Caleb Porter Addresses Roster Turnover, Fan Trust
The head coach was frank in his assessment while showing his desire to make things right in 2025
The 2024 MLS season was a disappointment for New England Revolution fans. Head coach Caleb Porter is aiming to make sure that isn’t the case in 2025.
The Revolution were one of the worst teams in the league last season. They finished the campaign with a 9-4-21 record and a goal differential of -37.
Change was needed and sporting director Curt Onalfo along with Porter clearly thought so as well. New England’s roster was completely transformed with the likes of Dave Romney, Giacomo Vrioni, Ian Harkes, and more leaving the club while the additions of Mamadou Fofana, Brayan Ceballos, Ignatius Ganago, and Leo Campana and co. hope to turn the Revolution into contenders once again.
In an interview with WCVB Boston’s Angel Salcedo, Porter noted that he believed that the team last year had good players but not the “right players”.
“We had good players here ... they just didn't happen to be the right players, once we got in here,” Porter said. “They're still good players, but now we have the right players. Now this is my team. These are, these are my players. I've picked them, and I'm confident in the blueprint that I have.”
Now Porter enters 2025 with a lot to prove. There are no excuses if the Revolution struggle in the upcoming as the roster has been constructed to his desires. If New England continues to leak goals and fail to find the back of the net, the responsibility will fall on Porter’s shoulders.
Porter will also look to regain the trust of Revolution fans. Supporters of the club were calling for his head amid the struggles of last year.
The head coach will be looking to prove that 2024 was a fluke and that he can lead New England to great things in 2025.
“I understand that I lost some trust and confidence in the fans last year, for sure, because it was a bad year, and I own that,” Porter said. “But I'm going to, I'm going to earn their respect and their confidence back one game at a time, one win at a time.”
I guess we'll have to see how this plays out. I'm of the mind that a good coach finds the best tactics that suit the strengths of his players and not have a rigid "system" that only certain players can play. I'm hugely skeptical that we'll see a significant improvement this year but would be happy to be proven wrong.
Caleb Porter, frank truth-teller?
So the first year of non-stop lying is to be treated as a mulligan?
The new players all hold some inner core of special Porter-obeying magic quality?
The Revs better get off to some record-setting Blazing Musket start to support this degree of coaching self-advertisement.