I didn’t realise" I thought you’d made a deliberate error in order to entice me into further correction. Like one of them men who likes leather clad women to dominate them.
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It’s all bloody foreign, gav!
No need point proved and the people can now see what I’ve been seeing for the last six months, only myself and New York Saint have been saying it, he is a cheap yes man out of his depth and can’t manage players, he is shit.
Nice guy shit manager.
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Point proved. Really? I’ll wait for next season, when he gets to play his own team(i don’t think he’s going).
Point proved in the fact we’ve gone backwards, in part to sales and not buying good enough but also to the fact he isn’t a motivator, why would buying new players motivate what we’ll keep?
I google translated it. Didn’t bother with the video as Claude was talking in it.
So you admit that we’ve struggled because of selling senior pros and replacing them with promising young players. Why is this Puel fault? Let him clear out the players he wants and bring in players that can play the way he demands. Then judge him.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out selling your best players continually you are eventually going to drop a bollock, the same with managers, Pochettino and Koeman were brilliant finds, this one wasn’t, mistakes happen, cut you losses and get rid.
The team regardless of signings have massively underperformed.
So if we finish 8th(same as Poch) but with a cup final(remember how we all moaned about the cups) and replacing senior pros with youngsters, that’s the manager failing? Koeman replaced senior pros with senior pros, so how does that compare?
There are many reasons for success/failure and i don’t think you or NYS are taking everything into account. NYS mentioned Nice but chose to omit certain important factors, like this.
Admittedly, Chinese backing was key in Nice being able to pay the wages of Balotelli, Dante and Belhanda.
Puel has had it harder than both previous managers. Europe/cup run/injuries/young team and not replacing our 2 highest scorers.
He’s not Jesus, so stop expecting miracles.
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I’m not expecting miracles at all, entertainment is one thing missing.
Tactically he is little boy lost.
Not to mention the rumour he has lost the dressing room.
He is gone, and good to as we’ve gone backwards.
With your unparallelled insight It’s a wonder you haven’t made a great impact in the professional game. <turns to mecca and genuflects>
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A good cup run and a mid table finish was deemed good enough at the start of the season but not now? Puel deserves the chance to build his own team. I would give him another season.
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He has lost the dressing room, the brand of football is poor, players look unhappy, fans are too judging by the complaints.
How many points are we from the last few seasons?
We’re going backwards, not treading water, going backwards and I for one have no faith that he can put it right?
Gone.
I often wonder myself.
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I actually agree with this, which is why I’ve stuck by him up until now - the problem is that I just don’t see any progress in terms of the team’s cohesion. They still spend far too many matches looking like strangers - completely unsure as to where their teammates are planning on making their runs, looking to play one-touch passes to players who aren’t there, mixing things up in midfield and so on. Yes, there are exceptions but the problems seem to persist.
I thought we might have turned a corner with the away games against Sunderland and Watford but we’re still facing the same issues at home that we did at the beginning of the season against the likes of Sunderland, Watford and Be’er Sheba.
It isn’t all about the results or even immediate improvement necessarily - but you do want to see something that at least look like the manager/coaches/team is working on things, has a plan to improve the way we play and actually make progress.
Look at Marco Silva at Hull - he’s implemented a survival strategy straight away - they’re going to try and win their home games regularly whilst setting up to pick up the occasional point away from home that should see them over the line. As a friend of mine said the other day - they don’t win every game, but its amazing how he’s got that mob winning seemingly every single ‘must win’ game, no matter how thick and fast they come and even when they go down to ten men after half an hour. I’m well impressed.
Under Pochettino at the end of 12/13 we actually lost more than we won, but you could see that he was implementing a gameplan, had a philosophy of bringing young players through, was getting individual players to change or adapt their style (pushing Schneiderlin further forward for instance) and so on. It was exciting. I was really looking forward to the 13/14 season. When we drew at home to Sunderland in our first home match I was still feeling excited about how the season would shape up. When we lost 0-1 at home to bottom club Cardiff I was still feeling like the club was moving in the right direction and that it really was just an off-day.
Under Puel we seem to muddle along, winning some, losing some, never really being in any danger of relegation as our players are good enough for that not to be an issue, but with no real progress or improvement. On Saturday we played a deliberately attacking lineup - but it didn’t look like we’d been working on it on the training pitch and preparing for the game in the week - it looked like he’d just thrown his three attacking midfielders up front and thought ‘meh, see if this works’. I don’t feel like we’re really adding any strings to our bow here - we’re still married to the totally inflexible 4-3-3 which fails miserably if a few vital players have an off-day.
I don’t know. It reminds me an awful lot of England under Hodgson. The World Cup exit being an embarrassment that was papered over by a successful qualifying campaign owed to the fact that our players are too good to fail to get through an easy group, but with the same issues never addressed once making the final tournament and a repeat performance.
I just can’t see things changing, improving or what I’m supposed to be excited about moving into next season. He’s been given plenty of time now.
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I didn’t know he had lost the dressing room. Got a link?
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Thoughtful post @mrtrampoline and i can’t argue with a lot of it, except the last sentence. Plenty of time would be 6 months into playing his own team. If it’s no better then, i’ll go along with @barry-sanchez that he’s a yes man and out of his depth. Oh and an inbred.
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Chain, golf or cuff?
I also heard he had lost the dressing room.
But I heard it from Barry who said it was a rumour an hour ago, and then shortly afterwards he upgraded his own rumour to fact.
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