My take is that this is an unambiguously good thing. Berhalter had a consistent track record of success both with the Crew – on a much smaller budget than he’s likely to get in Chicago – and then with the USMNT. He is a good coach whose teams play cohesive, if sometimes boring, defensively stout soccer (though with Hansi Flick’s Barca running wild and Berhalter with a notable penchant for copying the hot new thing in Europe, “exciting, defensively suspect soccer” might now be on the menu).
Should there be concern about Berhalter in the dual role of director of football and head coach? Maybe a little, but to borrow a line from a buddy, “I think the job titles matter a lot less than the processes and I would trust Gregg to make good choices there.”
In other words, I think he’d create an organization that works.
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