Pascal Jansen Named NYCFC Head Coach

[413Blue]

Is Pascal the best coach hire -- and the best received coach hire -- since Patrick? Ronny and Dome were both great coaches, but the fans didn't really take to either of them until they had success. Pascal is a great coach -- especially for this roster -- and seems to have sold the fans pretty quickly.

I, for one, am very happy with Pascal so far. He really fits the roster and it's easy to see why he develops young players well. He has a no-nonsense, firm approach that veteran players will quickly tire of, but young players should greatly benefit. I really enjoy the confidence and swagger he has the team playing with early in the season.

So far, so good.

Assuming he leads us to some success (but not a Cup), my final opinion will be based upon whether he sticks around long enough to really build something and actually have some ownership of squad. If he simply comes in for a year and a half, squeezes a bit more out of Lee's roster than Cushing did, and runs back to Europe I'll be disappointed.

 

[LionNYC]

Is Pascal the best coach hire -- and the best received coach hire -- since Patrick? Ronny and Dome were both great coaches, but the fans didn't really take to either of them until they had success. Pascal is a great coach -- especially for this roster -- and seems to have sold the fans pretty quickly.

I, for one, am very happy with Pascal so far. He really fits the roster and it's easy to see why he develops young players well. He has a no-nonsense, firm approach that veteran players will quickly tire of, but young players should greatly benefit. I really enjoy the confidence and swagger he has the team playing with early in the season.

I think it's just a matter of that nobody really wanted Nick Cushing around anymore. Plus, he was the only manager since Kreis to not lead us to the playoff during a season. So, Pascal is playing a little more attractive football, saying the right things, and even with a poor roster, is doing okay.

When Vieira came in, it was after Kreis and a failure of 2015 so anything would be better. Then with the sustained success, fans demanded more sooner, so when Vieira left and Dome came in and struggled a little, we were fast to be Dome out. Same thing with Ronny.

But if we struggle does it go to Pascal out or just Sims/Lee (probably just Lee) out?