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After re-election, GM Garth Lagerwey works to put Sounders back on top
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November 14, 20186:29PM EST
SEATTLE – Garth Lagerwey has his four more years.
Now, the Seattle Sounders’ general manager has his sights set on the future – and that starts with bucking a narrative.
The freshly re-elected Lagerwey gave a blunt assessment when he was asked at Seattle’s Alliance Annual Business meeting for season ticket holders in downtown Seattle on Tuesday about his thoughts on his team’s 2018 season, which ended last week in excruciating fashion as the Sounders bowed out of the Audi 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs on penalty kicks to their arch-rivals, the Portland Timbers.
“You can’t lose to Portland and call the season a success,” Lagerwey said. “You can’t be the only favorite to be knocked out and call it a success. Performance in the playoffs matters.”
But to hear Lagerwey tell it, Seattle’s early exit from this year’s postseason does come with at least one silver lining: This year, the Sounders finally get some rest.
After playing in two straight MLS Cup finals and having gone at least as far as the Western Conference Championship in three of the last four years, Lagerwey said on Tuesday that more than a few of his players at Seattle’s end-of-season exit interviews said they felt fatigued.
Now, with a longer offseason to recalibrate, the GM says his hope is that Seattle will finally be able to hit the ground running next season and avoid the slow starts that have come to plague the club and rile up the fan base over the past three years.
“I think the biggest thing for us this offseason is we get some rest,” Lagerwey said. “We’ve played three years, basically, with more or less two months off. It’s just not sustainable on some level. I know people don’t like that answer but there’s just a physical limit to which we can push our guys.”
“But I do feel good about next year,” he added. “I do feel good about getting to compete on all fronts. But a lot of that’s just practical. We’re getting some time off, we’ll get some guys rested, we’ll get everybody healthy. We don’t have to play [Concacaf] Champions League. Now, I don’t want our club policy be to lose in the first round of the playoffs so we start the next season well. That’s completely the wrong message. But I think for our third year in a row, that’s the silver lining in this cycle.”
Lagerwey said there will inevitably be at least some turnover with the first team roster in the offseason. But he added that in terms of next season, much of Seattle’s core should be in place, citing the return of forward Jordan Morris as one variable he expects will give the Sounders a boost out of the gate.
Morris missed the entire 2018 MLS season after tearing his ACL in a Concacaf Champions League match in February.
“I think we were a title contender [this season],” Lagerwey said. “To say the season was a failure is probably harsh, but do I think we reached the potential with this team? I don’t. I think we were very good. I don’t think there are very many teams who could have lost Chad Marshall and Cristian Roldan [to injury] and stuck in [Harry] Shipp and [Roman] Torres and won the next game in the playoffs. And that’s not even talking about Jordan Morris, who we’re going to get back. This group healthy, I feel really good about it.”
The other big test of Lagerwey’s next term? The continued development of the youth.
Lagerwey has made something of a pet project of developing the club’s Academy and USL teams since his arrival in 2015, with the goal to eventually stack Seattle’s first team with Homegrown talent.
He’s seemingly off to a good start, with Seattle’s U-17 academy team coming off a dominant national title-winning season and a handful of players from that team subsequently signing with the club’s USL affiliate S2. But the fruits of that labor won’t truly be known until those players start to break into the first team, something Lagerwey says he’s hoping to see happen in the near future.
“These kids are all going to get an opportunity,” Lagerwey said. “The ones who are signed with us, they’re going to get an opportunity with the Sounders and if they take that, they’re going to come in and play.
“Handwalla Bwana is the tip of the spear here. This is a kid who steps up in playoff game, comes in and is dangerous has a shot on goal and converts a penalty. If we get more production like that, if we get one of those every year, we’re going to pretty happy in terms of what the class is doing going forward.”
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Sounders GM fan voting results revealed: Garth Lagerwey learns his future SoundersFC.com November 13, 201811:15PM EST The only fans in North American professional sports that have the opportunity to vote to keep their club's general manager made their voices heard on Tuesday.
Sounders GM fan voting results revealed: Garth Lagerwey learns his future
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November 13, 201811:15PM EST
The only fans in North American professional sports that have the opportunity to vote to keep their club’s general manager made their voices heard on Tuesday.
A resounding majority of 87.3 percent of Seattle Sounders FC Alliance members voted to retain current Sounders GM and President of Soccer Garth Lagerwey for the next four years.
A total of 37.2 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. According to Alliance bylaws, participation from 40 percent of eligible Alliance members is required for the final GM vote to be considered valid.
“It is an honor and a privilege to have been appointed, and now to be elected, to serve as a steward of this legendary franchise,” Lagerwey said in a club statement. “I want to express my gratitude to the fans for giving us this commanding mandate to continue on the path we have charted to date. My thanks to our ownership for their financial commitment to this club and support of our team. I also wish to express gratitude to all the players and staff, without whom none of this is possible. It is my pleasure to lead the Sounders for four more years.”
Lagerwey has been at the helm of the Sounders since the 2015 season and under his direction they advanced to two consecutive MLS Cup finals (2016 & 2017), winning the 2016 edition. Seattle also continued its streak of consecutive playoff appearances with a 10th trip to the postseason in 2018.
