Lambert's replacement

[ozzjim]

Tonight he wound me up intensely. Excellent my arse. Grrrr...

[Rudy65]

I too can't stand all this fucking pointless "ooh, he's thick because he's Scottish sounding" or "he mumbles" nonsense. It is just that, nonsense. Who gives a fuck if he mumbles?

Like there aren't already several dozen other, more relevant things to have a pop at him about.

If anything, he doesn't mumble enough. I'm sure if i couldn't understand his post match interviews, I'd generally be much happier.

Maybe. But any sort of Churchillian speech would be lost with such mumbling. He was interviewed earlier tonight And for a few seconds I couldn't work out what he had said.

The accent is one thing, but he doesn't really show any emotion, whether happy or sad. Just monotoned. Its not great when you are trying to inspire someone, let alone a struggling team

[aj2k77]

That's it, if he were straight talking he'd piss me off a bit less and I could understand when he' talk shit when we had a young side, protecting the players and that but it's the same drivel no matter what, rain or shine we were excellent or could have had a result. For fuck sake Paul pull your head out of your arsehole and start talking some sense and yes I do want to see him animated on the touch line, call me old fashioned but he fucks me off when he's sat there like a wet blanket as we get played off the park again, get off your arse, you don't have to rant and rave but give the players some instructions because they bloody need it. Right now everything he says goes over my head because he'd got no credibility and it's looking like the same with the players, he's on the verge of becoming a laughing stock.

I want to hear something insightful from him or see something new and inventive that makes me think actually he might have something to offer but he doesn't.

Same team selections.
Same team set ups.
Same substitutions.
Same excuses that are an insult to our intelligence. We are not blind, we can see the team is pants.

He really pisses me off and I can't wait to see the back of the dumb and dumber partnership we've got going, fitting that we should make Gabby club captain, possibly the dumbest player in the squad.

[Toronto Villa]

Tonight he wound me up intensely. Excellent my arse. Grrrr...

On Bizarro World "excellent" means that things are completely and utterly gash. It is possible that his body is in this world, but during the journey his mind was held back at customs.

[Lee]

Tonight he wound me up intensely. Excellent my arse. Grrrr...

I really can't watch his interviews anymore. Whether he is mumbling or talking, to me it just sounds like horse shit.

[N'ZMAV]

I honestly cannot think of a suitable replacement for Lambert that is out of work. I'm not saying there isn't one, just that my knowledge of out-of-work football managers is far from comprehensive.

[mr underhill]

 does he have to be out of work? Are we so impoverished, financially and imaginatively, that we have to limit the scope of our ambition to someone we don't have to pay compo to?

[N'ZMAV]

Probably.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'd imagine compensation for the remaining years of his contract would only be paid if he isn't working. As soon as he takes a new job I'd guess the payments stop. Right now we can't afford to keep him.

As for alternative managers, there are plenty out there, both working and available. The only real question is whether we replace Lambert now or wait until the summer. Replacing now would possibly mean paying compensation to both Lambert and his successor's club. Somebody like Thomas Tuchel is available but we'd need to reach agreement with Mainz to release him, even though he's no longer working.

Managers like Frank de Boer would probably mean we have to wait until the summer. I really hope this time we aim high and get somebody in that can really lift the club and finally get us moving in the right direction. I recall Brian Green on here saying how much we need to go out and pay whatever it takes to get the right manager and I wholeheartedly agree.

I wonder how much more interested Randy Lerner would have been if he hadn't had to work with such poor managers? Everything starts and ends with the manager. Players come and go but the manager is not only the spokesman of the club but also it's heartbeat. Right now we barely have a pulse and the only thing keeping the club alive are the fans.

[olaftab]

Lerner's misfortune was that when he was putting serious money into the club with proud history bright future iniative  he ended up with absolutely the wrong manager in O'Neil. O'Neil did very well within his own capability however Lerner needed a good football man to tell him to replace O'Neil after the first season.

[olaftab]

I honestly cannot think of a suitable replacement for Lambert that is out of work. I'm not saying there isn't one, just that my knowledge of out-of-work football managers is far from comprehensive.

Why only out of work? Our two best managers in the recent past (BFR and Sir BL) were poached from other clubs...oh hang on so was our worst!

[john e]

I honestly cannot think of a suitable replacement for Lambert that is out of work. I'm not saying there isn't one, just that my knowledge of out-of-work football managers is far from comprehensive.

Kevin Keegan's out of work
We would score goals and be entertaining

That's that sorted

[Damo70]

I honestly cannot think of a suitable replacement for Lambert that is out of work. I'm not saying there isn't one, just that my knowledge of out-of-work football managers is far from comprehensive.

Kevin Keegan's out of work
We would score goals and be entertaining

That's that sorted

Let's have a yes/no Keegan poll.

I would love it, really love it/I really wouldn't love it

[OCD]

Lerner's misfortune was that when he was putting serious money into the club with proud history bright future iniative  he ended up with absolutely the wrong manager in O'Neil. O'Neil did very well within his own capability however Lerner needed a good football man to tell him to replace O'Neil after the first season.

Any successful businessman will tell you that you can't work into an organisation that you're not familiar with and blindly assume that people know what they're doing. Lerner was an absolute idiot for not putting together an executive team who were vastly experienced in football. Had he done that before investing the sums that he did, we (and Lerner himself) would be in a much better position.

[Steve kirk]

Not a very popular candidate on previous new manager threads but what I would give for Big Sam now, what a job he has done this season and there still not that keen on him down at the Hammers.