No one is more optimistic and patient with the MNT than me, but holy fuck get some of these players far far away. If Roldan is getting consistent minutes, we aren’t going to win anything. Trapp is a bad defender and he plays DEFENSIVE mid. Arriola missed three - THREE - complete sitters in the past two games. Like those blooper reel sitters that are tougher to miss than make. Zardes... holy shit. Maybe Ream isn’t bad, but he’s got that thing where whenever he’s playing, that team’s defense is also bad.
Pulisic and Adams cannot get into this team fast enough. Same for Bradley and Jozy. I don’t want to throw all the blame on GB, because a lot of these issues would’ve been resolved during that year where we had nothing going on but friendlies. If his system is a process, I can get that the beginning will be bumpy, but this more seizure than hiccup. Also, USSF has lost any and all goodwill that may have existed for them, so they can’t be asking for patience or time at this point.
I still think there’s an avenue where we win the Gold Cup - Mexico is missing so much and we have the most talented player (with Adams, maybe top two) at the event. But the angry US fans mob got a ton of firepower over the past week
Gimme
Boyd - Jozy - Pulisic
Holmes - McKennie
Bradley
Ream - Long - Miazga - Adams
Steffen