Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

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4 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25022883.blackburn-summer-transfer-clue-ismael-sets-clear-vision/

Sound like Hedges and Hyam could move on. 

Also going back to possession based team

It’s always ‘Jam tomorrow’, and has been for over a decade. 
 

So on to a summer of broken promises….again. Can’t wait.

It’s reassuring to see Dismal is on-message though.

 

[Exiled_Rover]

2 hours ago, TimmyJimmy said:

VI says "Because a lot of players will leave the club at the end of the season. And it's a chance to reset and to take exactly the profile of the player we need."

Good, at least someone other than us recognises that we don't have players worthy of the badge. His challenge is extracting the money from Venky FC to buy decent players.

Journeymen, loans and academy promotions is all he'll get.  We know  he doesn't (yet). Welcome to the mad house son. Enjoy.

Are you not even slightly concerned that the manager we ran off had those journeymen loanees and Academy graduates in 5th for most of the year and the new bloke has them looking like a bunch of strangers?

[bigbrandjohn]

54 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

It’s always ‘Jam tomorrow’, and has been for over a decade. 
 

So on to a summer of broken promises….again. Can’t wait.

It’s reassuring to see Dismal is on-message though.

 

Not so much. Hyam contract extension triggered. 

[Forever Blue]

12 minutes ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Not so much. Hyam contract extension triggered. 

Not sure what you mean? They’re just triggering an extension. 

[Waggy76]

12 minutes ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Not so much. Hyam contract extension triggered. 

He could still be sold! 

Someone, could offer £750,000 and he will be gone like a shot! 

[MarkBRFC]

41 minutes ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Not so much. Hyam contract extension triggered. 

Literally no negotiation has to happen to trigger that.

I imagine, it's like Gallagher last summer where we triggered his one year extension and we will be floating him around for a fairly cheap fee to get him off the books instead of letting him go for nothing. 

[booth]

6 hours ago, davulsukur said:

We're basically going back to the days of Owen Coyle, champagne football on a lager budget.

Which is what Annie Desai ordered.

Why someone with no background, knowledge or interest in football would start making demands on managers with "leased players" I don't know.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/we-want-good-football-blackburn-3345166

[rovers11]

The constant talk of "next season" is a total cop out from Ismael. Essentially saying that he shouldn't be judged until next season. 

Wanting to move back to more of a possession based style of football terrifies me. Yes, we'd all love to play that way but we've seen in JDT's second season you cannot do that with technically inept players. And we cannot afford good technical players. Therefore being hard to beat, well organised, and disciplined is the recipe for success as we saw under Eustace.

A lot of players who will be leaving in the summer are not very good so the high number of departures doesn't bother me. However, what we do know is that we will be replacing those poor players with even poorer players because the 'budget' will be non-existent again.

We don't even have major young talents coming through to get excited about either. Grim times at this club.

[Leonard Venkhater]

3 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

It’s always ‘Jam tomorrow’, and has been for over a decade. 
 

So on to a summer of broken promises….again. Can’t wait.

It’s reassuring to see Dismal is on-message though.

 

F*** Hell..Talk about "start again" syndrome!

Do they really think we are all too thick to see that there is a pattern of managed failure?

[simongarnerisgod]

3 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

F*** Hell..Talk about "start again" syndrome!

Do they really think we are all too thick to see that there is a pattern of managed failure?

what`s the budget for this "start again" rebuild??

[Forever Blue]

3 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

what`s the budget for this "start again" rebuild??

Similar to every other time….the square root of not much.

[K-Hod]

I worry for the sanity of people who can’t/wont see they’re being taken for fools. Always tomorrow with this lot.

[Mattyblue]

Only at this club can a manager come through the door with a dozen games left, sitting in 6th place… four games later the season’s been written off and its ’a re-build for next year’.

A ridiculous outfit from top to bottom.

[aletheia]

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

But it is a cheap gimmick to try to distract people from what is going on.

Bread and circuses 😉

[aletheia]

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

Football Manager laptop brigade speculating about who we are going to sign,

Summer transfer thread running to many pages....

[simongarnerisgod]

think there will be plenty of signings brought in to replace the ones sold in the annual rovers summer sale,but they`ll all be cheap,free and rubbish,sorry to be blunt,but it`s going to happen

[M_B]

I just hope that Ismael, Gestede, Waggott and whoever else are in agreement who gets the final say on potential signings.

[Gamst]

I admire Ismael’s arrogance. 2 weeks ago he was talking about the impressive team spirit and his hopes for the playoffs. We have lost 3 consecutive games against relegation strugglers and are now out of the race. A few days later and he’s selling this as a new beginning and we are supposed to swallow this up and be encouraged? We commence another rebuild with the architect of our recent capitulation at the helm. Established players leaving and cheap/spent/desperate replacements to come in. Do the club think today’s article is going to excite the fans? They must really think we are utterly thick. I suppose this means he sticks around even if we lose all our remaining fixtures. I cannot get my head around why he wants to employ a possession based game when he has always been a long ball type and we don’t have the players or the money to sign the necessary players? How can he see this job as the opportunity to suddenly become the next Pep. 

[SuperBrfc]

3 hours ago, booth said:

Which is what Annie Desai ordered.

Why someone with no background, knowledge or interest in football would start making demands on managers with "leased players" I don't know.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/we-want-good-football-blackburn-3345166

There's absolutely no way that an Indian woman with no knowledge of or interest in football is demanding Rovers play "good football". I refuse to believe that.

