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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 19, 2018 12:06:07 GMT
He's been given Imbula's shirt number. Does this mean the Great Gianelli won't be making a January return? Imbula's shirt?
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Post by ilikelamp on Jan 19, 2018 13:51:50 GMT
Doesn't mean to say we won't buy him though Grapey, if it all worked out for both parties. Look at the Bruno fiasco to see that options are a moveable feast! I’m sure I read that’s his contract is up at the end of the season so if that’s the case then we can just get him on a free if he impresses
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 13:56:09 GMT
Doesn't mean to say we won't buy him though Grapey, if it all worked out for both parties. Look at the Bruno fiasco to see that options are a moveable feast! I’m sure I read that’s his contract is up at the end of the season so if that’s the case then we can just get him on a free if he impresses End of next season, I think.
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Post by Northy on Jan 19, 2018 13:57:02 GMT
Doesn't mean to say we won't buy him though Grapey, if it all worked out for both parties. Look at the Bruno fiasco to see that options are a moveable feast! I’m sure I read that’s his contract is up at the end of the season so if that’s the case then we can just get him on a free if he impresses end of next season
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Post by jezzascfc on Jan 19, 2018 13:57:34 GMT
Nothing like giving your shirt number away to say you are not coming back! Goodbye Gilbert!
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Post by realstokebloke on Jan 19, 2018 14:04:36 GMT
Nothing like giving your shirt number away to say you are not coming back! Goodbye Gilbert! Quite.
Any chance of somebody (good) to come in and take Berahino's?
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Post by scfc5 on Jan 19, 2018 14:19:59 GMT
Rob the quote actually was 'the TRANSFER TEAM have got their yes man', so I'm quite comfortable in my belief that the conversation hadn't actually widened and it was that comment you were specifically responding too. If it wasn't and you meant something else, then forgive me but I'm sure you can see why I might have thought that was the case. I don’t believe that the transfer team or anyone at the club want a yes man or that Lambert would be happy to be one Paul. Indeed, Lambert and Wolves parted ways specifically because he wouldn’t be a yes man on transfers. Not perhaps the greatest decision when Jorge Mendes was the man with the book of transfer contacts, as Nuno Espírito Santo has proven!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 18:29:29 GMT
Have you got a link to that Radio Stoke interview Paul? Cheers and so it starts. There has been so much blind optimism on here over the last few days but I can't help but feel that this has disaster written all over it. The transfer team have got their yes man, a man lucky to be in such a job and who will be complicit in the internal dealings of running the football team. That pretty much sums up my feelings. I just keep hoping like hell that I've got this all wrong. Of the realistic managers available, who would you have gone for Dave?
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 19, 2018 18:31:34 GMT
and so it starts. There has been so much blind optimism on here over the last few days but I can't help but feel that this has disaster written all over it. The transfer team have got their yes man, a man lucky to be in such a job and who will be complicit in the internal dealings of running the football team. That pretty much sums up my feelings. I just keep hoping like hell that I've got this all wrong. Of the realistic managers available, who would you have gone for Dave? No idea but the last name I'd have thought of would have been Paul Lambert
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 19, 2018 18:36:58 GMT
I think there were several worse options.
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 19, 2018 18:40:59 GMT
That pretty much sums up my feelings. I just keep hoping like hell that I've got this all wrong. Of the realistic managers available, who would you have gone for Dave? No idea but the last name I'd have thought of would have been Paul Lambert Well you pair are a laugh a miniute. 😥
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 19, 2018 18:50:21 GMT
No idea but the last name I'd have thought of would have been Paul Lambert Well you pair are a laugh a miniute. 😥 I did the blind optimism bit on Monday. Realism is dawning more and more with each passing minute
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 19, 2018 18:52:05 GMT
I think there were several worse options. You'd have thought he was a viable candidate as you walked away from the Newcastle game then? Where in your top 50 options would he have been?
