“After a series of recent issues and a team culture that had deteriorated, we determined that it’s time to make a change to return a club-centered focus to the team... We have not come close to maximizing the talent we have in the dressing room this year, nor have we seen a foundation being built that will set us up for success this year and into next year."
There are precisely 2 things to pull out of this statement.
1. CLUB-CENTERED
I believe Cincy is sensitive to the fact that they gave up everything neat about having a soccer team in order to have the "privilege" of playing in MLS. Summed up here:
Took 11 games for Cincy fans to start openly admitting to missing USL. pic.twitter.com/6rYXGTrp7y— ʟᴏᴜʟɪɢᴀɴ ʙɪʀᴅ ⚜️ (@LouliganBird) May 5, 2019
2. MAXIMIZING TALENT
FC Cincy's roster is not very good. At the start of the season, I had their starting XI ranked 10th in the East (only above Chicago Fire and Orlando) with an average bench. Right now they are about where I expected them to be, sitting at 11/12 in the East.
The Eastern Conference is filled with some very average teams this year, but I don't think it is all that unreasonable to think anything better than last is a pretty good bar to get over with this roster.
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