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And the stadium sponsorship it happening any minute now.
Whisper it...takeover.
I take it you are joking...
And the stadium sponsorship it happening any minute now.
Whisper it...takeover.
Routledge was the starter for sure and Azza was a nice little punt on a promising player "for the future". One injury and history is written.Wasn't Routledge and Lennon on a similar level when they started out? I seem to remember Routledge had a good peace cup, had some good games for us but got injured a lot, which allowed Lennon to break through outright.
I think a lot of people had that opinion.
I remember everyone with any sense was strongly agreeing with the proposition that if we sold Bale we wouldn't be getting a string of 'football manager fantasy signings' like Lamela...but we were wrong, wrong wrong.
I....I.....I....actually liked Jermain Jenas.........sorry
Yes.
Juande Ramos
Who wasn't excited by this one. The lengths DL went to get his man, becoming lifelong enemies with Sevilla in the process. He was the messiah, OUR special one. Turned out he was special all right, just in a different kind of way. Now slumming it with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Prior to that he spent some time at CSKA Moscow announcing on arrival "I have come here to help the team in the Champions League. Our target is to advance from the group stage"...he was turfed out 47 days later!
I remember that you stupid xxxx, how'd ya feel now then numpty boy!!! Hahahahaha!! *does wanker hand gesture*I slated the recruitment of AVB as was a massive Harry fan. I thought AVB was another Ramos.
I was SOOOOOOOO wrong on every count.
Its a bit boring though now - I have nothing to moan about
I think AVB will be a good appointment wherever he ends up next. His failure at Chelsea IMO was more down to the players being resistant to the changes he was trying to introduce and him subsequently not being backed by the board as anything else. Everyone agreed at the beginning of last season that the Chelsea team were too old and need major changes, and that's what he was brought in for, yet he was given very little chance to make such changes, getting slaughtered for changing tactics, resting/rotating the likes of Lampard and Drogba, and trying to get players to press the ball. Di Matteo is getting a lot of credit for turning around their season, but he did that pretty much by reverting back to basics and of course some unbelievable luck. That's all well and good in the short term, but if they do decide to give him the job permanently, everyone will see just how much of a task it is trying to rebuild there for the long term. AVB is a very good coach, and very knowledgable about tactics and how they're constantly evolving. I doubt we'd have a chance at getting him, but I reckon his methods (particularly a high-line and intense pressing) would have far more chance of succeeding with the younger and dynamic players we have in our team (Walker, Lennon, Bale, Sandro, even VdV....and ball-playing CBs like Kaboul and Vertonghen if he comes) than they did at Chelsea.
AVB (if we could get him) would be a great appointment. he's a brilliant coach.
if we did get AVB, I'm pretty sure that would complete our hero-to-villain transformation as far as the media is concerned, given how they absolutely love 'Arry and hate AVB. we're already copping it all yesterday and today with numerous articles about the impending doom and gloom that will soon surround us, and how we'll soon be free-falling into oblivion because we've let go the best thing that ever happened to us. I even heard someone comparing it to when Charlton got rid of Curbishley, with the warning "be careful what you wish for". people really are silly.
I think they stand more of a chance of working with a younger and more athletic back line than he had at Chelsea, ball-playing centre-backs like Kaboul and Vertonghen, and the attacking players buying into the idea of pressing from the front, winning possession higher up the pitch, thus easing the load on the defenders. I definitely think we've most of the pieces to make such a system work.