So...contract ends in June/July 2025...
6 months sabbatical...
Starts as an MLS coach in January 2026...
1 year playing in YS/CF/RBA...
1-2 years playing in Etihad Point (I think our stadium will be called that)
Nick Cushing Named Interim HC (Jul '22) / HC (Nov '22) / Fired (Nov ‘24)
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6 months sabbatical...
Starts as an MLS coach in January 2026...
1 year playing in YS/CF/RBA...
1-2 years playing in Etihad Point (I think our stadium will be called that)
Pep manning the sidelines at YS or CF would just be hilarious. Which is why I don’t think he comes here even with the CFG and NYC connection. It will be Miami or LA.
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Bring back Dome! But he won't after the way he left.
Pep has a different relationship with CFG, and by all accounts, Pep loves NYC. Not saying it will happen, just that Dome and Pep are different cases.
And the guy who tried running Dome out (and ultimately kind of did) is no longer around
I wonder was Torrent forced onto Reyna or did they start out OK and then learn to hate each other.
Torrent told Reyna that his son wouldn’t have started for NYCFC and that caused the riff.
Took almost 14 hours for someone to smash the return of that setup.
You framed this as Claudio trying to run him out of town.
You failed to mention that we had an ABYSMAL start to that season and Dome was one match away from DESERVEDLY being fired.
I think Cushing’s race is run. Probably not entirely his fault, how this season has gone, but at this point he’s gotten a bunch of new players and a little time to work with them, and it’s just not happening. I don’t see any patterns, don’t see any consistency of approach, and don’t see any team spirit.
It’s time.
It’s time.
I am both really quite displeased and quite really displeased with Cushing.
I'm really not going to like the idea of Cushing being scapegoated for this season when it was completely not his fault, but if there are not improvements by the end of the year then I agree that his time will be up. Frankly, our front office has shown that missing the playoffs is reason for a coach to be fired. But I don't like the idea that he will be scapegoated. This season is firmly on David Lee and the front office.
whether you have the players or not, there are basic things that nick just did not do well. there are teams with worse talent who played with more personality than us. we had no ideas, patterns of play, or consistency in the starting lineup to really get some gelling going on. not to mention, under nick, we seem to drop our line of confrontation well into our half instead of pressing much higher in the attacking third to force turnovers.
with a strong midfield that we have, we should be able to do this. even if we don't do it well at first, it should be something that is drilled and worked on and even untalented players can learn how to press with some effectiveness (look at red bull).
yet - nick continues to field a different team nearly every game. rotation maybe? but none of these players have played enough straight games to truly deserve /need a rotation except for parks - who just happens to be the only consistent name in the starting xi. how do you expect a team to perform with cohesion and flow if they aren't allowed to get used to each other?
having new players so late in the season is difficult. but nick has showed that he doesn't know what to work with what he's got either. maybe none of these players were what he wanted. but he doesn't have the courage to bitch about it like dome cause he's a company man. maybe that's why he keeps his job or gets sent back to europe for some other position in CFG.
no, it's not easy to play with a team that had its spine ripped out, no striker, and then getting all new players with a 3rd of the season left to go where the first 2/3rd of the season just didn't go well. but regardless of the roster, i personally think a good coach should be able to implement certain patterns of play and inspire his players. whether those patterns of play work or not, that's one thing. but we don't even see any of it. what we do see is a lot of negative passes, slow decision making (cause we don't know where others will be - again no patterns of play), and jogging around the field like it's a rec league game. maxi is 35 years old and he was outrunning most everyone on out team tonight. that's just pathetic.
yes the front office dropped the ball. but nick is not being scape goated.. he's just not head coach material.