If we think back to what Andy Cole told us, about him hearing months in advance of the takeover, that an Indian Company was going to buy Rovers, sack Big Sam and give the job to the rat, it suggests that this bullshit was pre-planned and could be being stage managed by somebody else.

Those words from Desai back then, IMO, served as a public justification for sacking Big Sam. "We want good football". Some may hear that and think "ah, fair enough", as Big Sam had a reputation for playing not so pretty football. Which, IMO, is the reaction the string pullers wanted.

What does good football look like, Mrs Desai? Please do tell us. Don't look around, tell us in your own words.

Not one of Desai, Venkatesh, Balaji, Jagdish or Suhail know what English football is about. Not one of them knows what good football looks like or the history and pedigree of Blackburn Rovers. Not one of them knows what Premier League football means for this club, the town and everybody connected.

This has been a shambles from the start. Anybody defending this or making excuses for the last 15 years has been taken for a ride.

Now, they expect people to believe that another 'project' will be underway in the summer. They expect people to believe that they want "good football" from Ismael, a manager who is known to play the opposite of "good football". I would laugh, but this is no laughing matter.

If they truly wanted "good football" they would have realised that they had the best man for it at their disposal. JDT. The man told their stooge he could win them promotion. Why would you let him leave? Why would you not back him, if you truly wanted "good football" and promotion?

It's because this "project" and "good football" spiel is utter bollocks. A time buying exercise, where somebody is hoping we can stay in the Championship for a few more seasons. Ismael might genuinely think he can achieve something, but most of us can see another Coyle situation unfolding.

It needs promotion to the Prem, despite these tossers, to end this charade once and for all. The Premier League spotlight will force them out.

The galling thing is, they have appointed a manager and have created an environment where relegation to L1 next season looks the more likely to occur. 

An absolute shitshow. They are taking the piss.

"Where would we be without Venky's".

That question to me, is like a red rag to a bull. How any Rovers fan over the age of 25 can utter those words...f£&king ridiculous.

[simongarnerisgod]

13 minutes ago, Gamst said:

I admire Ismael’s arrogance. 2 weeks ago he was talking about the impressive team spirit and his hopes for the playoffs. We have lost 3 consecutive games against relegation strugglers and are now out of the race. A few days later and he’s selling this as a new beginning and we are supposed to swallow this up and be encouraged? We commence another rebuild with the architect of our recent capitulation at the helm. Established players leaving and cheap/spent/desperate replacements to come in. Do the club think today’s article is going to excite the fans? They must really think we are utterly thick. I suppose this means he sticks around even if we lose all our remaining fixtures. I cannot get my head around why he wants to employ a possession based game when he has always been a long ball type and we don’t have the players or the money to sign the necessary players? How can he see this job as the opportunity to suddenly become the next Pep. 

he`s struggling to get players on his side with his methods,his answer,sell them and start again,big problem with this is

1 lack of funds,he`s more than likely been lied to about the budget

2-the players he brings in will be shite or past it

3-we`ll be in the bottom 3 by december and he`ll leave,we start the process all over again

[Upside Down]

I for one am looking forward to next season.

It's going to be interesting that's for sure.

[DE.]

3 hours ago, rovers11 said:

The constant talk of "next season" is a total cop out from Ismael. Essentially saying that he shouldn't be judged until next season. 

Wanting to move back to more of a possession based style of football terrifies me. Yes, we'd all love to play that way but we've seen in JDT's second season you cannot do that with technically inept players. And we cannot afford good technical players. Therefore being hard to beat, well organised, and disciplined is the recipe for success as we saw under Eustace.

A lot of players who will be leaving in the summer are not very good so the high number of departures doesn't bother me. However, what we do know is that we will be replacing those poor players with even poorer players because the 'budget' will be non-existent again.

We don't even have major young talents coming through to get excited about either. Grim times at this club.

Spot on. The reason I welcomed Eustace joining initially was because I felt his style of football was exactly what we needed. Build from the back, defensively solid, playing to the strengths of the team - which is not technical ability, even from our supposedly technical players. It was a relief to finally have a manager who understood what we needed to do to compete. Not always pleasing on the eye, but if it gets results then so be it.

Ismael is deluded if he thinks he's going to make us successful with possession based football on our budget, and it really does suggest he's the wrong man for the job.

[den]

“Rebuild for next season”.  It sounds like it’s a plan. It isn’t.

We aren’t rebuilding, we’re trying to salvage from the wreckage of the 15th season of Venky’s ownership - only this time there’s hardly anything left to salvage. There isn’t a base to rebuild from. 
 

and the dwindling fan base will be completely ignored. Nobody at Ewood or in India has a clue how to turn this around. Not a clue.

 

 

Edited March 20 by den

[cesus]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Only at this club can a manager come through the door with a dozen games left, sitting in 6th place… four games later the season’s been written off and its ’a re-build for next year’.

A ridiculous outfit from top to bottom.

It is a year on year situation of "surely not". This year takes some beating to be fair from an outside of Ewood point of view. Manager leaves to relegation ravaged side, new manager comes in with 12 to go in a good position, rights off the season a few weeks later. Yet, nobody is surprised in any way, shape or form. I'm sure fans of other clubs think we make up what goes on here.

Edited March 20 by cesus