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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4487689, member: 405"]
Fair points.  Not advocating for continuing with Berhalter, but starting from scratch with a whole new batch of mostly very young guys, completely turning over the talent pool to purge any connections to the past, I think he did most of what he was tasked with doing.

I think anyone who is fair, will admit that Berhalter brought about the stylistic change that Jurgen Klopp talked about, but didn't have the talent to play his desired style.  They were still a defend-and-counter team, roster wise, with a guy who wanted to see Gegen-Pressing, and a fluid offensive style.  We just didn't have the players for that.

But by retiring all of those guys from the last generation, he recruited a lot of these dual-nationality guys to our side.  He created a pretty good culture, by any objective measure.  These guys have a great mindset, they work really hard, and they are more skilled than any team we've had before.

Before most of them are 20-24 years old.  It's just the nature of things that they are going to mature and they are going to get better.  It's not like this was the "last hurrah" of this group.  This is the appetizer.  The "entre" is yet to come, in 2026 on home soil.

Maybe Berhalter is not the right guy to continue, but hats off for the job he did.  He did what Jurgen Klinsmann, a World Cup champion, had hoped to do.  We are SO MUCH father along for his stewardship of the program.  I am grateful, but we also probably ought to be looking for the coach who can take our national team to the next level.

But like England - don't ditch the current guy, who built this team, unless you have a WORLD CLASS coach to replace him.
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