Maybe if our previous outsider guru coach hadn’t put the team on the brink of elimination from the World Cup, we could afford to be more adventurous.

Thanks to Klinsmann, we’re at risk of missing the World Cup at the moment, so we can’t really afford to be “forward-looking” right now, whatever that means*.

What exactly was his “big picture” other than a endless stream of contradictory cliches he parroted in press conferences?

Tony Massenburg

And because I know the retort will be that MLS is to blame for all of our problems and Klinsmann has nothing to work with, let’s keep in mind that last night only 3 of our starters were MLS players

Klinsmann is an Isiah Thomas-style laughing stock in Europe who couldn’t get a job anywhere except Toronto FC when the U.S. hired him...why would he move on to bigger and better things after failing in this job?

And there were arguably more interesting versions of this “bad rap” 10-15 years ago when the Memphis and Houston scenes were more in focus.

There’s a cap, but there is also room for 3-4 players at Champions League-level salaries on every team now, and most teams use it.

Nigel Clough’s Derby County, and their legendary 1972 title.

Even better about this ridiculous take he’s on lately is how Giovinco, Kaka, Villa, etc are just MLS fapping around with has-beens...then with China, it’s HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE GERVINHO WOW!

I love how Haisley drones on and on about how he thinks MLS is pointless fake soccer run by ghouls...but Chinese oligarchs dropping their blood money on declining Euro stars is TOTALLY RAD.

This 100 times more well-researched and efficiently written than literally anything Billy Haisley has ever posted on this site.