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    Perez told media today JMR is starting the next...

    Perez told media today JMR is starting the next game and was pulled for “tactical” reasons.

    Why do I suspect there is much here we aren’t hearing?
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    He seemed found out last night. He didn't have an...

    He seemed found out last night. He didn't have an answer to their setup and didn't trust the players he had on the bench, despite so many first teamers just off international duty.

    Shaff was so...
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    If he can win consistently with this broken...

    If he can win consistently with this broken roster -- as in, most of the rest of our games, not just this short stretch against other bottom feeders -- then I think we'd be mad not consider him. He's...
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    I highly recommend comedian Alan Davies' podcast...

    I highly recommend comedian Alan Davies' podcast The Tuesday Club, for a funny-but-dead-on commentary on Arsenal, and for the multiple obvious parallels to our current situation...
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    Exactly. Our average roster age when we won the...

    Exactly. Our average roster age when we won the title was 24.5. Now it’s 26.5, and even the younger squad replacements haven’t strengthened us.

    We haven’t had a good defence statistically since...
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    , as noted above, apples and oranges when...

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    as noted above, apples and oranges when Vanney had a healthy Seba, Altidore and Bradley in their Twenties, drew moor… Vanney couldn’t lead us anywhere last year, and he’s a great manager in this...
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    They’re too old dude. There were signs of it as...

    They’re too old dude. There were signs of it as soon as Omar joined us, even more when we immediately nosedived last season when Poz was injured.

    Our only viable central defender is Mavinga, our...
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    The game he took Bradley out of he also switched...

    The game he took Bradley out of he also switched from a double pivot to stacking the no 6 and no 8 positions so we could play through the lines.

    Additionally, he recognized that Priso's speed...
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    It's a bit unfair on him to judge but that's...

    It's a bit unfair on him to judge but that's probably the case.

    The roster situation right now is a serious problem. But it's clear from player statements (Omar thinks they've been 'naive', which...
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    https://as.com/futbol/2021/07/26/migrantes_del_bal...

    https://as.com/futbol/2021/07/26/migrantes_del_balon/1627296979_266794.html

    Making the papers in Spain. Nothing we don't know already, but some notable attention.
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    Knowing Curtis it will be an MLS 1.0 panic...

    Knowing Curtis it will be an MLS 1.0 panic interim, Curt Onalfo or Dominic Kinnear. Terrible move, probably, but it would be par for the course for him to not even consider the dude who just won a...
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    I don't know how much coaching it takes to say...

    I don't know how much coaching it takes to say "keep it simple, move in triangles, maintain your defensive shape and zone."

    I seriously think that's all we did differently last night. We...
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    Yeah, ballsy move. My experience in getting...

    Yeah, ballsy move.

    My experience in getting promoted repeatedly despite being kind of nuts at the time is they don't care as long as you come good; but ballsy and speaking your mind when it really...
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    https://www.tsn.ca/toronto-fc-set-to-name-interim-...

    https://www.tsn.ca/toronto-fc-set-to-name-interim-coach-for-remainder-of-mls-season-1.1665414

    Bradley has positive words about Perez. He would, of course. But still nice to know there's some...
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    Yeah, and from Manning's body language, I'm...

    Yeah, and from Manning's body language, I'm betting he asked "Are you certain?" more than a few times, based on how the end of Armas' NY tenure went.

    It might just be that both seriously...
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    On the whole, you're right. He really fucked...

    On the whole, you're right.

    He really fucked the dog by trusting an old colleague. He probably though Curtis was brilliant from conversational depth and outward self-confidence in his own ideas....
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    He appears to have co-authored the U.S. soccer...

    He appears to have co-authored the U.S. soccer development curriculum with Claudio Reyna:

    https://www.slideshare.net/jafetwullur/us-soccer-coaching-curriculum
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    Seems like a career dev coach. But people used to...

    Seems like a career dev coach. But people used to say that about Brian Schmetzer.
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