prairiecanuck

You don't want to see mistakes, but players typically only grow by making those mistakes. Hopefully he doesn't lose any playing time once he's eligible to return.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. He will undoubtedly have plenty of opportunities elsewhere, but the MLS one might be the one that pays the most. Players have to maximize their earnings.

To be fair to Atiba, he hasn't had a lot of time to coach seeing as how he played until he was 39 years old. He did play under a fair amount of coaches and managers including many team Canada managers. Maybe that's what qualified him to give an opinion?

You learn more through failure than you ever do through success. He's just had more experience at the highest level with the biggest challenges and the most pressure. Some will point to his record. Fair enough, but those are probably valuable learning experiences that have likely made him a better coach. Hopefully we are the benefactors of those experiences.

That would be a desirable candidate if he had some interest for sure. Lots of experience at the international level and he has experience having to deal with the biggest ego in the game, so he should be able to manage the egos on our National team..lol

What candidate that comes up isn't going to be a hard pass? Some of you summarily reject candidates if they are a so called "big name". We're Canada and our federation is bankrupt so we can't pay anything to secure the services of a manager. I think a manager with some warts is a pre requisite for consideration. I don't think too many top managers are going to take a 90% pay cut to come manager our national team! Getting into the championship playoffs is a big accomplishment. Lampard's first year Chelsea was quite good. Second not good, but they haven't been very good since he left and I wouldn't glean too much about his time the second go around when he came in and the season was over and the players had given up. His time at Everton wasn't great, but it wasn't really more than 1 standard deviation away from what you would expect. Everton are 15th in the table sitting on 29 point in a relegation battle this year too. So with Lampard you have the necessary warts, but also it hasn't been all bad. He's a player that obviously played at the highest level under some great managers. He's 45 years old. What he does have is a tremendous amount of experience for a young man managing at the highest level. I would suspect being a young manager is like being a young player. You make a lot of mistakes. Getting the most out of players and getting the tactics right is obviously challenging. People learn through failure. That's why the experience factor is important. Now it's entirely possible many of you just don't like Lampard or his personality and would reject him right off the hop. Any name that comes up shouldn't be judged against what your dream candidate would be, but rather is he a better fit than Biello. Many would prefer someone with experience in Concacaf rather than a big name from Europe. I get it. I'm not really advocating one way or the other. Mostly just a bit of random rambling thoughts whilst I drink my morning coffee..lol

Yes, but theoretically possible, but almost certainly won't happen when one of those teams is Argentina!

Rick Westhead is such an awful journalist. He paints a narrative without divulging obvious facts. "If Canada beats T&T and wins 2 games at the Copa it could cost them 600K!" OK Rick, on what planet is Canada not advancing to the quarter finals if they win 2 games at the Copa. That 1.5 mil for the quarters is going to be a lot higher this year with the tournament in the US. He could have easily said if Canada wins 1 game at the Copa it would cost them 400K and if they failed to get out of the group. If they manage to get out of the group they will be money to the good with prize money for the quarters likely far greater than the 1.5 mil received for quarter final teams at the last Copa. I can't stand Rick Westhead.

I mean to respond to you Gator..lol. Point taken. I didn't realize Bob was as big a soccer supporter. It makes sense though. Thanks for clarifying.

Fair enough. He's obviously more of a soccer guy than I realized. Point taken.

so we're complaining about nothing. The CSB deal could be gone in no time..lol

People are entirely worried about the extension part of this deal. Let's examine that for a second. In order for an extension to happen Media pro would have to also extend their portion of the deal. The recent issues between the CSB and mediapro would suggest the subscriptions are not at the level that would justify and extension. The CPL has 5 years to grow gate revenues and interest to grow subscriptions or there will be no extension from mediapro and people could be worrying about nothing.

I think a bus league is ridiculous.

Yes, the city of Hamilton owns Tim Hortons's field. Bob Young also paid 30 mil for a lease agreement for football and soccer games. The article from Sportsnet indicated a CSB owner had offered a facility rent free to the CSA. It didn't specifically state that was Bob Young, but who else could it have been and as per his lease agreement he very well could have been in a position to do so. Bob isn't the soccer guy. He's a billionaire trying to do good things for the city of Hamilton. In getting the stadium built councilors did want the facility used for more than just football. Yes, Bob explore the MLS first because he actually has the money to pay the expansion fees but the MLS turned him down. The other US leagues made no sense economically. So enter the people everyone are complaining about. Montagliani and crew put billionaire Bob in touch with business associates interested in a domestic league and Mediapro. There's no way Mediapro enters into a start up league even with National team games without someone as wealthy and successful as Bob Young. The idea of CPL is formed. A potential 200 mil 10 year deal packaged with the national team games is born. Now as mentioned the CSA at the time of the deal was paying to get their games on TV to the tune of roughly a millio6 n dollars and had roughly the equivalent amount of sponsorship revenue. That revenue was also higher in 2015 when the women hosted the world cup. The men were a realistic option for 2026 at this point. So 3 mil escalating to 4 over 10 years with the potential of a 2026 world cup providing additional revenue. For 9 years the CSB likely projected they would pay out far more to the CSA than revenue coming in from Sponsorships. As I highlighted in an earlier post, companies getting into the soccer business pay endorsement dollars to the top players. Jessie Fleming, Aphonso Davies. Associations don't get huge dollars. The World Junior Hockey tourney, which is a major annual event was getting roughly 2 mil in sponsorships. I don't for a second buy that when the deal was struck they had the foresight that the men would qualify in 2022. I do buy the premise that the idea that it was possible was pushed, but a guarantee or even likely...probably not. The CSB had the revenue they need to form the CPL. Was that revenue enough to guarantee profits? Absolutely not, but it substantially reduced the risk of losses and gave them a fighting chance.

I was thinking he was injured when I saw he was subbed off.