Oso planning to go pro
https://twitter.com/PaulTenorio/status/1602074325057785860?t=uVoxVNKjJnEv1Ee0tcYgkg&s=19
We have the answer which is good but it leads to other questions. Why air the dirty laundry knowing full well you're putting a target on the player's back and doing so just three days after elimination? Does that not break the circle of trust a real "leader" would foster amongst the team?Why did he handle McKennie (last year) and Reyna differently, regarding both public spin and punishment?
Allegedly, 12 of 25 players on the roster voted to send Gio home. Sheesh
But was there a letter written to GGG?
Imagine coming from dortmund, one of the best, if not the best youth systems/feeders into the first team in the world and going into a team with a bozo like GGG as a manager doing everything he can to show he’s the boss and slight you aka bringing on Jordan f’ing morris before him in a game where you need possession and verve going forward. Then after the fact, usmnt lackey reporters “leak” a story that was supposed to be off the record to show what a great leader ggg is. Please spare me the sanctimony.
Or maybe he was just being a turd.
This has been proven false. Multiple players were reached out to and denied it. Then it came out that it was a vote from the management/support team.All of this reporting has been done by a pair of USMNT/MLS shills, with a very clear slant.
What are you suggesting here? Two rogue reporters (never mind the many others who've reported similar things) have decided to trash Gio Reyna with a bunch of lies? That somehow this getting out benefits the USMNT and MLS? That Berhalter needed to invent a cover story for not playing Reyna, and decided the best way to do it was to tarnish the reputation of his close friend's son?Does all that make more sense to you than taking the story at face value? Is Gio Reyna somehow the first young athlete called out by coaches and teammates for not giving his all?Who were the multiple players who've denied the reporting on the vote? Hadn't seen that.
People griped the last three weeks about the lack of explanation for Reyna not playing. Now that it's been explained, we're going to gripe about that too?Reyna is a professional athlete, and a coach explaining that a professional athlete isn't meeting expectations isn't airing dirty laundry. It's pretty routine.Not sure why this puts a target on Reyna's back, or what that means.
"Rogue" no. US Soccer/MLS loyalist and/or shills? Yes. No different than CBB reporters reporting rumors or half truths about coaches and open jobs to get them buzz or higher extensions.
And I don't know what Berhalter and or US Soccer was thinking. Don't forget before all of this Wynalda was saying he was told Berhalter was having Reyna talk about being injured as cover for not playing.
And again, as I said, that would be more believable if he has literally never faced that sort of allegation or criticism until suddenly it happens now with his national team manager under fire for the last few weeks and on the cusp of an extension/sacking. And there is a big difference between "not giving it his all" and being almost sent home for being a slacking cancer and supposedly needing to apologize to everyone in order to stay.
https://twitter.com/TaylorTwellman/status/1602155709201883136https://twitter.com/TaylorTwellman/status/1602168314473680896
Don't forget that Wynalda has since walked this back for those remarks and apologized for getting it wrong.
This is like saying that because a player never got into trouble in college, he would never, ever be a problem in the pros.It's not at all incredible to imagine a player behaving differently today than he did in the past in different circumstances. Especially when we're talking about a 20-year-old.
So, then, no players have come forward and said there was no vote? Just Twellman reporting what he's been told by agents, which is different than McIntyre reporting what he's been told.OK.But if we're taking Twellman as the more credible source here, then how do you feel about his tweeting The Athletic's story on this and calling it "Good stuff" and later tweeting that he can "fix whatever issue this is."Seems to me that Twellman is confirming that there is, indeed, an issue.And speaking of what actual players have said, what do you make of Yedlin's comments?
Anyhow, whether there was a player vote or not seems pretty irrelevant. There's way too much smoke and way too much solid reporting here to believe this is all some massive conspiracy by Berhalter and the USMNT, no matter how much you wish it so.
Yet he was tweeting "Apology accepted" today when people were talking about him being right all along. I don't think he walked it back as much as he misrepresented it, not that there wasn't an issue beyond "Reyna is a malcontent".Actually no, cause he's actively playing with BVB. That is being a pro. And this isn't his first time as a US capped player. There has never been an issue with any of his other USMNT camps. He's been great with his club team, through plenty of challenges with injury and competition (not in the past, but literally up to the WC) but now suddenly he's a low effort/attitude issue.The problem is McIntyre was also tweeting a bunch of baseless nonsense about Reyna with BVB which immediately makes it seem like he's pushing an agenda and trumping up something. Twellman has been on both sides of this argument. Looking through his timeline he hasn't been explicitly pro one side or the other. He has, however, been extremely critical of USSF's handling of it all. Him saying "Good Stuff" was to the writer pushing for more details/clarification.There is of course an issue. There is friction between the current manager and one of the most promising young US prospects ever. Regardless of fault or blame, thats a huge problem that must be fixed. Especially if it would then reside with Reyna and USSF.Yedlin's comment, assuming you mean about "fitting it with the group" or whatever, means very little. Coming from a player that wont be around in 2026 and only featured due to injuries to others in the pool leading up, I'm not going to read much into it. Especially since the culture that should matter is that built around the young stars, not aging MLS vets on the decline.And I couldn't disagree more. I don't think its a massive conspiracy, I think its tremendous CYA. Feeding false stories about a player vote that never happened, AFTER, off the record or private information was leaked or fed to the press. All of which was meant to cast the manager in a favorable light. Thats all a huge issue beyond Gio Reyna being a brat.Also, this is all in a vacuum ignoring the toxic politics that is the USSF and the nepotism buddy system above all else in Chicago. Berhalter was chosen for no other reason than his brother was a bigwig at US Soccer and he would be loyal to the Federation and their inner goals. There is otherwise no reason that a manager who got sacked in the Swedish 2nd Tier (probably NASL level) and then in 5 years with the Crew never won their division and finished 9th, 5th, and 5th in their conference his final 3 years....would get the job managing the most talented young US team in history. So yes, I'm not inclined to give him and US Soccer the benefit of the doubt here.