This is the right choice if they pick the replacements the right way. If it’s just another cycle of hiring the good old boys network then it’s a waste.
Stewart exit latest in USMNT leadership shakeup
U.S. Soccer sporting director Earnie Stewart is leaving to join PSV Eindhoven after the departure of American general manager Brian McBride.www.espn.com
boom….when do they hire Reyna lol?
I might watch them again the next WC. (Auto)Qualifying means nothing….
The article just says:
Honestly my first thought was he is positioning himself to take a role with the US men’s team. I’m sure he can do both that and serve as a ‘technical advisor’ in Austin.
I think that depends on what message they are trying to send.
The kind of mental gymnastics needed to justify him having a role in player pool or coach selection would have to be Olympic caliber. He’s not a whistleblower. He’s known about this for decades and only came forward because he was upset his son didn’t play more. I’ll say that again: he and his wife tried to ruin Berhalter’s life because they were upset his son didn’t play more in a soccer game. I think Gregg is a dope and I think he should have nothing to do with the NT moving forward but he didn’t deserve that, even if he did handle the Gio case before, during, and after the World Cup about as poorly as he could have. And I think the Reyna parents are pathetic and have no business being anywhere near US Soccer.
He needs to go somewhere where he is going to play regularly IMO. He has a LOT better chance of doing that at Leeds than Arsenal.
Yes and no. In theory you're probably right but Arsenal have very little depth, if any, behind Xhaka and Partey. Lokonga is terrible and has the professionalism of a petulant child and Elneny is nowhere near being close to playing again with his injuries. Viera is depth for Odegard and Smith Rowe will spell Martinelli but they really have no one they can rely on behind Xhaka and Partey so McKinnie would slot in as their primary backup right away.
Zinchenko will step into Xhaka’s place if he goes down with Tierney going in at left back and McKinnie is not a Partey type so wouldn’t be a candidate to replace him if he went down IMO. And Arsenal is looking to bring in proven upper tier EPL players at this point not guys who aren’t regularly playing.
Juve… a good team? They’re 11th in Serie A and a complete debacle on and off the field. Why do you think he wants out? And I disagree entirely with your point of view, which is fine. Getting to learn and train under a Pep clone and getting to earn minutes for a title contender, even if game minutes are slow at first, is much better than slogging away for a team bereft of any attacking options with probably the worst back line in the Premier League. Being one of the best players on his team isn’t going to help him. Playing lots of minutes for a bottom tier club outmatched in talent almost every week hasn’t helped Aaronson take the next step and it hasn’t progressed Adams at all on the ball. Aaronson has actually probably regressed at Leeds.
Aaronson is trying to make the step up from the Austrian league to the EPL. That is a very sizable change in quality. I’m not sure what you were expecting but given the differences in quality of those two leagues I think he’s doing fine. He was in MLS a couple seasons ago for God’s sake.
McKinnie has already played big minutes on a crappy team fighting a relegation battle. Sure, he was a younger player at the point in his career but he's already been there and done that. And he's had almost the same number of appearances in 2+ seasons at Juventus as he did at Schaalke. Plus, Juventus hasn't been Juventus during his tenure there. Three managers in three years, two fourth place Serie A finishes with potentially a finish behind noted soccer giants Udinese, Torino, and Bologna this year, and they're the most dysfunctional team in any of the major five leagues off the field with their entire board resigning and the club facing criminal charges. So let's not act like he was warming the bench at Liverpool, Madrid, or City just because of the name on the front of the jersey.
Let's not pretend that the recent version of Juve is the Juve of old though. That’s like saying United is still United. United of the past few years and United of the 2000’s are two different clubs under the same name.
I think you are suffering from extreme recency bias.
I’m not suffering from recency bias. McKinnie was at Juventus during a weird time for the club and by any measure they underperformed expectations while he was there. You’re right that Arsenal has been mediocre at best for a bit but there’s a clear plan in place in terms of talent acquisition and the way they play and I thought joining a club at their stage would be good for him.
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