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Its a done deal and will be announced any minute now. I'll fully be behind Frank but I have major major concerns.

I'm not sure he's good at breaking down low blocks. I don't think his teams show much on the ball in the final third when up against a sitting team. This is my major concern. Spamming the box with crosses isn't enough. You need to have clever possession patterns to break teams down in different ways. His Brentford team always struggled when a team sat on them and thats why they went nearly 4 months without a home win this season from december to April, including a 1-0 defeat at home to Plymouth in the cup.

I think he'll be an improvement on Ange is most other areas. Tactically more adaptable and much better shape out of possesion. Imagine we'll be much more boring to watch but thats not a bad thing if it means we have more control in games. I hope Frank surprises me, but for now I'm underwhelmed and not confident he's the right fit.
 
Goldstein on the radio saying if we finished 17th 3 years in a row and won 3 cups in a row, that's good as we won't win the league.

Do these fucking muppets know there are places between 1st and 17th and that they matter?
 
LLB Part Deux said:
I don't think they will, fully, but expect that they'll priortise the Club World Cup which, if they go all the way, ends on 13th July. That's just a month before the Super Cup. Their league will get underway the following week so maybe...
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In any case I am not going to judge Frank off that game if we do happen to get spanked. I think PSG have 4 or 5 players that would be in with a shout for best in the world in their position ... and the rest aren't too shabby.
 
Don Pedro said:
Its a done deal and will be announced any minute now. I'll fully be behind Frank but I have major major concerns.

I'm not sure he's good at breaking down low blocks. I don't think his teams show much on the ball in the final third when up against a sitting team. This is my major concern. Spamming the box with crosses isn't enough. You need to have clever possession patterns to break teams down in different ways. His Brentford team always struggled when a team sat on them and thats why they went nearly 4 months without a home win this season from december to April, including a 1-0 defeat at home to Plymouth in the cup.

I think he'll be an improvement on Ange is most other areas. Tactically more adaptable and much better shape out of possesion. Imagine we'll be much more boring to watch but thats not a bad thing if it means we have more control in games. I hope Frank surprises me, but for now I'm underwhelmed and not confident he's the right fit.
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I've always been confident he was the perfect fit in regards to tactics and approach. I just felt that it didn't give the right impression to bring in someone that hasn't won anything straight after we finally won something.

In regards to tactics, being adaptable, personality and man management I have no doubts with him. He was the one I wanted from the very beginning and who I voted for when near enough nobody did, such is my confidence with what I've seen.
 
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kingdawson said:
I've always been confident he was the perfect fit in regards to tactics and approach. I just felt that it didn't give the right impression to bring in someone that hasn't won anything straight after we finally won something.

In regards to tactics, being adaptable, personality and man management I have no doubts with him. He was the one I wanted from the very beginning and who I voted for when near enough nobody did, such is my confidence with what I've seen.
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Hope you are right and I'm wrong!
 
kingdawson said:
I've always been confident he was the perfect fit in regards to tactics and approach. I just felt that it didn't give the right impression to bring in someone that hasn't won anything straight after we finally won something.
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It was a difficult decision, but Ange's general failure put us in it. The Board did the right thing even though it was the harder thing.

All this talk will fade when the results come. I am confident that a competent tactical manager will raise our level right away, as will the summer break and the healthy bodies it should bring.

And anyone who backed Ange but would now criticize Frank if the results are not great will have to wait to call for his head until we are no longer in any of the cups, won't they? No matter how poor the League results, goes the refrain, the cups the cups the cups.
 
PerthPaul said:
You're right, what we want is instant success. In his first season, if he doesn't deliver at least a trophy and a top 4 finish against more settled squads, with bigger budgets then he should definitely be sacked.

What we shouldn't do is follow Man City, when Pep invested heavily in his first season and won nothing for the first time in his career, he should have been sacked straight away. Man City really F**ked up there.
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Are you really comparing Pep and Frank. The magic line is "and won nothing for the first time in his career" you knew he would win and win a lot eventually. I'm told all Frank needs is better resources and he will be a serial winner. He'll have those now so dont see why there should be any wasted seasons.

For the record I'm not demanding a top 4 finish or even a top 6 finish. 9th and a domestic cup and I'll be first to say I was wrong about Frank. 6th/7th, no domestic cup and out of the CL in the last 16 or earlier and I'd argue what's the point.
 
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