2021/22 Frank Lampard

[dublinbluenose]

Didn't Klopp say something worse last year and not a thing was uttered against him?

More than once

 

[Aberblue]

Midfield is the main issue and has been for years, centre midfield and wide players. There’s a massive rebuild required all over but we’ve said that season after season.

The thing is to rebuild better you have to replace those leaving with better players. We added Gray, Townsend and Rondon to the squad last summer and got worse - we’re now stuck with them until their contracts run out. Just signing people because they’re cheap and available is not going to make us better.

Quality not quantity. Reduce the size of the squad and concentrate on bringing in players who improve the first team. Otherwise we’re just in a perpetual rebuild cycle.

While I agree with much of what you say, Gray and Townsend both pulled their weight and more. Certainly they contributed more than Delph, Gomes, and Tosun, who were all on much higher salaries.

 

[Amokachi1995]

He should pay it in two pences.

 

[Bluerover]

Is this something that would be considered by the Club to have occurred in the course of his duties as Manager, and what he said was not unreasonable in terms of seeking to protect the interests of EFC and its fans? Thus EFC may decide to pay some or all of the fine. It is not as if this was a non-work related issue for which FL was fined in a court of law.

The fact that the powers that be (for some strange reason) ignore the rantings of kkklippety and hammer FL for expressing a reasonable view, suggests that there is something rotten at play.

 

[Toffeelover]

They had a blatant agenda to send us down last season. We were bad enough ourselves but in all honesty I think we’re easily lower mid table with fair refereeing. The momentum of picking up the odd few points here and there would have meant the pressure and panic of relegation probably wouldn’t have set in as much.

We got absolutely battered though to the point a relegation battle that didn’t look like it was ever truly on suddenly became probable all the way right up to the end with the decisions in the Brentford and Palace games. People will forget but had it not been for heroic performances against United Chelsea Leicester and a turnaround against Palace, we were down.

Points dropped to City, Liverpool, Southampton, Brentford (x2), Spurs, all because of absolutely outrageous refereeing decisions. Then there were the blatant attempts against Newcastle and Palace to try and put the nail in the coffin which we were good enough to I avoid thankfully.

So right, we would not have been in that last week fix if correct decisions had been made.

 

[blueconverse]

30 grand 30 grand Franky lampard
30 grand 30 day I say
30 grand 30 grand Franky lampard
Bollocks to the corrupt FA

 

[Toffeelover]

Midfield is the main issue and has been for years, centre midfield and wide players. There’s a massive rebuild required all over but we’ve said that season after season.

The thing is to rebuild better you have to replace those leaving with better players. We added Gray, Townsend and Rondon to the squad last summer and got worse - we’re now stuck with them until their contracts run out. Just signing people because they’re cheap and available is not going to make us better.

Quality not quantity. Reduce the size of the squad and concentrate on bringing in players who improve the first team. Otherwise we’re just in a perpetual rebuild cycle.

This, and who wants to play.

 

[blue61]

Spank Frankhard.

 

[BigDuncTributeBand]

While I agree with much of what you say, Gray and Townsend both pulled their weight and more. Certainly they contributed more than Delph, Gomes, and Tosun, who were all on much higher salaries.

True but the problem is, all those players you mention (and plenty others) were brought in as starting first 11 players, that’s why they’re on those high wages.

They’ve massively flopped and that’s why our starting 11 is so bad. When we sell them we need to replace them with players to start in the first team.

Replacing players who were meant to be starting first 11 players with cheap squad players isn’t going to make the first team any better and that’s where we desperately need to improve.

 

[allezlesbleus]

I suppose there is some clause whereby non-payment leads to a greater punishment, but I would be so tempted to muck them about as much as possible. Perhaps our media team could find 2/3 examples of worse or the same being said and then the club’s legal guys should say we’ll pay up when you have fined these guys too.
Eventually you might have to admit defeat but I am fully in favour of the club fighting back a bit over these matters. No one else will stand up for us so we should be prepared to stand up for ourselves.

 

[bcblue1878]

Didn't Klopp say something worse last year and not a thing was uttered against him?

Here you go - just one example!

 

[Dixieslaces]

Here you go - just one example!

And theres no way, in that clip that is all he is saying, the freakin buck toothed german inbred knobhead!

 

[JohnRoss23]

I'm down to crowdfund to pay all his fines for calling out terrible officiating

I'll set up the account and update my banking info. You all can trust me. UTFT!

 

[AmericasToffee]

Update: I'm down to crowdfund to pay all his fines for calling out terrible officiating as long as anyone besides JohnRoss23 sets it up

 

[JohnRoss23]

The league were really testing the waters this season to see how much they could get away and it looks like they have fully realized nothing can stop their incompetence. The City VAR dispute just showed them that it all paid off for them in the end. They got the final day of the season drama they were trying to script. It's all money signs from here on out. Disgraceful.