Bamford

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Feel so sorry for Bamford but if they don’t sign a back up this summer ……..

[WTF11]

Bit like swapping a Ferrari for a Robin Reliant.

Or a Reliant Robin even!

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

The press release about Bamford having this problem for 12 months and a tear in the ligament last summer makes the decision not to recruit a back up striker even more senseless.

That coupled with Orta’s recent pearls of wisdom around have a squad of no more than 18 first players and his belief he seems to have found a new formula makes me more annoyed how they treated Bielsa.

To steal a phrase from the construction industry they valued engineered the squad too much and when it broke they blamed the coach.

Also if we sell Phillips we are supposed to be buying a championship player Flynn Downs as a replacement - looks like they are about to screw over Jesse M too.

I think Orta has done okay but this strategy suggests he and not Bielsa should have gone over the lack of players signed last summer and in January. If Orta’s hand were tied then it points at Radz and the 49ers.

For once, I would be happy with a semblance of doing things the normal way at the club!

[WTF11]

The press release about Bamford having this problem for 12 months and a tear in the ligament last summer makes the decision not to recruit a back up striker even more senseless.

That coupled with Orta’s recent pearls of wisdom around have a squad of no more than 18 first players and his belief he seems to have found a new formula makes me more annoyed how they treated Bielsa.

To steal a phrase from the construction industry they valued engineered the squad too much and when it broke they blamed the coach.

Also if we sell Phillips we are supposed to be buying a championship player Flynn Downs as a replacement - looks like they are about to screw over Jesse M too.

I think Orta has done okay but this strategy suggests he and not Bielsa should have gone over the lack of players signed last summer and in January. If Orta’s hand were tied then it points at Radz and the 49ers.

For once, I would be happy with a semblance of doing things the normal way at the club!

Exactly whos "normal" are you referring to? If it's LUFC, then over many years this is "normal" (going back (at least), to the days of Wilko that were mentioned on another thread recently)

[Rev72]

The whole feckin fan base..in fact the whole Football world knew we needed another striker before a ball was even kicked this season.

Tight fisted feckers wanted Bielsa to perform another miracle and its bit em on the arse.

IF we should stay up you would think the board would never be that stupid again

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Exactly whos "normal" are you referring to? If it's LUFC, then over many years this is "normal" (going back (at least), to the days of Wilko that were mentioned on another thread recently)

Not sure we have been a normal club for many a year - so agree with you on that - but ‘normal’ in the sense of how most clubs in the prem manage their squads and size.

Would be happy to use the Jose Mourhinho bench mark from his early days at Chelsea - I want 2 good players in each position plus 2.

But you get the point I hope.

18 seems painfully thin not least when it includes an imbalance of 5 centre backs and players who were carrying injuries and where the u23 strengths didn’t map with the weaker areas in the first team such a back up holding midfielder who is ready to play regularly (as opposed to who will be in 2 to 3 years time) coupled with the fact a lot of the players in the squad have hit their progression ceiling.

Not sure who called Bamford biscuit legs - maybe Joel but I reckon with his injury record he must have missed at about a third of the games we have played since he signed as he was injured for large parts of his first season.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Agree Rev - they expected Bielsa to pull off one further impossible dream and got seduced into thinking it would happen when it was clear we had weaknesses that if we got more injuries could be a big problem.

The only playing in Europe we will be doing for quite a while is pre season friendlies 🙉

[ozleeds]

Ok so to work some things around I'm was just as stunned when I reported the other day Orta is going to run the club next season with another small squad. Always thought it was MBs way.
Having said that we have Rodrigo and Roberts supposedly international strikers in the squad and also have Greenwood and JG in the waiting line.
The problem is not we need strikers we just need to play what we have and play them as strikers. We are running around with them all over the place like we have a winger as central striker and strikers playing midfield. Now that is not on Orta it is the Managers problem A not playing in them in the right spot and 2 not playing them much at all. The new Manager is no different and eventually will come back to haunt him as it did with MB.Don't buy into a couple of wins Football is a funny game anything can happen. Just as it turned a lot of you don't think i haven't noticed the words Soccer and coach not infultrating the forums

[WTF11]

Ok so to work some things around I'm was just as stunned when I reported the other day Orta is going to run the club next season with another small squad. Always thought it was MBs way.
Having said that we have Rodrigo and Roberts supposedly international strikers in the squad and also have Greenwood and JG in the waiting line.
The problem is not we need strikers we just need to play what we have and play them as strikers. We are running around with them all over the place like we have a winger as central striker and strikers playing midfield. Now that is not on Orta it is the Managers problem A not playing in them in the right spot and 2 not playing them much at all. The new Manager is no different and eventually will come back to haunt him as it did with MB.Don't buy into a couple of wins Football is a funny game anything can happen. Just as it turned a lot of you don't think i haven't noticed the words Soccer and coach not infultrating the forums

You been on the sauce or are the meds kicking in? 😉 Are we supposed to understand all that "Aussie English"?

[ozleeds]

You been on the sauce or are the meds kicking in? �� Are we supposed to understand all that "Aussie English"?

No, neither I think the club would either by the looks of it they aren't reading it too well lol.