Kolek planning to go pro
Legit analysishttp://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2015/10/14/armchair-analyst-more-problems-no-solutions-us-national-team-after-loss-costa-rica
"You bring up Costa Rica, I think they're a wonderful example. For people who want to argue 'the United States doesn't have the players', well then find a tactical gameplan that suits your players. Costa Rica went to the World Cup Ian, look at the likes they played. They got to the quarterfinals with a tactical gameplan."
This. Those games against Germany and the Netherlands have now been completely forgotten.
Some of us never bought into them in the first place and took a few shots for not drinking the koolaid.The Germans and Dutch didn't give a whoop about those games, where we brought our A game and people thought we were in the conversation. Fool's gold then as stated.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/10/12/usa-mexico-tactics-concacaf-cup-jurgen-klinsmann-ferrettiExcellent tactical analysis
Its admirable how you keep bringing up conjecture and opinion as fact
http://www.americansoccernow.com/articles/a-tale-of-two-klinsmanns-technical-director-and-coachThoughts on this article?
Who's excited that we beat a country whose population is less than a fifth of the Milwaukee metropolitan area's?
Well, unsurprisingly, even with a new staff entirely below the owner, the Fire manage to totally choke on draft day. unnatural carnal knowledge.
Watching the USA-Iceland friendly....can anyone tell me what Gyasi Zardes does well? I'm not a frequent viewer of MLS and he has yet to impress me in a USA jersey. Seems to just consistently give the ball away.
Late response, but I could not disagree with you more. I think the Fire had a great draft.They picked up the top RB in the draft, who could have been drafted #1 overall. They got the most pro-ready CB in the draft. For both of those positions, they drafted on need and improved the back line.Plus, they scored a bunch of additional GarberBucks with the wheeling and dealing, which they can now use to improve their international signings.Nelson and Pauno had a plan and executed on it.
They traded the #1 overall, the #1 allocation pick and joevin Jones for 3 lower picks and cash. Whether or not Yaro (who, if they kept the pick, they would have taken) ends up being great is TBD. Yes, they got significantly younger. But I'm still not convinced they "won" in all their dealings. Of course, the big unknown is the funny money they received. How they spend that will also determine success/failure.
Well, if you look at it that simplistically. But I really think they did well.1) Traded the #1 overall pick for the #4 and General Allocation Money. Used #4 overall pick to select Brandon Vincent. Vincent was highly regarded by many to be one of the top players of the draft. Example of this is his current presence in the USMNT camp. Top LB in the draft. Yes, they could have taken Yaro, but rumor on that is Chicago did not see him as a CB and only as a RB due to his height. However, Yaro only wanted to play CB. I thought Chicago played this very well.2) Traded away Joevin Jones for the #15 pick and more GAM. To be honest, I don't know a whole ton about Jones, how effective he was, what his contract situation is, or how the new coaching staff sees him fitting into the current lineup. But a lot of those items need to be considered. But coming away with the 15th pick that was later used, along with GAM is pretty nice.3) Trading #15 and #33 and #1 Allocation Ranking for #12 and #22 and #2 Allocation Ranking. I don't see how moving down in the Allocation Order by one spot is really a bad thing. To be honest, I'm not sure what the Rapids were thinking here. Rumor is they are going after Bedoya and Howard. So unless Chicago really wanted to sign one of those two, then this is moot. Moving up both spots, one of them used to select the most pro ready CB in the Draft (Campbell) was well done. I don't know a ton about Alex Morrell, so will refrain on commenting on that pick.I don't see how this cannot be anything other than a great success by the Fire. Trading for cash in this league is a huge deal with the current salary cap limitations.
Probably doesn't help overall that I am incredibly negative when it comes to the Fire ownership. Granted, Nelson just started there along with Pauno. But there is little in the last 4 years to make a Fire fan feel like the ones in charge know what they're doing.