Domènec Torrent Appointed NYCFC Head Coach (June '18) / Mutually Agree to Part Ways (November '19)
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Generic assholery or you don't recognize any of those names?
If generic assholery, is that new or I'm just noticing it?
And we don't even know 5 Things about the past game vs. Atlanta, Mark BOOTH!
Can you provide Patrick Vieira, Jesse Marsch, and Greg Vanney for comps? And throw in Arsene Wenger in there too. Please and thank you.
Man. I'm really torn by how to react here. You all seem to be pretty unanimously thrilled with this hire, so I don't want to rain on your parade. I'm sure he'll make a good run of it, and probably be a fine coach. I think I'm just personally at the end of my rope with the whole CFG thing. It's a preference thing, I guess. Seems like everyone else remaining in these forums is more than okay with it... I just don't think it's for me. I've come to realize that I don't particularly care how many great resources or great players or great coaches being in the CFG family gets us... I'd just rather be an independent club and not a stepping stone / farm system kind of deal. I hope the new coach does well and the team does well... just not sure how much longer I'll be personally cheering them on.
Watching MLS Rewind, the biggest takeaway about Dome is that Taylor said he doesn't speak a word of English and neither does his staff. Let's hope he learns English at 10x the speed that Villa did. I know Javier speaks English, don't think Rob does. How does Tata communicate with Guzan?
I'm under the influence (but home and comfy; thanks for wondering!) and I just read an article (https://www.mcfcwatch.com/2018/06/1...ies-linking-him-with-move-to-manchester-city/) and now my rain man brain has run amok (with conspiracy mixed in, of course). Will Dome's hiring have any sort of bearing on a potential Iniesta signing?
I'd rather not sign Iniesta (for reasons others have already, so eloquently, professed on these boards), but that doesn't mean it's not a possibility (remote, of course). If Iniesta and Dome are as close as we might expect, could this be a portent of things to come? Maybe the wait in announcement had to do with a contingency as to whether Iniesta would be a target for acquisition. I guess Ring could play the Busquets role (not that those are easy shoes to fill - tactically and/or technically), and Maxi and Iniesta could play as "pivot" number 10s (we know Maxi can be a pesky defender and Iniesta certainly knows how to press and would be quite effective in the stamp-sized pitch we call home).
All this being a product of my imagination, mixed in with Herrera's injury , of course, but just thought I would post (or spew) it before I lose my nerve and regain my sense of, well just sense I guess.
I'd rather not sign Iniesta (for reasons others have already, so eloquently, professed on these boards), but that doesn't mean it's not a possibility (remote, of course). If Iniesta and Dome are as close as we might expect, could this be a portent of things to come? Maybe the wait in announcement had to do with a contingency as to whether Iniesta would be a target for acquisition. I guess Ring could play the Busquets role (not that those are easy shoes to fill - tactically and/or technically), and Maxi and Iniesta could play as "pivot" number 10s (we know Maxi can be a pesky defender and Iniesta certainly knows how to press and would be quite effective in the stamp-sized pitch we call home).
All this being a product of my imagination, mixed in with Herrera's injury , of course, but just thought I would post (or spew) it before I lose my nerve and regain my sense of, well just sense I guess.
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Signing Torrent doesn't give me any expectations. He hasn't worked as a first team manager. He might have massive tactical nous and be able to develop players. Maybe. He might be a very good manager, lucky and successful, perhaps. But you can be Pep's wingman for 11 years without anything of that success transferring to the work as a manager, too, just as well as you can be a well-respected manager like Klopp, and still lose six major finals in a row. I wish him all the possible success, but we can't have any justified expectations about how he will want the team to play, which players he will select etc. Only time will tell.
He actually has been a first team manager. It’s been a little while, and it was the lower divisions of Spanish football, but he was a head coach.
He had spells as head coach of FC Palafrugell, Palamós CF, and Girona FC before joining Pep Guardiola as his assistant at Barcelona B.
But he’s been coaching in England for how long now? I find that hard to believe. Manchester isn’t the most cosmopolitan of cities. He has to have learned some things to just get around.
I am very interested in this pretty pineapple of his.
We really don't do this enough, pulling out FM stats.Because why not, here's his Football Manager stats:
Of all people to express ignorance of Football Manager, I wouldn't have expected it to be
LionNYC 
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Pineapples are a Southern thing, I thought?
https://midlifemargaritas.com/2017/01/23/are-pineapples-a-dirty-little-secret/
Yes, this is only an opportunity for me to share some wildly esoteric knowledge that I only learned as an adult.
I think the article overplays the hospitality part (2nd look, nope, not really). If you’re on a street where everyone has pineapples on their porch, probably take off. Or get naked. Your call.
I'm a CFG skeptic, as I explained over multiple posts on Sunday in the PV departure thread when the big rumor was Rodolfo Borrell was going to be the replacement. Borrell's background pushed too many wrong buttons for me. Torrrent's resume avoids every one of those. We have a better idea of what his role advising Pep has been, his primary background is coaching not development, and he has experience as head coach/manager of a team in competition. Given we are a CFG team and our situation of having PV leave mid-season, this is probably the best possible outcome. I'll even go further, and say we would almost certainly do worse if we were not a CFG team. So I'm happy, and even excited about this. Maybe that helps you think about this a different way. But everyone has their own limits.
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if we were independent wed probably get Arena