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Post by numpty40 on Jan 19, 2018 19:02:51 GMT
I think there were several worse options. Ryan Giggs, Steve McLaren and Harry Redknapp sent a shiver down me spine. There weren't too many worse options but Lambert's making the right noises since his appointment. I'm not entirely filled with optimism but as Tony Blair would say, things can only get better
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Post by gingerninja on Jan 19, 2018 19:04:04 GMT
He probably wouldn't have appeared on many peoples list if they were honest Dave, but he's here now and we most hope/pray that it turns out to be an inspired choice!!!. He's talking a good game thus far and let's hope it transmits to the pitch. I am cautiously optimistic.
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Post by Clem Fandango on Jan 19, 2018 19:22:24 GMT
I could be being a bit daft here (im a few Friday night beers in) but aren't there other numbers available other than 21 so why did we give it to him? there could be some superstitious reason I suppose ( I like number 19 and I'm sure I read Sobhi liked 32) but surely giving it to him causes more grief than it solves.
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Post by marshy on Jan 19, 2018 19:38:40 GMT
I could be being a bit daft here (im a few Friday night beers in) but aren't there other numbers available other than 21 so why did we give it to him? there could be some superstitious reason I suppose ( I like number 19 and I'm sure I read Sobhi liked 32) but surely giving it to him causes more grief than it solves. Left backs like to have shirt number 3 and 2+1=3. Same reason diouf has 18 and bojan has 27.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 19, 2018 19:48:50 GMT
I think there were several worse options. You'd have thought he was a viable candidate as you walked away from the Newcastle game then? Where in your top 50 options would he have been? Our good options all turned us down Dave. As emergency, desperado selections, I’d rather have Lambert than Megson, McClaren, Pearson or Pulis.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 19, 2018 20:41:50 GMT
You'd have thought he was a viable candidate as you walked away from the Newcastle game then? Where in your top 50 options would he have been? Our good options all turned us down Dave. As emergency, desperado selections, I’d rather have Lambert than Megson, McClaren, Pearson or Pulis. The only positive about Lamberts appointment is that he isn't Tony pulis or Martin o'neil. He is, however, as shit an appointment as was feasibly possible to make in reality. Like pulis and Hughes before him, let's hope and pray that he can prove any doubts totally unfounded.
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Post by numpty40 on Jan 19, 2018 20:57:43 GMT
The board allowed the Hughes shit show to get so bad that the fans are genuinely excited to see Lambert as manager. I'm not sure whether to admire the board or storm the director's box. Strange times indeed.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 19, 2018 20:58:00 GMT
Our good options all turned us down Dave. As emergency, desperado selections, I’d rather have Lambert than Megson, McClaren, Pearson or Pulis. The only positive about Lamberts appointment is that he isn't Tony pulis or Martin o'neil. He is, however, as shit an appointment as was feasibly possible to make in reality. Like pulis and Hughes before him, let's hope and pray that he can prove any doubts totally unfounded. I don’t think it was as shit an appointment as was feasible to make. Megson or McClaren would’ve been. Giggs would’ve been. Sherwood would’ve been.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 19, 2018 21:08:18 GMT
The only positive about Lamberts appointment is that he isn't Tony pulis or Martin o'neil. He is, however, as shit an appointment as was feasibly possible to make in reality. Like pulis and Hughes before him, let's hope and pray that he can prove any doubts totally unfounded. I don’t think it was as shit an appointment as was feasible to make. Megson or McClaren would’ve been. Giggs would’ve been. Sherwood would’ve been. I suspect your research is helping to convince you here. This is a bloke that has seemingly failed in every job he's ever been in with his only success being in the lower leagues a number of years ago. On the face of It, he's a wretched appointment yet we are so desperate for any hint of optimism that we are clinging to stuff that isn't even there. I was leading the Paul Lambert chants on Monday and will happily do so again tomorrow but I'm finding it almost impossible to share even the remotest bit of optimism. His change in tack 're the full back signing aroused my suspicions and to me, starting with a plucky defeat tomorrow, this has Chris kamara written all over it.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 19, 2018 21:17:43 GMT
I don’t think it was as shit an appointment as was feasible to make. Megson or McClaren would’ve been. Giggs would’ve been. Sherwood would’ve been. I suspect your research is helping to convince you here. This is a bloke that has seemingly failed in every job he's ever been in with his only success being in the lower leagues a number of years ago. On the face of It, he's a wretched appointment yet we are so desperate for any hint of optimism that we are clinging to stuff that isn't even there. I was leading the Paul Lambert chants on Monday and will happily do so again tomorrow but I'm finding it almost impossible to share even the remotest bit of optimism. His change in tack 're the full back signing aroused my suspicions and to me, starting with a plucky defeat tomorrow, this has Chris kamara written all over it. That’s not entirely true Dave. He had decent success at several clubs, in the lower leagues as you say. He also had an excellent first Premier League season with Norwich and his first season at Villa had its moments. He’s unloved in his last three jobs and has to carry the can to an extent but there were mitigating circumstances on each occasion and even at Wolves, where they don’t think enormously highly of him, he stopped the rot, blooded the kids and made a few decent signings before he lost control completely of the transfers in the Mendes wrangle.
