In news that is not news anymore (sorry, I was on vacation), Jesse Fioranelli was fired as the San Jose Earthquakes’ general manager last week. I spoke to Jesse a few times the past couple years, and as everyone who has interacted with him in this business has said, he struck me as a kind guy who was more publicly honest than most people in his position.
But the Earthquakes have not been one of the free-spending teams in MLS, which means they have to be one of the smartest in terms of recruitment, and by and large they’ve missed in that regard.