LCFCCHRIS

Love Japanese footballers. gerrimin

🤢 Would be an awful appointment. Seemingly held villa back and has spent the past couple of years in the Saudi “pro” league.

A manager that will focus on work rate, pressing, fast attacking. A bit more chaos. If we get a pass it to death type I’ll probably just tune out.

I can cope, I simply tagged them asking for suggestions . If my suggestion is so funny, I’d like to know what is a serious suggestion in their minds. Anyway, let’s agree to disagree.

It’s possible. But the whole reason for a forum is to discuss ideas etc, not to belittle those who wish to do so.

@Adster @fairbanksh I bet you were giggling like that when we put Édouard on 90k a week to sit on the bench, let Perez & Tielemans go for free after huge transfer fees, signed the Southampton back line that shipped 9 against us and traded champions league for championship. In other words, a contribution might be helpful instead of a juvenile laugh react.

I’d argue the bulk of the players we signed and won the prem with would have fit into this bracket of signing though. Of course that was an exceptional circumstance, I will admit. I also think there’s tonnes of players that would sign under those circumstances. Few leagues in the world can pay players over 20-30k a week anyway and those that can, aren’t really the waters we should be fishing in. We seem to perform much better when operating as a lean crew of underdogs / under appreciated gems found in the rough, than the expensive Crown Jewels that turn out to be fake. I don’t know if we sign players based on any sort of data, but judging by our appointment of managers and signings when we came up, I’d be willing to bet we’re hugely behind now on that sort of scouting. Which is why we can’t find gems. To the bolded point - you don’t draw the same targets, you go lower on your list, or find an angle on the data that others aren’t looking as as much. What I’m saying is, we’re lawless right now, at least with a rigid structure you would a) sort out the financial issues and b) put a leash on the idiots that are running the club with little direction or care for financials

Yeah I agree with the addition. If there was a tiered system with clear ways to reach the next tier, the genuinely good players would prove it. And the fakers and / or absolute shite deadwood is wouldn’t get bumper deals.

For too long the upper management have let players and managers walk all over us. Here is what I would implement to combat some of the issues and get back on a good financial standing. Please note all these changes link into each other and support the functioning of each point. 1. Have a hard wage cap of say 45k with a bonus scheme for performance metrics. You want more money, prove you deserve it. 2. When scouting for players in each position, have a shortlist of 15 minimum players ranked by how much we want to sign them from #1 to #15 or more. If one is asking too much or taking too long, simply move onto the next candidate. Even if they are slightly worse in some metric. We should be setting the rules on players coming, not the other way around. We don’t want to be in the position where we are begging anyone to come here with huge bags of cash. 3. If the club wants to retain a player, they will be asked to sign a new contract when their contract reaches under 2 years left. If they refuse, they will be placed on the transfer list and become 2nd option to their counterpart, whether that’s another player or an academy graduate. We need to let them know that their game time and career will suffer by running out their contract. Yes the hardline approach may put off some players, but if we’re in the EPL that’s a big enough of a pull. There’s plenty of players good enough that would come still. 4. If anyone comes in for our manager, we let them pay us off and take him. We should have a constantly updated list of replacements that play in a way defined as the target style by the club. All transfers will be in this style and the academy will adopt this style all the way down to the very youth. 5. Stick to our guns, if we only wanted to give vestegaard a 2 year deal for example, we should have offered it to him and then walk away with a solid deadline for his decision that gives us time to go to a second option. 6. We have a set budget that is calculated by financially savvy management that makes it impossible to fail PSR, even if we can’t offload players. Managers are made aware of this budget before signing and are told the complete truth about it. There may be things here that would be difficult to pull off in the realities of the footballing world, but we need to have an actual plan at least and not a scattergun, reactive approach.

The most disappointing probably Soumare

Can we sack the social media team as well? why would you post this stupid shit? just stop posting until the end of the season. Nobody wants to see it. Just makes you look like a joke

Sums up the season and state of lcfc