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#16 AcmeComics

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:50 PM

Klinsmann.
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#17 chileno18

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:52 PM

I also heard that Sarachan is available. Is he any good?

probably. everyone deserves a chance i guess.

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 07:23 PM

Here's a long shot, Alfredo Tena. He speaks spanish, gets along great with Blanco, and probably has contacts in Mexico and probably in South America...

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 07:29 PM

Ya seeing as Blanco doesn't speak english and I dunno if Conde does



Me no Habla England, I deliver mail ok.

Someone who can habla espanol




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#20 M~Z

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 07:50 PM

If it keeps Conde in chicago, hire Denis. And add Armas as an assistant.


I like this idea but i think it would be better to get someone from outside of the US. To be more specific, someone who has connections to a good foreign striker :P


I also heard that Sarachan is available. Is he any good?


haha funny!!! :cheers:

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 08:57 PM

Bruce Arena or Steve McLaren? lol

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 09:00 PM

If it keeps Conde in chicago, hire Denis. And add Armas as an assistant.


Perfect.

That's what I said on the other thread.

#23 The Herr

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 09:21 PM

Capello, Lippi or Mourinho anyone, anyone??? Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image

#24 BenBurton

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 09:32 PM

I want what I had hoped we would have with Osorio and that's someone willing to build an entire organization, year after year, like ManU.

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 11:54 PM

I want what I had hoped we would have with Osorio and that's someone willing to build an entire organization, year after year, like ManU.


Agreed.

Man, whoever thought we'd be having this conversation again so soon?

#26 Steve the Arsonist

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Posted 11 December 2007 - 12:11 AM

What I liked about He Who Shall Not Be Named Here, is that he has a hunger for top level soccer and connections to players.
If there are growing numbers of quality players willing to come to the U.S. to use MLS as a springboard from SA, or wherever, should there not be more coaches thinking along the same lines?
The level of coaching, like the level of players and of play needs to be improving. While H.W.S.N.B.N.H. has serious issues with loyalty, contracts, etc. he is, clearly, an improvement in the level of coaching in MLS.
We need someone with a similar skill set (and connections to good players).
I like Denis, but he, and the other coaches of his ilk, are not where the future Cup holders of this league are going to be coming from. (Though you gotta love the bi-lingualism)
Coaches with reps, and connections, to other leagues are gonna be the ones delivering in this league for the next however many years.

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Posted 11 December 2007 - 01:57 AM

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Posted 11 December 2007 - 02:10 AM

This is the worst part about this - JCO was the right guy. There's not another candidate out there like him.


BULL. SHIT.

JCO was not all that people want to make him out to be. Compared to Sarachan he was God and Thor and Michael Jordan combined, but he was not all that people make him up to be.

Man, whoever thought we'd be having this conversation again so soon?


I sure as heck didn't think we'd be in this mess this off-season, but I had it in my head that the winter of 2008 was a possibility. I never saw this guy as someone who was going to put down roots in Chicago.

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Posted 11 December 2007 - 08:00 AM

BULL. SHIT.

JCO was not all that people want to make him out to be. Compared to Sarachan he was God and Thor and Michael Jordan combined, but he was not all that people make him up to be.

I certainly don't think he was the total package but he had specific upside we're not likely to get from any other available candidates.

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Posted 11 December 2007 - 10:34 AM

There's one name that I haven't seen mentioned yet. He already lives in Chicago. He has MLS experience.

I've had several opportunities to talk to the guy. He doesn't take any bullshit from his players. He has already established a remarkable track record in taking a team from the ranks of the mediocre into the ranks of the elite.

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