Who would you replace Lampard with?

[Nymzee]

Exactly this is the only response any one ever comes up with because there isn't a good logical one

Not sure that response has ever graced GOT before myself.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I want the manager who replaces Lampard sacked right now. Get rid. We need a new manager every week at this club.

 

[st.domingo]

Anyone suggesting Dyche in all seriousness that is not an immediate relation of his can get right in the bin. And once you’ve gotten in that bin, take it and get you and it both in Liverpool Bay.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

How did benitez wreck us? I'm really interested to hear this. So he signed gray and Townsend effectively on free transfers both of whom did pretty well.

At the start of his tenure he won 4 of his 5 first games. He then got injuries to key players and we were going into games forced with having to start players like gbamin. We then saw the form drop off simply because he was missing the entire spine of his team in a weak squad that he had only been able to spend 1.5 million on. A run then happened where we were losing games but who wouldn't with so many injuries?

Fans started getting on his back without any sensitivity to the fact he was missing half his team.

Fans then started calling for him to drop some players and play the likes of dobbin who has now played 11 games at Derby in league one without a goal and assist.

Fans then got aggressive and would boo and heckle him because of his Liverpool connection and cut him absolutely no slack at all. This definitely contributed to poor results as Frank got the complete opposite kind of support at goodison Park that helped the players rather than hinder them. Benitez then signed Patterson and mykolenko. Patterson you would have to say looks a great prospect, mykolenko maybe not so much but decent on his day.

Then benitez got sacked. So I'm interested in a logical and well balanced argument if someone can tell me how benitez 'ruined' the club in any way more than what Frank has this season. Because benitez when he has his best players available had the team winning games and the team looking the better in games.

Frank on the other hand has always had that luxury of pretty much all his best players available and honestly I don't think there has been a single game this season where we have looked the better team. Or last season with exception to the Leeds home game we won 3 nil.

The reason benitez had to go was because the fans couldn't get onside with him, nothing to do with his ability as a football manager because he's just better than Frank is by a mile as much as you don't want to believe it.

Maybe you think because he signed Rondon on a free he wrecked us but that would be a tad harsh wouldn't it?

I think @Eggs has good insight into what went on, he's consistently indicated that Benitez was a fractious appointment behind the scenes. For example:

….he caused rifts with FF staff & within the Board.

i agree, though, fans dissatisfaction with the Board should be voiced, I’m just not sure how.

 

[johnjoeefc]

I think @Eggs has good insight into what went on, he's consistently indicated that Benitez was a fractious appointment behind the scenes. For example:

I have a lot of time for eggs, good tipster. But I'm not sure benitez behind the scenes had an impact that ruined the club by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Thetigerblue]

I’d replace him with Lampard.

Please can we stop daft threads?

 

[AndyC]

I have a lot of time for eggs, good tipster. But I'm not sure benitez behind the scenes had an impact that ruined the club by any stretch of the imagination.

His appointment sure as hell highlighted that the club is/was run like a funny farm.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Knutsen would be a huge gamble. Solskjaer was winning in that league. Can the other two even speak English?

Let’s hope this is a nugatory discussion for another few years.

I have this down as a positive

 

[Bedfordblue]

Do we need to set up a live stream to see if Frank will out last an iceberg lettuce now?

 

[Saint Domingo]

I have this down as a positive

Doesn’t tend to go well. Pochettino the one exception I can think of

 

[TheBigIguana]

Doesn’t tend to go well. Pochettino the one exception I can think of

Conte barely spoke English when he got to Chelsea. It'll go fine if they're good at managing a football club..

I like that they can't understand the pointless criticisms they'll get and can hopefully focus on improving the side.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

The forest boss

 

[The Nature Boy]

Poch.

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Rafael

 

[Moomin]

Martinez to come home after the World cup.