Atlanta fired Heinze today.
Atlanta fired Heinze today.
From the MLSsoccer piece. Sound familiar?
But the team flat-lined and injuries piled up. Both were considered in-part due to Heinze’s tactics and man management. Injuries happen though. Atlanta certainly seem to have more injuries than the average team right now, but it can be true that a team can be both overworked and unlucky.
It’s funny because in the other major leagues in the US the networks would think nothing of going into great detail and stripping this guy down to the floorboards for his failures.
Meanwhile, we get sort a polite, surface level analysis suggesting maybe things aren’t all rosy. Then it gets glossed over with a “but hey, but maybe it’s not really his fault”
I think we are going to see managers stop proving how tough they are by excommunicating star players for a while now!
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Heinze withheld water from players?!!!!
Apparently
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/ByDougMcIntyre/status/1417126185306411010
If true, that explains why they fired him after a training session on Sunday.
Last edited by Oldtimer; 07-19-2021 at 12:31 PM.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Looking like anti-vaxx people are not going to get it easier when the border opens up
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/Gray_Mackenzie/status/1417176167027777539
After the lineman from the Vikings died about fifteen years ago? No one sane or smart. (Edit: Kory Stringer... and it was 21 years ago. Man, I'm old.)
What a dope.
MLS is going to start calling GMs and asking them to pay more attention to their clubs.
Maybe we need the Prem system, where the manager is a football person with a tactical and personnel role, and the coaches are just field work.
Withholding water is like a human rights violation. That's nut job level.
Armas is already very popular in Atlanta, his strategic genius played an important role in Atlanta's march through the 2018 playoffs…
https://www.dirtysouthsoccer.com/202...-mls-cup-title
Last edited by ensco; 07-19-2021 at 08:41 PM.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
2021 Canadian Championship unveiled.
Our first match will be between September 15-22 against the winner of CPL club York United and League1 Ontario club Master's Futbol
https://northerntribune.ca/2021-canadian-championship-schedule/
Ooooo......away trip to York U might be on the cards then.
I really just want TFC to play the Wanderers away in this tournament some year. It would make my year.
The Canadian championship schedule would need to be tweaked depend how far TFC goes. Schedule congestion will rear its ugly head as well. For the first game against either York or Master's Futbol Academy will be the third game in a run of 5 games in 14 days. If we get past there to the Semi finals, they will have to change the date from either the 28th or 29th as we play Cincinnati on the 29th. If we make it to the final, according to the schedule they have put up that will be 6 games in 15 days in October
RC Lens (Ligue 1) offers €4 million ($4.7M US) for Canadian Tajon Buchanan of New England Revs (previously offered €3.5M and were rejected)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadianPL/...d_35m_bid_for/
Curious to see what it takes to get this done. He shows a lot of promise and is still only 22. But we’ve seen other fairly cheap MLS transfers recently.
If you get to $10 million (€8.5) I think it’s a no brainer. But realistically, I think the final price is something like $6M-$7M, so maybe Rens is not far off
MLS front office is nothing if not market savvy. They're going to start rejecting offers under 10M for guys this age pretty soon, just based on what second divisions in Europe are charging now. A promising striker or winger in the Championship or Turkish league or Swiss league is going for well north of $10M now.
Oh, look, you can get a vaccine & a TFC jersey
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/NYGH_News/status/1418279478485258241
The Athletic is reporting that an unnamed MLS team has made an approach to interview Robin Fraser for their head coaching job. It has to be TFC, doesn't it?
Last edited by MikeForbes; 07-22-2021 at 05:19 PM.
Miami will be alright once Messi comes over in a couple years.