Delphinho123 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 I’m confident I could do his job better then he could. Deadly serious. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Just now, Delphinho123 said: I’m confident I could do his job better then he could. Deadly serious. I’ll get behind that. Lange has been awful. I’m sure you could raise the bar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvilla28 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Utter garbage should go to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tomaszk Posted October 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 20, 2022 Well you know he didn't come up with Gerrard. Or Coutinho. Or Digne. Or Ings. I worry he's been flattened by Purslow over a lot of issues. Hard to judge IMO. Not impressed with our overall recruitment though. Paying players £150k a week isn't the way forward unless they are really going to improve us. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Is he just a yes man to Purslow? I always thought it to be an odd appointment for an ambitious club. We need an innovator. A leader. Someone to push the boundaries. Lange is too subservient to Purslow and latterly Gerrard. Not the right man in my view. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Michael Emenalo. He should be our sporting director/ DOF. And Marina Granovskaia should be our top director. Although we’d never get her as she’s an Abramovich loyalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 7 hours ago, M_Afro said: I’ll get behind that. Lange has been awful. I’m sure you could raise the bar. I’d be bringing you in as my No. 2 straight away after that show of faith. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, Tomaszk said: Well you know he didn't come up with Gerrard. Or Coutinho. Or Digne. Or Ings. I worry he's been flattened by Purslow over a lot of issues. Hard to judge IMO. Not impressed with our overall recruitment though. Paying players £150k a week isn't the way forward unless they are really going to improve us. It’s been tragic since Grealish left, it really has. Kamara aside, our signings have been f***** daft. Edited October 21, 2022 by Delphinho123 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 How is this man still in the job. He’s the Austin McPhee of transfers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 I'd rather have Jesus back than this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 It would be funny if he was actually the driving force behind our shift in transfer policy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 5 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said: It would be funny if he was actually the driving force behind our shift in transfer policy Nah. Gerrard literally said he wanted to increase the average age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazmonkey Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Along with Gerrard and Purslow...he is part of the problem Poor scouting....poor recruitment......hoping championship players would come good in Prem......and all purchased for big money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbvilla909 Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Yep, he can do one too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 52 minutes ago, Pinebro said: Nah. Gerrard literally said he wanted to increase the average age. Gerrard and Lange were clearly at odds - hence the Sarr debacle which showed they couldn’t trust Gerrard with transfers. Deprived us of more tactical options and wingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tezzaleed Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Gerrard and Lange were clearly at odds - hence the Sarr debacle which showed they couldn’t trust Gerrard with transfers. Deprived us of more tactical options and wingers. yes so I took it that Lange pulled off the Sarr deal and Gerrard scuppered it. I really wanted that deal to happen so felt Lange is doing the right things but Gerrard and purslow undermined him. I could be wrong and it could have been the reverse with gerard wanting sarr and lange pulling the deal but that doesn't make sense to me. If gerard had wanted sarr purslow would have made it happen. Edited October 21, 2022 by tezzaleed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 7 minutes ago, tezzaleed said: yes so I took it that Lange pulled off the Sarr deal and Gerrard scuppered it. I really wanted that deal to happen so felt Lange is doing the right things but Gerrard and purslow undermined him. I could be wrong and it could have been the reverse with gerard wanting sarr and lange pulling the deal but that doesn't make sense to me. If gerard had wanted sarr purslow would have made it happen. Lange brought in Bertie and probably wanted an upgraded version but Gerrard put his foot down. He seemed proud to have pulled the plug on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 7 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: I’d be bringing you in as my No. 2 straight away after that show of faith. More nepotism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 (edited) The reason why I’m suspicious of Lange actually being the driving force for our shift in transfer policy is the rumours that Gerrard was the one who nixed the Sarr signing implying It was not only Lange that wanted him, but that he had enough control by himself to push the signing forward behind Gerrard’s back. Sarr would’ve been a terrible signing. He gained a lot of hype for his performances a few seasons ago. The problem is that he hasn’t gotten better since, and if anything he’s regressed. There’s a reason Watford fans were unanimous in biting our hand off for the 30m we offered. This isn’t the Ismaila Sarr of a few years ago yet we willing to pay him big money as if he was. And this is without me even mentioning the fact that he did not fit in our team whatsoever. If you noticed, that’s been a common trend regarding a lot of the purchases we’ve made. The biggest example was Coutinho. He is clearly extremely far from the player he was at his peak and is likely to only get worse from now on. Yet we bought because? Well because his phil coutinho of course. One of the most expensive players of all time, surely there’s no way this signing would turn out bad. Who cares that we already had another player at our club that we already heavily invested in and would lose his spot. Ings and Digne aren’t far behind. Very very good players at their peak, but we bought them both whilst they were on the decline and also at the closer end of their careers. Just like with Coutinho, both their previous clubs and their fans did not mind seeing the back of them for the fees we paid. And just like with Phil, we never seemed to give much thought about how these players would fit in team. Did we really need to spend that amount of money on a backup striker? A backup left back would’ve been nice, but we clearly did not want him as a backup and it led to our previous starting left back immediately leaving, leaving us right back to where we started just with less money and a higher wage bill. I’m gonna ignore Bednarek since he was an emergency signing and on loan but what the hell was the point of signing Dendoncker? Did we just saw that he played a lot of games for Belgium and Wolves and assume he must’ve been good? He doesn’t add anything to the squad except be another body in the midfield when we already have plenty of other midfield options already. Maybe he was at one point in time, but he clearly isn’t anymore as evidenced by Wolves fans being all too happy with selling him. The common themes should be obvious at this point. These players reputations make them seem better than they actually were when we signed them. I swear I’ve seen this happen a lot, it takes quite a long time for a player’s reputation to actually catch up to how good they currently are. Think about how many outside fans seem to think John Mcginn is still one of our best players. However, the current fans are obviously more in the know about how good these players are currently. Sarr would’ve fit in so perfectly with the trend its not even funny. Edited October 23, 2022 by Laughable Chimp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 21/10/2022 at 06:30, Delphinho123 said: It’s been tragic since Grealish left, it really has. Kamara aside, our signings have been f***** daft. No, I am still unsigned. But I'd put pen to paper for £150 000/week, no questions asked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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