Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[neophox]

If you want to see how our new headcoach had sessions at Watford. Seems really good:

 

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Hah you know who he reminds me of? 🤣🤣🤣

 

 

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[neophox]

He will fock off the likes of Cantwell, Weimann and Hedges.

 

Also Pears howlers will make him crazy. He will bring in an french goalie in the summer.

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[Bohinen1983]

I'm happy with this appointment, think the players we have will suit him down to the ground. .  Trondstadt and Travis both remaining fit will be pivotal to any success in the latter part of this season.. We have been crying out for a Rothwell replacement since we lost him..  

Welcome aboard, Valerian. Rather have someone leading us that wants to be here than someone that doesn't... 

[yeti-dog]

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

That would have been impossible to do pre-January. Now it's possible but the guys coming on at 60 minutes are a massive step down from the starters.

Pre-January, I agree would have been a no-go.

Now, we definitely have a much stronger bench. I don't necessarily see them as a 'massive step down either. You could be looking at Carter, Buckley, Ohashi, Dennis, Dolan, Cantwell, Kargbo, Gueye etc. depending on who's in the starting 11

I won't include Hedges as I think that would be over-egging the pudding... 🙂

[miqaayil]

23 minutes ago, ... said:

Glad someone else mentioned Valerian steel I was starting to think it wasn't funny lol

i was thinking along the lines .."Valarean and the City of a thousand planets"

 

Valerian and the Club of the Pune Thieves 

[Plastics]

We've had three defenders that have played for Bayern already so why not have another? I'm quite optimistic

[roverandout]

Ali valarien and the pune thieves

[islander200]

30 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Where is he going, unless we go up?

JDT and Eustace had places to go to.

He’ll stick it out for a good while imo.

If he does as well as those 2 then we would have offers in the championship 

Coaches can fail over and over they still get opportunities to manage at this level.

We ain't talking about a guy here who has got teams relegated. He dissapointed at West Brom and at Watford.But fact is he left West Brom in 5th,when he left they eventually dropped to tenth.Maybe it wasn't him that was the issue 

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Just now, miqaayil said:

i was thinking along the lines .."Valarean and the City of a thousand planets"

 

Valerian and the Club of the Pune Thieves 

Change city to town and planets to countries 🤣

[neophox]

3 minutes ago, islander200 said:

If he does as well as those 2 then we would have offers in the championship 

Coaches can fail over and over they still get opportunities to manage at this level.

We ain't talking about a guy here who has got teams relegated. He dissapointed at West Brom and at Watford.But fact is he left West Brom in 5th,when he left they eventually dropped to tenth.Maybe it wasn't him that was the issue 

He did very well at Barnsley.

Think he's a coach good at working on limited resources and not with primadonnas.

[martonrover]

29 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

jdt and eustace covertly engineered their own way out,expect ismael to do the same or he could sacked after a right old outburst at the toxic mob who run us😀

Yes, but JDT already had a strong standing in Sweden, following his successful spell at Malmo, and Eustace had shown his worth by guiding our troubled club into a lofty league position.

Ismael will have to do very well in the last dozen games, (and hopefully three more), to attract any admirers so quickly.

Let's hope he does just that.

[Forever Blue]

35 minutes ago, DuffsLeftPeg said:

Welcome Ismael!

King of The North (West)

Slaying all before him with Valerian Steel!

COYB 🌹

He doesn’t look a happy Valy

[philipl]

Congratulations and wishing you all the good fortune Valerien.

Hugely relieved Lowe is not in charge against Norwich 

The countdown on Rovers welching on promises to Ismael has started. Hopefully he departs like Lambert, Thomason and Eustace.

[Dreams of 1995]

46 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Good luck Valerien!

I wish you well and hope you can miraculously get us to the PL this season.

Wouldn't have been my choice - just hope it proves to be an inspired appointment but not holding my breath.

Just put a tenner on us winning the Prem in 2 seasons 

[RoversClitheroe]

2 minutes ago, philipl said:

Congratulations and wishing you all the good fortune Valerien.

Hugely relieved Lowe is not in charge against Norwich 

The countdown on Rovers welching on promises to Ismael has started. Hopefully he departs like Lambert, Thomason and Eustace.

How long are we giving it? 

[Exiled_Rover]

12 minutes ago, neophox said:

He will fock off the likes of Cantwell, Weimann and Hedges.

 

Also Pears howlers will make him crazy. He will bring in an french goalie in the summer.

Is he paying for that GK out of his own pocket?

[Bohinen1983]

3 year contract too...  Stone the crows!

[martonrover]

6 minutes ago, islander200 said:

If he does as well as those 2 then we would have offers in the championship 

The poster I challenged said he would be off in the Summer, because of lies and broken promises.

That is what I was challenging.

I agree with what you are saying, but to have any offers in the Summer, he will have to get us at least in the Play Offs, and probably at least to the final.

Add to that, he's not going to be cheap to pinch having signed a 3 + year deal.

I expect he'll have insisted on a release clause, but we won't be talking about peanuts.

[Exiled_Rover]

11 minutes ago, islander200 said:

If he does as well as those 2 then we would have offers in the championship 

Coaches can fail over and over they still get opportunities to manage at this level.

We ain't talking about a guy here who has got teams relegated. He dissapointed at West Brom and at Watford.But fact is he left West Brom in 5th,when he left they eventually dropped to tenth.Maybe it wasn't him that was the issue 

Go look at his managerial history. He's been sacked basically everywhere he's been except Barnsley - and often within 12 months. 

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5 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

Just put a tenner on us winning the Prem in 2 seasons 

Love it 🤣

[roversfan99]

Not the most exciting appointment, and lots of red flags. Doesnt stay at places long, questions about his man management and also his ability to sustain his very direct style of football especially when teams learn how to deal with it.

But equally it could have been worse and he did a very good job at Barnsley and although he underperformed in his subsequent 2 jobs, it certainly wasnt disastrous.

A big shower of comments about getting behind him, giving him a chance and to stop being negative all on page 1. People do realise that being critical in any way of the appointment or raising any concerns doesnt equate to him coming out to a chorus of boos on Saturday? People will be behind him like they always are. But if they arent totally happy with the appointment, let them say so.

Lets hope he has learnt from his mistakes and becomes less predictable in terms of his style of play, and also lets hope he fits our club similar to how he did at Barnsley. 

The likes of Karanka, Boateng and Boa Morte would have been the ones to avoid. Certainly much more to cling on to with Ismael in a positive way. But ultimately the shit show of how we screwed Eustace over and the underlying mess that remains made this a very difficult appointment, and its hard to just brush off losing a very talented manager in that way.

[Forever Blue]

8 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

Just put a tenner on us winning the Prem in 2 seasons 

🤣

[davulsukur]

26 minutes ago, J*B said:

Wouldn’t want to fight him, and I’m considering that a good thing. 

*Michael Appleton has entered The Octagon *

[roversfan99]

28 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Oh don't worry mate! We won't be playing anything of the sort. Expect hoofball. That's his style.

Hopefully he doesn't do a Mowbray and play hoof ball to Adam Armstrong.

Does your seat at Ewood face the pitch?

Mowbray certainly had faults but he didnt play hoof ball to Armstrong. When he was up front, we tried to dominate the ball and it didnt work, so quite the opposite.

Im sure Mowbray must have done something to you personally as your hatred isnt normal.