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Thomas The Frank Engine

He is the type of manager that will get us results at home against the teams we should be beating whilst making us more competitive against the big boys. do not be surprised if we end up going unbeaten at home.
 
Jurgen the German said:
I’ll support him and give him a chance if he’s our next manager. But at the same time I think it’s fair to ask, is there really no one better than Thomas Frank?
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Better at what? How do you determine if one manager is better than the other? You can't. Unless you could clone squads and have to different managers having the same squad at the same time, there's no way of telling.
It's just as signing players. It really is a lottery. Some should work but don't, others shold be a misfit, but isn't. But if the club has a vision and strategy, one should appoint a manager that aligns with that, and hopefully can enhance and develop it.
 
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I like the way he speaks about the game, and I'm really looking forward to Levy not fuсking this up now. TBH I'm still just euphoric that Postecoglou is out the door.
 
Silly McSilly Face said:
Yeah there's no point appointing a Mourinho or a Conte if you're not going to do stuff like smash £100m on Lautaro Martinez. Which we were never going to do.

If you want to buy the "best of the rest" PL experience (Richarlison, Bissouma) and supplement with up and coming young players you need a manager that works well doing that and enjoys doing it. Poch enjoyed it and was good at it. Redknapp loves a bargain in the market so worked well with the club in that regard.

I have said it before but I dont think Ange was actually a very good appointment for the club for a number of reasons but one of them is he's a manager with a very rigidly defined philosophy and system like Conte and needs the right sort of players to make a fist of it working. Son is a really good example of this. When Udogie inverts Son is expected to go out wide and play traditional winger but he's not that player and he's struggled in this system.
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I think this is a really interesting angle of reflective conversation.
It could lead me to thinking that Ange was absolutely a Munn appt, and that perhaps why Levy felt there had to be a shake-up at their level with Venkateshum coming in. He is certainly more of Clough old schooler in personality, which again leads to the fact that everyone involved in hiring him has to take a piece because he was always who he was (mate LOL).
 
Lilbaz said:
He seems to have built up a good rapport with the media.
Whether that lasts though is a different question. They make money from drama and love nothing more than to build someone up just to knock them down.
It makes them money.
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It is going to be interesting to watch if he can maintain his media edge for sure. Brentford was a huge success/is a huge success. This is going to be a whiole new level of scrutiny. I hope the club get behind him in that regard from the get go.
 
thfcsteff said:
It is going to be interesting to watch if he can maintain his media edge for sure. Brentford was a huge success/is a huge success. This is going to be a whiole new level of scrutiny. I hope the club get behind him in that regard from the get go.
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Yeah Brentford can lose 3 games on the spin without him getting dug out in a press conference. Big difference that.
 
thfcsteff said:
I think this is a really interesting angle of reflective conversation.
It could lead me to thinking that Ange was absolutely a Munn appt, and that perhaps why Levy felt there had to be a shake-up at their level with Venkateshum coming in. He is certainly more of Clough old schooler in personality, which again leads to the fact that everyone involved in hiring him has to take a piece because he was always who he was (mate LOL).
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Of maybe vinny wanted a new guy and ldvy has stood back all along.

No idea.
 
Jurgen the German said:
I’ll support him and give him a chance if he’s our next manager. But at the same time I think it’s fair to ask, is there really no one better than Thomas Frank?
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As i've often said, those who would be considered 'better' than Frank know what we are really like as a club when it comes to the crunch with the current owners.
For now, I think we'll need to see someone like Frank REALLY be backed and succeed before we can dine at the 'higher' table when it comes to managers/coaches
 
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