USMNT Destined to Fail Because of Berhalter? | With Alexi Lalas 

Thank you Joey!

Agree... and having ALL OF YOUR players playing in Europe is NOT NECESSARILY a good think ! Especially if they are just keeping seats warm. Blaming GGG is the EASY out. The players have to be held accountable. We are not a Global Contender. Believing that we are is NAIVE ! We continue to improve and are doing it RIGHT, but culture and passion development is still in progress.

⁠@@ivanzlatar2445Understandable but the record shows that the coaching and tactical formations from GGG are completely lackluster when facing any opponent that will punish your mistakes. The away record for Concacaf teams was only 3 Wins in his entire tenure. Granada, Honduras, and Cuba. We are wayyy too predictable - passing around the back, finding the wings, and swinging a cross to the box and good opponents know how to stop that and force a turnover high up the pitch. With the Interim coach BJ Callahan the style of play was different, much more direct and faster paced and you could see that the team was working much better with that system. Our record with GGG against the top 20 world roster is only 7%. That’s just not gonna cut it especially when we are hosting the most important tournament of the world with WC 26. The federation needs to sack him.

Soccer is good too

I think he said he wanted to get rid of him after last cycle

This is so relatable.

I ate a small portion of crow... Scalley locked Vinnie down and B'halter held a draw.

I’d say he wants him gone too based on our conversation but thinks the players aren’t blameless in this either

@@MLSMoves if one or two players are bad that’s on the players, when all the players are bad that’s on the coach. None of them showed up the other night, none of them seem motivated or willing to work hard. And this has happened over and over again.

@@MLSMoves I think that's putting it lightly. European export bolstering is a real trigger for him(ironically) while he gets quite passionate about anyone who isn't holding the players entirely accountable. I have never played or seen a team where the coach/manager was so untouchable and held unaccountable than this USMNT era. HE IS RIGHT about blaming the players, but ENTIRELY WRONG about not zeroing in on the source, which is the supposed leader, Gregg. At this point, he is undeniably the unchanged variable that holds great influence, like a manager/coach should. #BerhalterOut Also, I'm new to your channel, love it so far. Thanks for giving us a voice.

Thank you! I hope you guys enjoy!

Perfectly stated. That’s when BJ Callahan was the Interim Coach and we played well. Heck I would have just promoted him to coach! The performance and the style of play was so much more flexible and fluid. There was vibrancy in the way we played. Dare I say we started having some cohesion! and chemistry being developed between the players!

It´s pretty standard in south american futbol culture not just Colombia. But they don´t seem to know anything about futbol besides Europe.

@@mikhaildas Why the fixation on Europe? Colombia boasts a wealth of talent spread across the MLS, MexLeague, and beyond. This isn't unique to Colombia. Even the US top players "extremely talented generation" flock to European clubs. We don't overlook the Brazilian League either, where several Colombians shine and often springboard to Europe. Exciting news: Jhon Duran, who has previously showcased his skills with Chicago Fire and more recently Aston Villa, has just clinched a move to Chelsea!

@@mikhaildas Besides, "Colombia es tu papá" is something coming from a now diseased very famous colombian sportscaster

@@rvicinip Soy Argentino. Los cánticos de paternidad son comunes en la cancha no es exclusivo de Colombia. Y la fijación con Europa me parece contraproducente. Igualar el tener jugadores en Europa con Equipo nacional top es un delirio. Es el nivel con el que se juega, con quiénes se juega y con quiénes se brilla, qué diferencia le da uno al equipo y no sólo pertenecer a un equipo de Europa. Jugadores buenos promedio hay miles, jugadores top elite es distinto. Colombia está muy fuerte, lo que me da mucha alegría porque suma a la competencia en el Sur. Saludos y espero que tengan una gran Copa América.

@@mikhaildas Tengo es a Edgar Perea que decía esto. Ya murió lamentablemente. Estamo contentos y estamos realmente gozando toda esta época y disfrutamos mucho los colombianos en las distintas ligas de este lado: Argentina, Brasilera, Mexicana y la MLS . No me pierdo mi liga pero como tenemos jugadores para escoger, al salir y la rompen entonces tienen mas chance de ser seleccionados con poquisimas excepciones. Por ejemplo Cetré o Portilla. Buenos, pero al romperla en Argentina ya son convocables

Yeah, it’s laughable that he thinks a below average height striker is going to get on the end of high crosses, and that’s not even addressing the fact that we don’t have any good crossers in this squad to begin with?

No way we will do that under Gregg

@MLSMoves After the loss to the Netherlands in 2022, Louis Van Gaal the Netherlands Manager said that the US did everything he and his staff expected to do and never tried to change things up. THAT .SUMS UP GREGG BERHALTER.

Lalas couldn't make it in the USMNT today, not even as a bench warmer...

Actually we couldn't care less about players and their club sides. If they're not performing for the team then the same should be benched.

@@kevinwilkins7851 we? I don’t think most US fans agree with that lol

is just one step. Shouldn´t rely only on that.

