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Offline eamonn

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #465 on: December 21, 2017, 06:38:07 PM »
Yep, he believed in young and hungry and spouting it in his interview likely helped get him the job.

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #466 on: December 21, 2017, 09:19:02 PM »
He's been at it again albeit talking about Wolves this time. "I'm pretty sure I'd have been up there too," Lambert told BBC WM.
"I knew if we could revamp it in the summertime and get the players in, indicated by the sort of money that they have now, we wouldn't have been far away.
"I knew the size of the club. The club is huge. They have great people there and brilliant supporters. Everything is going for them."

lol. Paul, go home man, your drunk.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #467 on: December 21, 2017, 09:30:32 PM »
Lambert was nowhere near as badly treated on what he had to spend as he would have you believe.

Key moment for me was summer 2013.

We ended that season strongly after looking certs to being relegated, Benteke had performed a U turn and stayed which was another boost so to me that was the time to give him 30m and try to get in three decent players to supplement the spine of Guzan, Vlaar, Delph and Benteke.

That was the summer we got in Bacuna, helenius, Luna, Tonev (shudders) for about 10m.

That's the one summer I have sympathy for him. The next one he should've been sacked.

That said, given the limited funds getting in Kozak for 7m summed things up. Not the worst striker we've ever signed but just the wrong sort of forward, we need an attacking midfielder much more.

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #468 on: December 21, 2017, 10:41:13 PM »
Wasn't that also the summer where it was strongly rumoured that he didn't spend all that he'd been given?

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #469 on: December 21, 2017, 10:43:01 PM »
Wasn't that also the summer where it was strongly rumoured that he didn't spend all that he'd been given?
It was, so deserves no sympathy whatsoever.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #470 on: December 21, 2017, 11:46:50 PM »
From memory we had a bid accepted for Clint Dempsey but he chose Spurs (or Liverpool?). We bought Benteke soon after but apparently the money for Dempsey was still available to be used elsewhere then or in the next window.

Offline Tuscans

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #471 on: January 15, 2018, 11:33:07 AM »
Back at Stoke

Offline Dave Javu

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #472 on: January 15, 2018, 11:37:24 AM »
It's not often that I feel sympathy for Stoke City.

My thoughts are with them at this very sad time.

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #473 on: January 15, 2018, 11:47:48 AM »
Fucking hell!

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #474 on: January 15, 2018, 11:54:12 AM »
Some things transcend mere football rivalries, and it is in that spirit that I think we should all spare a prayer for our friends in the Potteries on what is undoubtedly a very sad day for them.

Offline rob_bridge

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Re: Paul Lambert talks about Villa again
« Reply #475 on: January 15, 2018, 11:56:56 AM »
Some things transcend mere football rivalries, and it is in that spirit that I think we should all spare a prayer for our friends in the Potteries on what is undoubtedly a very sad day for them.

I have to agree - I don't wish him on the Stokies. Fuck me they'd be better off with Big Eck, who despite being an equally useless manage, had the saving grace of being a decent bloke.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #476 on: January 15, 2018, 12:14:23 PM »
Paul Lambert must wake up in the morning and scratch his head in sheer disbelief that somehow he's still involved in football management. 

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #477 on: January 15, 2018, 12:17:31 PM »
Presumably Coates was passed a list of available managers and plumped for the only one he'd heard of. There's no other explanation.

Offline Richard E

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #478 on: January 15, 2018, 12:21:36 PM »
Can you imagine supporting a club that had been managed by Tony Pulis AND TSM II? You'd be slashing your wrists, if all the blood hadn't already drained out of your eyes from watching the football.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #479 on: January 15, 2018, 12:22:16 PM »
Presumably Coates was passed a list of available managers and plumped for the only one he'd heard of. There's no other explanation.

He's still their 4th choice by the look of things. A ringing endorsement.

 


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