Steve Nicol on Bruce Arena's resignation: 'It's hard to swallow' | ESPN FC

Former New England Revolution coach Steve Nicol shares his thoughts on Bruce Arena's resignation from the club.
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[@kingseanp9267]

Shame that Joseph got let go, he’s a Revs legend and beloved by us supporters. Notice Kevin Hitchcock is immune to the situation, you develop Turner and Petrovic you become untouchable.

[@samig9032]

If the players are on Bruce’s side, that should tell you something…

[@mahorio2]

Stevie nailed it

[@marcocarbajal9299]

He stated the facts

[@anarwally]

The team and the league need to release what the investigation found. After six weeks they have to know what happened.

[@Guntherthefool]

WORDS ARE THE HURTING 😢

[@Cbart23]

I remember when Steeevah managed my fave MLS club The Revs 👊🏻

[@mikehunt5637]

Bruce probably called Richie a dwarf. Oh, and Onolfo has been a failure every place he has been.

[@BML1967]

Lol, actually calling him a midget coming from a guy myself who is a dwarf, little person, blah blah. He either said the M, N, G, H, T word...

[@willemlecomtefootballer]

Curts from Ridgefield, of course he's a d-bag!

[@JamesRoome]

In a world where you can protest anything and not be held accountable for your actions the team should strike until he comes back. Make a stand boys.

[@spikyturtle54]

more communication is needed

[@alex1vid]

Disagree a bit - I think more transparency is needed. Not picking' on you. But they lost the players by how they handled it, the higher ups and the coaches. And they aren't being honest with the players. Fine, tell the media and people like us to go away. But they gotta be real with the players.

[@EpicGammingCrew]

Bruce is an amazing coach, and an even better person. I’ve never had more confidence in something being unjust that I don’t know the details of. Cause ik he’s way too standup of a dude for any foolishness. Man’s solid, certified, legend

[@ms1007901]

I think he said something that was tolerable in the past but it’s no no these days. Time changes.

[@biggdogg6196]

What did he actually say? They have to tell.

[@uchibenkei]

he said he wouldn't drink bud light anymore

[@CDmusic10]

He said he didn't agree with LGBTQ+.

[@dirks6550]

Reminds me of the Gio Berhalter drama. Long rooted families and suddenly it goes south.

[@Zombieturtles]

Did the background music need to go that long?

[@jron20r51]

Send Belichick out to explain it.. Then it will be as clear as mud

[@stephenmason9527]

'We fired him for saying something, and we know what it is but we're not going to tell you' is an absolutely unacceptable and insane stance.

[@thelastgreataudit8112]

Honestly for a few games and a playoff run, Stevie wouldn't be a bad interim shout. Fan favorite, textbook players coach, been outside the organization long enough to not be involved in whatever drama, formerly a pretty decent coach by MLS standard. Could do worse.

[@Whizkidsoo]

Good for the players to stick up for Bruce or at least most transparency…Stevie is so correct… Bruce left to go take GGGs job

[@haydarali6249]

He's not even denying in his statement that he said something bad. You'd think if its all a scam and he's innocent he'd be a bit more defensive and possibly even least leak what's happening to the media. I imagine he's also hoping the comments don't get out as it'll probably ruin his career and now a load of his supporters are insisting MLS must release what he said, bet he wants them to shut up.

[@bruceshaw2402]

This is pathetic , two grown men have a disagreement and one of them runs crying to the bosses , for god sake grow a pair and man up .

[@BML1967]

Running to mommy little man...

[@coachhbosoccer]

I think New England Revolution should hire Bill Bellichick from the patriots 😆

[@davidt3956]

Unless Carlisle has knowledge of what the remarks were, and talks about them, he has nothing to add.

[@7beachbum]

Seemingly no one has any knowledge of the remarks.

[@barcelona909]

Richie Williams is also better off resigning too since he burned the bridges to the all the players. No point of him staying.

[@daveyjones9506]

Same happend with Guy Beam (DrDisRespect) with Twitch we still to this day don't know what he said officially.. this is the new witch hunt style of massive oegnizations.

[@MichaelHattem]

Arena is gonna “take some time to reflect” on his mistakes?!? 😂😂😂

[@megamonster1234]

I doubt it's racial if even the black members of the coaching staff like Joseph and the players seem to be taking a side in favor of Arena.

[@jefffch]

If players refuse to train, I would fine them all.

[@heyyyyouuuguyzzz9376]

MLS needs to release the report and get rid of the NDAs. NWSL did the right thing last year; MLS should follow their model. No transparency is not ok.

[@beerye9331]

Pre-rehearsed statements and zero transparency.

[@MrSabas15]

Ritchie called called HR and said he was getting picked on lmao 😂

[@jamesmorris8938]

Supposedly Ritchie and Shalrie had physical altercations and Bruce told Ritchie and his agent he was gone at the end of the season. Therefore the coup by Ritchie against Bruce.

