International managers beware: the USMNT job isn't as easy as it looks

They're coming. They're swarming from everywhere and every situation, from extraordinary success and woeful failure and everything in between.

The United States men's national team job is still open, for now, and that buzzing sound tickling your eardrums is bees homing in on the honeypot.

Until U.S. Soccer appoints a successor, after firing Gregg Berhalter in the wake of the team's messy exit from the Copa América, a silly season will well and truly be upon us, a breathless stretch where agents become salesmen, coaches become optimists, fans become experts and the USMNT's World Cup future potentially hangs in the balance.

Get this one wrong, U.S. Soccer, and the greatest opportunity the sport in this country has seen for three decades will pass on by, less fulfilled than it should have been. Merely co-hosting a World Cup will undoubtedly grow American soccer, but having a home team that can actually do something productive there would work wonders for the program.

Out there, somewhere, is the right person for the job. Out there, everywhere, are a bunch of coaches who think they are the right person for the job.

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The USMNT post is the shiny new thing in the soccer gossip-scape. It is where agents want their guy's name thrown into the mix, even if they have to do the aforementioned hurling themselves.

Once we got past the Jürgen Klopp foolishness, we have seen countless names linked with the role. One brings a recent track record of the highest order — Luis de la Fuente just won the Euros with Spain, for goodness’ sake, and the fact that he did surely rules him out of a Stateside switch for now.

Gareth Southgate's newly-minted free agency put him on the radar,