Shep Messing Sounds Off On Red Bull. Big Time.

Thanks to the boys and girls at Metrofanatic for pointing this in my direction.

Shep Messing joined the fledgling podcast Four in the Back to share his thoughts on the Red Bulls. And boy, did he ever.

Here are some of his more memorable quotes:

- “This is like trying to turn around the titanic.”
- “Juan Pablo Angel loves Osorio.”
- “They are cursed. They find every single way to lose. Aside from the Seattle game they’re really playing hard for 90 minutes – they just suck when it counts.”
- “I had a crazy ability when it matters to make the big save. It is the inverse of what the Red Bulls are doing.”
- “The ability to make the play when it counts, for me, really makes the difference. And the Red Bulls, they are the worst! The DC United game, the Colorado game last year, time and time again, I don’t know what it is.”
- “Angel is one of the best strikers ever to play in the MLS. He is injured and isn’t telling anyone by the way.”
- “They have six or seven (players) you need to trade for a bag of soccer balls. (to which the host asks no names though right?) I don’t have a problem with names, you know me Ken. Coaches in this league, MLS in particular, you can ill afford to give guaranteed contracts to bad players.”
- “So a second division Argentine player who was kicking around in Greece, Pietravallo – he is on a guaranteed contract, he is making 200 thousand dollars – useless to the team.”
- “Dane Richards – played a couple of good games last year against Houston. For me, this is a player who doesn’t see beyond his own feet. He has speed, he can beat a player running at him at a ball at his feet, but for me, I look at high soccer IQ, and I don’t think Dane Richards has it.”
- “ Oduro, who was a mistake, well, they got rid of him.”
- “Khano Smith, to me, is one of the worst players I’ve seen in Major League Soccer, and he is making 150 thousand dollars a year.”
- I am not a big believer that you build Harrison and all of a sudden, 22,000 fans are going to show up.
- You have to win at some point, or as you said, otherwise, you are irrelevant.

He also expressed that he wasn’t afraid of losing his job over his comments. Apparently . . .

So this has to be the most true to word critique from inside the Red Bulls that this team has seen since they took over football operations. And frankly, Messing was speaking from the heart as a former area star and current supporter of New York soccer. He certainly did not put up his guards about the shaky standings of the franchise either. And that is probably why the fan base love this guy so damn much.

Do you think Shep is going to hear it from a couple of the higher ups? Or will the players give him an earful (Especially Khano Smith)? Was he right on point with his scathing review of the Bulls season and history? You make the call. Click the link, take a listen and share your thoughts below.

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