[@alex1vid]

Also... back in August a pundit was suspended for suggesting Arena used a slur and that is why he was suspended. The league and channel came down HARD on her, so it apparently wasn't anything quite like that & there was no evidence to back it up (at least at the time). It really is an issue between Williams and Arena. And then the club lost the players by how they handled it.

[@stephenmason9527]

Yeah, her comments (on air) definitely opened them up to a defamation lawsuit as other networks have had to pay settlements over.

[@wolfwolf19]

Release what was said. Until then it just looks like shady behavior from the Revs. On top of that, if the players are refusing to train then that tells you pretty much all you need to know

[@tres311]

Don’t ever apologize! They don’t forgive you!

[@valenciafantv]

What if you did something wrong?

[@pglanville]

Ok Donald..

[@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185]

Bruce Arena always has a look on his face like he just laid a loud wet fart in public and is completely indignant about it

[@uchibenkei]

what did Arena say? that he wouldn't drink bud light anymore?

[@yatheenmajanu6776]

Dan still doesn't know that it's YoutuBe😅

[@mattsnider2667]

I think we just need to wait until we learn what the remarks from Arenas were.

[@stephengrummett7511]

Smell the coffee man, they never reveal these things anymore, unless someone leaks it well never know for sure.

[@tonieplacide-oy4xx]

Man Bruce needs to retire from futebol. He has been around for too long more than 2 decades with no success

[@ChrisGrande]

Sounds like he needs some “re-education” for his “comments”. Frickin ridiculous. These issues should be solved behind closed doors not in public with finger waiving outsiders chiming in.

[@michaelburgess7242]

I think he objected to Neymar identifying as a woman and playing for Inter Miami women’s team.

[@sld1776]

The press is going to find everything, lol.

[@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185]

What a joke.

[@tomwaitsmencse]

Hopefully soon we have sports completely replaced with political messaging and events.

[@EmmaGma12]

🎉

[@geoffreypereira8024]

There are no comments he could make which would justify his firing.

[@mapleknot3]

I bet Bruce broke the DEI sanctity.

[@TaataGeo]

Did he sleep with someone’s wife ??

[@jwestl3y]

❄️

[@coachhbosoccer]

Never been impressed with how Bruce puts teams out there. Bruce arena has been living off USA 's WC 2002quarterfinal run for 20 yrs😄

[@hengineer]

He was really successful in MLS tho. DCUnit3d, LA Galaxy....etc..

[@coachhbosoccer]

@@hengineer I completely agree about the MLS success. But I think he was limited at the international level. I don't mean the recent WC failure, just historically.

[@stuartpenman6387]

well done to the players for standing by their manager against nonsense. America wake up you are being abused in every way

[@ktm4042]

You, and all of us, have no idea what transpired. So what are you going on about abuse? Come on guy.

[@stuartpenman6387]

@@ktm4042 but the players know and their actions tell us kiddo

[@Lioness_UTV]

The issue is local and nothing to do with the country. Talk about a massive leap!

[@Lioness_UTV]

​@@stuartpenman6387 Not necessarily, I think they are asking for more information and the players taking sides doesn't mean there wasn't something that went down that wasn't right. That being said I don't blame the players. But I agree with Steve, it seems like it was between two men and it didn't need to go the way it did.

[@stuartpenman6387]

@@Lioness_UTV so refusing to train is asking questions?LOL sorry kid but in the adult world that's taking a side

[@F.A-TUBE]

ESPN and the media should give CR7 more credit , Last year he scored 1 goal in 26 matches played with 14 full matches played and it was a penalty and won Bench D'Or . Season before that he scored 18 goals against Norwich City and Brentford with 0 goals 0 assists 0 chances created against Liverpool or Man city and won Garbage D'Or and he also assaulted a child with disability and won Criminal D'Or . Now he is busy blaming every teammate every coach from every club and country for his failure and won Failure D'Or as a penaldo fan my only option is to call everything "Rigged" with 0 legal documents and fake theories to create my own happiness .

[@FromTheHipp]

bruce has always been a tactically inept manager. he's just also american and longstanding in the MLS culture.

[@billlynn8256]

New England who? Slow news day obviously.

[@SeaboundJane]

liberalism

[@davidt3956]

So? Until we have a clue about what Arena said, we can't make informed opinions one whether or not it was right. Unless, of course, you think any that could possibly be said it a cool thing. As a conservative, you might.

[@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup]

@@davidt3956 forcing the resignation of a great coach loved by the players for saying things that hurt the small man's feelings is classic leftist cancel culture.

[@Lioness_UTV]

Its nothing to do with being liberal. It's more to do with as Steve said and it seems to me that Williams triggered an unstoppable process he may come to regret in the future.

[@Lioness_UTV]

​@@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup I disagree, if what was said was offensive enough in the heat of the moment, any conservative may have objected as well. It's all conjecture though isn't it.

[@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup]

@@Lioness_UTV nah, conservatives brush off mean words and move on with life as opposed to trying to get someone fired because feelings were hurt (allegedly).