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2021/22 Frank Lampard

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I get you mate but where have you seen him get a tune out of any other club? We could all have a lot more faith if he had an extensive career in management but at each club I have seen him at he has fallen out with players, deflected blame, and shown a lack of experience. It is not what we need for where we are. There are managers we have had that have fixed set piece issues when they came in, and shown a clear system that steadied the ship for us, with this same squad. Lampard is being given a lot of sympathy based on the fact that we are in such turmoil with our owner and we're sentimental over the fact that he looks like he cares. That doesn't equal experience.
I haven't seen a lot of what you have seen at previous clubs.

Doesn't matter who you bring in, you've got to give them enough time and resources before you judge.
 
Not looking good.
The squad is undoubtedly awful , with many players short of confidence , and some that don't even seem to care.
Unfortunately , I have little confidence that Frank has the managerial "nous" to get the best out of the dross that we have got.
Really worried !
 
The players are awful we agree on that but he needs to realise how awful they are, stick to one formation, stop trying to look for formation flexibility in players that can hardly pass a ball, he is not at Chelsea now.
I think this is a fair point. I've not watched the friendlies so can't comment on that but I said it last season, all the chopping and changing of formations and positions can't help. I think when you have poor footballers you need to make things as simple as possible for them, and part of that involves deciding which formation you want to play and drilling it every day so that everybody knows exactly what's expected of them and where they're supposed to be at any given time. It's not his fault we're in the mess we are, but it's going to be his responsibility to get us out of it and at some point I think he needs to bite the bullet and decide what the plan is.
 

Counter attacking football. It is the reason we play better against top 6 teams at home.

I dont think it was counter attacking football. I think it was we cant play we have no option to park the bus. Some of those results wont happen again. Thank god they did because it kept us up in the end. But pickford wont save us every game like that. As in the chelsea game. You can only ride your luck so often.
There are hardly any strengths to this team/squad.
People are looking for a winning formula and i get that. I dont think there is one. We never played good football under benitez. We never played good football under ancelotti. We never played good football under silva. We never played good football under allardyce.
There's a trend here.
 
I haven't seen a lot of what you have seen at previous clubs.

Doesn't matter who you bring in, you've got to give them enough time and resources before you judge.

Of course it matters who you bring in. Don't give me a management job and give me resources, I will be terrible, I'm not a PL manager. Frank has never built a squad anywhere or implemented a full style of play to visibly improve a team.
 
Of course it matters who you bring in. Don't give me a management job and give me resources, I will be terrible, I'm not a PL manager. Frank has never built a squad anywhere or implemented a full style of play to visibly improve a team.

The same is true with the DOF - said similar a while back mate.

But then equally, we've had managers who won the lot in the game, and Steve Walsh who was considered pretty good and look at how that went.
 

Of course it matters who you bring in. Don't give me a management job and give me resources, I will be terrible, I'm not a PL manager. Frank has never built a squad anywhere or implemented a full style of play to visibly improve a team.
Very few managers out there have built a squad - they don't last long enough to.

I think he has implemented a style but doing so effectively is entirely dependent on the skill set of the playing squad.
 

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