I find it wild that with our injuries there were not even a couple of loans available for us. We’ve got 4 or 5 teenagers on the bench with barely any premier league minutes between them, how can it be no one is available off someone else’s bench in a World Cup year till summer.
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I find it wild that with our injuries there were not even a couple of loans available for us. We’ve got 4 or 5 teenagers on the bench with barely any premier league minutes between them, how can it be no one is available off someone else’s bench in a World Cup year till summer.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
have to take squad registration into consideration, are we getting a better player back from injury soon that we would have to take out to free the space
metalgear
Barry Daines
has to be lange's call and he bought souza
SissokoWasGood (BoL)
Pat van den Hauwe
What is crazy to me is Lange coming out and saying that the next manager has to play more attractive football. I appreciate him actually fronting up publicly but this is just crazy to me.
You make a big thing of the fact that as a club you interviewed 30 people, against ten criteria, and Frank was the clear stand out. Then you stick by him despite disastrous form and seemingly no buy in from the players. And you wait until after the transfer window to make a change, so until 2 weeks ago you’re still pretty sure that this guy is the right guy.
And now he’s gone it’s all ‘we need to play more attractive football’ again?? What on earth was going on in that boardroom.
I would've thought attractive style of football would be near the top of the criteria when selecting Frank and not just for the next guy.
DeanoAustin
Cecil Poynton
fudging absolute amateur hour. I still think we won’t go down but it is a distinct possibility. If we do, we’ll be the gold standard in case studies of how incompetence outweighed vast resources to result in catastrophic unachievement.
All things being equal, the way we’ve been run, we deserve to go down.
See in most cases I’d say probably not. I don’t think Maddison or Kukusevski are back this season with all the set backs they seem to get.
I think there must have been a player on loan who could have added something. I honestly think the owners and board still feel there’s no chance of us going down.
SissokoWasGood (BoL)
Pat van den Hauwe
You’d think so wouldn’t you?
And then Frank talking about ‘adding layers’ in his press conferences. Was this the same like he gave the board in his interviews? It’s either gaslighting. Or him thinking he’s being clever by fobbing off reasonable questions about style with some phrase that doesn’t really mean anything.
DeanoAustin
Cecil Poynton
Just got home. On the flight back, I got more and more wound up by how we ended up here and the very real prospect that we could be relegated.
Some of the decisions from the club, especially when they’ll be viewed through the prism of hindsight, are going to look beyond incompetent and reckless.
It also occurred to me that if Levy had been in charge, we wouldn’t be in this bad of a mess. Not that he doesn’t have responsibility here, he absolutely does. But if he was in charge, Frank would have gone in December when Paratici apparently wanted him gone.
Even if we’d reached January, Levy would have done something to buy our way out of trouble like he did in 2009 for example. Why? Because Levy owns probably about 1bn worth of the club and he wasn’t going to stand by and watch hundreds of millions wiped off of his investment.
The decision to sack Levy, in terms of the timing, the manner and the way his the void was filled was a disaster for this club.
Some of the decisions from the club, especially when they’ll be viewed through the prism of hindsight, are going to look beyond incompetent and reckless.
It also occurred to me that if Levy had been in charge, we wouldn’t be in this bad of a mess. Not that he doesn’t have responsibility here, he absolutely does. But if he was in charge, Frank would have gone in December when Paratici apparently wanted him gone.
Even if we’d reached January, Levy would have done something to buy our way out of trouble like he did in 2009 for example. Why? Because Levy owns probably about 1bn worth of the club and he wasn’t going to stand by and watch hundreds of millions wiped off of his investment.
The decision to sack Levy, in terms of the timing, the manner and the way his the void was filled was a disaster for this club.