EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
This squad is not finishing mid table under any manager. Lampard doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing, but no manager on earth could get this squad above about 14th, it’s truly truly diabolical.
Waken up man! No manager has us finishing mid table. It’s as ridiculous as saying the Villa, Sunderland or Leeds teams that went down would have them finished mid table with a change of manager.
They went down because the board mismanaged their finances over a period of time, had to sell/move on their best players or high earners and replaced them with cheapie misfits who weren’t good enough to keep them in the league. That’s where we are now as a club.
We’re the current Villa Lerner meltdown team, every fan of every other club can see it, they all think we’ve got one of the worst squads in the league and we’re looking at loans, player sales or deferred payments to be able to sign anyone. Our targets are going elsewhere, we’re wing outbid by rivals and we’re scraping the barrel.
Get angry but at the board who’ve put us in this position. Frank can go but the problems will be the same, it’s pointless being angry at the manager - it’ll be the same with whoever we bring in. We’re in managed decline….and not very surprisingly, we’re declining.
I don't think if you looked purely on paper at Brighton and Fulhams squads that you would pencil them in for 6th and 7th at the moment. Maupay looks like the worst footballer on earth for us but at Brighton he scored 8 goals. If we had signed Andreas Peireira and Willian they'd have been crap. We have bad players but a decent manager would be getting a lot more out of them.
Our squad is in no way worse than Bournemouth