Is Bruno Lage A Good Manager Or Should He Go?

[Deutsch Wolf]

AVB is more interested in rally driving than football. He would of course still be better than Lage, as I'm sure also applies to Sébastien Loeb.

 

[Tredman]

Can't see much in my photo

 

[Lupo]

A guy on the Mix reckons AVB was at the Saints game as a guest of Guo.

Arctic Rime has replied that this is correct, not sure how ITK if anything these guys are

Regarding not seeing him, I'm sure it would all be very covert given the nature of the situation so they wouldn't have him sat outside a box in full view of fans and media

 

[pr0sl0]

This is complete speculation on my part but Bruno almost feels like he was appointed as a stop gap.

Sacked Nuno but weren’t ready to spend the money on the squad needed to attract the next level of manager so just went for whoever we could get that would do a job i.e. Lage.

Now we have actually invested in the squad and Lage is completely out of his depth they are either waiting for our no.1 target to be available (e.g. Lopetegui) or are just waiting for the right ‘optics’ to now sack Lage without getting a backlash for it.

This has long been my read on him as well.

Appointed during a time when it seemed like Fosun was pulling back from investing in the club in terms of players as well. Would’ve no doubt been a significantly cheaper hire than Nuno, and lacking any kind of leverage to push back against transfer decisions being made by the inner circle around Shi. Never gonna win the league, but (at the time it was a fair assumption tbh) probably not going to get the club relegated either. He was expected to be effectively a permanent caretaker at worst, and at best his hiring might have ended up being a stroke of genius if that first season at Benfica wasn’t a fluke.

It’s also why I think the writing’s been on the wall ever since Guo reopened his cheque book towards the end of the window. Returning to a stance of investing in first team players surely must also mean higher expectations for the coaching staff. I just can’t see how he survives until January unless he miracles together a run of straight wins from out of nowhere, starting basically now.

 

[wanderer89]

Arctic Rime has replied that this is correct, not sure how ITK if anything these guys are

Regarding not seeing him, I'm sure it would all be very covert given the nature of the situation so they wouldn't have him sat outside a box in full view of fans and media

Think he mentioned Sasa before we were linked with him, could be wrong though.

 

[Jinky]

A guy on the Mix reckons AVB was at the Saints game as a guest of Guo.

He'd have definitely been spotted by someone so my guess is the bloke on the Mix is a belmer, who is chatting nonsense

 

[sycophantia]

He'd have definitely been spotted by someone so my guess is the bloke on the Mix is a belmer, who is chatting nonsense

Why did you have to go and say that, it's the hope that kills ya.

 

[Banjo]

It’s also why I think the writing’s been on the wall ever since Guo reopened his cheque book towards the end of the window. Returning to a stance of investing in first team players surely must also mean higher expectations for the coaching staff. I just can’t see how he survives until January unless he miracles together a run of straight wins from out of nowhere, starting basically now.

This is also my view. The reopening of the chequebook is a consequence of a change in policy, and that new policy cannot be effected without an improvement across the key footballing employees at the club. My expectation is (barring a freak run of results), Lage will go either in an international break (not sure if there are any more before the WC) or before the players come back from the WC at the latest.

 

[Alan]

Just want to throw out there that I think Tüchel would be a disaster and I’m utterly stunned that people would want him.

 

[Johnny75]

Just want to throw out there that I think Tüchel would be a disaster and I’m utterly stunned that people would want him.

Based on what?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Alan can probably rest easy as serial losers Bayern München might well sack Nagelsmann and appoint Tuchel if they don't start picking up soon, and thus save us from this nightmare.


(We have absolutely zero chance of attracting him anyway, might as well ask if we could sign Ronaldo in January)

 

[Wilf Wolf]

It very much seems at the moment the "plan" is to wait until Diego Costa is fit and then cross everything that he can score a few goals. It's nonsense, really. He's got to go.

The plan is flawed as we can’t cross! Might as well bin him immediately.

 

[malta mick]

i have a friend with connections within club who is saying Bruno on his way out and just sorting out his pay off.
He's usually pretty reliable.
Lets hope and pray.

 

[pr0sl0]

This is also my view. The reopening of the chequebook is a consequence of a change in policy, and that new policy cannot be effected without an improvement across the key footballing employees at the club. My expectation is (barring a freak run of results), Lage will go either in an international break (not sure if there are any more before the WC) or before the players come back from the WC at the latest.

No more breaks before the WC after the one we're in now, and nine games in between (not counting cups). If they're going to pull the trigger before the WC then you would be expecting it to happen... well, now. Gives a new manager at least a bit more time to get settled before half the squad returns.

All that assumes they have someone lined up and ready to start immediately, of course, and that's a whole other kettle of fish.

 

[Tredman]

i have a friend with connections within club who is saying Bruno on his way out and just sorting out his pay off.
He's usually pretty reliable.
Lets hope and pray.

Shouldn't take long to give him @Jinky's proverbial bag of crisps and a 'see you later'.

 

[Keef]

hopefully his payoff is performance related on games won and goals scored, here’s £20 Bruno off you go

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

In his 45 league games, we have scored 0 or 1 35 times.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

The footballs crap, theres no style and whilst we don't concede many goals we score very, very few. All forgivable to a degree if we are getting results, which we haven't been for a long time.

We are heading to a relegation battle this season and there is no reason for us to be other than the Manager. I view him as nothing other than a patsy for the owners at a time they wanted to 'reflect' on their investment to date, now that they have again shown signs of ambition above merely consolidating our position, then his role is now redundant.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

In his 45 league games, we have scored 0 or 1 35 times.

Defensive figure largely down to teams knowing that once ahead if they keep their shape and do the basics right the points are in the bag.

 

[Alan]

Based on what?

He seems like an incendiary character (think every job he's left has ended up with some non-mundane amount of animosity) which I feel is the last thing our players need in a manager at the moment. I also think his tactics are a smidge suspect at this point.

As Dan says, no chance we'd get him here, regardless.

Also, for the record, Marsch has more or less proven your points since we had that little spat. So that's some crow on my plate.