hypochondriac

In fact here's an extract from a post of mine from a few years ago: Leicester. After the 9-0 and before the Everton game there was a big crisis meeting with about 600 staff addressed by Martin selmayr. Apparently he is miles better than krueger and Ross and has taken more of a responsibility in football matters. He was very honest and said that apparently we were incredibly close to signing about 5 of the Leicester team - Maddison in particular changed his mind at the last minute- and he emphasised the fine line between success and failure. Ralph was ready to walk after Leicester and offered his resignation but the club decided that they didn't want him to leave. Martin said that a manager should only leave if they had lost the players and they didn't believe that this was the case so they were determined to back him. He said that whilst he was in charge, never again would players be signed on the say so of one person (meaning carillo.) The academy bloke who left for England and due to start in February has been all over the club recently and apparently is an incredibly positive appointment as he knows the club and will return things to higher standards and remove some of the department heads if not performing. Jaidi apparently is still working for the club and there may be an expectation that he has gone to learn in America and will return in the future. Ralph. Decided to come to the club and use us largely as a stepping stone. Came in and promised to stay and get us up the table but then wants to move on. Unlikely to stay for too long if we have some success. Lost rohl once he knew bayern wanted him. Big loss because he was the link between Ralph and the players. Even now Ralph is slightly isolated. Ralph really doesn't trust many of the hangers on like coles and kelvin. If you notice he rarely interacts with them and doesn't do much conferring on match days other than with the bald guy (can't remember his name.)

I was told ages ago that Ralph has a serious problem with man management and communication. The source was someone who works with the players and it was multiple players who complained that they were dropped and not told why. Rohl was a huge loss because he was the link between the management and the players. Its got nothing to do with doing badly or doing well, it's been commented on for ages and some people dismissed it on here as sour grapes from certain players who weren't getting picked. It's not.

I'm just remembering the ridiculous comments I received on here for saying this exact thing a few months ago.

Maybe Southgate should have spent less time kneeling and writing letters to the fans and more time actually managing the team successfully.

I think you misunderstand my post. I've actually said I want Ralph to go I just don't think we should be flip flopping on our desire for him to leave based on how we have performed in the previous game.

I'm not sure we should be making a big decision like this based on the performance in one game. Ralph has show that it's really not about one great or awful performance in isolation.

I think it is quite a hard one precisely because we swing between great and horrendous on such a regular basis. Other managers we have had theres been a steady decline or its got to the point where it's obvious it can't continue. The frustrating thing about Ralph is just as you start to think we've got to that point he pulls a Chelsea result out of the bag where we look superb. I really don't understand our team and their mentality. I'm not sure how they can play as they did against Chelsea with all of that commitment and energy and then lose in such a fashion against Villa where they looked so bereft of ideas and played so markedly poorly. It has to be the manager I'm afraid and for me he has reached the point where I do not have confidence that he will consistently get us to play well for a sustained period of time. If we keep him for another year I reckon we will go through more phases of looking great and then looking awful and I'd rather have a manager where we re slowly improving and showing consistency. Ralph to go please.

Since the Premier league has been in existence?

We don't but the chances of it are miles higher. How many lower league clubs have won a league or FA cup?

Always got a chance of a cup whilst in the top league. That's what I want.

I agree. I was really trying to remain objective and ignore the last game in isolation. I do think he should go now because I think that we could be performing better with the players we have whereas before I felt he had a bit of an uphill battle with the lack of quality in the squad.

It's not losing I'm too bothered about its the manner of the loss. When we are bad we really are horrid.

Hilarious all those morons giving us 9 out of ten or higher for the transfer window or minimising our failure to, secure a top class striker.

I'll sleep on it but at the moment I'm finally Ralph out.

Can't help but feel we'd be better under someone else. This is so awful.

Dull and uninspiring team selection. Potential for the world Cup to be a car crash.

Good squad player. I'd keep him for that reason.

Indeed. Also it's in our interest to cooperate with them so we can benefit from future deals like this. It wouldn't surprise me with someone like Lavia if we have already agreed to sell him back and it's just a case of activating it in a summer or two. Essentially a form of a loan.

I'm Marian Pahars.

How odd. I was expecting something about besiktas being a bigger club.

You win more though with a better attack. Ps don't think I didn't see the cliche.

My point wasn't about ings. It may have gone over your head.

I don't want to risk upsetting anyone but this is precisely why failing to strengthen our attack adequately is going to be a problem. We could have won this. With Ings in this team you would think we would have.

Blackmore has already rubbished it.

I'm amazed he's only 28. Seems like he's been around forever. What's gone wrong with him?