Is Pochettino DEFINITELY the right manager for the USMNT? | ESPN FC

I'm gab he's Jewels gray and horrible and scummy in West London this morning but that's okay cuz we're here to brighten your day on this actionpack show because there's so much going on there's an international break but bear with us there's are a lot of interesting stories from the Balon door for those who care about it to some of these late transfers to PSR news to venisha talking about racism but we're going to start with something else Jules we're going to start with news that I think was kind of broken and confirmed when you were away in August yeah that Mauricio portino is the new US Men's National Team coach it hasn't been announced yet because lawyers blah blah blah much of time yeah well we think maybe we think our information is that by the time you listen to us it's going to be official so let's let's talk about this um I'm also going to get into a little bit but maybe later in the podcast part about what does it mean that people like poino experienced managers you know move on to National Team jobs and we see so many younger managers at a lot of big clubs very very quickly from company to to maresa you could go back a couple years sayetta as well first of all for the US is he the right choice moving to a foreign coach I think he he's a great signing he's a great coup because of the name because of who he is because of the experience that he had I think there might be we've said that International Football is very different to Club football which is true but I think for someone like him uh who seem a bit more pragmatic now than maybe when he started that transition could be easier from Club level to International level and working with the the US roster those young players with the World Cup coming in two years time I think I think it could be the right guy I think he's evolved in the way that his teams are playing and we saw what happened in Paris and in Chelsea where there were difficult times at times for him so I think he would have learned a lot from that and yeah I think the US men national team would benefit from having somebody like him with the intensity with the the man man man managing skills that he has to a certain extent so for me it's a great signing uh I think there's another aspect obviously he's a native Spanish speaker as well I think that also comes into it um I know like everybody most of the recent coaches spoke some Spanish I mean Greg bur halter certainly did but obviously it's completely different when you have him albeit with a bit of an Argentine Li speakly to the US fans for whom Spanish is their first language it it just abolutely creates a different a different dimension there um for me when I look at the portino negatives in the past um they've generally been two things one is he surrounds himself with people who are very much aligned with him right with yes men and his staff that's that's been the knock against him right and you know he makes a joke yes boss yes somebody comes with with an idea from the outside it does it becomes a bad idea until he or one of his staff think of it first that's been a knock fair or not fair that's been a knock against him I think that's less of an issue here yeah agree I mean US Men's National Team No Doubt has some analytics nerds or whatever but he's got to realize all these players MLS left right and Center I need to to decide who I want to pick to decide how I want to run things I'm going to need help beyond my staff yeah I think that's pretty evident the other KN is once he enjoys a bit of success he gets a little bit grabby and certainly at clubs right we saw that saw that at Chelsea um we saw that at Spurs we saw that you may contradict me but I think we saw that a little bit at Pary s man in the sense like look I've had some success now no I don't want to sign that player let's get that player let's extend his contract you know he gets Sir Alex without being so Alex right um that's not an issue with the national team no because you're not signing any players no no absolutely not and that's why I think he's he's transitioning from Club level to International level with the us could work for that I think he's more pragmatic like I said earlier it was interesting because Kao once PCH that left Chelsea complain a bit that the work they did was a lot physical it was a lot about the intensity and running a lot not so much tactical which I I think is true especially compared to Brighton and deser for kido's case certainly for his case again International level there's obviously I don't think he worked much with the Brighton or poto yeah before um but the international level there is obviously a tactical element to it naturally like for every football team whatever level but there's also obviously because you don't have much time to work with your players is very different to a club level where if you want you can do tactical stuff on the board every single day for hours and hours and hours and hours so again to go back to P's case I don't think that will be an issue here either that um yeah you got a limited amount of time you got to make a count you got to get your your ideas across quickly um we're going to break this down a little bit further than Gavin Jules podcast and also uh talk a little bit about why so many clubs are kind of seemingly turning their back on experienced big name managers and rolling the dice with younger ones [Music]