islingtonclaret Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Differences: Laudrup is not the Aston Villa manager Lambert is the Aston Villa manager. That's all the comparing I need to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 22, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2012 Laudrup over Lambert? No thanks. Not even nearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewcape Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 No Contest! Lambert every time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 My first choice was Guus Hiddink. But my second choice was Lambert............ so I am happy with that,also when you consider what he has done at Norwich I expect better at Villa...............next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycv Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Laudrup over Lambert? No thanks. Not even nearly. I agree with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazilla Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Personally, I am very happy with the appointment of Paul Lambert and he was my first choice all along. However, I am aware a lot of folk on here would have preferred more of a 'sexy' manager, like OGS etc. Laudrup was obviously available to AVFC and you have to think he would have come seen as he has now joined Swansea. Just wondering how many fans would have preferred to see Laudrup as our manager rather than Lambert? I would have loved to see Laudrup and Martin Laursen at Villa Park. My first choices were Martinez and OGS because I think that they would have got us playing good football. However, given the problems we have at VP, Lambert could be just right for us. Only time will tell, but it will need a very strong character to sort out the likes of Collins, Warnock, Dunne and Hutton. I think that Lambert probably has more steel about him than the other candidates and so I am very happy with our choice of manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Laudrup have played in some of the best teams in the world and is the best Danish player ever, he's a well known and respected name all over the world and he has a clear idea of how he want's his teams to play. The way Getafe played under him was amazing for such a small "unknown" side. He was a good player but his record as a manager is questionable - since Brøndby he hasn't stayed anywhere very long and hasn't always been too successful. It would have been quite a gamble to hire him and I understand why Lerner/Faulkner didn't want to do that, having messed up so badly on their two previous appointments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Im fairly happy with Lambert but he wasn't top of my list (Bilic was..) Have to say id rather had Laudrup mainly because of what i know about him and how his teams play. Me being from Sweden i actually know more about Laudrup than about Lambert who's 1 season in the PL is all i have to go on. Laudrup have played in some of the best teams in the world and is the best Danish player ever, he's a well known and respected name all over the world and he has a clear idea of how he want's his teams to play. The way Getafe played under him was amazing for such a small "unknown" side. My question with Lambert is what calibre players he'll be able to attract, with Laudrup i'd been confident he'd get it right. Im sure Lambert learned a lot during his first and only PL-season, but he's not what you'd call a veteran manager. I rate Laudrups experience from Spain, Russia and Denmark higher than Lamberts 1 year in top flight football. The PL is not that impossible to grasp for foreigners as some wan't to make out. With that said im happy enough with Lambert, i just hope he doesn't try to build an entire team based on young brittish players as that will in my opinion fail Lambert might not have been as skillful as Laudrup as a player but he was a damn good holding midfielder and he has won European Cup as a player and I believe he did his coaching badges in Germany and them lads know a thing or 2 about football and coaching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 22, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2012 Yup. Laudrup 1 European Cup. Lambert 1 European Cup. And unlike, say, Djimi Traore (also 1 European Cup), both were fundamental to their side's fortunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SikhInTrinity Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Ask Zidane who Paul Lambert was, he was in his pocket for the whole game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Lambert V Mourinho Lambert wins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 22, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2012 The VT user's ability to twist or (un)intentionally 'not quite get' a discussion never fails to amuse me, or indeed let me down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Happy with Lambert but would have preferred Martinez or OGS. We badly need a change in our playing style from the old British "rush" we have deployed for most of the last decade. I'm not yet convinced Lambert will or can do that. Same here. We really need to develop a modern more possession based style. My hope is Lambert can do that, my first choice was Rodgers then our fun OGS flutter. Happy enough with Lambert though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toela65 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yup. Laudrup 1 European Cup. Lambert 1 European Cup. And unlike, say, Djimi Traore (also 1 European Cup), both were fundamental to their side's fortunes. Traore cleared a ball of the line at 3-3 so withput Liverpool wouldn't of won the European Cup that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Laudrup and OGS would have been exciting marquee risky appointments, Lambert is the unexciting safer option. Given our last two disasterous seasons especially the last one then the safer option of Lambert is understandable. I still think Lambert poses quite a lot of risk as he too is an uproven premiership manager, he had 1 good season with Norwich but managing Aston Villa is totally different to being at Norwich or Colchester and there have been plenty of managers who have had 1 good seson in the prem when being promoted and then crumbled in their second season. Thats probably why Lambert left Norwich I think he knew thats all he could do with them. Im still not convinced by Lambert, I was never that keen on him or his style of play. Given the choice I would have rather had OGS or a Laudrup/Laursen combination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Lambert V Mourinho Lambert wins I think Laudrup would've been a more exciting appointment if i'm honest imo. Future looks OK with Lambert here I guess though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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