Originally Posted by
jloome
1) I'd rather he ignore what fans say they want if the resulting team wins. That's job self-presevation on his part, not an admirable trait.
2) Gerba and White don't fit into the equation, Brennan is now three years older than when the team started.
3) Mo put together a technically talented lineup made up of core components that failed in other leagues for the samer reason: poor onfield decision making.
Every single one of these guys, save for DeRosario, is a key player who, while we may like them, couldn't hold down a starting job at their previous teams (which is why Guevara insisted on leaving Chivas):
Barrett (has lived up to his Chicago rep)
Vitti (great skill, but it's clear why he had two pro goals in eight years.)
Robbo (distribution insn't consistently strong enough,and, again, is three years older and slowing down).
Brennan (converted winger who has lost a step and is caught upfield regularly)
Guevara (former MVP turned emotional nutjob turned weird mixture of MVP and emotional nutjob.)
DeRosario (Seems to believe he can score at will, but can't, doesn't trust his offensive teammates.)
Gerba (Good finisher, but immobile and therefore relies on service)
Serioux (Good defender with occasional technical lapses with ball at his feet, seems brittle as eggs)
Garcia (too short, too slow, makes very poor overly emotioanl decisions, like lunging in and blasting a shot from 40 yards.)
If none of these guys was a smart enough overall team contributor to stick at another MLS team or at their previous Euro team, what made Mo arrogantly believe being here would somehow magically fix that?
We need players in the athletic American mold, who can be improved on and developed technically but already have the physical skills and intelligence to compete in MLS and CONCACAF. They have to be young enough to be hungry and preferably from this hemisphere, for matters of pride.
If he can hang onto them (dubious given the cap) Mo has built some important cogs for a good future team (The gambians,, Cronin, Frei, maybe White, Ibby for sure). But that's three or four years away, and it shouldn't be necessary to wait for competence, at the least.
We should clean house on the senior team, keep the most important cogs (Frei, Attakora, Gomez Sanyang, Cronin, Ibby, OBwhite), introduce a tactically proficient managment team, and sign some workhorses with brains.