It should be interesting to see how Coyle adapts to MLS. he's certainly has one of highest pedigree as a foreign manager. But he'll be working with Matt Jordan, formerly of IMFC who exactly didn't shine at Montreal. And Houston is in a serious rebuild mode this off season.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
That looks like somebody knows somebody's agent.
Coyle's a classy guy as well.Originally Posted by Hamilton_Red
He still keeps in touch with people he met from when he played in the Robbie tournament as a 14 yr old.
As does current Queen's Park Mgr., Gus MacPherson.
Nothing wrong with his lack of knowledge of MLS .... if .... you have a front office that owns player acquisition/negotiation separate from the manager.
Keep him away from the cap, contracts etc, jut have him coach the players.
It's not something we've ever tried, but it works that way in lots of places.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Bring back NICK DASOVIC
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2014...-salt-lake-mls
lagerwey to seattle
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Whomp whomp....
With the way MLSE is currently structured from a reporting stand point TFC having a president over the GM is pretty much useless from my view. When TL brought TFC's business side of things into the MLSE fold, thus ending the Reds from having their own separate operation Kevin Payne was fired and Paul's departure was not too far behind as they in ways had redundant roles.
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
God dammit.
This is depressing. All the money in the world wouldn't entice me to take the TFC job, if Seattle was available.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
ech. im already over it. sucks but what are ya gonna do. think he pussed out a bit going with a team thats already a winner.
Where's Hauer going
Payne became redundant because essentially Tim L took over the role of TFC's president for himself. Whoever replaces his as MLSE president will almost certainly not give as many shits about TFC as TL did. You need a president to just be a stable figure at the top who knows what a soccer team is supposed to look like. Otherwise you get a Tom Anselmi replacing a Dutch coach with an old school English coach, and then telling you that the English coach continued to play the same style as his predecessor when it was completely obvious to everyone that watches the game that their styles were completely different in every way
From comments I've seen, TFC, Seattle and Atlanta were the ones interested in hiring Lagerwey. IMO Seattle seems like the least challenge for someone wanting to step up. At Atlanta he could have been part of the team roll out but would have only been the General Manager (Darren Eales was named team president in Sept). At TFC, well, universe's center of chaos and all that. Joe Roth must have written a very large number on a piece of paper.
Lagerway to Seattle as per Twellman and Sports Illustrated.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2014...-salt-lake-mls
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Moving on to plan B?
And RSL are replacing Lagerway with an assistant coach
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1956105...s-departure-is
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So sad the only people want TFC assistants are TFC
So sad the only people who want TFC assistants are TFC's junior affiliates.
Osieck I guess...Moving on to plan B?
IMHO, the club has been sorely missing a respected football mind, overseeing non-administrative activities, and maintaining club identity.
LMAO!
And We're full circle back to Octavio Zambrano..
Petke fired by RBNY we'd be absolutely bonkers not to be on that
Any team making a coaching change now is bonkers.
RBNY announced the hiring of Ali Curtis (a high level league functionary much like Bez BTW) as sporting director on 12/23, could be that they were just waiting for that appointment to drop the hammer. Still, it's a bizarre move to fire Petke. If RB was going to downsize their commitment, wouldn't that be even more reason to keep him around, to keep people from freaking out?
True. Although our lack of player moves and our management changes suggest to me we are already behind schedule
The RBNY melt down on MLS reddit is pretty epic.
Also, on Twitter, Tony Meola was asked about Petke firing, he was not surprised. So there may have been more going on behind the scenes.
No team is as bonkers as us though. Must be a done deal ...
Jesse Marsch is the rumored new RBNY HC. Leads me to think that Petke was fired for being a complainer.
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