Hope Mel's applied to the EU Settlement Scheme or they'll all be gone after Halloween

No announcement so are we to conclude the Frank will be taking training tomorrow?

Apparently Cocu has signed for 4 years according to Dutch media

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/phillip-cocu-signs-four-year-3047367

I’m well chuffed if this is correct. Morris has played a blinder. He must have been planning for Lampard’s possible departure for a while. There are no guarantees but Cocu feels like an upgrade on Lampard and vitally there seems to be a continuity of overall philosophy. Over the past few years we have lurched from one idea to the next in the hope that we might chance upon a successful manager. This feels more like building on the good foundations of last season.

I wanted Hughton of the names initially banded about, but he would have been a safe, underwhelming appointment. This is proper exciting.

I said the same earlier Vidal, lampard to cocu feels like a similar upgrade we got from Rowett to lampard. Along with that, we have been paid handsomely for both of those, so 2 upgrades and a big profit to boot. Savvy chairmanning of the highest order from Mel. He's a very successful businessman don't you know.

This Cocu bloke needs to get his finger out and sign some players. No time to waste.

I hope he hasn’t got an accent like Wally van McLaren, sounds dreadful!

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 48 minutes ago
I’m well chuffed if this is correct. Morris has played a blinder. He must have been planning for Lampard’s possible departure for a while. There are no guarantees but Cocu feels like an upgrade on Lampard and vitally there seems to be a continuity of overall philosophy. Over the past few years we have lurched from one idea to the next in the hope that we might chance upon a successful manager. This feels more like building on the good foundations of last season.

I wanted Hughton of the names initially banded about, but he would have been a safe, underwhelming appointment. This is proper exciting.
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Couldn’t agree more...

comment by Let Me inRamdini (U21882)
posted 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
Wellies,
About the only word I needed no help with was no and not know.. As for the others! I haven't a clue.
What did all this mean?
Frank is the eggman
Chelsea the eggmen.

Forest the Walrus

Cocu ca choo.

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Don’t you like the Beatles Ramdini? I thought they were fab and I cut my hair like them. Who were your pop music heroes?

comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Let Me inRamdini (U21882)
posted 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
Wellies,
About the only word I needed no help with was no and not know.. As for the others! I haven't a clue.
What did all this mean?
Frank is the eggman
Chelsea the eggmen.

Forest the Walrus

Cocu ca choo.

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Don’t you like the Beatles Ramdini? I thought they were fab and I cut my hair like them. Who were your pop music heroes?
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Glenn Miller ?

Cocu will have a legit Dutch accent, not some bastardised one like schteve, or my accent which is still somewhat English but with enough of a kiwi twang for my family to say I sound weird.

Great news if indeed true.

Frank who ..................?

he will be welcome but wont he have the same financial constraints as lampard though i.e no money for the transfer market ?

Darley, we paid handsomely for waghorn and Marriott, I would also imagine there were fairly substantial loan fees for mount, tomori and wilson, plus the other players he brought in for a bit less cash, so it's not like his hands were tied behind his back finance wise.

comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 11 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Let Me inRamdini (U21882)
posted 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
Wellies,
About the only word I needed no help with was no and not know.. As for the others! I haven't a clue.
What did all this mean?
Frank is the eggman
Chelsea the eggmen.

Forest the Walrus

Cocu ca choo.

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Don’t you like the Beatles Ramdini? I thought they were fab and I cut my hair like them. Who were your pop music heroes?
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Yes I liked the Beatles very much, but for some inexplicable reason my favourite music was by Beethoven. Every note seemed just right for me. His melodies, tunes and crescendoes struck a deep chord within me. It is not something of which I was proud at the time (or now) but it all seemed so right to me. The EU anthem is stirring stuff whether you are a Europhile or not.

By the way, I am pleased with Frank's replacement - on paper for now. Well done Mel.

VC 10,

For work I travelled extensively in Europe and the nicest people I met were Dutch. I think they appreciated what we achieved during the war and our part in their liberation. I actually got on well with the Germans and still have some good friends there, but there was always a competitive edge rather than the (kind of) collaborative feeling with the Dutch engineers I met.

Ramdini, by chance I'm currently working in Italy for a German company in a US owned factory!

I haven't worked much in Holland, but have spent some time there on holiday.

In my 30+ years working exclusively at third party sites, I would say that most folk are generally glad to see you. The bad experiences come from working in factories that have crap management, wherever they reside.

Ramdini there is a Dutch chap who goes into my local, he is a very nice man but he loathes the Germans with a passion. He tells me what his mother said about the terrible times they had and how grateful they were to us.

Roll over Beethoven was a good tune!

I should add that I think John Lennon sang it on an early Beatles LP.

I saw a comment on Facebook that really emphasised what Mel has done here getting cocu, it said "with Cocu we now have a better manager than man utd and chelsea"

DCFC, handing-out Premiership management apprenticeships since 1884.

£2M + for Rowett, up to £6M + for FL in 2 years.

It’s the way forward .

comment by VC10Ram (U18980)
posted 2 hours, 9 minutes ago
Ramdini there is a Dutch chap who goes into my local, he is a very nice man but he loathes the Germans with a passion. He tells me what his mother said about the terrible times they had and how grateful they were to us.

Roll over Beethoven was a good tune!
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Yes, well they didn't behave well at any time in the first half of the last century.

I was working in Cologne (the city, not that puffy man-perfume stuff) and the Germans told me that they try not to go on holiday in any of the Spanish or Greek resorts that have a lot of Dutch tourists, as they know the Dutch still hate them. Seems weird for a generation that weren't even involved in WW2 to have these feelings.

comment by Sheep Botherer (U8445)
posted 3 minutes ago
I was working in Cologne (the city, not that puffy man-perfume stuff) and the Germans told me that they try not to go on holiday in any of the Spanish or Greek resorts that have a lot of Dutch tourists, as they know the Dutch still hate them. Seems weird for a generation that weren't even involved in WW2 to have these feelings.
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Two generations SB, if you discount anyone over 70ish.