Grendel
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Rooney was on £1.5 m a year
Frank Lampard Rumours (21 Viewers)
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Rooney was on £1.5 m a year
TomRad85
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Good luck to him, hope he does well for us.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Should be announced in time for Saturday but imagine Carr takes the Sheff Utd game.
Nick
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Probably because he’s the successful candidate
SkyBlueDom26
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Still got a feeling this is taking longer than it should, hope it doesn’t fall through but I think it will
skybluecam
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Would he then take Burnley as well?
Not much time for any training in between.
Nick
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He's not if there isn't an agreement reached.
David O'Day
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it's really not
KarmicChris
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How advanced can you be before there’s an agreement? Do you agree to advance?
Great_Expectations
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I know this has dragged on for so long some people have now come round to the idea, and would be disappointed if we don’t get Lampard.
I’m the opposite, I was hoping it was dragging for so long as there was no substance to the rumours and it would be an appointment out of nowhere.
Either way, can’t help feel a bit anti climatic going for Lampard really. Obviously I’ll back him, but just feels a bit generic and meh.
He seems a switched on and decent bloke, and his history isn’t as bad as being bad out, but I was hoping for something different.
I’m the opposite, I was hoping it was dragging for so long as there was no substance to the rumours and it would be an appointment out of nowhere.
Either way, can’t help feel a bit anti climatic going for Lampard really. Obviously I’ll back him, but just feels a bit generic and meh.
He seems a switched on and decent bloke, and his history isn’t as bad as being bad out, but I was hoping for something different.
harvey098
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Imagine pulling the trigger on Robins and facing the national backlash that Doug has over the past couple of weeks, all to end up with Frank Lampard.
Really don’t know what Lampard has shown previously to suggest he’s so much better than Robins to lead our “deck” at this level.
To continue the inane analogy, if you’re stitting on 20 and decide to twist, you better make sure you know there’s an ace coming. Looking at the list of potential names, I’m not sure there was an ace even out there, never mind one that would realistically come to us.
I’ll obviously try and get behind Lampard if he is the man to come in but I just feel so detached from the club right now.
Really don’t know what Lampard has shown previously to suggest he’s so much better than Robins to lead our “deck” at this level.
To continue the inane analogy, if you’re stitting on 20 and decide to twist, you better make sure you know there’s an ace coming. Looking at the list of potential names, I’m not sure there was an ace even out there, never mind one that would realistically come to us.
I’ll obviously try and get behind Lampard if he is the man to come in but I just feel so detached from the club right now.
If he’s provisionally agreed to take the job as the club’s preferred candidate then I’d say that counts as advanced talks, even if they haven’t agreed on things like salary/staffing yet.
mmttww
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That's the thing, isn't it. King thinks the players are good enough and he's rolling the dice on someone else getting more out of them. He didn't see MR as part of a winning hand. Lots do / did. He didn't.
torchomatic
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Didn't want him, but it's going to be him, so I'll support him.
torchomatic
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And, it's his pack of cards, I guess. So he'll do what he wants, he'll do what he wants, etc etc
Nick
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AFCCOVENTRY
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SeaSeeEffCee
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Pretty sure this bloke claims he’s dating Doug King’s niece or something like that. Either a weirdo bullshitter or not someone to be looking to for impartiality.
AFCCOVENTRY
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Odds slashed to 1/9. Lowest yet
Grendel
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Pezza
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To be honest, when I look at the options in football overall, they seem quite poor. This is probably one of the reasons why United decided to stick with ETH at the beginning of the season, who else was realistically available?
The same question applies to us now: who’s out there? Who would want to take the job? And who could we realistically afford to lure away from their current role?
I’m not particularly excited about Lampard. I was mildly intrigued by Ruud, but in hindsight, I’m not even sure why, he doesn’t have much of a track record to speak of.
When I used to think about who might replace Robins (even while he was still with us), a few names stood out to me: John Eustace, Henrik Rydström (from Malmö), Kjetil Knutsen (Bodø/Glimt), and, ironically, Ian Evatt. Each appealed for different reasons. For example, Eustace has the Coventry connection, and Evatt was doing a great job with Bolton until this year—he’s essentially mirrored Robins’ work but has since hit a rough patch. As for the Scandinavian managers, they’re just highly regarded in this part of the world (where I live now)
Hopefully, we appoint someone soon. If it’s Frank, I’ll support him, he seems like a good guy who the players would want to play for. I’m just not sure he’s the tactical genius Doug said he was looking for.
The same question applies to us now: who’s out there? Who would want to take the job? And who could we realistically afford to lure away from their current role?
I’m not particularly excited about Lampard. I was mildly intrigued by Ruud, but in hindsight, I’m not even sure why, he doesn’t have much of a track record to speak of.
When I used to think about who might replace Robins (even while he was still with us), a few names stood out to me: John Eustace, Henrik Rydström (from Malmö), Kjetil Knutsen (Bodø/Glimt), and, ironically, Ian Evatt. Each appealed for different reasons. For example, Eustace has the Coventry connection, and Evatt was doing a great job with Bolton until this year—he’s essentially mirrored Robins’ work but has since hit a rough patch. As for the Scandinavian managers, they’re just highly regarded in this part of the world (where I live now)
Hopefully, we appoint someone soon. If it’s Frank, I’ll support him, he seems like a good guy who the players would want to play for. I’m just not sure he’s the tactical genius Doug said he was looking for.
usskyblue
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Bit rich m8
David O'Day
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Lampard isn't as bad tactically as people make out. Yes he is not some next level German with a completely new way of playing but he is a pretty modern coach.
He'll set us up in a base 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 system but I wouldn't take that much notice of that. What he will be trying to do is like most of the top managers is get the team into a 3-2-5 system when we attack and a 4-4-2 when we defend. This is something that we have actually lacked at City as we seem to stay in the base formation all game, attack or defence.
Also he will invert players and drop players deeper etc. to create overloads. This is also something we have lacked and is a reason we struggle against teams that sit in against us.
So we won't get anything mad like the fella at Brighton who makes his team abandon the midfield when in possession but there will be some solid modern tactics used.
That added to the better class of player he can attract means he is nowhere near as bad as some fold like to pretend he is.
He'll set us up in a base 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 system but I wouldn't take that much notice of that. What he will be trying to do is like most of the top managers is get the team into a 3-2-5 system when we attack and a 4-4-2 when we defend. This is something that we have actually lacked at City as we seem to stay in the base formation all game, attack or defence.
Also he will invert players and drop players deeper etc. to create overloads. This is also something we have lacked and is a reason we struggle against teams that sit in against us.
So we won't get anything mad like the fella at Brighton who makes his team abandon the midfield when in possession but there will be some solid modern tactics used.
That added to the better class of player he can attract means he is nowhere near as bad as some fold like to pretend he is.
edgy
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To be fair, no way was Robins sitting at a 20. 15, maybe 16 at best.
pusbccfc
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Nick
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Exactly, it's weird.
Brylowes
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Exactly where are you getting all your Doug King info from ?
AFCCOVENTRY
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TomRad85
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Harry Redknapp
harvey098
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I just don’t see how someone with mediocre management experience over the past 7 years can be seen as an improvement on someone with an exemplary management experience over the past 7 years.
Offer other teams in this league Lampard v Robins and they’re snatching your hand off for Robins.
TomRad85
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Summer could be interesting if he's backed in the transfer market as Robins was. Fancy a couple of quality loan additions too.