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If the US

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s with Greg Bohalter in the future, the big question already dominating US

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circles is what will be next and perhaps who will be next for the US. Bill Harter's contract he signed in 2018 took you through this

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cup, so it's going to be really interesting to see how this plays out in the coming days and weeks, but do you feel like now is the right time to move forward with American

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since Pearl Harbor? Would we be surprised if he left or is it obviously his dream job? For any American, if they give you another contract to go, you're usually given a four-year contract with the right to go to the next World Cup, so there was a World Cup coming up at the local store which will be a great prospect. for any manager except Focus at the moment Bill Halter, do you think now is the right time for us to leave this?

Yeah, I do, uh, in the sense that I think again we've been over the top, I've been very critical of him, but I don't think he's a terrible coach or anything like that. He wanted a different taste and I think it might be the right time for him to move on too because there will be clubs that will see him as their star. he's higher than he's been maybe they didn't think the United States was where they were and you see what the United States did against England and he already handled it in Europe, he did it in Columbus and I don't know, I mean, he's 49 years old.

Yes He stays another four years for this team in its best moment in the World Cup. You have to trust that he has learned enough and he has acquired enough wisdom and he has acquired enough wisdom and he knows when he is wrong because that is the most important thing I learned from this. boy he always takes an extra second before admitting that he's fine, my original inclination was wrong so I like him, I like him as a manager for what he was able to do in stabilizing the program but now he can leave and come back. eight years if it doesn't work out from somewhere else and he seems to be the guy who has tactics and all that and a relationship with the player who wants to do it more often and you need Club Ball for that, yeah that's a very good point I think You're right about the kind of star that emerged during this

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cup, at least maybe not in the US, but internationally, being here in England, that's it.

Oh, you're a great team, a great coaching team, made Louis van Hal come out and say that. the best team as a unit in the world cup and how well trained they are and the shape and everyone knows what they are doing with a clear style of play so I think I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Harter moves on and maybe picks. get a job, a really good job in England or in Germany somewhere or you know, I don't know, it's just the kind of feeling I have about maybe uh, what was the next Watford boss?

Yes, something like a championship team that goes to the Premier League you can build something and you know, convey the message of it. I don't think he's a bad coach at all. I think on the field we saw the United States dominate a lot of teams, but then against the Netherlands they were shut out. and I don't think he has a plan B, either tactically during games or even with personnel, he's not flexible enough to say we're going to play a false nine and Chuck, you know, yeah, you don't have Josh Sergeant, who He was your first option to go up there, in the game against Iran you had to play because he was injured.

You don't have to replace it with another number nine, just because you have one, you can change things up and be more flexible. and I think that's the harshest criticism of Greg Bull is that he picks unnecessary battles, whether it's with Gio Reina or just the center back situation, well that's it, sorry, go ahead, no, you said it now. I needed to jump. this part because I probably know this sounds silly, but Gio Reyna is 19 years old, he's the son of royalty on the show on one side and both sides of his family, actually, and it was those little whispers that we heard during the shift during the group stage. about the discontent and the players wondering why he wasn't there, it's true because, injuries aside, one of the three or four guys I would bet to be in the

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World Cup is Gio Reyna and if you've done something wrong with that relationship then maybe that could be a turning point, I know it sounds silly, but Reina is so good that there are people who say that by the time she turns six, she could have surpassed what Pulisic is doing and that is unheard of, it is incredible, it's incredible.

I mean, what are some of the reasons to keep Bill Halton that we

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about a lot? Maybe it's a good time to move on and tactically some of the issues, but you know we have to remember that they didn't make it to the World Cup in 2018, basically. I built the program from the ground up, obviously the talent pool has been great, but we have to salute the stability it's given it. The US national team made it to a World Cup and then I think they did exactly the job that there was after them with With the group of players they had, I don't think they could do much more than come out of the group and have a good show in the round of 16, as they did for much of that game against Holland, so are there any?

There are reasons why you kept them there. I mean, I would say at that point you made that's the difference again, that's why our grades are different since we have different expectations. I think they were able to beat a legacy program like that. Holland, who are not at their full legacy potential, which was there for them today, they threw out Greg Burhalter, literally threw away the first half of the game by starting Jesús Ferreira. There were so many times where you saw that and I saw the first 10 minutes. I went back to see if I was being too harsh and there were so many times where the game converges on him and Ferreira is a little late to leave or and I don't think he's a bad player either, but he's young, he hasn't.

Played in a month and a half and the strikers

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be ready to go and you have used, I mean if you couldn't use Sergeant, use it correctly, but I think the answer was there all along in timwya um, so fast and having path . uh, having that bottom line, Timber is the biggest one to cause trouble because that's funny, Nathan, okay, he can be a little shaky. I almost said the pain might be unstable. uh, Van Dyke, we know it's a slow pace, but Timber is entering his prime and if you want. to challenge him on that side you need guys to move and cut and cut Aaronson could have gotten a red card because everyone hates playing against him too so for me they threw away the first half of a knockout round game but there are reasons to keep him . if you assume it's well liked, which I think you can assume, the system is correct, the system can be successful, we haven't seen it with a number nine, they can still grow a number nine, who knows, maybe the genealogy people I'm out there trying to figure out who is the best striker in Europe, who is not committed and has American lineage, but the system, you're right, it wasn't bad, you can do worse than Greg Burhalter, I just want him to do better, yeah, Sometimes it feels like it's strange.

It was like half the time he felt like the way he organized the team he was getting the best and the most out of this group of players and half the time he felt like he was holding it back a little bit and uh not having the right players. They really thought this team was a big attacking threat, as well as being in the midfield and creating, so I think it's really a coin flip, and if you think about the US Soccer Federation, do they want stability? and a guy who they know can, if they don't qualify automatically, can probably help them get through the qualifying phase and guide them through the group stage because he did it at the last World Cup.

I'm just thinking about how you're going to present your argument. When it comes to contract

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s, yes, but John, couldn't they take advantage of how ambitious they had to be as a program? Nick, that's what I think goes almost beyond that. I don't think they have to be super ambitious, but it would be very good for them and the reputation of the Federation if they went through an interview process with more than two people. It's about new leaders electing the boys. There is nothing against that. Burhalter could come back if way they brought Bruce Arena back if they need him in six eight years and they brought Greg Berhalter back and said okay this can steady the ship.

I would like it more than to do it with Arena, yes, I agree with you, but I think now. What I said before the attraction of taking a US team to a home World Cup in

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, that's going to appeal to a lot of coaches who maybe would have looked the other way, in the past, you know. what I'm saying. They want to be the hero, the center of attention during all those years leading up to the awards. José Mourinho is what you are saying. Hey, you said you said it here because I feel like this is written in the stars for him to do that.

Hey, maybe he Antonio Conte Tommy tuko uh Jesse Marsh um is probably the most obvious choice at the time, so Jim Curtin uh Philadelphia Union did a great job, but we'll have something on that in a pro football talk on nbc

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.com in the coming days looking at potential candidates to replace Greg Boholter analyzing his time in charge of the US national team so far, so head over to the site and there will be plenty of fallout after World Cup elimination for Greg Bohota and his very young American team we have to remember that