How serious are the Puel out boys?

Joby id have to respectfully disagree. I don’t think there are 14 teams chasing 7th at all, I think there are about 4 - the rest are trying to stay up. The owners have targeted Europe - Puel has targeted it for this season, in their minds we have established ourselves as a mid table club.

You don’t spend over £100m, on top of £50m the previous summer to finish 12th. To see Puel limp towards that line with the money spent would be a failure of his remit from the board and his own personal ambitions for the team which are well recorded. It would also mean hanging onto our most talented players is very hard to do.

If Burnley can finish 7th with a less talented squad then our own, there’s no reason we can’t.

comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
posted 11 hours, 31 minutes ago
Who's aiming at Medicority and what myth TB we are seventh and getting better.BS we spent half of what Everton did so whats your point. some of the Buys this summer.
I think you are struggling now for negatives you cant use last season anymore and are just waiting for the wheels to fall of so you can i told you so imo.




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That’s not true nev. I don’t want the wheels to fall off, why would I? I’m not like some people on this board, I don’t stop posting when I’m wrong, I hold my hands up and admit it. If we finish 7th I’ll write an apology to Puel and I’ll be glad to do so, no problem. I don’t care about being right - I care about my club making the right decisions.

By the way - we spent more than Everton did this summer - I think people are getting hung up on the sigurddson transfer, forgetting we spent £50m just on Iheanacho and Maddison alone.

- I know we didn’t sign Ian this summer, it’s just an example.

BS,

I guess my measures are more subjective than just league position or spend, but ultimately the hard measure of league position is the only indicator that everyone can agree on. In some respects Nev can point to this for justification of Puel’s approach to this point and we can’t really argue.

Nev,

I think you’re right that any long term LCFC fan is a worrier and we’re always waiting for something to fail. The problem with Puel is that the indicators are all there in terms of PTAD.

The reason I prefer this forum to others, however, is that I think many of us take an analytical approach to what is in front of us and aren’t the reactive type who want to hang the manager after every lost game. I really don’t think there is anyone here wanting Puel to fail to prove a point. I can only speak for myself in stating that the very best outcome would be for you to be right, Puel is retained and we have a period of stability in the PL that allows us to really move forward as a club both on and off the pitch.

I can only speak for myself in stating that the very best outcome would be for you to be right, Puel is retained and we have a period of stability in the PL that allows us to really move forward as a club both on and off the pitch.

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Think you’ll struggle to find anyone that disagrees with this! We all want to see Puel stay for 5 years and grow our team and squad leaving his successor with a strong squad challenging for Europe.

PTAD jusg makes me believe he won’t!

Haha, he took us off the edge of a cliff last Season, Darlington play better than we did then.

I really worry about you when you think we're improving, odd flashes maybe and the only 100% locked on improvement has been Ricardo.

Guys you know what we don't know what going to happen next, we could be out of the cup and lose to Southampton. But thats football.

To be fair I'd give Puel one massive positive.
Style of play aside, he's managed the departure of Mahrez better than Ranieri did the departure of Kante..

comment by Cheesynacho (U1254)
posted 1 minute ago
To be fair I'd give Puel one massive positive.
Style of play aside, he's managed the departure of Mahrez better than Ranieri did the departure of Kante..
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Probably because Mahrez was bang average for the last 18 months, Kante is World class, no comparison

comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Cheesynacho (U1254)
posted 1 minute ago
To be fair I'd give Puel one massive positive.
Style of play aside, he's managed the departure of Mahrez better than Ranieri did the departure of Kante..
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Probably because Mahrez was bang average for the last 18 months, Kante is World class, no comparison
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Maybe, he may have even held us back