Mike Petke Fired
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They found a pic of him strolling along with his brand new NYC FC Founding Member drawstring bag, while drinking Monster Energy Drink!
Red Bull executives were probably angry at being upstaged for negative publicity recently so decided to get some action for themselves. I guess they want to try and top NYCFC in all respects but who knew that also included the category of making asinine decisions. I'm no expert on Petke but onceametro.com describes the decision as "insane" and by other accounts taken by the newly appointed sporting director.
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Probably an argument broke out over signing players and Petke probably told them to f*** off. He has a temper.
Well-reasoned firings don't usually occur in the middle of the night....
Well-reasoned firings don't usually occur in the middle of the night....
I'm thinking it may be tied to his rift with Cahill, who at the moment is their marquee player. Cahill's priority last year was international play, even missing a key end of season match for an Australia friendly
heh. I was coming on to say almost the same exact thing.
Here's a link: http://www.espnfc.com/major-league-...rt-mike-petke-fired-as-new-york-red-bulls-hea
heh. I was coming on to say almost the same exact thing.
Here's a link: http://www.espnfc.com/major-league-...rt-mike-petke-fired-as-new-york-red-bulls-hea
They are incensed at the decision. Page 1 has a particularly sarcastic comment about recent events at NYCFC...
http://www.soccerpubs.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=47944
Another article pointing out the "less than popular" decisions in the past...
http://www.metrofanatic.com/story.jsp?ID=6558
NYCFC executives must be thrilled over this. They have probably been thinking of ways to respond to the negativity and now Red Bulls have taken a large chunk of it for themselves. Seriously how stupid must the executives at RB be? You would have thought this would have been the ideal time for them to avoid any kind of negativity. Nick Chavez thinks Petke is the bigger blunder (though less newsworthy) its almost like RB executives have a fetish for unpopularity.
Once again its started rumors of RB being sold a possibility which I've commented on in the past. Its worth pointing that out because there's going to be more comparison between both sets of owners now. Well I said before NYCFC have far better owners and I'm sticking to it.
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You don't fire the coach a week before the draft, 2 days after losing your #2 guy and after said coach almost gets you to the Cup final.
Dorks.
Dorks.
NYC FO 1 - RBNY FO 1. All tied up in the Hudson Dumbass Derby
Interesting links. LOL stuff from the guy who actually thinks MLS is behind this firing to get Red Bull fans pissed off enough to dump their season tickets and jump ship to NYCFC. Gold, Jerry, gold!
A couple guys think this might be a sign that Red Bull is actually getting ready to sell the team. So what would be funnier, Red Bull being bought out by the Cosmos or Manchester United?
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