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He wasn’t considered a good tactician by those in the know, just a guy who had one tactical formation down to a T. Of course, that doesn’t work in international football.
I don't remember that conversation prior to his hiring. Mostly that he he took a small market team and regularly had them punch past their weight due to strong team tactics.
I do know we wouldn’t be seeing Trapp and Zardes under anyone else. I’m frankly glad he’s too stubborn to bring in Parks (and Sands earlier in the year).
Did Marsch want the job? I love Marsch, but I do wonder if you could teach that type of extreme gegenpressing style with the limited time you get with National Team players.
Turns out he was never even interviewed. But he does want to be the coach some day
It must have been a call up to attend a camp only because he can't play for Holland yet at any level.
I’d like to see his pro/con list. The only thing I can imagine being in our favor is an easier path to the first eleven.
At least it is not a slam dunk decision. here is what he said (translated)
He's said that the USSF believed in him while the KNVB was interested in other players they thought were better. I also think that the the latest U20 group seemed to have a lot of real affection for one another and he has a chance to kind of lead those guys into the senior team picture.
Holy crap. A well written, unbiased post on r/ussoccer
Possible. But, if he keeps getting Chelsea youth into the English National Team - he will get a lot of support in England...
Thanks for that... Kinda mirrors what I thought yesterday- but much better thought out and articulated.
Absolutely.
I think he showed some quality and deserves to get a start here and there, cup games and some league games, which is exactly what he's getting. He'll get more when the fixture list starts to get busy, injuries happen and he gets more comfortable with the team. He's still got more league minutes than Pedro and is just behind Barkley and Willian. Its really much ado about nuttin. I'm sure we can all name a dozen or so players who took a month or two to get used to a new team, new manager and new league, before flourishing. He's on track for the reasonable expectations most had for him when he joined the club. In other words, if you expected him to be starting every game by the end of September, you're disappointed right now because your expectations were unreasonable. If you expected he'd be getting starts and minutes in big games by midseason, and be in line for a nailed-on starting position by the end of the year when the old guys move aside, I think he's still on track for that. Of course it could all go to #### and be a disaster for him, but that will only happen if he's truly not up to it. There are worse things that could happen. Donovan had bad spells in Europe. Jozy failed miserably in the premier league. We can even look at someone like Yedlin, who wasn't up to the task for Spurs, but found his place and is a starting premier league player.
Yeah, I’m with you. He’s been ok at times and there was one PL match I watched (can’t even remember which one, we commented on it in here) where he was truly bad. I don’t necessarily blame Lampard - it just seems like a less than ideal situation for all involved
Good stuff.
totally agree, wasn’t complaining about anyone in here, it’s just the reality of the situation. It’s not us - it’s them
Feels like we're all in the same place as US fans.
This is the part that keeps me grounded when thinking about CP/Chelsea. He'll be better for it in the long run, IMO.
Cons - he’ll play on a good team if he goes Dutch and won’t be playing on wet and bumpy fields. Home games will have more people cheering for the home team. Won’t be called a punta. Better coach
Now I want to go out there a ####### kick ####### ###.
I think that's pretty explicitly one reason they brought him to Leipzig to be an assistant for a year.
Fabinho was a bit older, but I don’t think he played much at all the first couple months for LFC last year and now he’s a regular. Gabriel Jesus has been at City 2+ years and still can’t get minutes, but no one doubts his quality. Same with Foden. They paid 60m for Cancelo and he has 37 league minutes so far. It’s probably harder to come up with a list of 21 year olds new to the league who contributed immediately. Hazard might be one, but he came in as a 2x PoY in France. It really is a complete non story.El Floppo said:
It took Bernardo Silva most of his first season at City to really settle. He probably should have been on the Ballon D'Or shortlist this year.
Are we seriously comparing Silva going into that loaded Citeh squad (essentially the same one he hasn't been an auto-start in this year) with Pulisic not even dressing with the bunch of rejects, nobodies, and also-rans that Chelsea is throwing out there this year?
This comment would make sense if someone had said, "Pulisic is in the exact same place as Bernardo Silva and these other players were." But that's not the point. The point is that it is normal for young players who come to England to have a period of settling in. No one knows what the future holds for Pulisic, but there's really no reason for concern that he's not a regular starter in the first couple months of his first season in the Premier League. Pulisic is battling for minutes with two experienced players - a Spaniard and a Brazilian - each of whom have a closet full of trophies. There's no reason to think this kid is going to put those guys on the bench in his first few weeks with the club.
I think the issue is that Lampard has said... and shown that this is a building year for Chelsea. He's preferred Mount to English international Ross Barkley. He's preferred Tammy to both Batshuayi and Giroud despite both of them having tons of experience. He played Reece James in a very important CL game despite him being 18 with zero CL experience.
I haven’t watched enough Chelsea to know, but the responsibilities of wingers are different in different tactical setups (Mourinho has a masterclass in one of his spots talking about arsenal earlier this year). It may be entirely possible, Lampard views CP is an outside wing vs an inside wing.