@@mikhaildas of course but better then this dude

@@mheiseus sure. Still you have pretty average good players, you should also play with what you got, even if you bring Pep it doesn´t mean you will magically be a top tier nation futbol team. It takes a lot of time to do that. To beat Mexico in their worst era isn´t really a glorious achievment in terms of the sport. You still need more competition outside your concacaf bubble. as a national Team but somehow you all believe that having players in Europe means you should be contestants to big titles or be at the same level of the best teams in the world. It doesn´t work like that.

@@mikhaildas don't condescend to me, your preaching to the choir... Of course we need top talent but with a coach that uses uncreative tactics it's useless.

@@mheiseus not preaching at all. I just added more things to your commentary of "thats it", cause is not a case of getting out the coach and "thats it". Don´t get sensitive about it.

I think they have been unlucky due to injuries. Gio Reyna has always delivered when he played for Dortmund, but his injuries affected his spot after being gone for so many months. Dest has poor defensive tactics, but there was a time when he was beginning to improve at Barca. Even Xavi admitted it. Then he got injured, lost momentum, and when he healed, he stayed on the bench. Adams has had many injuries too. McKennie has also had injuries, but he had a slump that was more related to his weight than to injuries. Then we also had Pulisic, who played a huge role in winning the Champions League for Chelsea but also had his share of injuries and struggled to gain the trust of the coach. Once he left for Milan, he had an amazing season. In my opinion, Musah, Weah, and Jedi are role players and are good enough to play for mid-table European clubs or be bench players for top clubs, but they’re definitely better than the players the US has had in the past. I also think our strikers are no different from Jozy Altidore; what affected Jozy was his injuries. I still think it is too early to judge De La Torre and Cardozo. I feel the only player that might be overrated is Brendan Aaronson. But imagine we had a better Us coach that can bring the best out of these players. That can even influence them in getting into better clubs simply on the fact of how they can play in the pitch. Sometimes players don’t get that opportunity in training were they have to compete against other players but when they’re in a international game European club coaches can see the talent in a game. But we aren’t going to be able to see this with Berhalter

You can give GGG the Real Madrid lineup and it would only take him a season or two to get them relegated...😂😂😂

Weah, Reyna, Rheem, Turner don't start... why would you say HALF? 7 out of 11 do start😂. Be as critical on the coach as you are on the players... you say the players aren't talented. How can you say Gregg is talented? Has he even been on the bench in a top league?😂

I get that but we are in NO WAY utilizing the talent we have to its most effective capacity. Not even close.

I appreciate it! This is just the beginning!

Get him out!

I’m tired of acting like that shouldn’t be expected. We have to beat teams like that or none of this even matters

@@MLSMoves But we don't have the players or coach to do that. Not yet. Half of our players can't even start for their clubs (including some of our most talented players). But I do agree that we have to find a way to punch above our weight now and again. But make no mistake, beating a team like Colombia or Brazil would be a huge upset. The talent gap is still enormous.

@@MLSMoves Why it wouldn´t matter? you are playing against better competitors. That matters unless you want to play concacaf teams for eternity and think that to beat Mexico in their worst era is something to be proud or some kind of glorious achievement. Is not always about winning, is about grow and have some fundations for the future. I don´t get the overcondifence and the believe that somehow US should be a Top tier nation in futbol when it didn´t demonstrate anything important in terms of the sport besides concacaf titles. Players in Europe don´t equate to top tier players worldwide. Good players yes, but compared to what? it doesn´t mean you somehow recieve the "Europe Mojo" just because players go to Europe and now you have a top tier national team. Get the coach out, but don´t rely only on that to think everything will change for the best magically. It takes years to have a good national team that know each other and can play as a team (replacements included) instead of individuals skills.

He actually didn’t tbh

I agree

We literally can’t because we are committed to “equal pay” so we can’t spend on a top coach because we have to be in some kind of parody with the women’s team

@Agtsmirnoff easy fix... just pay the women's coach the same as what you are offering this coach.

@@m.vinn.r.3645 never going to happen, you’re going to need a lot and I mean a lot of money to attract a top manager. US soccer doesn’t have the money to fund two of those.

On a side note, good video MLS Moves.

Not good!

We actually saw them play under Hudson and BJ, and they were much better

@@Agtsmirnoff you're right, i still personally consider hudson and bj as part of that same coaching staff umbrella since they were GGG assistants

Low would be such a great hire atleast to get us through the 2026

@MLSMoves I just think Low makes the most sense, he's experienced, tactically astute, and he is good with younger players (25 and under), which you guys have a lot of, the other name that came to mind was Louis Van Gaal, again he's experienced, good tactically and good with younger guys, but given his age and previous health issues (he managed at the last world cup with prostate cancer) I cant see him taking a job abroad again, Low just strikes me as an ideal candidate going into 2026

It was a good conversation

We aiming for the stars?

@MLSMoves my Grandfather always said aim for the moon if you don't hit it you'll hit a star

We’re in trouble

Get ready for a bank bail out. Our most important position features a player who hasn’t played regularly and is going backwards….Turner! Arteta knows goalies. Berhalter is an idiot! Berhalter and Crocker need to go. Who the heck ever hired Crocker!!!!

