2019/20 Marcel Brands

[BirkenheadBlue]

Your third ambition should be to be as good at it as he is?

Nah. That’d mean I’d failed at ambition number 2

 

[sageyefc]

Pretty sure his output is one of the best in the team in terms of goals and assists

Dcl outperformed him, says all we need to know

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Agree with this. We've heard a lot of this chat in recent years.

Can’t remember hearing an interview for quite a while with someone who had quite that air of calm, confidence and competence.

Now granted, it could all be a massive front (seems unlikely given past performance), but there was enough there to be at least fairly optimistic about Brands

 

[orly]

Dcl outperformed him, says all we need to know

Would love to see both leave this summer

 

[orly]

Can’t remember hearing an interview for quite a while with someone who had quite that air of calm, confidence and competence.

Now granted, it could all be a massive front (seems unlikely given past performance), but there was enough there to be at least fairly optimistic about Brands

I'm excited about his appointment, and I'm glad that he seems to be making getting rid of the highest earners / been-here-too-long types his priority.

It's just the interview chat that I'm not getting too excited about. Koeman talked a cracking game.

 

[chrismpw]

Oh god we're building him up.

People will be getting hope next. Will we never learn?

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I'm excited about his appointment, and I'm glad that he seems to be making getting rid of the highest earners / been-here-too-long types his priority.

It's just the interview chat that I'm not getting too excited about. Koeman talked a cracking game.

So... you're excited about the things he's said but not excited about the things he's said.

 

[BernieH]

Oh god we're building him up.

People will be getting hope next. Will we never learn?

I have to hope, can't take much more of the defeatist attitude we've become accustomed to.

 

[orly]

So... you're excited about the things he's said but not excited about the things he's said.

No - the fact that Rooney is currently in DC and Baines's people are leaking stories to the BBC and Echo means he is doing things, not saying things.

So not the things he's said, the things he is doing. Happy to clarify.

 

[chrismpw]

I have to hope, can't take much more of the defeatist attitude we've become accustomed to.

Oh don't get me wrong, I always have hope. It's why I look 30 years older than I am.

It's the fallout and bickering on here, after hope comes tumbling down, that gets to me.

 

[Prevenger17]

Koeman talked a cracking game.

I must have missed all of that

 

[Nymzee]

Would love to see both leave this summer

Wash your mouth out you filthy hussy.

 

[Nymzee]

I must have missed all of that

He did but that was largely down to us being battered with false postivity from Bobby.

 

[DanB90]

Do we reckon he ‘gets us’?

 

[abelard]

has anyone claimed yet that it will inevitably fail because Brands is Dutch, and Koeman was also Dutch, so we already know that "total football" doesn't work?

it's the last thing I'm missing for Bingo