Austin Watson38 said:Even though I said I wouldn't—and I don't know if you get it—you're talking to at least three people here who were neck-deep in all of this. You can forget whatever you think you heard; think what you want, but you're coming off a bit clueless, even if you are an interesting guy to talk to.
Honestly, I don't really care how I come across to you, one way or the other. I shared a little of what I knew firsthand, and maybe I stretched things a bit just to see if I could dig up more info.
And look, I still don't buy everything you guys have written here; I'm telling you, that Mr. Stimac guy was being attacked from all sides—including the angle I was talking about. Just the other day, actually, I had lunch with a guy from down south who was involved in some of those operations back then.
So, please don't act like you guys handled him yourselves—I mean you fans. You didn't. And Stimac never truly controlled the whole US Soccer Federation, the politicians from every party, certain folks in the legal system, the cops, or most of the underworld. Not like Maminj, that smooth operator.
I mean, I guess you might have a point regarding some of the stuff you're saying—some things could have been done differently. But as usual, you're exaggerating on others.
It seems like you're trying to distance yourselves from Maminj because he's seen as a big-city issue. But he isn't—he's your problem too. He’s messing with your heads and the club's soul.
Not to mention how politics affects us all on a much broader, social level. It’s honestly exhausting when you guys start acting all high and mighty, thinking you're the vanguard of some ultra-hardcore mentality.
Instead of everyone standing up together to fight against—well, Maminj, Stimac, Bandic, Kerum, and all that rural primitivism that I didn't go through a war to escape...
we start fighting over democratic elections where we just pick the lesser of two evils. So, where's that grit? Why aren't you hitting the streets? Because our problems are your problems too, man.