khay 10 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Former USA coach Bruce Arena has expressed an interest in the vacant Scotland manager's job. Arena is currently out of work after leaving MLS side New York Red Bulls last month. The Scottish Football Association is drawing up a list of targets as it seeks to find a replacement for Alex McLeish following his departure to Birmingham. Arena, who has a wealth of international experience after managing the USA for eight years, is planning to contact the SFA to declare his interest in the Scotland job. Interested "I am looking to move into British football and I would be very interested in the Scotland vacancy," Arena told the Scottish Daily Mail. "I will be speaking to my agents this week about getting in touch with the Scottish FA. I believe an American could be a success on the other side of the Atlantic." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Go team haggis!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Bruce? I was hoping it would be Tina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth Operator 10 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Bruce? I was hoping it would be Tina. Beat me to it! She could've doubled up and sang the national anthems ahead of each game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 296 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Il Bruce would do well with the Scots. He's good at getting the best out of average players. Good organizer and motivator. Provided he leaves before he gets too attached to certain players and tries to shoehorn them into strange roles in order to keep them in the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 He can express an interest all he likes but its never going to happen IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 296 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 He can express an interest all he likes but its never going to happen IMO To be fair, I'm surprised to hear this in the media, since he's notoriously unfriendly to the media in general. I can't imagine him ever getting the job either, just saying that it wouldn't be a bad move for the Scots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 He can express an interest all he likes but its never going to happen IMO To be fair, I'm surprised to hear this in the media, since he's notoriously unfriendly to the media in general. I can't imagine him ever getting the job either, just saying that it wouldn't be a bad move for the Scots. I would disagree as I don't think he would have the first clue who any of our players/teams are. Also admittedly whilst I do not think there are any names getting mentioned that stand out and Arenas record at international level for the United States National team may be impressive at least both Smith and McLeish had a good experience both in Scotland and in Europe too. Would be another Vogts waiting to happen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrossthepond 901 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 He's horrific. He should never have been given the time that he was, sending the USA squad to the World Cup under that clown was an embarassment. He'll never get the Scotland job but if he does there ought to be weeping in the streets tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I hope he gets it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I hope he gets it Mad Jock probably does too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 4090 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 As long as it isn't that clown our previous fantastic board gave the job to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tompkins 0 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Honestly, I think Arena would be in way over his head in Europe. I give him points for wanting to leave the States to test his abilities, but I'd be hard pressed to hire him, if I were the Scots responsible for the call. Granted he never had anything that resembled a world class striker in the States, but his tactics in the World Cup were moronic to say the least. Zathras, I dont know if Arena got to attached to players, or if it was the Marketing Machine of US "Soccer" that made him favor certain players. Landon Donavan as the poster pof for American "Soccer" was a joke to say the least. In Arenas' defense, I think the suits may have tainted his coaching to some extent. Arena is best suited to advance the game in the States. His experience can help develop young players state side, and enforce what it takes to be World Class. In Europe, he would still be on a learning curve. First post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 296 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Honestly, I think Arena would be in way over his head in Europe. I give him points for wanting to leave the States to test his abilities, but I'd be hard pressed to hire him, if I were the Scots responsible for the call. Granted he never had anything that resembled a world class striker in the States, but his tactics in the World Cup were moronic to say the least. Zathras, I dont know if Arena got to attached to players, or if it was the Marketing Machine of US "Soccer" that made him favor certain players. Landon Donavan as the poster pof for American "Soccer" was a joke to say the least. In Arenas' defense, I think the suits may have tainted his coaching to some extent. Arena is best suited to advance the game in the States. His experience can help develop young players state side, and enforce what it takes to be World Class. In Europe, he would still be on a learning curve. First post. Nah; he certainly didn't follow the suit's "marketing." He sat Johnson for the most part when he was supposed by the marketing people to be the big thing. He took Ching over Twellman when TT was the guy all the media and MLS pundits said was a sure thing for the roster and the best understudy to McBride. Donovan is the key to the US team; he may have been off-form in all of 2006, but where he goes, so too does that team. Sitting him at the World Cup would have been the worse decision. I think he was hamstrung by his belief that he needed an organizer at the back and that none of his veterans were up to that task; he wanted to play Pope and Onyewu in the middle for speed and size, but neither was the leader he needed. He had to either play Conrad there or slide Bocanegra into the middle, but he wanted everyone on the field, so he shoehorned Bocanegra to left back, Beasely to the right side of midfield and practically negated any chance Donovan had of regaining his form by playing through it by hiding him on the field. If you look at the Czech game, you can see that the overall organization of the team wasn't bad. There was a dreadful pair of mistakes that led to the early opening goal and then it was all over. If Reyna's shot goes in rather than hitting the post and we got into halftime at 1-1, I think it's a totally different game. By the end of the half, we looked back in it, but as soon as the second went in, it was over, and the third was just a breakaway. The Italy game showed even more how well he can plan if he's given adequate scouting--9 men against the champions? We actually had the better of the play I felt and deserved to win on Beasely's shot which was ruled offsides for a player who was not involved in the play (I don't totally disagree with the call, however.) The Ghana game was a shambles with poor refereeing on both sides and squandered chances, bonehead decisions by Reyna, Bocanegra and a couple of others that basically showed that they were desperate. It's that clutch situation where I might have concerns about his squad management. He's scapegoated a lot for Donovan's lack of form and not actually having a striker, which is unfortunate, but I do agree he made some baffling decisions during the world cup. Still, I feel like he'd do a decent job in Europe; he's used to getting every call against him on the road (If you don't believe me, watch the USA v. Panama qualifier from 2005--if those tackles happened to England, the press would be calling for outright war) and completely hostile crowds. He could do just fine with a team like Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 296 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 PS News on this side of the Atlantic is that Arena has said it's a totally inaccurately report. On the other hand, there's a new rumor that replaces "Scotland" with "Ireland." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 As long as it isn't that clown our previous fantastic board gave the job to. 5th best coach in American history tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31600 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 PS News on this side of the Atlantic is that Arena has said it's a totally inaccurately report. On the other hand, there's a new rumor that replaces "Scotland" with "Ireland." No chance, not with big hitters like Howard Kendall expressing an interest in the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walliver 0 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 PS News on this side of the Atlantic is that Arena has said it's a totally inaccurately report. On the other hand, there's a new rumor that replaces "Scotland" with "Ireland." Sounds like someone's reading the Donald Trump story and just making Arena follow wherever he's likely to be. Next story: Arena back in line for the Scotland job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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