Originally Posted by
jloome
You're confusing manager with GM.
At the end of last year, LA either let go or allowed contracts to expire on 17 of 30 players.
Vanney may have wanted that and asked for it, it may even be his decision. But it wasn't his job to do it, it was their GM, Dennis de Kloese.
You're assuming Armas didn't ask Curtis for changes, or that Armas somehow has a role in that decision. There's no guarantee AT ALL that that's the case. We have no idea what the dynamic was. TFC has NEVER had a head coach who was also GM.
'Managing' our roster here means Curtis, not Armas, just as in LA it means Dennis de Kloese, not Greg Vanney.
Also, even in his MLS rookie of the year winning year, Omar wasn't a "line leader". LA Fans complained bitterly that as soon as Aj Delagarza was no longer paired with him he was LOST positionally, regularly, the same thing fans at Pachuca complained about. The year he went to Mexico, they were utterly relieved to have his million dollar brick of a salary off their books.
He's always been a great athlete and when someone's directing him, he was a good center back. But he was NEVER a line leader.
I'll concede Moor because you're right, he was crocked again in the middle of last year. But I'm not going to concede that anyone who's watched Omar play since he left the Galaxy thinks he's any fucking good, or a line leader. Pachuca fans thought he was a bomb scare every time he touched the pitch.