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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 1903360, member: 296"] The first Arena regime illustrates you last point. He was in charge for 8 years and the break up was highly acrimonious. We only settled on Bradley because Gulati failed to bring in Jurgen in 2006. But one cycle is enough. This is not club soccer, international soccer is different in that international managers are at the mercy of the club environments that their players come from. Players are under pressure from their clubs and when they get it from the natl team too then it can be exhausting. For that reason, more than four years with one guy will make things stale in my opinion. So what we really need is a true technical director that isn't looking at the near term wins and losses but thinking in terms of cycles and decades, not what the lineup at Honduras ought to be. US Soccer wanted Jurgen to be both and he wanted it, but it's a task that is too big for any one person. Arena might not look at dual nationals now (Lewis wasn't a dual) because he could succumb to the false belief that we are talented enough to not rely upon them. In 2002, MLS was very much on life support and bleeding more than 20 million a year. US Soccer was always scouring the earth for anyone who was tangentially American. Now a certain nativism has taken hold. Julian Green is a good player who is in the 18 at one of the BIGGEST CLUBS ON THE PLANET. And yet, the MLS establishment would shun that kid because they still perceive that he stole Donovan's spot. That kid's future is screwed and we'll be worse off for it. Can you believe it? The media has also played up supposed preferential treatment German duals by Klinsmann despite the fact that he called out John Brooks by name after the Mexico and sent Fabian Johnson home last year for lack of effort. So you can begin to see the inconsistencies every where. This firing had more to do with Garber and MLS Owners protecting their investment over a manager who told them that the league wasn't getting it done and wasn't professional enough of an environment. They had their knives out since 2014 and Jurgen simply helped them in being so defiant. In the end, if you hold everyone accountable but yourself, you will lose and that's what happened. [/QUOTE]

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