lapal_fan Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Everyone asked last season to improve the defence, he did. Give him an improved deal before we lose him ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Everyone asked last season to improve the defence, he did. Give him an improved deal before we lose him ffs. Its not hard to shore up a defence when he has got nearly every player prioritizing defence over attack. It has now sacrificed our goals scored. We need balance something I don't think Lambert will ever find!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 You can't have everything you selfish boy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 we need to sneak 15 players on the pitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 5 points off 19th place now with Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool to play amongst our next 4 league games. Leicester has become a huge game. Lambert has always managed to pull a result out just as things are getting really nasty. Can he keep doing it? Don't beat Leicester and by the end of Jan we could be looking in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervillan78 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 We're still creating chances though, we just need our strikers to start putting them away. It's not like Lambert has any great striking options available either. Bent's passed it, Kozak's still injured and he's already playing all 3 of our recognised strikers. Maybe get a striker on loan in January?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 We're still creating chances though, we just need our strikers to start putting them away. It's not like Lambert has any great striking options available either. Bent's passed it, Kozak's still injured and he's already playing all 3 of our recognised strikers. Maybe get a striker on loan in January?? Then try a different system. He's had 2 and a half years to work on movement and attacking ideas. We do nothing in the final 3rd though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 To me Everton are proof at the moment that good managers make a difference. Martinez struggling with what some may say is a better team than Moyes had, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 To me Everton are proof at the moment that good managers make a difference. Martinez struggling with what some may say is a better team than Moyes had, Funnily enough though people were using this same argument about Martinez and Everton last season but it was reversed. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 We're still creating chances though, we just need our strikers to start putting them away. It's not like Lambert has any great striking options available either. Bent's passed it, Kozak's still injured and he's already playing all 3 of our recognised strikers. Maybe get a striker on loan in January?? I'd call it half chances e.g. pot shots from distances and crosses that sort of end up at a players feet. Real chances like Benteke one on one on the keeper a few times a game, not happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villanun Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Theoretically speaking we could carry on as we are and not be relegated, by which I mean we could play our remaining 18 matches, conceding nothing due to our improved defence but scoring nothing due to our woeful attack, and end up with the magical 40 points that's theoretically needed to remain in the Prem. But can anyone really see us not losing another match before the end of the season? Having an improved defence is great, don't get me wrong, but goals have to start coming from somewhere, and so far I see no evidence that even if Lambert bought in better players he'd know what to do with them. We'll definitely lose more games this season and we'll definitely win more games. The problem is what happens if we start to conceed goals because there's nothing up the other end of the pitch to suggest we'll score plenty any time soon. I actually think our goals ratio will improve in the second half of the season because... well, it has to doesn't it? I suppose the question in that case is whether you think we'll win more than we'll lose, and honestly I don't think will - in which case we'll be right in the relegation mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoD Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I want to support Lambert but this is beyond ridiculous. We can't score goals and ultimately that falls back to the manager and his staff. Either Lerner needs to give him money for attacking players or he has to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 It's beyond pathetic, Agbonlahor, Weimann and Benteke hasn't worked as a front three for 18 months and he continues to persist with it. We have a world class striker up front who is starved of service and maybe get's one or at the most two half chances to score which is pathetic. In a ideal world he goes now, but we all know that's not happening so I can only hope he changes his tactics but that is as likely as me saying Liverpool are a great club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I don't want him here anymore. He doesn't fit. Having been told it's impossible to implement a passing game on the current budget, he's done it and created a flat as anything side that never look like scoring. We have no drive in the midfield without Delph, so he's been a bit unlucky that he's out AGAIN; but to continue with Weimann who literally cannot control the ball just shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what his own plan is. How can you have a passing game with Weimann, Agbonlahor and Bacuna all in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 My main gripe with PL is his decision making and tactics. As soon as I saw the starting line up I knew what was going to happen. We cannot play with wide fullbacks and have Gabby and Weimann playing narrow as our main creative outlets. It will never work at home. Never. We have one of the best strikers in the air and yet we have no one to put crosses in. Cissokho is a good defender but poor going forward yet we rely on him to put that killer ball in. We have Bacuna with excellent delivery and Grealish who can attack from wide. Play them in attacking positions! How bad of a manager do you have to be to play Gabby as a number 10? The main positive for PL is his signings. He