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Offline berneboy

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #255 on: November 24, 2021, 08:20:22 PM »
Has anyone ever seen Johan Lange smile?
Seriously.

He looks so miserable all the time.

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #256 on: November 24, 2021, 08:26:13 PM »
Has anyone ever seen Johan Lange smile?
Seriously.

He looks so miserable all the time.

I've seen him smile
but I've never really heard him laugh

Offline LostInMunich

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #257 on: November 25, 2021, 12:52:00 AM »
Has anyone ever seen Johan Lange smile?
Seriously.

He looks so miserable all the time.

I've seen him smile
but I've never really heard him laugh

Does anyone know whether Johan Lange has a brother?

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #258 on: November 25, 2021, 12:57:39 AM »
Has anyone ever seen Johan Lange smile?
Seriously.

He looks so miserable all the time.

I've seen him smile
but I've never really heard him laugh

Does anyone know whether Johan Lange has a brother?

Ha!

Offline Footy-Vill

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #259 on: August 19, 2022, 11:22:27 AM »
Lange and Purslow, and who or whatever this transfer committee, must get their act together in the next few weeks.
I hoped Lange's contacts and networks would have seen some more incomings, but maybe they don't meet SG requirements or Lange doesn't have the same pull and networking ability as others.
When it comes to efficiency, Arsenal Edu and Spurs Paratici have done an excellent job.
With all due respect, Lange has been adequate, however, with all that was said about signings at the end of the season, I would have expected more.

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #260 on: August 19, 2022, 12:42:33 PM »
Lange and Purslow, and who or whatever this transfer committee, must get their act together in the next few weeks.
I hoped Lange's contacts and networks would have seen some more incomings, but maybe they don't meet SG requirements or Lange doesn't have the same pull and networking ability as others.
When it comes to efficiency, Arsenal Edu and Spurs Paratici have done an excellent job.
With all due respect, Lange has been adequate, however, with all that was said about signings at the end of the season, I would have expected more.


With respect Footy, you've answered your own question there.  Arsenal and Spurs have a much bigger pull then us and that should go without saying.  Our signings have probably exceeded where we are as a club at this moment in time so I see no blame at Lange's door.

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #261 on: August 19, 2022, 12:44:42 PM »
Really?

I think, from what we've seen of Lange, he's been pretty bloody good.

- All transfer dealings have been sorted out promptly, with at least a few reports (e.g. from Exeter) that we've been particularly good to deal with
- Since Lange arrived, I don't think we've particularly overpaid for any players.  In some cases (Coutinho) you'd generally say we've done a good job of haggling down prices
- The youth recruitment has been excellent.  Iroegbunam & Feeney, for example, are already been talked about in terms of what they might offer the first team.  There's plenty more players - Chrisenne springs to mind - that we've bought in fairly cheaply and look like we'll at least turn in a tidy profit from them, but may well do better
- Along those lines too, our scouting of those types of 16-20 year old players seems to be good.  Obvs we don't know what sort of quality they'll end up as, but we've started picking up a lot of promising young players, from relatively obscure footballing outposts, and for considerably less than Chelsea have paid for Barney, or indeed we paid for Tshibola.  They won't all make it, but with the level of spread betting we're doing you'd expect we'll comfortably make our outlay back even if it's just through selling on players who aren't quite good enough.
- Speaking of which, we rinsed Chelsea for £20m in exchange for Barney.  Now, however good he ends up being, £20m for a player who's got one year left on his contract, doesn't want to be here, and wasn't (yet) good enough to make regular subs appearances ... that's not too bad, is it?

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #262 on: August 19, 2022, 12:54:21 PM »
The money tree has dried up. 

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #263 on: August 19, 2022, 12:54:39 PM »
Just contacts wise he's brought in back up goal keeper and back up left back. I want more sorcery with the likes of Mikkel Damsgaard and Christian Eriksen they would have been welcome editions.
Where's his networking and links to the Scandinavia market coming to fruition.
Is it too much to expect a norse god of magic?



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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #264 on: August 19, 2022, 12:57:54 PM »
Eriksen wouldn't come and is not required anyway. Damsgaard is not required and is a health-risk.

Johan has done a great job. Come on Footy, I thought you were a compassionate soul.

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #265 on: August 19, 2022, 12:58:22 PM »
Where's his networking and links to the Scandinavia market coming to fruition.
Is it too much to expect a norse god of magic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Lange_(footballer)

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #266 on: August 19, 2022, 01:01:22 PM »
Eriksen would have been a really terrible signing. We've got Coutinho and Buendia for that position, and most people think that Buendia isn't getting enough time as it is. If we need anybody else, it's central defence, a proper number 8 and a striker as priorities.

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #267 on: August 19, 2022, 01:01:33 PM »
It is clear to me that youth recruitment is a long-term strategy to use as funds to buy established players in football. Its to balance the books and it's just a business model.
It's typical of Chelsea way to sign young players with little intention of keeping them and then sell them.
I'm all for bringing in young talent and we should also consider loaning more young English players abroad.
It's all league one and league two English football.
But do we expect to see Rory Wilson playing for us up front one day?

Anyway, in terms of Lange, my sole focus is on this window and recruiting first-team players and what more we have been hoping for.

I've heard some people say we need four or five more signings to get to where we want to go.
And if we don't make the top half or improve on 14th then some of that will base on what we didn't do this window.

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #268 on: August 19, 2022, 01:11:26 PM »
Eriksen wouldn't come and is not required anyway. Damsgaard is not required and is a health-risk.

Johan has done a great job. Come on Footy, I thought you were a compassionate soul.
Well we see differently. Its a squad game.
And we have a major following in Scandinavia I believe more should be done in getting such top players of Scandia here and also give some of our players to these Nordic regions.
Alexander Isak of Sweden would be great striker for us.
Mohamed Daramy with Copenhagen connections why not bring him into fold. Being able to acquire those would suggest Lange is able to flex some influence outside of data profile players and established names he's done that woth two excellent acquisition of GK and Left back.

Anyway I hear no ill to Lange just would want a few more to help Gerrard squad to be competitive in the higher echelons.
« Last Edit: August 19, 2022, 01:13:22 PM by Footy-Vill »

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Re: Johan Lange - appointed
« Reply #269 on: August 19, 2022, 01:16:18 PM »
Eriksen wouldn't come and is not required anyway. Damsgaard is not required and is a health-risk.

Johan has done a great job. Come on Footy, I thought you were a compassionate soul.
Well we see differently. Its a squad game.
And we have a major following in Scandinavia I believe more should be done in getting such top players of Scandia here and also give some of our players to these Nordic regions.
Alexander Isak of Sweden would be great striker for us.
Mohamed Daramy with Copenhagen connections why not bring him into fold. Being able to acquire those would suggest Lange is able to flex some influence outside of data profile players and established names he's done that woth two excellent acquisition of GK and Left back.

Anyway I hear no ill to Lange just would want a few more to help Gerrard squad to be competitive in the higher echelons.

Daramy only signed for Ajax last year, and is an Ajax player back on loan at Copenhagen for the season, so nothing doing there. Isak's record is a bit shit. I don't think we should be signing players based on their nationality to be honest.

 


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