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Player Valuation: £25m
Eternally optimistic hopefully fan here. I'm nervous. And more importantly you get the feeling and increasing evidence it's not only the players and manager, there's a LOT behind the scenes we dont' know that has to be influencing this S***show.
I remember watching bits and pieces of the documentaries and how actually the backroom staff - trainers, physios, kit people, management staff - behind the scenes spend more time with the players than the actual first X1 coaching team. something about the way we are operating behind the scenes is making the team have this 'losing mentality' , and the ex-players are definitely adding to that. How can it be, and how does it make sense that on his own, Big Dunc can fire up players but then in a coaching team he's not doing much - he must be a motivator more than a coach. And even our 'legends' like Baines have not actually won anything. The only ex-players really worth approaching were Cahill, Arteta and some of that generation. not that they won anything, but they had a fighting spirit plus some success and skill to go with it. Ebbrell, jeffers, unsworth??
and carsley is proving himself elsewhere.
We need an overhaul, and we didn't learn that teams with money like Man City overhauled the backroom set up, the coaching, the club, the medical department, EVERYTHING, and imagine if we'd spent £500m on that - we might not be getting in Europe today, but we'd be well on our way to a stable, sustainable improvement
I thought in the last few years Silva, Ancelotti and Lampard have been managers who had potential to change something. Ancelotti said once 'he's waiting'for his next contract, and we can't know anything for sure cos he just left, and he looks like a manager who's more into selecting than coaching players, but Silva had ideas but seemed to be killed off by the speed and energy of the club. Lampardas brought in so much positivity, and obviously can attract players with his coaching team and his own reputation, but we still have games like today.
On balance, you could say today was lost because of Keane-Holgate and the lack of a link between them and the midfield. Not the right type of players and not the right type of prtnerships and tactics, because that will take time to coach. But today was all about the nonsense investment of the last few years (not the right midfielders) , the injuries and the years of negative, nervous tactics that have been ingrained into the players. I still have faith lampard can turn it around, but I feel like Godfrey, Mina, Digne, even Davies despite his lack of skills, were the better fighters in a tough period we are in, and the depareture of Ancelotti and hiring of Benitez killed us off, going from the highs to lows so qucikly.
I remember watching bits and pieces of the documentaries and how actually the backroom staff - trainers, physios, kit people, management staff - behind the scenes spend more time with the players than the actual first X1 coaching team. something about the way we are operating behind the scenes is making the team have this 'losing mentality' , and the ex-players are definitely adding to that. How can it be, and how does it make sense that on his own, Big Dunc can fire up players but then in a coaching team he's not doing much - he must be a motivator more than a coach. And even our 'legends' like Baines have not actually won anything. The only ex-players really worth approaching were Cahill, Arteta and some of that generation. not that they won anything, but they had a fighting spirit plus some success and skill to go with it. Ebbrell, jeffers, unsworth??
and carsley is proving himself elsewhere.
We need an overhaul, and we didn't learn that teams with money like Man City overhauled the backroom set up, the coaching, the club, the medical department, EVERYTHING, and imagine if we'd spent £500m on that - we might not be getting in Europe today, but we'd be well on our way to a stable, sustainable improvement
I thought in the last few years Silva, Ancelotti and Lampard have been managers who had potential to change something. Ancelotti said once 'he's waiting'for his next contract, and we can't know anything for sure cos he just left, and he looks like a manager who's more into selecting than coaching players, but Silva had ideas but seemed to be killed off by the speed and energy of the club. Lampardas brought in so much positivity, and obviously can attract players with his coaching team and his own reputation, but we still have games like today.
On balance, you could say today was lost because of Keane-Holgate and the lack of a link between them and the midfield. Not the right type of players and not the right type of prtnerships and tactics, because that will take time to coach. But today was all about the nonsense investment of the last few years (not the right midfielders) , the injuries and the years of negative, nervous tactics that have been ingrained into the players. I still have faith lampard can turn it around, but I feel like Godfrey, Mina, Digne, even Davies despite his lack of skills, were the better fighters in a tough period we are in, and the depareture of Ancelotti and hiring of Benitez killed us off, going from the highs to lows so qucikly.
