Gullit For Galaxy

Chardee MacDennis

According to Sky Sports Gullit is on a plane to LA at the moment to take over at the Galaxy. They must have ridiculous money to throw around to legitimise american 'soccer'

justfortherecor

So thats one of the managerial appointments they were talking about at the end of the united match tonight.

Who was the other one? My sky internet service was cut off after they took the first ad break after the match.

evad_lhorg

Houllier for the Ireland job was the other

Tank Top Fever!

evad_lhorg wrote: »

Houllier for the Ireland job was the other

He's only using it as an excuse to get his name back in the headlines apparently, he wants a top half Premiership job

FatherTed

Call_me_al wrote: »

According to Sky Sports Gullit is on a plane to LA at the moment to take over at the Galaxy. They must have ridiculous money to throw around to legitimise american 'soccer'

The Galaxy are a train wreck of an organization with Alexi Lalas calling the shots. One of his quotes for this week:

"We're certainly interested in a high profile, sexy type of candidate"

It will be tough for an outsider (coach) who doesnt know the ins and outs of MLS with all it's quirks like salary cap, senior internationals, designated players, the importance of the superdraft, east and west conferences, playoffs, generation adidas players, youth internationals, single entity ownership, non conforming with FIFA international dates, etc.

Dave!

Thank god, now he won't be punditing anymore

godtabh

FatherTed wrote: »

It will be tough for an outsider (coach) who doesnt know the ins and outs of MLS with all it's quirks like salary cap, senior internationals, designated players, the importance of the superdraft, east and west conferences, playoffs, generation adidas players, youth internationals, single entity ownership, non conforming with FIFA international dates, etc.

I understood about half of that.

What are generation adidas players?

Chardee MacDennis

according to the times:

Beckham's management company were involved in Gullit's recruitment and will supplement his wages.

godtabh

Call_me_al wrote: »

according to the times:

Beckham's management company were involved in Gullit's recruitment and will supplement his wages.

I would have thought that be a stange move by Beckham

Why would he give his money away?

FatherTed

kearnsr wrote: »

I understood about half of that.

What are generation adidas players?

Adidas sponsors a few young players for a year or two in MLS and their salary doesnt count towards the team's cap. The likes of Bocanegra, Convey, Beasley and Tim Howard started out as generation adidas players(or Nike Project 40 as it was known then) when they joined their MLS teams.

yahoo_moe

DaveMcG wrote: »

Thank god, now he won't be punditing anymore

so true, he really is shocking... just keeps talking about himself and how great he was (cheered on by Jamie Twatface - "I mean, Ruud knows...")

DerKaiser

Good move by galaxy if they do want to raise the micro leagues' profile, Gullit is a good manager and has lots of ageing superstar friends, watch for the influx of 30 something big names into galaxy

FatherTed

DerKaiser wrote: »

Good move by galaxy if they do want to raise the micro leagues' profile, Gullit is a good manager and has lots of ageing superstar friends, watch for the influx of 30 something big names into galaxy

Only if they're willing to earn less than $300K/year like Xavier:
http://www.mlsplayers.org/salary_info.html

godtabh

FatherTed wrote: »

Only if they're willing to earn less than $300K/year like Xavier:
http://www.mlsplayers.org/salary_info.html

There is some shockingly bad paid players there but I assume they are very you and only starting off?

godtabh

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=480317&cc=5739

its offical