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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3041675, member: 405"] Jesus, calm down. Just because the personnel are changed from game to game doesn't mean that they call different plays, so to speak. They tried to play out of the back with several players who were not very good at it. But that was "THE PLAN". They try to play the ball into the midfield and then quickly to the sidelines, and are rather direct looking for the pass upfield. Not "Route 1", but kind of what Sarri was trying to do at Chelsea - possession based, but don't knock it around aimlessly, try to play it forward with incisive passes. They would like to press up high, but they haven't had their full squad, and honestly, with such long seasons for club teams, with all the International breaks, managing the health of the squad is important. So maybe they shouldn't play a pressing game just yet, when so many of these young guys are trying to get over injuries. Now, that said, if Berhalter was going to be the coach, you didn't need to keep Saracen in the job for 18 months. That was about 9 months too long. Berhalter's system, to the extent he has been able to implement any in only six months, is another 6-9 months away from maturing and turning into whatever it will be. As for the idea that you have to mold your philosophy to suit your personnel, that's not how it usually works. Usually coaches have an approach; their own blueprint, and then they recruit players to play those pre-determined roles. Plus, he doesn't work with national team players more than a couple weeks at a time for 3/4 of the International breaks. So, you can't try out different formations based on different personnel when you've only just started the job. You have had people review the talents and skills of about 70 players in the last 2 years, and then he only had about 2 weeks to put his first team together, and even among the younger guys, several key ones, like Yedlin and Brooks, to name just a couple from Europe, aren't on the Gold Cup team. So to say (a) you don't know his planned approach; (b) whatever his approach is has to be determined by his players, most of whom he hasn't been able to work with yet; and (c) he's terrible and needs to be fired already; well, I understand how you feel after those 2 friendlies, and the aimless waste of time that the national federation put fans through. But I don't think you can take out all that frustration on Berhalter yet. He seems tactically ahead of Klinsmann already, and maybe lacks the anti-European bias of Bruce Arena. [/QUOTE]

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