The guy has so many issues to deal with in this first season I find it incredible that many are thinking that he should be canned.
Some times his tactics seem crazy/stupid yes, but these things are all part of teething problems. He doesn't yet know the players well enough, he has not had a preseason to work with core elements of the team;
The core elements of the team might have only been around for 2 weeks!
Time. Work on the training field. The worst aspect of the team is the thing that needs this the most and he hasn't had anywhere near enough of this.
If he had taken over the Galaxy, an established talented winning team and was stinking it up, yes you could make a case for him being fired.
This club has no youth team, plays in a baseball stadium with a tiny pitch, has been missing two Dp's for half a season, been given crap players that other MLS teams didn't want, how did you think this season was going to go?
Building a team and chemistry takes time. Kreis is still getting to know the players and the players are still getting to know him.
The fact that this team is struggling is actually a plus point for the increased quality of MLS. It is harder and harder to come into this league as an expansion team, even one that has spent a lot of money and do well straight away.
Other clubs have built depth, got youth teams, great training facilities, experienced GM's in the league;
This team has none of those things.
I myself will not start judging this coach until at least midway through next season.
He needs time to find out what tactics work/what tactics don't work, who needs to leave, what area's need to be improved on, are some of the foreign signings still adjusting to the team/culture change.
Usually in soccer you have to do this with maybe five players at most in a season. He is doing this with 20 odd players!
MLS is not one of the best leagues in the world but it is getting better and the rules make it very hard to be good straight away.
The best coach in this league got canned by the Redbulls too early and took two seasons to get the established Galaxy on the right track.
I believe Kreis is a good coach in this league. Despite some of the head scratching decisions he has made I am prepared to wait and see him work out the kinks.
This job this first season would overwhelm many coaches; I think this sometimes has happened to him and I have total sympathy.
Let him have this season to assess things, an off season and preseason to plan and work with the team on the training field, and next season to bed down the team and have some consistency. Then let's start to maybe way him up.
Your out of your depth...like kreis.
Kreis sucks...probably is a fraud...riding high on lagerwey's coattails at RSL.
I mean "teething problems" are you high?
If Kreis still needs time to know the players at this point in the season than hes probably higher than you..
Why do we need a youth team to win against montreal? The fuck are you talking about?
Plenty of teams have less than 3 DP's in this league, Mix is basically a DP player anywhere else and Kreis didnt start him last game. The whole "We DIDNT HAVE 3 DP's" argument is BS. Mix is DP quality, Villa is better than most "DP's" in this league. We didnt need 3 Dps to win against the Cosmos or Chicago, or Philly. Give me a fucking break.
-He plays player's out of position constantly simply to squeeze in his favorite players (wingert grabavoy) Thats called Nepotism.
-Shit line ups playing the wrong players (slow hernandez vs one of the paciest teams in MLS)
- Shit substitutions (letting Wingert come off at RSL to get clap from the home crowd, subbing poku off in the cosmos game, subbing off mix and villa that one game etc etc)
-Shit tactics (parking the bus way too early in a game when we go up by 1, playing a hig defensive line when Montreal repeatedly showed they were going to use longballs etc etc)
-Slow to make changes (starting Nemec game after game in the begining of the season when it showed it wouldnt work)
-Shitty formations (tried to keep forcing a 4-4-2 in the begining of the season when it clearly didnt work well and we performed better the few times we did a 4-3-3)
-starting grabavoy
-starting wingert
-Rarely answers for himself or his decisions. Gives shitty interviews, always looks clueless.
-Constantly shits on players like Mix and Poku, never says anything about real shit players (grabavoy)
-Generally acting like a Dick
List goes on.
Kreis is indefensible at this point in my book. If you need years to be able to tell what shit looks like you need help.
