I hope it’s Frankie Lampard

Expat Smoggie said:
Anyone tell me any player of note that Wilder signed that made u excited— got the tongues wagging?
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Signings are not exciting.

Performances on the pitch are exciting.

Give me the man who can get the best out of the players he has, not they guy with big names whose teams are less than the sum of their parts.

And it would have been necessary to rename the club Frank Lampard's Middlesbrough if he was appointed manager. Couldn't have that.
 
Frozen Horse said:
Signings are not exciting.

Performances on the pitch are exciting.

Give me the man who can get the best out of the players he has, not they guy with big names whose teams are less than the sum of their parts.

And it would have been necessary to rename the club Frank Lampard's Middlesbrough if he was appointed manager. Couldn't have that.
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Performances and signings can BOTH be exciting.
Give me the big name whose team is greater than the sum of their parts, because they can attract better players too. (Robson initially did this for us, Lampard did it at Derby, Gerrard is doing it at Ibrox)
No club has ever been renamed after appointing a big name manager, you are just being really silly.
It is not vital to have a big name and many fail, but when a class version is available like Lampard, I would have done everything I could to get him.

It doesn't matter now as the club have appointed Wilder.
His record until the relegation horror show is fabulous and I wish him the very best of luck. He will certainly get my support, not that that matters at all.
 
indeedido said:
Performances and signings can BOTH be exciting.
Give me the big name whose team is greater than the sum of their parts, because they can attract better players too. (Robson initially did this for us, Lampard did it at Derby, Gerrard is doing it at Ibrox)
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I don't think Robbo did both at the same time.

Cox, Pearson and Miller weren't that exciting, but I agree the team was more than it's sum.

Then when the big names came in, we were less than the sum of the parts.

As for Lampard at Derby, they got fewer points in the league and finished in the same league position as the season before he and his big names arrived. They may have reached the play off final, but the team wasn't more than the sum of its parts, for all the better parts he brought in
 
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Expat Smoggie said:
Anyone tell me any player of note that Wilder signed that made u excited— got the tongues wagging? Nah because he doesn’t have any pulling power — instead they bought Brewster from the Reds for a hugely inflated price, and has only one goal to his name (13 months after joining).
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Sander Berge. At the time he was highly rated young player that had been linked with far bigger clubs than Sheffield United. Even this summer teams like Arsenal and Man City were being linked with him.
 
Jonathan said:
Sander Berge. At the time he was highly rated young player that had been linked with far bigger clubs than Sheffield United. Even this summer teams like Arsenal and Man City were being linked with him.
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In all fairness I don't think he set the tongues wagging. Nonetheless, Wilder is our man, I'm optimistic that he'll improve on Warnock's base and hopefully drive us into the playoffs.
 
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