has signed some quality players. Okore and Sanchez were fantastic today. Bacuna showed glimpses of what a good footballer he could become. Cleverly was ineffective yet again. I hope he doesn't spend £7.5m on him. I would have PL as a DOF not a manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rodders129 Posted January 2, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2015 There is a lot of negativity towards Paul Lambert which saddens me. I think that Paul Lambert is a top bloke. As a player he has proved himself as hardworking, adaptable, driven and successful. He's had a solid and successful career, winning domestic and European trophies, as well as gaining unique experience and insight into top German football. I admire his approach and demeanor (never too high or too low - just stay the course), and I genuinely want to see him succeed. Look I was as depressed as the next Villa fan to see the 0-0 result come in, and I feel sorry for the 28k who went to see it, but unfortunately the Premier League has changed over the last 20 yrs. Money talks, the top clubs have the monopoly on players, trophies and titles, and the rest of us are left to feed on scraps. Realistically we have a chairman who wants to sell (and who can blame him after £200+ million investment with nothing to show for it), and limited funds for wages and transfers. We need to find a path that gives us some development and consistency, and some hope of happier times ahead...and I 100% believe that Paul Lambert is the man to lead us on that path. Paul Lambert is 45 years old, and is in only his 4th Premier League season as a manager. He had great success at Wycombe and Norwich, and as of yet is yet to emulate that level at Villa, however he, like many of our squad is still learning. We must give him respect, time and our support. There are plenty of positives if you look a bit deeper: - Shrewd Transfers: Benteke, Okore, Vlaar, Guzan, Cissoko, Sanchez (remember when O'Neill was splurging millions on Davies, Harewood, Reo Coker and Heskey, we all wanted transfers like these) - Financial Control: Luna, Bennet, Bowery, El Ahmadi didn't work, however due to lower wages and fees it wasn't the end of the world - Man management: players love him, and he's developing/bringing through youth/young players - Grealish, Clark, Baker, Wiemann, Okore, Westwood, Delph For me, the main area we need to work on, is for both Lambert and Villa to find their perfect playing style and system (something we are yet to do). He's tightened up the defence, and actually got a really strong core in the team Guzan - Okore/Vlaar - Sanchez/Delph - Benteke, however you can tell we've not yet settled on a style of play. Think about how many goals we banged in in Lamberts first season GF47 vs GA69, last year it was 8 less scored and 8 less conceded, this year were on for GF21 vs GA42 (actually a +1 overall GD improvement on the last 2 years). If we can add a few more goals into our season whilst still staying firm at the back, we can become a top 10 side. I actually thought the 'we're trying a new passing style' quote from Lambert almost quite naive and endearing. I really relate to a young manager who is trying to learn and develop and improve our clubs fortunes. I genuinely believe if we are patient and stick with it, we will improve in the long run. Why get rid of Paul Lambert and substitute with some other poor guy we can all moan about and demand their resignation? Lambert has a plan, and I belive he will lead us up to table in the seasons to come. Think how long it took David Moyes to build his style and 'brand of football' at Everton, where he joined at a similar stage to Lambert in his career and with a similar budget. Moyes' Prem finishes were (15th, 7th, 17th, 4th, 11th, 6th, 5th, 5th, 8th, 7th, 7th). So far Lambert has (15th, 15th, and currently 12th). In Lambert we trust!!!!! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Like the optimism but Lambert has shown nothing to suggest he can build anything here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 It's poor, thankfully the defence is better but how Lambert can come out and say "We are creating chances we just need to put them away" as he did after todays weekly powder puff showing is frankly ridiculous.. We are creating so few opportunities it's no wonder our strikers panic and slash at it more often than not. We are simply not creating anywhere near enough openings. We do have a World class striker in Benteke in my opinion but we make him look poor as we simply strangle the life out of his ability and it shows how poor we are that even a World class striker struggles to score in our team...That says it all for me. If Lambert seriously expects our strikers to win games on one or two chances per week then he has lost my respect.. Even Lionel Messi would struggle in this team. Maybe he needs to go and get lesson two from Pep.. Lesson one how to pass the ball a bit better, lesson two needs to be how to actually use the ball when you have more possession! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 (edited) League table since Lambert took over. More links here, including net transfer expenditure (although I'm not sure how reliable the transfer fees are - they are taken from transferleague.co.uk. Don't put too much emphasise on them). I just wanted an idea on how we've been doing the past years compared to other teams - the answer is as we maybe knew. I should be doing something completely else but I was bored and I didn't want to study (the lengths you'll go through to avoid it sometimes!). Edited January 2, 2015 by bose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Think how long it took David Moyes to build his style and 'brand of football' at Everton, where he joined at a similar stage to Lambert in his career and with a similar budget. Moyes' Prem finishes were (15th, 7th, 17th, 4th, 11th, 6th, 5th, 5th, 8th, 7th, 7th). So far Lambert has (15th, 15th, and currently 12th). In Lambert we trust!!!!! Not really comparable. Moyes's first "prem finish" as you describe it came in a season where he joined Everton in March and saved the club from potential relegation. So in his first full season he got 7th and his first three were actually 7th, 17th and 4th. Compared with Lambert's 15th, 15th and (so far) 12th. Not such a great story then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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