Yeah, he’s really terrible in-game. And unlike when he ran Germany, refused to see it and hire someone to run that part.

I like him as a program-builder (tho the Donovan thing was a mistake IMO, because no way he misses that sitter the way Wondo did) but seeing him during games is so frustrating. He’s like the Andy…

This is where Joachim Lowe steps in and turns the half-built mess into the greatest team in the world, right?

He was an absolute inconsistent and shit in game manager.

Shocked that “Just express yourself” doesn’t help you keep possession or improve composure under pressure.

The USMNT is to the international game what MLS is to the top leagues. For its manager to actively shit on it as if he were in charge of Italy instead of the United States of America Men’s National Soccer Team is absurd and not maintaining a healthy relationship with his top domestic league is always going to be…

No thanks, I’m pretty well-versed in it already.

After five years we have no strategy in possession. No link play. No understanding of where players should be in the offensive half. We have absolutely no system.

There’s a drinking game for people in AA; kind of ironic, I know, but it provides a sort of placebo effect, getting them closer to the social aspects of drinking without ever actually putting them in danger of consuming alcohol.

Klinsmann has, or MLS has? Because from where I’m standing, the only forward progress being made in American soccer is at the club level and has precisely nothing to do with Jurgen.

Without even mentioning Klinsmann’s managerial deficiencies, there has to exist some individual who could actively recruit foreign-born players without antagonizing our domestic league at every turn though, right?

The English, you see, have a little different perspective on all this. They recognize that it’s no great shame for a manager to lose to Mexico and Costa Rica with a team full of Americans.

I enjoyed this perspective, like many things it has a lot of interesting things to say about a deeply flawed system and country.

What was Hillary’s great plan for helping these people? I don’t recall hearing one. All I heard was her referring to them as “deplorables” for supporting the candidate that wasn’t her. If you are in middle America and seeing things go to shit and your alternatives are either to elect a career politician from same…

Your last paragraph is sad to me. The democratic party is supposed to be the economic left party. These are economically disadvantaged workers who are in need of education and wealth redistribution. They tried to unionize in the past, so they are no friend to big labor. They are desperate and poor. No matter where…

Keep making the argument you want to make while ignoring the actual conversation.

The ol’ “everyone else was supporting an illegal war” defense. Hillary Clinton is not a bigot, nor homophobe, but she will use their talking points to get elected. She probably has more liberal economic beliefs than she lets on, yet will never stick her neck out to help unions and the poor even after they gave her…

I think the Billy Haisley genius level answer would be to go back in time 110 years and start a soccer league that people cared about. Don’t know why US Soccer cant figure that out.

Check the links he has in there. The one about “producing” is, in particular, about US Soccer supposedly colluding to keep NASL down. Plus he’s talking about the “forces of competition” as in market competition, ie other US soccer leagues.

MLS, a bullshit soccer league more invested in protecting its owners from the forces of competition than in producing top-level competition on the pitch.

If you actually, I dunno, watch the games, I think you’d be hard-pressed to say Pogba hasn’t played well. At least once a game, he makes a mind-blowing pass or piece of footwork to remind you of who he is. He hasn’t been put in a position to succeed.