It was just a day after Atlanta United’s season ended that club President Darren Eales and Technical Director Carlos Bocanegra set the agenda for what was always going to be a momentous offseason.
“For so many reasons, this has been a crazy year,” said Eales in a press conference on that sunny Monday afternoon. “I think an advantage we’ve got is we get to go into 2021 with a new coach, with a chance to hopefully be back in front of our amazing supporters, and almost treat it like — it’s almost like back to 2017 and relaunching.