Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert

[joe_c]

I'm probably in a minority but I can't be entirely negative about Lambert's tenure. After the decline, inertia, stagnation, whatever you want to call the previous three years, it was refreshing to see a change in the club's ethos. The wins over Stoke, Sunderland and Arsenal will always be among my favourite memories of watching the Villa and in Christian Benteke, he brought in one of the best players to ever wear the shirt.

He really needs to shut the fuck up now though. He sounds like someone fired from The Apprentice around the third week when it becomes apparent that, one or two flashes of inspiration apart, he's completely out of his depth yet somehow manages to big themselves up in the taxi ride of fail and assure us that Lord Sugar has made a mistake and that we haven't heard the last of them before disappearing from view for ever.

[Chico Hamilton III]

It would have been interesting to see what Lambert would have done with forty million quid. Well, the twenty five million left after he had bought six crap left backs anyway.

I reckon he'd have spunked the lot on Ricky Lambert to fill the massive hole left by Grant Holt

[Percy McCarthy]

Our net spend is lower than any of your seasons, why don't you mention that you whining tart?

Surely the person who takes most credit for our 'net spend' being so low this summer is er...Paul Lambert?

Sherwood isn't the reason we saw a four-fold return on Benteke's transfer fee or turned Delph into somebody that a Champions League team would want.

Paul Lambert can be blamed for a lot of things, but not turning his predecessor's signings into big incoming transfer fees like Sherwood has isn't really one of them.

How much do you think we'd have got for Benteke in January when Lambert had managed him to his two goal total?

Substantially more than we paid for him.

Edit: How much would you have been willing to sell him for?

If you're ignoring the release clause, probably about £50m. I could see that any half-competent manager could make him worth that again in no time.

[Jimbo]

Put a sock in it, Lambert, you big gobshite.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's still a lower net spend. Which he never mentions when whining about money. Maybe if Lambert had managed the squad better he wouldn't have had a load of players we couldn't shift because he had devalued them. And so he could have spent even more.

[CT Villan]

Lambert the Revisionist in fabricating a false narrative to justify return to management shocker...

Give it a rest Paul, you're a busted flush and a grade-A numpty.

[frank black]

This sums up my thoughts

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paul-lambert-comment-time-sacked-9926028

[Jon Crofts]

This sums up my thoughts

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paul-lambert-comment-time-sacked-9926028

Back at ya yer useless tub of Glaswegian lard.

[Toronto Villa]

shock, horror. The first meaningful Villa article in the Mail in ages and look who wrote it. I can just imagine the Gregg Evans version would have been how right Lambert is and why he was left to fend for himself.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

jordan bowery instead of darren bent says everything you need to know about lamberk

should have been sacked after bradford

[pauliewalnuts]

Where Lambert's argument falls down is in that he failed to get anything like the best out of the players he did have, regardless of any others he wasn't able to buy.

Our team under him almost looked like considerably less than the sum of its parts.

[ciggiesnbeer]

This sums up my thoughts

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paul-lambert-comment-time-sacked-9926028

I bet Kendrick enjoyed writing that. Cant blame him either.

Anyway, yeah, time to stop talking about Villa Paul.

[Villa in Denmark]

If you want to pick flies in the article, McLeish was the only manager of the last decade forced to sell his best players when he lost Young and Downing while he was still trying to find his office at BH.

MON spent shitloads.
Milner sold somewhere.
Houllier didn't have to sell anyone.
McLeish lost Young and Downing.
McFuckup sold no one of value


One of Lambert's many problems was he got almost nothing back from the transfer market. The only one I can think of with a few quid into the kitty is KEA.

If he'd managed to get a few quid in for Benteke Bent, Hutton, Given and company instead of freezing them out maybe he'd have had a better budget in his second summer.

Edited the obvious mistake. Bloody predictive text.

[eamonn]

There was more money for the fecker to spend - he was more than happy to go along with the young and hungry thing - he would have waxed lyrical about how it had worked well for him at Norwich when we intereviewed. I'd have a lot more respect for him if he said something along the lines of ''I did try and blood these talented kids from the lower leagues and other countries but I was probably naive to think that most of them would prosper. Lads like Ashley Westwood make me think that it's still possible to do that but maybe not on a wide scale. But these are the type of things you learn in management especially when going from a medium-sized club like Norwich to a big, potentially massive one like Villa".

[Ian.]

I always thought and hoped that he could succeed and tried for a very long while to keep the faith. I thought he might be a decent sort of chap but all this whinging is really making him look a right bitter idiot.