TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
And this is exactly what I mean. Coming from people on a forum is whatever. Lampard actually thinking "shoot better and we're fine" would be a major red flag.
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royvernon39
Player Valuation: £15m
I think Frank has been pretty good for many reasons but buying Dwight was a massive error. Getting Ali was even worse.
When people go on about managers knowing more than us I laugh. Carlo paid 20 million for a slow, old, non-goal scoring midfielder
with no resale value. Agent Rafael had to buy a number 9 quick to replace an injured DCL and he buys a bloke who needed 6 months to get fit
and even then was unable to run quickly. Fat Sam bought a well-known bottler from AFC and another slow bloke from an inferior league.
What did Frank see in Fright? He's slow, scores once a year, and has a wooden stump for a right-foot.
Moshiri has been really poorly served by so-called professionals and Frank is not free from criticism.
I didn't say we would be fine but it would certainly help a lot
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
This lad has been scoring regularly and making assists which is far more than of our 1st team players are doing so give him a chance. Just like Rooney was given a chance way back. What have we got to lose ?
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
It might be the difference in 16th and 14th
If only we had you in charge.
And that would be called improvement. I'd rather be the 14th best side than the 16th best side.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I'd rather the manager focus on things that he can control and that are likely to cause greater improvement. How well we shoot is neither of those things.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I can say with absolute certainty that after my side got battered I would not tell the press we weren't clinical enough. That's about all I can do.
It's a lack of talent in attack. You can only improve so much in front of goal if the talent and natural ability is not there. The manager needed to be provided with more firepower in the summer.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
The talent deficit is not in the ability to convert shots
To be fair if you look at what Lampard actually said I think it's pretty clear that he wasn't saying our only (or biggest) problem was not being clinical. He's basically saying that we came with the old KITAP1 game plan and if we'd been more clinical then maybe it would have worked. He does effectively say that ideally that wouldn't be the plan and there are lots of things we can improve on but for now in that type of game we're trying to be competitive and make the most of our opportunities when they come along.
You can obviously debate the merits of the approach etc but I don't think it's accurate to suggest the manager thinks our only issue is not being able to shoot.
Missing two clear cut chances isn’t an example of not being clinical enough?
It's partly that and partly an inability to create enough. They are both equally big problems and both are due to the lack of talent and firepower in forward areas.
Think the American MacBook has got a glitch.
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