2022/23 Frank Lampard

[Colonel Getafe]

All Moshiri will do for now is protect his investment until he can sell up. Don’t think he’s that arsed about ambition providing we can stay in the league long enough to get the stadium built and a buyer in.

Given all the American money looking to get into the Prem lately, you'd think maybe he'd have done it by now given how much money has been wasted up the wall. Must be banking on that shiny new stadium being worth an absolute wedge to a new buyer, if he is indeed planning on selling (which I'm not so sure he is anymore).

 

[nsno-chris]

Give Frank 2 half decent wingers, so we don’t have to watch Gray stunt every attack and Gordon run into blind alleys, and we’ll be ok.

A good solid unit, just missing a sprinkle of flair and creativity. A massive improvement on what we witnessed with fat boy

 

[JLW]

Give Frank 2 half decent wingers, so we don’t have to watch Gray stunt every attack and Gordon run into blind alleys, and we’ll be ok.

A good solid unit, just missing a sprinkle of flair and creativity. A massive improvement on what we witnessed with fat boy

Agreed, two players transform this team massively and both need to be in the front 3.
We must get at least 1 of these in January and not deadline day but the first few days, none of our attacking are players are consistent enough or imo good enough.
Gray isnt going to get any better than what he is
Gordon is miles off it in many aspects of his game
DCL cant be fit enough for long enough (even when he is fit he's an average player who can be a handful at times)
Mapauy shouldn't be the main focal point up front (back up or alongside DCL) but that wont happen.

It would be foolish to not do any business in January in these areas.

 

[GoldenToffee]

We'll have had about six months of knowing that relegation is possible or even likely without a proper Richarlison replacement.

Our little experiment of replacing our best player with a Brighton reserve obviously hasn't paid off, and that should make it even more clear that this position absolutely has to be strengthened as soon as possible.

With that in mind, I fully expect the club to have an agreement with a quality striker to sign within a few days of the January window opening.

Obviously this isn't going to happen and we'll continue to plod through January losing points from very winnable games, then we'll sign someone crap/unknown at the end of the window and desperately need them to hit the ground running, which never happens for us.

Thelwell has already let us the club down hugely over the summer, let's hope the lesson has been learned and he's already put in the leg room to filling the glaring void in the squad.

 

[DualityNSNO]

It's not BS if Moshiri has sacked managers who have finished mid table. More than once.

Moyes is not a glamarous enough name for Moshiri. Nowhere near the "Hollywood football" that was talked about when Moshiri arrived. Moshiri has always been swayed by a big-name appointment: Carlo an all-time great, Benitez with a CV of trophies, Koeman the playing legend etc etc. Then there's the rumours he wanted Diego Simeone, and even Pereira is known on the European stage.

I think it's very fair to say managerial appointments for stability's sake is not exactly Moshiri's primary thought.

Who have we sacked that finished mid table consistently though? Nothing to do with hollywood anythings - all of the managers you listed except Benitez (which was honestly bizarre) were seen as sensible, Carlo especially. Not even sure how you can say with all seriousness something negative about the Carlo appointment tbh.

Koeman up and coming and managed Barca after us.

Carlo Ancelotti is Carlo Ancelotti. If you can get him - you do.

Silva was/is an up and coming manager AT BEST when he got hired with us; a prospect if you will.

Boberto was sacked about 6 months too late.

Obese Samuel was signed and seen as a stop gap and this is what he was - grinding 0:0's along the way. He also managed 20-odd games, which makes the "stop gap" even more obvious.

Lampard is also an up-and-coming/"good for the future" type, with a project in mind, and now working with a DoF.

 

[MisterJ]

We'll have had about six months of knowing that relegation is possible or even likely without a proper Richarlison replacement.

Our little experiment of replacing our best player with a Brighton reserve obviously hasn't paid off, and that should make it even more clear that this position absolutely has to be strengthened as soon as possible.

With that in mind, I fully expect the club to have an agreement with a quality striker to sign within a few days of the January window opening.

