Lack of quality... he's got 25 full internationals available to him. Many from tier 1 countries. They are not playing anywhere near their talent levels and potential. That is on the manager.
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Manager Thomas Frank
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Will frank last till end of season? If he does and poch is available who would you rather play like? Denmark or Argentina? Think thats pretty obvious.
When are kulu and solanke back btw?
Top 8 the goal??? Are you serious???
The goal should be top 4/5 every season. Anything less is failure and should be treated as such.
It should be the goal but everyone knows its an unrealistic goal. We simply dont have a squad good enough.
We finished 17th and with 38 points last season. It was salvaged from total disaster with the Europa, but you seriously downplay the severity of that.
If we finish 8th, nobody is sacking Frank for climbing 9 places in the table
They didn't a concrete time line for either. Just vaguely saying they're doing better
I keep reading comments saying he's a nice man but he's had two pops at fans in last month "true fans" and "loyal fans". Not seeing this nice man bit coming through. He's massively underperforming and all he's done is point in the finger of blame on fans. Take some fucking ownership of how shit you have done in your role.
I’d like Frank to be a little more annoyed when we lose.
After yet another loss at home yesterday he started off his post match talk with: “First and foremost I’m extremely proud of the players and the team”. He seemed quite pleased with everything….
After yet another loss at home yesterday he started off his post match talk with: “First and foremost I’m extremely proud of the players and the team”. He seemed quite pleased with everything….
At least we aren’t watching him get buttfucked on tv. Oh wait.
Then the board need to be hounded until it is a realistic goal. We managed to finally get the figure head out (which everyone said was impossible) if we don't see a massive change of direction in January then the pressure on the Lewis cartel needs to be relentless.
There was context around 17th which you are choosing to ignore and are treating it like a new norm. Why not look at the season before when we finished 5th with a squad inferior to our current squad. I loathe anyone who uses last season as a reason to excuse Frank for the shit show being served up every week. Just fuck off, the lot of you... and take Frank with you.
We have a squad at least on a par with Villa. They have a far superior manager. Change Emery for Frank and we are top 4. No question.
We saw this with Nuno also: For a manager, moving up is not solely a matter of adapting to new demands of a bigger club that barely exist at lower levels. There's also no guarantee for things that he and his teams were good at at the lower level to scale up smoothly.
Nuno's Wolves and Forest teams were always among the most compact ones in the league, yet when he was here we had that Woolwich game among others where the midfield was wide open the entire time. He not only struggled to get us to play front foot football, but also lost his strengths in the process of trying to implement a style that doesn't come naturally to him.
That's what I see happening with Frank as well. It's otherwise inexplicable for us to concede what is now 22 goals in last 13 league games with an almost fully healthy back 5, with a manager that was supposed to be good at this. Or to be 17th in fast breaks, defined by OPTA as this:
A team like West Ham are 5th and Brentford are 7th in this for example. Make of that what you will.
Nuno's Wolves and Forest teams were always among the most compact ones in the league, yet when he was here we had that Woolwich game among others where the midfield was wide open the entire time. He not only struggled to get us to play front foot football, but also lost his strengths in the process of trying to implement a style that doesn't come naturally to him.
That's what I see happening with Frank as well. It's otherwise inexplicable for us to concede what is now 22 goals in last 13 league games with an almost fully healthy back 5, with a manager that was supposed to be good at this. Or to be 17th in fast breaks, defined by OPTA as this:
A team like West Ham are 5th and Brentford are 7th in this for example. Make of that what you will.
I'd like Frank to fuck off and take his back room cunts with him. Put Matt Wells in charge or bring Mason back. Anything is better than the current dumpster fire.
In his first press conference he said the only thing he can guarantee is that we will lose games.
This looks like a major red flag the longer this experiment with Brentfords Graham Potter goes on.
Small time mentality