Assuming you're on a wind up. It'll be a crap appointment for OUFC. We need experience!Really hope this rumour has legs, I am strangely aroused by the prospect of Lampy as manager for many of the reasons already stated in this thread.
We bang on about foreign managers taking roles in UK football and our own talent base not getting a chance.
You have to start somewhere and so it means a brave chairman taking a punt on a young inexperienced manager.
In Lampy you get intelligence, commitment, passion and a wealth of experience/knowledge of the game as a player and a leader.
Regardless of his lack of management credentials, that experience has to count for something.
Add to that his wealth of contacts and of course the managerial experience that he can tap into from others.. boy oh boy this has to be worth the gamble.
I am also pretty confident that with the exception of a few rumbles this appointment will be received with enthusiasm and excitement, which is exactly what we need to re-unite behind the mighty yellows.
Please bring this home DE.
Thing is if he comes here, and he's not getting the results by the end of Feb, would we get on his back?
Really hope this rumour has legs, I am strangely aroused by the prospect of Lampy as manager for many of the reasons already stated in this thread.
We bang on about foreign managers taking roles in UK football and our own talent base not getting a chance.
You have to start somewhere and so it means a brave chairman taking a punt on a young inexperienced manager.
In Lampy you get intelligence, commitment, passion and a wealth of experience/knowledge of the game as a player and a leader.
Regardless of his lack of management credentials, that experience has to count for something.
Add to that his wealth of contacts and of course the managerial experience that he can tap into from others.. boy oh boy this has to be worth the gamble.
I am also pretty confident that with the exception of a few rumbles this appointment will be received with enthusiasm and excitement, which is exactly what we need to re-unite behind the mighty yellows.
Please bring this home DE.
Yes, definitely. The sentiment would be that it was a bad appointment and let me be the first to say "Lampard out!" ?Thing is if he comes here, and he's not getting the results by the end of Feb, would we get on his back?
I bet he walks straight into the interview and says the job is made for him, if he’s being frank
Assuming you're on a wind up. It'll be a crap appointment for OUFC. We need experience!
I bet he walks straight into the interview and says the job is made for him, if he’s being frank
And I can imagine him saying in his interview “ uncle Harry has said I can call for advice anytime, as long as I get my f*****g 1/4 million back “[emoji35]
Because only experienced managers guarantee success?
Thing is if he comes here, and he's not getting the results by the end of Feb, would we get on his back?
Simon Grayson - four promotions from league one. That's the man we need in charge of this football club. Lampard hasn't got a scooby about league one.
As brave as it was to dismiss Clotet, I think it would be more so to appoint Lampard.
Apart from his lack of experience, he is used to being surrounded by a completely different level of facilities, players and staff than he will find at Oxford. You could buy the squad, club and stadium for less than Chelsea would spend on a fairly ordinary midfielder. 'Culture shock' might be putting it mildly!
But...
If he were to come here, you can only suppose he has been offered a better deal than 'the job's yours - there's no money for better players, half the best we ones we do have are crocked and the owner has lost interest a bit, so the crowd are a bit grumpy. Make the best of that lot!'.