{"id":46360,"date":"2017-08-07T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46360"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:31:17","slug":"top-agent-burns-a-terrible-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46360","title":{"rendered":"Top Agent: Burns a &#8216;Terrible GM&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30599\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30599\" data-attachment-id=\"30599\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=30599\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" data-orig-size=\"600,416\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Burns-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30599\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?resize=600%2C416\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the most prominent agents on the American soccer scene is none too happy with Revolution general manager Michael Burns.<\/p>\n<p>New York-based sports agent Ron Waxman, who represents U.S. Men&#8217;s National Team star Michael Bradley, tweeted about his displeasure with Burns on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MNUFC?src=hash\">#MNUFC<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NERevs?src=hash\">#NERevs<\/a> will not succeed while Manny Lagos &amp; Michael Burns, respectively, are in positions of power at the clubs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MINvSEA?src=hash\">#MINvSEA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CHIvNE?src=hash\">#CHIvNE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Waxman (@RonWaxman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonWaxman\/status\/894027749802872832\">August 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Waxman tweeted his thoughts on Burns not long after the 10th-place Revolution suffered their 10th loss of the season, a 4-1 shellacking to the Chicago Fire. <\/p>\n<p>But Waxman, who also represented Shalrie Joseph during the midfielder&#8217;s time in New England, did not stop there. In response to questions about the above tweet, he reaffirmed his opinion on the Revolution&#8217;s top personnel person.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He is a terrible GM.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Waxman (@RonWaxman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonWaxman\/status\/894553394555310080\">August 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Waxman did take a moment to offer a compliment to Burns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike Burns is an honest person. That is a trait of his I admire.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Waxman (@RonWaxman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonWaxman\/status\/894552433296379904\">August 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Revolution declined to comment on Waxman&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether Waxman&#8217;s tweet was in response to a recent negotiation with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent sports agent Ron Waxman is not a fan of the Revs GM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[891,888,1670,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Burns-1.png?fit=600%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46366,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360\/revisions\/46366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}