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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?

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CJJ said:
I mean, that and the 22 losses, which is twice as many wins (11) this season. Had 23 wins from the last 57 league games (1.5 seasons, or from start of 2024). 68 points out of a possible 171. 1.19 points per league game. Basically average of a 45 point season.

Or, in other contexts, equal to pretty much the absolute trough of the 90s.


I wouldn't imagine even the most reality-warping, staunched anti-Levy people could make the mental gymnastics to refer to it as a bad decision, unless they had ambition the same level of West Ham fans, who seem happy to avoid relegation and grateful to win a trophy.



Our wage bill is higher than Newcastle's, treble Brentfords, double Nottingham Forest's and Brighton's... in what reality is that 'relegation club salaries'?

Hyperbole never does anything to make me take the criticism as genuine.
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Levy is an efficient CEO of a company that wants to produce a ROI.
He's a dreadful CEO of a football team as he keeps sacking managers he should keep and his management and hiring policy is totally flawed. As for Ange - if you can't work out why there was a win to loss ratio like that in the last season then you must have a severe attention deficit issues.
 
Distinctly underwhelming if we go for TF, but I’ll back him 100% anyway.
It feels like a safe appointment to keep us comfortably in the top half of the table rather than targeting trophies and a title challenge. I think it’s more about the money than the football.
 
I’m not gonna pretend like I watch Brentford play. But the one thing I like is that when I look up Frank’s tactics it says he plays 443 or a 343 or 352 which means he’s flexible and pragmatic. And the fact that Ange was neither pragmatic nor flexible is what cost him his job.
 
AlabamaSpur said:
I’m not gonna pretend like I watch Brentford play. But the one thing I like is that when I look up Frank’s tactics it says he plays 443 or a 343 or 352 which means he’s flexible and pragmatic. And the fact that Ange was neither pragmatic nor flexible is what cost him his job.
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Formation =/= tactics.

His tactics are fairly consistent.
 
Mick Cooper said:
Levy is an efficient CEO of a company that wants to produce a ROI.
He's a dreadful CEO of a football team as he keeps sacking managers he should keep and his management and hiring policy is totally flawed. As for Ange - if you can't work out why there was a win to loss ratio like that in the last season then you must have a severe attention deficit issues.
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I can't think of any.

Ange one is obvious
Conte wanted to work remotely
Nuno never had the dressing room (see Joe Hart's interview).
Mourinho lost the dressing room
Poch spent a calendar year boasting about how he'd leave us for Man Utd whilst losing as much as he could
AVB gave up after being spanked religiously by Liverpool and City
Redknapp (by his own admission) made his own grave by managing England before he was actually interviewed.

Not sure what I missed.

Mick Cooper said:
As for Ange - if you can't work out why there was a win to loss ratio like that in the last season then you must have a severe attention deficit issues.
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No issues working it out - he's sharped his sword in leagues where the athleticism is far lower, and has built his philosophy on not having a Plan B (as attested to by many of his colleagues)
 
 
Spanish Spur said:
Can someone on this thread make the case for Frank for those of us who are underwhelmed by the prospect? :avbmad:
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From what I have watched and read about him in the last few days here are some thoughts...

He is a tactician who plays offensive football but has solid defensive principles that translate to all different set ups.

I would say he's very similar to Poch at this point in time and will put players in their right spots. Will be pragmatic enough to play different systems based on need and not this insane this is the way we play philosophy that in most years would have seen us relegated.

In this past season they scored 2 more goals than us and conceded 8 less with vastly inferior players.
 
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