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I think it’s more a case of I’d rather gamble on an unknown than get someone with an unimpressive record. Couldn’t care less whether they played for us, I think Boateng is a crap coach. I want someone fresh ideally, but was just asking why Keane was beyond the pale but Lampard wasn’t.
Yeah they were pretty good that year, you don't finish top 4 without being a decent team.
We were assured on here that there would be loads of top quality managers pushing hard for the job.
Means you have to put 11 pound on to win 4 pound wheras before you had to put 9 on to win 4
Meaning it's more likely to happen than before
Also, your local lad sticking £5 accies on isn’t backing this to win £2.
You’d have to imagine someone is putting meatier bets on for this to continue to shorten and that usually comes with some form of inside knowledge.
You’d have to imagine someone is putting meatier bets on for this to continue to shorten and that usually comes with some form of inside knowledge.
The noise here is that he's joining us rather than Roma but I think it's based on the recent Mirror article more than anything else.
It was pretty good the squad:
Kepa
Rudiger
Marcus Alonso
Christiansen
Jorginho
Kante
Barkley
Willian
Pedro
Zouma
Kovavic
Giroud
Pulisic
Batshuayi
Azpilicueta
Emersen
Then you add in the young talent you mention, that's a hell of a good squad.
Yeah, better look out for a big bet from someone called Christine, with a strong Northern Irish accent
No mate, the multi billion pound bookies are just winging it, apparently.
Ah the waiting is the worst. Just get it over with. Do we reckon he’ll unveil literally at the CWR thing?
A lot of those players really came to the fore under Lampard to be fair. I’m not so sure many people would’ve fancied Mount to emerge as a key player for a Top 4 team one season after playing in the Championship.
It’s the problem looking at teams retrospectively, a lot of players have developed since that point in time.
The consensus that year was that Lampard performed a miracle that season. Reports after he brought new players in the season after basically didn’t rate Lampard tactically. Which, ironically, is something close to what probably happened with Robins from 2023/24 to 2024/25.
He’ll have my backing if it’s him, but I have to confess that it cheapens the whole thing if we’re his second choice and he was looking for other jobs too. That might be assumption and presumption, I hold my hands up, but it’s just another way that we no longer have stability and we’re more of a ‘normal’ club, as opposed to being a club where the manager had almost started to feel like “one of us”.
And I think that is exactly why it hurts so much. Because Robins genuinely loved the club. Was loyal to the club. Felt part of us. Now he's gone so that's why it hurts.
Because in the cold light of day the performances and the malaise from the back end of last season hasn't been good enough but because of his affinity to us we felt the same back. Felt so unique.
If it is Lampard I wish him nothing but the best and hope he can be the guy to get us across the line.
That same group of players finished 3rd the previous season, albeit with Hazard and Luiz
Hazard was ridiculous that season mind and to lose him was massive
If you care to remember that Europa League final against Arsenal which was Hazard's final game in a Chelsea top he basically beat them on his own
He's been linked with Roma before MR was even sacked.
Hazard was a player of the season or thereabouts, right? The other teams around Chelsea would’ve strengthened their teams and Chelsea were under a transfer embargo.
In any which case, finishing in the Top 4 is still a massive achievement. The top teams can be notoriously difficult to manage so you’ve got to give Lampard his dues for managing that. Again, we’re a Championship team and we’re not going to get another manager with that his CV.
Look at the bookies, do the other managers have better achievements than Lampard? I don’t think so pragmatically, he’s probably the best candidate out there.
Yes he was as good that season, but the ways being talked about is he guided a mid table mediocre side to the dizzy heights of 4th place. That's a bloody good squad, and they brought Kovavic in for £40m before the embargo was placed on them.
The 4th finish was par. His work at Derby given his squad was par
Chelsea
18/19 3rd
19/20 4th * Lampard
20/21 4th
21/22 3rd
Even the guardian predicted 4th
Premier League 2019-20 review: our predictions versus reality
He achieved par at both derby and Chelsea
This is the kind of post us betting challenged folks can endorse!
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