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With our current structure, we don’t really need a manager to deal with the Byzantine MLS structure. We just need a coach who can prepare the team week in and week out.

Pep is out of the question,...

We didn’t lose tonight because of Vanney’s tactics. If anything, the reason we got to penalties is because of the chances we constantly generated in the final third but couldn’t finish.

Penalties...

There doesn’t seem to be a power struggle, Bill Manning and Ali Curtis are sensible enough to know the quality of the roster for much of the season.

They lined up in a 4-3-3 with three workhorse midfielders in Bradley, Deleon and Delgado. Pozuelo May have a high work rate but he’s running out of gas in recent fixtures.

If he was aiming at a...

Pozuelo has not had an off-season since last July and will be playing for at least another month. Vanney’s biggest issue now is figuring out how to fit Benezet-Gallardo-Altidore-Pozuelo-Osorio on the...

Note that Vanney spent 3 years as a player in Ligue 1 with Bastia (currently down in Ligue 4 due to finance issues). If the player is from the French system, chances are it’s a Vanney connection.
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To quote Arrigo Sacchi “I didn’t recall having to be a horse first to become a jockey”

Just because he captained teams in the past doesn’t mean he’s qualified to coach a team. He had zero...

Nielson was a special case of incompetence. His training methods betrayed his lack of experience and qualifications. Vanney at least understood how to prepare his team with drills and exercises from...

Sacking a coach isn’t going to get their form back in shape. Form comes and goes regardless who is on the touch line.

Bradley is not the same defensive shield for our backline he was during...

If you were Vanney, how else would you want Toronto to line up given the roster we have? We don't have the pace to park the bus and expose the opposition on the counter, Boyd is not a good target man...

Neither Tata nor Vieira had to study the dark arts of MLS roster rules and how it relate to transfers. They also bounced off a couple of years after when a bigger opportunity found itself. The type...

Its true for every coach in the world. If their roster is terrible, then they’re not going to succeed.

Tonight was not on Vanney. We outshot DC United 20-3. We kept the ball in their third for...

It shouldn’t. Team record are indicative of wage bills. Teams with higher wages typically win more games than teams with a low wage bill. Luck and injuries factor in as well. A coach at best have...

Thats true for every coach. Every coach needs a good roster to compete. 2018 was shredded by injuries and roster misfires. Now, we went from Vazquez-Giovinco-Altidore to Boyd and academy players for...

Vanney isn’t some fraud gifted with the highest wage team in MLS. However, all the pregame prep can only take a team so far until talent disparity becomes apparent. The difference between an average...

We play possessive football, understand how to recycle possession and what really impressed me was that we can pass out of a high press without hoofing it up the pitch.

4 in the back, 3 in the...

Beitashour was caught too high up the pitch and Zavaleta was left guarding BWP in one of nephews worst game of his career.

A bad pass, botched coverage, being at the butt end of poor refereeing or just a depleted team are far bigger factors than Vanney's tactical mistakes when it coms to losses.

To put it in Simon Kuper's words, "you can replace the manager with his secretary or a teddy bear and no one would notice". Wins and losses are often strongly correlated to wages spent and quality of...

90 percent of managers get by on roster talent. Very few managers can take a ragtag team of misfits and win the Champion's League.

Bez was hired for one reason; the Byzantine MLS salary cap system that would drive most managers insane.

Or you're the LA Galaxy.