Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[StHelensRover]

1 hour ago, Crimpshrine said:

The word 'Project' was mentioned many times during that interview.

The word 'Promotion' was not mentioned at all.  

We are back to projects, young players, the academy, see what happens in the summer.

Venky's Out

I thought that was odd as well, that I haven't heard him say the word "promotion" once yet.

Any coach coming in to at least 18-20 of the clubs in this division should be stating that promotion is the ambition, if it isn't, then what is the point? 

I would have liked to hear him say that if we just fall short of the playoffs this season, that they will work really hard over the summer to come back strong and find another way to do it. 

I'm sure most of the players are ambitious and would like some time in the Premier League on their CV but that's unlikely to materialise if the entire rest of the club structure is completely lacking in ambition, which we suspect is the case.

[JHRover]

The club finds itself in the top 6 by complete accident, it was never planned or intended and is simply a result of a tight knit dressing room working their backsides off all season overseen by a decent manager and his staff. Nothing at all to do with the wretches in India, or their cowardly stooges in the boardroom. They deserve not one single iota of credit for it as not a single act they have performed has helped the team get into the position that it is. 

The fact that they never had any expectation, hope, plan or intention of being in the mix is evidenced by the CEO publicly declaring 18 months ago, a few months after missing the play-offs on GD, that his ambition for the season was survival, and then having twice ended up in the shake up for the play-offs since then to have successfully forced out two good managers by making their positions untenable to the point where one preferred to be unemployed and the other preferred a probable spell in League One next year. Quite the achievement to make it so unpleasant and undesirable to stay here and compete for the top 6.

So no real surprise then when Ismael rocks up and there's no talk about promotion, but plenty about projects. His discussions with the stooges will have been based on yet more vague promises with no real intentions of delivering 'jam tomorrow', probably telling him not to worry about the summer as money will be available, things will get sorted out. He will discover in the fullness of time that these are lies aimed purely at getting him in the building and under contract then worry about the rest later.

 

[Norbert Rassragr]

We've had more projects than Adrian Newey, and more journeys than Marco Polo. There's never a fucking conclusion by design. 

[Exiled_Rover]

9 hours ago, Paul Mani said:

Good spot, he also steered clear of admitting the club wanted promotion…it’s clear that the brief is to be self sufficient.

Heres how I think the chat went…

”Val, keep us in this league, bring through plenty of homegrown players for us to sell, so we never have to go back to our bosses for extra cash, and you’ve got £600k a year for life!”

Job done.

"Val, perform unsustainable miracles and you've got a £600k a  year job for life".

Our Academy is good, but it rarely produces a Wharton - and anyone since him that's been thought of as a PL talent has been stolen from the crib (Finneran, Phillips). 

That'll be the pattern from here on out. 

 

Edited 58 minutes ago by Exiled_Rover

[miqaayil]

i'm starting to hate the effing word "PROJECT" ........i hear the word at home or work ..just feel like throwing something ...

 

damn chicken fuks....

[miqaayil]

3 hours ago, JHRover said:

The club finds itself in the top 6 by complete accident, it was never planned or intended and is simply a result of a tight knit dressing room working their backsides off all season overseen by a decent manager and his staff. Nothing at all to do with the wretches in India, or their cowardly stooges in the boardroom. They deserve not one single iota of credit for it as not a single act they have performed has helped the team get into the position that it is. 

The fact that they never had any expectation, hope, plan or intention of being in the mix is evidenced by the CEO publicly declaring 18 months ago, a few months after missing the play-offs on GD, that his ambition for the season was survival, and then having twice ended up in the shake up for the play-offs since then to have successfully forced out two good managers by making their positions untenable to the point where one preferred to be unemployed and the other preferred a probable spell in League One next year. Quite the achievement to make it so unpleasant and undesirable to stay here and compete for the top 6.

So no real surprise then when Ismael rocks up and there's no talk about promotion, but plenty about projects. His discussions with the stooges will have been based on yet more vague promises with no real intentions of delivering 'jam tomorrow', probably telling him not to worry about the summer as money will be available, things will get sorted out. He will discover in the fullness of time that these are lies aimed purely at getting him in the building and under contract then worry about the rest later.

 

We are in top 6 ..despite of the upper hierarchy not in any way because of them..