Paul Lambert on Randy Lerner .

[OCD]

It's interesting how often Chairmen sack their managers without having a plan in place as to who is going to replace them either. I get pissed off with fans calling for the sack and then not having an answer for who they would give the job to, let alone the guy running the football club.

[eastie]

It's interesting how often Chairmen sack their managers without having a plan in place as to who is going to replace them either. I get pissed off with fans calling for the sack and then not having an answer for who they would give the job to, let alone the guy running the football club.

Yes you would think it makes sense for a chairman to know who he wants to bring in rather than sack a manager and leave a club rudderless for weeks , some clubs do make very quick appointments but a lot don't seem to have anyone in mind.

[supertom]

Occasionally they have a plan of who they'll get it but it doesn't quite transpire. We openly courted Martinez before McLeish, and OGS before getting Lambert.

[paul_e]

I'm not sure we openly courted either, from what I understand we encouraged both to meet with us under no guarantee that they'd be offered the job.  Randy seems to want to meet with someone before he makes a decision.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm not sure we openly courted either, from what I understand we encouraged both to meet with us under no guarantee that they'd be offered the job.  Randy seems to want to meet with someone before he makes a decision.

We wanted Solskjaer.

[supertom]

I'm not sure we openly courted either, from what I understand we encouraged both to meet with us under no guarantee that they'd be offered the job.  Randy seems to want to meet with someone before he makes a decision.

We wanted Solskjær.

I also cling on to the faint hope that Randy at the very least wanted Martinez over McLeish. We were sadly very publicly rejected though. Saying that I think it was a year too soon for Martinez.

[ez]

It's interesting how often Chairmen sack their managers without having a plan in place as to who is going to replace them either. I get pissed off with fans calling for the sack and then not having an answer for who they would give the job to, let alone the guy running the football club.

Very true. Another one is when people say give Lambert time but never say how much.

[paul_e]

I'm not sure we openly courted either, from what I understand we encouraged both to meet with us under no guarantee that they'd be offered the job.  Randy seems to want to meet with someone before he makes a decision.

We wanted Solskjær.

Almost certainly, and Lerner had met with him as we know so it went passed the point I mentioned, I think that one was an odd situation where he'd have been our manager but for some pretty dubious tactics by his chairman at Molde.  So I'll concede on that one but I still think we'd have spoken to other people before it happened, and may well have already done so.  To me openly courted suggests they were the first and only target and we weren't considering anyone else, which i don't think is the case.

[dave.woodhall]

Solakjaer was their first choice, of that I'm certain.

[David_Nab]

I'm not sure we openly courted either, from what I understand we encouraged both to meet with us under no guarantee that they'd be offered the job.  Randy seems to want to meet with someone before he makes a decision.

Martinez was clearly plan A. Mcliesh was a fuck it he will do appointment.



We wanted Solskjær.

I also cling on to the faint hope that Randy at the very least wanted Martinez over McLeish. We were sadly very publicly rejected though. Saying that I think it was a year too soon for Martinez.

[Monty]

Solakjaer was their first choice, of that I'm certain.

And there's something in me which still thinks he'd have been better. No evidence or anything really, just what he says about the game seems to chime more with what I think (which means precisely f**k-nothing, of course).

However, considering everything, Lambert hasn't done all that badly. Not a fun spell right now, but there is hope in a way there wasn't before.

[eastie]

Solakjaer was their first choice, of that I'm certain.

If lambert did go and I doubt he will unless a very bad run of results are ahead , would you think Randy would make another attempt for solksjaer ?

[Ad@m]

However, considering everything, Lambert hasn't done all that badly. Not a fun spell right now, but there is hope in a way there wasn't before.

That for me is the key.  For DOL's entire reign, towards the end of MON, all of Le Gaffeur, and all of TSM's reign I had the feeling that what I was watching was the best we'd get under the manager at that time and that it was only going to get worse, or at best, stay the same.  Initially under MON there was an optimism about the place that we were going in the right direction.  Whilst I really don't like losing to the likes of Stoke and playing as badly as we did in the Sunderland home game I've got a similar feeling when Randy arrived and MON took over - I actually feel optimistic that things are going to get better.

[dave.woodhall]

Solakjaer was their first choice, of that I'm certain.

If lambert did go and I doubt he will unless a very bad run of results are ahead , would you think Randy would make another attempt for solksjaer ?

No idea.

[paul_e]

Solakjaer was their first choice, of that I'm certain.

And there's something in me which still thinks he'd have been better. No evidence or anything really, just what he says about the game seems to chime more with what I think (which means precisely f**k-nothing, of course).

However, considering everything, Lambert hasn't done all that badly. Not a fun spell right now, but there is hope in a way there wasn't before.

I agree, I always thought solskjaer would have been a great appointment and his was the only name we were heavily linked with that I considered genuinely exciting.  I do think Lambert has done ok though, I know a lot of things have been frustrating but I really believe that last season was an absolute requirement to get ourselves in a position to start progressing and I think without the injuries that have really knocked us this season we'd be 5-6 points better off and no one would be seriously questioning Lambert.