The Portland Timbers fired manager Giovanni Savarese this week, ending a six-season relationship. The manager’s dismissal left many Portland Timbers fans questioning why it had taken the club this long to sack the Venezuelan.
The Timbers’ 11W-13D-10L record and missing the MLS Cup playoffs in 2022 was enough for many long-time Timbers supporters to call for Savarese’s firing. Yet, the club, grateful for the manager’s work, must have felt he could turn around the team this season.
Portland backed Savarese in the winter transfer window, signing some promising attacking players before the start of the MLS 2023 campaign. Evander joined from Denmark’s FC Midtjylland, Franck Boli from Hungary’s Ferencvaros,
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