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Oh I think he'd be an awful appointment (forgot to say that).DDB220 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:29 pm Yes I agree. No more than the end of the season though - he isn’t the manager to build on if he managed to keep us up.
The fact is we need more than Skub and the other 2 to coach a squad properly
Because of Gerards playing career he will command respect from the players.
But it is an appointment that isn’t without risk of a fans backlash if doesn’t hit the ground running. No point appointing him before the Everton fixture as it will motivate them even more.
We seem to like a baldy
But apart from that he was fine!visitingvillan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:48 pm had no established system of play.
played his favorites no matter what form they were in
never connected with the fan base
cluelessly tactically
all about himself, it will now be "Stevie Gerrard's Leeds"
bought expensive players who are not that good
Selfish players rarely make great coaches do they? Not for me. Very little experience and what ever we may think of him (mings) it was piss poor management to hang him out to dry like that.visitingvillan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:48 pm had no established system of play.
played his favorites no matter what form they were in
never connected with the fan base
cluelessly tactically
all about himself, it will now be "Stevie Gerrard's Leeds"
bought expensive players who are not that good
Dutch Disaster??? Liverpool disaster more likely judging by experience. He would have taken Villa down after spending a shed loads of money. No improvement on Dean Smith imo.
Im not advocating him too highly but his Prem stats were:
I'm with the 50,000 Villains in believing he would have taken them down. Its Lampard Mk2. Get down the leagues and earn his stripes and i may take him seriously. Great player needs to prove he's a great coach. Rafa has atleast proved it countless times. If he gets the job i will support him even tho i don't believe he's earnt the right.Irish Ian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:29 pm Im not advocating him too highly but his Prem stats were:
37 games
12 wins,
eight draws
17 losses.
Probably what we could be doing with at this point.
His Net spend over three transfer windows was £52.5 M
in
Diego Carlos - £27.9m
Lucas Digne - £27m
Philippe Coutinho - £18m
Leander Dendoncker - £13.5m
Robin Olsen - £3.15m
Ludwig Augustinsson - £450k loan fee
Boubacar Kamara - free transfer
Out
Carney Chukwuemeka - £16.2m
Matt Targett - £15.75m
Mahmoud Trezeguet - £3.6m
Anwar El Ghazi - £2.25m
Lovre Kalinic - free transfer
Conor Hourihane - free transfer
Jan Bednarek - free transfer
Calum Chambers - free transfer
Not that bad either.
I think if we got past our obvious bias towards so many easy targets we might actually give ourselves a chance.
God no. We need someone who will give them a rocket up the assPrisoner37 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:14 pm Bill was bigging Skubs up in his post match interview so it looks like the players like his apporoach.
I do rate Carrick tbh. But not now, maybe 18 months or so. After Rafa's done.mentalcase wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:48 pm I won't be at all surprised if we get a manager and a coach from wolves and middlesboro respectively, we've had enough dross from both over t' last few years, why stop now !!