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Post by samwidge on Jan 19, 2018 21:21:13 GMT
He probably wouldn't have appeared on many peoples list if they were honest Dave, but he's here now and we most hope/pray that it turns out to be an inspired choice!!!. He's talking a good game thus far and let's hope it transmits to the pitch. I am cautiously optimistic. Same here ginger, was feeling distinctly underwhelmed at the outset. Then our marvelous supporters at old Trafford have shown the way and given me a bit of belief. Now the dust has settled , I'm quite optimistic and certainly excited by it. Who knows ? They may be just a chemistry , and something clicks ! Of course it could equally also be quite foreboding ? I dunno , I've got a good feeling about it . Welcome Stafylidis by the way . Goarn stoke.
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Post by smallthorner on Jan 19, 2018 21:49:57 GMT
He probably wouldn't have appeared on many peoples list if they were honest Dave, but he's here now and we most hope/pray that it turns out to be an inspired choice!!!. He's talking a good game thus far and let's hope it transmits to the pitch. I am cautiously optimistic. Same here ginger, was feeling distinctly underwhelmed at the outset. Then our marvelous supporters at old Trafford have shown the way and given me a bit of belief. Now the dust has settled , I'm quite optimistic and certainly excited by it. Who knows ? They may be just a chemistry , and something clicks ! Of course it could equally also be quite foreboding ? I dunno , I've got a good feeling about it . Welcome Stafylidis by the way . Goarn stoke. Think that's a good summary. Nobody knows how this is going to turn out.... nobody. We all spout sh*t on here as if we've got the slightest inkling of what goes in the management of a prima donna premiership football club. I'd luuuv Lambo to be our saviour and uniter and bring some spirit and bollocks to our team and supporters. Macari like ..... Daft dream? Maybe. But it would be lovely for him to get our show back on the road. Cheap appointment? Easy appointment? Maybe, but let's give the guy a chance. Sparky did a great job and went off the rails.. as most managers do eventually, step up Lamboner.
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Post by samwidge on Jan 19, 2018 22:12:12 GMT
[quote author=" smallthorner" source="/post/5891485/thread" Think that's a good summary. Nobody knows how this is going to turn out.... nobody. We all spout sh*t on here as if we've got the slightest inkling of what goes in the management of a prima donna premiership football club. I'd luuuv Lambo to be our saviour and uniter and bring some spirit and bollocks to our team and supporters. Macari like ..... Daft dream? Maybe. But it would be lovely for him to get our show back on the road. Cheap appointment? Easy appointment? Maybe, but let's give the guy a chance. Sparky did a great job and went off the rails.. as most managers do eventually, step up Lamboner.[/quote] Exactly mate. Still feel the board are tight arses , but that's not lambo's fault . If he's half as good as Macari , that'd be great !!!
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