re: If the USMNT lose to Mexico next month, is Jurgen fired?

He's been on the job, what, five years, and we still don't have a center back partnership?

That should be the first thing an international manager does. Build your core.

We should've long since established a pair there, be it Cameron-Ream, Cameron-Gonzales, Cameron-Besler, Cameron-Brooks, whatever.

The next thing is to continue building your spine. Put Bradley in front of those three. That gives you a defensive core that, if nothing else, you can count on to keep clean sheets or limit goal scoring chances.

Instead, we've fricking dilly-dallied with Ventura Alvarado, Michael Orozco, Maurice Edu, Jermaine Jones, and a bunch of guys who are not international caliber central defenders, and so defensively, we are shite.

I'm fine with re-tooling US Soccer. That starts from the ground up, not the top down.

Edit: He should be fired. He won't be, either.