2022/23 Frank Lampard

[st.domingo]

Again, not at all what I'm saying.

My point is we unwisely prioritised other positions and now have left a lot up to luck by waiting to the end of the window. We could easily have prioritised a forward and then sorted the midfield out with short term fixes at this stage of the window. We shouldn't have been adding to midfield until we moved on other players first anyway.

Sensible, well ran, organised clubs, line up their replacement alongside making a £60m sale of their best goalscorer. We've gone nearly 8 weeks now with no one brought in.

Whether the club have tried hard is neither here nor there. We need results, not people trying. You get no points on a saturday afternoon for trying hard.

Do you think that the club literally said, “right, let’s get the defence sorted first and then we’ll have a think about attacking options..”

Or is that just the way events unfolded naturally?

 

[Marius57]

No we needed another striker who was good enough to fight DCL for the starting position. Absolutely not someone who is a back up. We need proper quality. But yes obviously it helps with our depth too, but at least they are fighting for the position and not just there for an injury.

Why would a team in 16th want squad players for the bench and not quality players?

Exactly that. Why would a striker that is first team ready, going to come to a team in 16th to be a bench option and potentially not get a run of games because DCL is our main striker and focal point.

That's why we are likely after someone like Broja.

We also couldn't afford another striker who is guaranteed 14/15 goals a season right now.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Tim, mate..

We simply can't afford a forward of that quality at the moment. Even with the Richarlison sale that money desperately had to go into the defence & midfield this season. It's as simple as that.

I just don't agree at all with this.

We can't stay up without goals no matter how good the defence is.

The Richarlison money needed to partly go towards a goal scorer. The fact people want to argue this point is one of the most baffling things I've ever read. The amount of defending of the club in this thread is laughable. I'm not sure people have been paying attention over the last few seasons.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Exactly that. Why would a striker that is first team ready, going to come to a team in 16th to be a bench option and potentially not get a run of games because DCL is our main striker and focal point.

That's why we are likely after someone like Broja.

We need someone good enough to take DCL's place in the team because he cannot be relied on anymore.

My personal opinion is the club thought they could rely on DCL for the season and took a calculated gamble to leave forward to the end and see what we could get.

 

[NorthernBlue]

I honestly can’t even work out how you think the clubs strategy is to not sign a new forward(s).

Why can’t you understand what he’s saying? You can’t honestly think the strategy of the club is ok. It’s an absolute shambles.

But I’m guessing you are one of fan base who think selling Gordon and replacing him with Che Adams is great.

 

[wandyr79]

Pointless arguments about priorities.

The priority was to improve all areas, apart from Richarlison and Pickford we were relegated, we lost Richarlison but attacking options were still needed to be improved, even if he stayed.

My point being, you cannot fix an entire outfield team in 4 weeks, we got players in for one position that were obviously available then, I see it as we have been looking for a striker all this time, I am sure that we have enough people to call more than 1 agent/manager at a time. As somebody was calling Wolves, another person was calling Chelsea/PSG/whoever but it is more difficult to get that other player in, they are negotiating harder, waiting for replacements to come in, etc., etc.

 

[Dymak]

I like him, but I think he is messing things up right now. What’s all this two man midfield nonsense? There’s a reason why I’d never heard of a two man midfield before, it’s because it’s an absolutely crazy idea that is never gona work! It will need to be binned off if he wants to keep his job!

 

[ToffeeTim]

I like him, but I think he is messing things up right now. What’s all this two man midfield nonsense? There’s a reason why I’d never heard of a two man midfield before, it’s because it’s an absolutely crazy idea that is never gona work! It will need to be binned off if he wants to keep his job!

Did you want him to play Gomes Allan and Davies last week or something?

 

[wandyr79]

Why can’t you understand what he’s saying? You can’t honestly think the strategy of the club is ok. It’s an absolute shambles.

But I’m guessing you are one of fan base who think selling Gordon and replacing him with Che Adams is great.

The club could have looked at and enquired about more strikers than all other positions put together, for all we know. Defensive targets available, yes, cool, get them in now, McNeil available, cool, get him in now. All the while other people are scouting, checking availability, etc. for strikers.

I can't understand why people automatically think that every single member of the management team, scouting team are just looking at one position, one player at a time. I heavily assume, lots of work is being done behind the scenes but I can understand why people will jump to conclusions that they are not doing anything at all, it is because they want to be angry at something.

If we were sat on 4 points they wouldn't have even thought about angry, it would have been more, 'I hope we get a striker in soon', rather than 'Grrrr, can't believe they are sat there doing nothing all day and not buying a striker'.

 

[Bluestar]

Getting goalscorers was an awful lot more important than every other position. If we don't fix it asap, then it will be the reason we go down.

They are all important. There will be no goals scored without a supply from midfield.

 

[nsno-chris]

Did you want him to play Gomes Allan and Davies last week or something?

I would very much like to see this one more time, I think the 50 times we have witnessed these dosser isn’t enough

 

[wandyr79]

I like him, but I think he is messing things up right now. What’s all this two man midfield nonsense? There’s a reason why I’d never heard of a two man midfield before, it’s because it’s an absolutely crazy idea that is never gona work! It will need to be binned off if he wants to keep his job!

My guess is that it should be more flexible, defensively one of the 3 centre backs can push up to bolster that area and attacking one of the 3 up top drops back a bit, plus you have the wing backs who can come inside, dependent on the position of play, situation.

Over simplifying it, maybe but just because the formation the TV put up shows 2 central midfielders there does not necessarily mean that the formation will bend to the situation and have 3/4 in there in any given time.

 

[mahermi1]

Do you think that the club literally said, “right, let’s get the defence sorted first and then we’ll have a think about attacking options..”

Or is that just the way events unfolded naturally?

It just seems like they get what they can and not what they need, if your selling your best attacker, surely you must have a coherent plan to replace him, let's be honest they knew they had to sell Richarlison well in advance, they knew the ffp implications if they didn't. They must have known how few goals there are in the team and then DCL gets injured, it's scary.

 

[Nymzee]

Again, not at all what I'm saying.

My point is we unwisely prioritised other positions and now have left a lot up to luck by waiting to the end of the window. We could easily have prioritised a forward and then sorted the midfield out with short term fixes at this stage of the window. We shouldn't have been adding to midfield until we moved on other players first anyway.

Sensible, well ran, organised clubs, line up their replacement alongside making a £60m sale of their best goalscorer. We've gone nearly 8 weeks now with no one brought in.

Whether the club have tried hard is neither here nor there. We need results, not people trying. You get no points on a saturday afternoon for trying hard.

Well you must be because you say you don't agree with the strategy of the club so that must mean you think the strategy of the club is not to reinforce the attack.

Also, if the bold happened you'd still be whinging. Short-term fixes to a midfield of Iwobi and Doucoure lol

 

[st.domingo]

It just seems like they get what they can and not what they need, if your selling your best attacker, surely you must have a coherent plan to replace him, let's be honest they knew they had to sell Richarlison well in advance, they knew the ffp implications if they didn't. They must have known how few goals there are in the team and then DCL gets injured, it's scary.

True, but you can only ever go shopping for the guys that are available and in your price range. We were garbage pretty much all over the pitch, so I’m not sure what your point is. We should have signed no-one until we got a striker in first?