USL level and got injured early. He has a rep for helping write the cap rules for the league and being very good with numbers.

But none of that helps with player...

The longer this season progresses, the
more I look at our moves in the front office, then how things are playing out
on the pitch, the more certain I am that:

a) Vanney and Curtis can’t work...

Even if he is coaching it, they're not following through. I don't doubt some of this is just roster holes and poor roster management over the last three years, but I also think he's lost the room....

Atlanta got Tata, nyfc got Vieira. The
league is obviously becoming now attractive to significant coaching talent. If it’s there
when we have to hire, why Not hire it. Maybe the issue with foreign...

I’m not seeing people calling routinely for a foreign coach. Who’s saying that?!? That’s an ancient refrain and a bit if a straw man, I think. People are calling him out for tactical inflexibility...

So we're currently at two wins in our last twelve games. I suspect he will not be here after the All-Star break unless we see something dramatic in the next few weeks.

We'll see for sure I guess in the next few weeks; a two-game losing streak would make one assume some change is coming. We can't blame goaltending anymore, as Westberg has been excellent.

More likely might keep us respectable. MLS seasons are brutal and long. We still need a speedy wide player with some skill and a primarily defensive minded midfielder.

Or he's saving it for a ticket lull.

Onolfo in LA has coached in the league before; he was the manager of KC a few years back. Seemed competent but unspectacular. I think he got ditched because they couldn't get past the first round of...

This is the pragmatic reality. I'm watching Bob Bradley's team flounder in the Premiership and thinking about the difference between his prior roles, always in conditions like MLS with strict salary...

Maybe goalies at that age just make boneheaded calls occasionally and they were anticipating it.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/07/22/toronto-fcs-alex-bono-owns-mistake-while-altidore-likely-return

I could be wrong but it sounds like Vanney will be starting Bono again.

It wasn't one...

We should just have a gm and a manager/coach. Give the GM oversight, give the coach the power to pick the players he needs. This go-between business never seems to work.

The word in New York was that he was stubborn and refused to adapt to more modern tactics and approaches; he basically wanted to play old school, MLS 1.0 dump-and-chase. Once they lost Henry, they...

Yeah, they're not going to judge it on a game when half our starting lineup was out injured.

The question is who steps in the iterim, as well, as Fraser is Vanney's guy and vice-versa. Vanney was his assistant at Chivas and RSL. They're not going to leave on behind and fire the other. So...

I'm south on both of them. Vanney adjusts occasionally now, which he didn't do in his first year, but he still makes bizarre sub decisions and he hasn't taught his players how to take initiative and...

I think Bez is a league boy; if he doesn't fire Vanney though, he might get canned. They're not going to stand for missing the playoffs with the money they've spent. We need a shot in the arm right...

If we're out of the playoffs at the break, they might pull it early. Otherwise, I expect he's here 'til the end of the year, as people suggest. But the fact that we're back-ended with home games...