“Although we fell just short of the 40-percent threshold needed for a valid vote, we’ve heard a clear message from Alliance members about their confidence in the direction of our organization, and the body of work that Garth has put together over the past four seasons,” Sounders FC Owner Adrian Hanauer said in the club statement. “More than anything, we believe the General Manager Vote remains essential to Democracy in Sports, ensuring that fans always have a say on the organization’s course, no matter who is in charge at the time.”
The GM vote, which takes place in the fourth year of any Sounders’ GM tenure, has existed since the club’s inception in 2009. It was championed by club co-owner Drew Carey, who stated that he would not have joined the club’s ownership group were it not for the institution of the GM vote.
The first vote occurred in 2012 when then GM Adrian Hanauer was retained with the backing of 96.3 percent of the vote. This year’s GM vote — ballots submitted online or in person at home matches played at CenturyLink Field — opened on September 19 and ran through October 17.
Lagerwey’s Seattle team has just come off the most successful second half of a regular season by any MLS team in history (14W-2L-1D), despite suffering elimination at the hands of the rival Portland Timbers in the MLS Cup Playoffs.
He has been responsible for the signing of current Designated Players Nicolas Lodeiro and Raul Ruidiaz, while doubling the Homegrown players signed by the Sounders and signing seven players from the club’s USL affiliate.
The Sounders academy has also won major titles recently, including the 2018 U-17 U.S. Soccer Development Academy championship, the 2018 Generation adidas Cup and a third-place finish in the 2017 U-19 U.S. Soccer Development Academy championship.
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Seattle Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey makes case for re-election Courtesy of Seattle Sounders FC October 8, 20185:34PM EDT Garth Lagerwey wants to remain GM of the Seattle Sounders.
Seattle Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey makes case for re-election Courtesy of Seattle Sounders FC October 8, 20185:34PM EDT Garth Lagerwey wants to remain GM of the Seattle Sounders.
Seattle Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey makes case for re-election
Courtesy of Seattle Sounders FC
October 8, 20185:34PM EDT
Garth Lagerwey wants to remain GM of the Seattle Sounders. He lays out a pretty strong case, too, but it’s now in the hands of his fans.
The Sounders’ second-ever General Manager Vote will end on Monday as the team hosts the Houston Dynamo (10:30 pm ET | TV & streaming info). Alliance Council members, consisting of all 2018 Sounders FC season ticket members and their seat designees, suite holders, and half-season package holders and their seat designees, are eligible to vote. Votes can be cast only at the stadium and the process has been open for three games, culminating in Monday’s match against Houston.
On Friday, Lagerwey spoke at length with Sounder at Heart about the vote. He confidently touched upon multiple subjects in the conversation, including transfers, slow starts, the academy, his philosophies for his job and more.
You’re going to want to listen to this one. https://t.co/dRLhdTgMZZ
— Sounder At Heart (@sounderatheart) October 4, 2018
“Ultimately, it’s up to the fans to judge if [the transfers] worked out,” Lagerwey said. “When we signed [Nicolas] Lodeiro, we won the title. That’s a pretty good return on investment. Raul has been really good, I’ve been really happy with that signing. From our internal perspective, those are big, big expenditures and it was important for us to not just get good players, but to get them at good ages. We have the ability to build around these guys.”
This season, the Sounders endured a difficult start to the season and looked as if the franchise would miss the playoffs for the first time in club history. But thanks to a historic win streak, the Sounders are back above the playoff line. Despite having happened three consecutive years, Lagerwey insists the club isn’t set up to struggle at the beginning of each season.
“The stuff that I get a little bit frustrated with is the idea that we intentionally start slow– I’m still mildly incredulous by this,” Lagerwey said. “The job is hard. You try to win every game but sometimes you can’t. In 2016 we started slow but we held ourselves accountable. We changed the coach, who is in the hall of fame and had been here seven years, I don’t know what bigger response as an organization we can give to a slow start than that.”
Part of the reason for this season’s slow start was Lagerwey’s desire to win the Concacaf Champions League, something he was public and honest about before the season.
“I’m happy to take responsibility for it but I honestly don’t know what we could have done differently,” Lagerwey said. “I wanted us to win the Champions League. For better or worse, we stated publicly ahead of time that this is what we’re doing. That hurt us, there’s no question that hurt the start of our season. … There are factual, quantifiable, objective reasons for why we got hurt.”
After back-to-back MLS Cup finals with Seattle, on top of his success with Real Salt Lake prior to taking the Sounders’ gig, Lagerwey hopes for some goodwill.
“I ask for some faith. … Five finals in nine years is a decent track record with the expectation put upon this job,” Lagerwey said. “At some level either you agree with the methodology or you don’t. I’m probably overly defensive about it. It’s going to be hard to persuade me that a different foundation is the right one.”
Lagerwey’s position is one of constant scrutiny and he’ll soon find out if he’ll be able to continue doing it.
“I have the job very few people have done but most people think they can do better than me,” Lagerwey said.
Check out the full interview here.
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