re: The Official Fire Gregg Berhalter Thread

To be fair, I wouldn’t consider him a “bang average” MLS manager.

He doesn’t belong in the ranks of the elite MLS managers for sure, but anyone who watched his 5 years at the Crew would probably agree he’s at least an above average MLS manager.

He generally had some of the worst talent overall in the league to work with and definitely the worst owner, but he generally got his teams to play beyond their means and with an attractive style. He made the playoffs four of his five years and won quite a few playoff games against superior teams on paper. His Crew teams were kind of like the Oakland A’s of MLS. Not elite, but they tended to overachieve.

I’d rate him like a 7 out of 10 on the MLS manager scale, with Anthony Hudson being a 1 and Bob Bradley and Bruce Arena being a 10. IMO, “bang average” MLS managers would be guys like Carl Robinson, Jay Heaps, and Jim Curtin that just coast around .500 and rarely make any noise in the playoffs. The type of guys you forget are/were in the league until they coach against your team.

There’s no defending Gregg as an international manager, though. He’s beyond his depth and refuses to be pragmatic when the team is screaming out for that. This needs to be his last game for the US. He ain’t the answer.