The Paul Lambert thread - poll reset after our capitulation to Hull

[Jim Shoes]

Poor manager imo but after the fiasco of TSM and Hollier I don't trust Lerner's judgement to get a good manager in.

That said for Lerner he probably ticks all the "can work on a shoe string" boxes so nothing including the inevitable relegation at some point will mean Lambert leaves VP any time soon.

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Inevitable relegation?

[levico]

Inevitable relegation?

Obviously not but if you continue to flirt with relegation year on year you increase the likelihood of your luck running out one season. We've seen this evidenced by many erstwhile PL clubs over the past 20 years - a number if whom have never returned to the top flight.

[JUAN PABLO]

Leonardo is looking to manage a club . Is he any good ?   sounds better than some of the  normal names that come out to replace Lambert , well his name any way       or is Leonardo brazillian for Lambert

[Dave]

Not based on what he did in Italy.

[JUAN PABLO]

Not based on what he did in Italy.

was he crap  then    ok

[Monty]

Leonardo has good ideas but nothing like the character needed for management.

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Inevitable relegation?

Obviously not but if you continue to flirt with relegation year on year you increase the likelihood of your luck running out one season. We've seen this evidenced by many erstwhile PL clubs over the past 20 years - a number if whom have never returned to the top flight.

We haven't flirted with relegation this year.

[Dante Lavelli]

In our current austerity, Lambo will either have to be very bad or walkout. I don't think he'll get sacked because of how much we've spent on sacking managers in recent years. My worry is nothing short of relegation will get Lambert canned, so simply scraping in or around 40 points every year might be the extent of our ambition now.

What I can see happening, and maybe what I'd like to see happen is that the club simply run down his contract.  At some point either Lambert take a contract elsewhere (Celtic?) or the body of evidence will be such that a final decision can be made with greater certainty on whether he deserves a new contract or to be sacked.  My feeling at the moment is he deserves the next transfer window but definitely not a new contract.

[Toronto Villa]

I just don't see any manager agreeing to a lifetime of austerity. My guess is he bought into the idea when he joined that he would need to work within some strict parameters until the club achieved a certain financial position. I cannot believe that as a successful player and up until joining us a relatively successful manager he will have settled for sitting in the bottom half of the PL buying players for £2-3m for eternity. I am hoping that as we arrive at year 3, that he will be allowed to invest and improve the side with better players on better wages.

[danlanza]

I would not bet on it.
It will be the same dross on the Transfer thread in the Summer.
I really don't think there is any magic Plan for us at all.

[mr underhill]

I think you are right. I can't see any reason why Randy would spend four years desperately trying to prune costs - and there are still huge wage earners still on  the books that need to go - only to loosen the purse strings now. IMO the transfer budget this summer will be sales plus 10m

[Ger Regan]

You think we'll spend less than last summer? Really?

[rob_bridge]

You think we'll spend less than last summer? Really?

It depends on whether we sell anyone.

[levico]

Inevitable relegation?

Obviously not but if you continue to flirt with relegation year on year you increase the likelihood of your luck running out one season. We've seen this evidenced by many erstwhile PL clubs over the past 20 years - a number if whom have never returned to the top flight.

We haven't flirted with relegation this year.

But possibly we about to, on current form.