It’s not looking good!

He’s the one in charge of motivating his player. He has the most blame in this

What?

Lalas had no solid arguments. “Blame the player too” that’s all he says. We are blaming the players but we see the talent. The players are more skilled than the players that we have in the past. US players in the past were not good dribbler they had grit but that’s all they have. If I go back in time I would only take Onyewu and Bocanegra for center backs. Heathy Jozy Altidore or McBride for the striker position, Howard as goalie, Claudio Reyna as the number 10 but I don’t see anyone else good enough to compete against these players. We have Dempsey and Donovan the best players we have ever had but given the fact that we have Pulisic I don’t think they in their prime would take his spot unless you take out Mckennie, Musah or Weah for them. What’s funny about what I just said is that Claudio Reyna never played with Jozy Altidore and played few times with Dempsey so the few talents we had in the past were in different eras playing. We are fortunate to have all these players playing around the same time and we decided to choose Berhalter to coach them?

@@Freshnewz10 Naivee fans keep like yourself eat and breath "We have the most talented players in U.S. history". Yes, it's true but that doesn't mean much when we compared them with top Nations. How many of our skilled players can actually make it to the top 10 Nations? Maybe 1 if we are lucky. The argument about the most talented players is because the bar is so low. Besides Pulisic and for half season McKennie, every single player struggled to get meaningful minutes. Specially Gio Reyna. I like Reyna but the excuses he gets is ridiculous. " Poor kid, his agent, his coach, his club, GGG, etc. He is a very talented player that made terrible decisions. I am not defending GGG but no matter what Berhalter does in your eyes he can't do anything good. You guys demand Top notch coaches but when it comes to show up in games...... nowhere to be found. Let's start pretending we are Europeans, their leagues have Fans, History, tradition and plenty of time being around. Our MLS league is in diapers but the Euro Snoobs look down on our own league. Pathetic

@@VladkoBruce You can all it excuses but unless you’re Mbappe, Neymar or Haaland the fact that these players can get injured for months can affect their spots in the squads. Which brings me back to another case. None of are saying that this is a World Cup contender team what we are saying is that we should expect more from them and a good coach can do that. You can’t buy new players but you certainly can get better coaches. Teams in the past with less talent have beaten better opponents. Countries at home in the past in their home soil World Cups have done better. We definitely have more talented squads than we have in the past, we know the World Cup is at home, we know in the last US teams with less talent have beaten World Cup contenders. So why is it too much too ask for them to perform better? We are not expecting to win the copa America or World Cup we are expecting to put up a better fight and perhaps upset a few teams. There are times where players are better scouted when they’re in the field than they are in club training. Has Berhalter help any of these players with that? Berhalter kept Gio in the bench most of the World Cup. Do you remember how Klose, K Navas and James Rodriguez actually got more club opportunities whenever they played for their national teams and outperforming. This is sometimes the only opportunity players can get than training in a top European club. Gio Reyna and many other players have been unlucky with injuries and that can affect your momentum and trust. This is what happened to Pulisic with Chelsea. We know that he played a role when they won the champions league all of a sudden he gets injured and looses his spot and looses the trust of the coach. You have to be a really good player for the club to hold the spot for you when you get back. There’s also sponsorships, don’t be deceive some world class players even if they get injured and perform bad in training they can still be trusted to be in the squad once they’re fit. This is what happened with many Real Madrid players of the Ronaldo Nazario and Zidane era. But again when you have a clueless coach like Berhalter not helping then there’s no way we can see more of Reyna, Weah, or Jedi on a top club. Gio Reyna does play a dying role which in todays football he’s required to play some defensive to recuperate balls but he has been improving on that. With all that being said you can’t be so dogmatic you need to look at all the nuances. Berhalter also seems to rely on a system where some players don’t have the strengths to fulfill those duties. Unless we can buy good talent overseas there’s no reason for him to continue playing that system on these players.

To keep his job?

Hugo took an underfunded and disorganized El Salvador team and overachieved.

Let’s go!!!

They’re young, majority of our players have played at top clubs at the same time, the World Cup is at home. We should maximize this talent. A lot of our players have suffered injuries which has affected their spots but these players are way better that majority of the players we had in the past. If we look back at the squads in the 2000-2019 era I would say that only Donovan, Dempsey, Bocanegra, Onyweu, Jozy Altidore, McBride, and Claudio Reyna are good enough to compete against these players. Maybe Berhalter, Mastreoni, J Jones, Cherundulo, and Beasley can challenge these players. But notice that Dempsey, Onyweu and Altidore didn’t had the privilege of playing enough time with McBride, C Reyna, and Berhalter. The difference with the current players is that these players are all playing and are around the same age. This is why this is a waste of generation.

It shouldn’t be an issue but it is apparently

It was a joke lmao. You don’t remember him saying that last year?

@@MLSMoves laugh out loud my bad. I remember