Obviously this isn't going to happen and we'll continue to plod through January losing points from very winnable games, then we'll sign someone crap/unknown at the end of the window and desperately need them to hit the ground running, which never happens for us.

Thelwell has already let us the club down hugely over the summer, let's hope the lesson has been learned and he's already put in the leg room to filling the glaring void in the squad.

No point signing strikers if we don't have the players to supply chances.

I don't disagree with the thought, would just like to see some creativity added to the squad, Iwobi can't do it all alone

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

We'll have had about six months of knowing that relegation is possible or even likely without a proper Richarlison replacement.

Our little experiment of replacing our best player with a Brighton reserve obviously hasn't paid off, and that should make it even more clear that this position absolutely has to be strengthened as soon as possible.

With that in mind, I fully expect the club to have an agreement with a quality striker to sign within a few days of the January window opening.

Obviously this isn't going to happen and we'll continue to plod through January losing points from very winnable games, then we'll sign someone crap/unknown at the end of the window and desperately need them to hit the ground running, which never happens for us.

Thelwell has already let us the club down hugely over the summer, let's hope the lesson has been learned and he's already put in the leg room to filling the glaring void in the squad.

His business was being applauded about a month ago or whatever it was. Two losses and peoplelike you are back with the bleach

 

[banno]

We'll have had about six months of knowing that relegation is possible or even likely without a proper Richarlison replacement.

Our little experiment of replacing our best player with a Brighton reserve obviously hasn't paid off, and that should make it even more clear that this position absolutely has to be strengthened as soon as possible.

With that in mind, I fully expect the club to have an agreement with a quality striker to sign within a few days of the January window opening.

Obviously this isn't going to happen and we'll continue to plod through January losing points from very winnable games, then we'll sign someone crap/unknown at the end of the window and desperately need them to hit the ground running, which never happens for us.

Thelwell has already let us the club down hugely over the summer, let's hope the lesson has been learned and he's already put in the leg room to filling the glaring void in the squad.

We haven't replaced richarlison with like to like but we have used his transfer money for the likes of Onana, Gan and Garner and maupay. I wouldn't say that is a bad return and has now strengthened the midfield somewhat compared to last season. Back to front was the call of Thelwell and Lampard but we failed on the front and not due to lack of trying unless we went back to the old way of spending 30m (not that we had it) on a 10m player and got ourselves into deeper poo. Lampard and thelwell will have to address the problem in January and I am sure they will.

 

[Zatara]

Hoping for 6pts from the next 3. Back on track...

 

[RomanReigns]

I like frank I think he’s a great person but I am finding it frustrating that almost 1 year into his tenure we are still struggling to keep the ball and the passing is so poor. I don’t see any real vision and I don’t know what his plan is, it feels like he is just winging it as he goes along. It can’t help not having his first choice striker available but I would have thought by now he would have implemented a style of football. All I see is just us counter attacking teams and we can’t even do that very well.

 

[Zatara]

I like frank I think he’s a great person but I am finding it frustrating that almost 1 year into his tenure we are still struggling to keep the ball and the passing is so poor. I don’t see any real vision and I don’t know what his plan is, it feels like he is just winging it as he goes along. It can’t help not having his first choice striker available but I would have thought by how he would have implemented a style of football. All I see is just us counter attacking teams and we can’t even do that very well.

Look at the forward players...

 

[RomanReigns]

Look at the forward players...

There are teams with worse forwards playing better football

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Give Frank 2 half decent wingers, so we don’t have to watch Gray stunt every attack and Gordon run into blind alleys, and we’ll be ok.

A good solid unit, just missing a sprinkle of flair and creativity. A massive improvement on what we witnessed with fat boy

We have a stronger foundation right now and a good team spirit

Just need to grind our way to 40 points and stabilise as best we can until the summer, where hopefully Thelwell has some good bargains prepared

 

[BigDuncTributeBand]

There are teams with worse forwards playing better football

What team has a weaker front three than Gray Gordon and Maupay, do you reckon?

 

[RomanReigns]

What team has a weaker front three than Gray Gordon and Maupay, do you reckon?

Wilson, Murphy, Almiron

Gross, Welbeck, Trossard