Mucca Mad Boys
Well-Known Member
That's goes back to the club and King not having a vision, look at Brighton, they lose a manager and then they bring someone in who fits the mould and plays a similar way with what fits in with the squad. There's continuity. Swansea did it too a few years ago.
We've brought Frank in who has just failed at his last two jobs and wants to play possession based football, when we don't have the players to do it. Wright and EMC are misses, but even with them, we don't have the players to play the way he wants. I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, we are a really good counter attacking side, yet Robins and now Lampard wants to play slow possession based football.
We can’t play counter attacking football if we concede the first goal of the game 60% of the time. This is the fundamental issue facing this team because the team that scores first, often wins (or at least not lose). Today is a great example, 1-0 down after 5 minutes! We do ourselves no favours.
I don’t think there’s that much separating MR and FL’s vision for the team and style of play. I still believe that 2-3 good signings really elevates us. A marshalling defender and a midfielder with Hamer’s profile is what we need.
Lampard was the best candidate for the job and has brought in coaches much better than what we’d bring in otherwise. We do have a vision for the squad and playing style but these things take time.