TeemuVanBasten

Is this a flip-flop, an attempt at a subtle u-turn, or are you just a massive wet wipe?

It appears to be the Farke loyalists who are turning on Webber this week.....

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And the naysayers are optimistic. Is this a sign of a forthcoming apocalypse or something to do with late stage capitalism?

So disingenuous. Mount was a nobody at that time, Wilson played his best football under Lampard and was poor in the Championship last season (that's Lampard getting a lot out of him) And Mel Morris had just flogged Vydra and Weimann and replaced them with f*cking Martyn Waghorn and Jack Marriott. He walked into a club which was shedding senior players like Shackell, Jerome and Chris Martin to cut the wage bill to meet FFP

No, I was talking global from the start, I made that very clear by using the world "global".

He has gone up massively in my estimations today. Shown a pragmatism, a willingness to diverge from his own dogma and adapt to the constantly changing landscape. I thought he was too stubborn. Pathetic that a small group of forum whingers are trying to create a Webber vs Farke divide, both honourable men who try and do right by the club. Oh, and, if Farke was sacked by a board vote then Lampard would have been appointed by one. If you want to blame Webber you have to extend that to Delia, MWJ, and Nephew Tom, are you prepared to?

Plenty of World Cup winners are less well known than Frank Lampard. Fabio Grosso for example, 2006, only famous domestically in Italy? Premier League is the biggest league in the world, with a global reach which didn't exist in the era that Martin Peters played.

I thought we'd already ascertained that I'm more of an Archbishop of Canterbury man myself.

1). I am talking current global reach, not success on the football pitch to football historians or purists. Otherwise we could talk about Martin O'Neil's two European cups couldn't we. As somebody else said, you are showing your age, its 2021 and most people under 30 won't know who Martin Peters is. John Wayne was the biggest movie star of the 1960s, but in 2021 Tom Hardy is much better known. That happens because people die, and new people are born. In a global context Martin Peters in the 60s and 70s would never have been as well known as Frank Lampard is today, that is globalisation. 2). I didn't say that Instagram followers makes one a good football coach, so you can repeat that as often as you want but you are drawing the lines where they suit you, that would be an absurd proposition wouldn't it, because then we'd try and appoint Kim Kardashian.

Of course he is. The Premier League in the 1st century is broadcast in 212 territories to 630 million homes to a viewership of up to 4.3 billion, and the internet exists. Frank Lampard has 4.9 million instagram followers, ten times more than social butterfly and national treasure Stephen Fry. I don't disagree with much of what you say, but you are way off base with this.

Talent will want to play for him. Commercial revenues increase. Multinational sponsors become more interested in our opportunities. We don't get shoved at the end of MOTD every week. That's the first few.

Try prozac.

By far. Frank Lampard is globally famous. One of the most successful ever players in the worlds most watched league, 106 England caps. He's not only the biggest name managerial appointment but the biggest named individual to be involved in our club at any capacity on or off the pitch. Whole new level above Stephen Fry, Delia Smith, Martin O'Neill and Martin Peters. This appointment raises our profile globally, its absolutely brilliant.

If he does well then he becomes England manager in a few years. If he fails we get another manager. Simple.

B*llocks, its just the type of feel good appointment we need. Wait until you hear Lampard speaking in a Norwich tracksuit and you'll all start changing your tune. Fed up with a manager who can only manage youngsters and nobodies because he can't handle a few egos, its the reason we don't do pragmatic things like sign a bit of experience when we go up. Brilliant appointment, welcome Frank Lampard.

Your week long winge fest is getting boring now. It won't be difficult for Lampard to improve on Farke's points per game ratio this season will it. That you are even considering the possibility suggests a degree of wishful thinking on your part. Well I hope Lampard, Webber and the players succeed this season.

I mean, if you want to talk about having a high profile abroad.... staying in the Prem is the best way to achieve that, its the most watched league in the world. Farke wouldn't have kept us up.

On the other hand, he could decide that one dodgy season won't make him unemployable considering he has such a strong CV. A young manager might consider it a possible career ender.

I think this is wise.

Feels like Radiohead have already done that one.

Was an unfortunate incident all round, cost Capello his job and John Terry his England career, and we could really have done with him in our defence at the time. I do sympathise with the way it so obviously impacted Anton Ferdinand's career, he was never anything special but better than ending up at Southend and St Mirren. Rio Ferdinand was of course also fined for racist language during this saga, when he called Ashley Cole a choc ice (black on the outside, white on the inside). He's been able to get on with his career hasn't he, so John Terry should too. Its hardly on the same level as Bowyer and Woodgates racially motivated assault, and they are both getting managers job opportunities! If that wasn't a career ender for them then the Terry incident shouldn't be a career ender for him or Rio Ferdinand.

I'd love Lampard here, I think he's a promising young manager and this is a good place to continue to learn his trade.

Are you thinking of Saudi Arabia in those comments? Just that this isn't entirely applicable, as the camels down Carrow Road comment was made before they purchased a Premier League side. Man City majority ownership is from UAE. There have been 6 executions in the UAE in the past 20 years. They frequently sentence to death before pardoning a few years later, its a good way to put the sh*tters up people. The USA executed 17 people in 2020 alone... Guantanamo Bay is still open... many of the biggest American companies profit from forced labour in China, they keep arming groups in the Middle East too. Where's the outrage about all the American owners? Southampton owned by a Chinese owner. Where's your outrage about organ harvesting, forced labour camps, missing citizen journalists, and an approximate 2400 executions per year. It is a bit bizarre I feel that people are so willing to tar all Arab nations with the same brush when there are clear differences between them, all while ignoring a country which is, frankly, much worse because of the importance of our commercial relationships - primarily a completely reliant on China as a supply chain to fuel our consumer driven culture of materialism which depends on people continuously buying 'stuff' for the economy to function. Why are people so focused on human rights issues in the Middle East, is it because if we look for it elsewhere it is too easy to see the inconvenient links to our own continued prosperity? Saudi Arabia and Egypt aside, most of the the rest of the Arab countries are well down the human rights abuse indexes, and Russia is above them.

I don't entirely disagree, but that description applies much more to the Newcastle owners than the Man City, and neither have taken any camels to the stadium yet. And that description could easily describe the United States foreign policy and overseas operations, wikileaks has proven that beyond doubt. Their latest gift is tens of billions of pounds of advanced weaponry to the Taliban. P.s. The UK sells weapons to the Saudis, your pension fund will be benefitting.