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Regis le Bris - confirmed


Over 30 years as a season ticket holder and never ever looked forward to a season less. No faith in these owners.
Not in anyway excited about this appointment, although didn't expect to be. Just hope he massively proves me wrong
I’ve got to say the opposite tbh. Exotic new foreign manager and the current crop of young talent we have surely make it more interesting than another season of league plodders and has beens under Grayson/moyes/ross/coleman/parkinson.
 
He only got relegated once TBF. He apparently had all his best players sold as well. I mean they can't have thought that badly of him considering they never sacked him.
People keep repeating that but it’s largely irrelevant. We’re likely to sell our best player this summer. Does that mean we’d accept relegation?

They sold one of their big players last summer in Enzo Le Fee. A couple others left mid way through the 10th placed season. They spent £60m in replacing them.

This could turn out a number of ways but people are just making stuff up to justify it.
 
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Over 30 years as a season ticket holder and never ever looked forward to a season less. No faith in these owners.
Not in anyway excited about this appointment, although didn't expect to be. Just hope he massively proves me wrong
This negativity is tiresome…..the club is going in the right direction despite some pretty niaive cock ups along the way both on and off the field. Let’s just see how we progress through a difficult transfer window ( more than ever the bulk of movement will be near the end) and how we set up.
Assuming the new man will fail and the restructuring of the squad will fail and the new pitch will be full of weeds is easy… try the harder road… get behind the club, the manager and the team.
People keep repeating that but it’s largely irrelevant. We’re likely to sell our best player this summer. Does that mean we’d accept relegation?
Yes we are a selling club. Just look at the long list of star players we have sold over the last two years …. There is…………..?
 
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This negativity is tiresome…..the club is going in the right direction despite some pretty niaive cock ups along the way both on and off the field. Let’s just see how we progress through a difficult transfer window ( more than ever the bulk of movement will be near the end) and how we set up.
Assuming the new man will fail and the restructuring of the squad will fail and the new pitch will be full of weeds is easy… try the harder road… get behind the club, the manager and the team.

Yes we are a selling club. Just look at the long list of star players we have sold over the last two years …. There is…………..?
It’s definitely not going in the right direction like. Massive step backwards last year. Nowt to say they can’t turn it round but negativity is completely understandable. You should see how fans of other clubs are talking about us if you think it’s just a Sunderland thing.
 
People keep repeating that but it’s largely irrelevant. We’re likely to sell our best player this summer. Does that mean we’d accept relegation?

They sold one of their big players last summer in Enzo Le Fee. A couple others left mid way through the 10th placed season. They spent £60m in replacing them.

This could turn out a number of ways but people are just making stuff up to justify it.
It’s what our model is isn’t it? Hardly a ringing endorsement for his appointment.
 
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This negativity is tiresome…..the club is going in the right direction despite some pretty niaive cock ups along the way both on and off the field. Let’s just see how we progress through a difficult transfer window ( more than ever the bulk of movement will be near the end) and how we set up.
Assuming the new man will fail and the restructuring of the squad will fail and the new pitch will be full of weeds is easy… try the harder road… get behind the club, the manager and the team.

Yes we are a selling club. Just look at the long list of star players we have sold over the last two years …. There is…………..?
I didn’t say we are a selling club. It’s very likely Clarke will leave this summer though. That’s the same thing as what happened to le bris at Lorient.
It’s what our model is isn’t it? Hardly a ringing endorsement for his appointment.
It’s the model for a lot of clubs to be fair. People are reading it as a dig at the club and it’s not. It’s just a fact that managers have to deal with squad turnover. It’s not an excuse for what happened at Lorient.

I used the example of Reims the other day (forgetting will still) who finished below Lorient, lost more of their big players and finished in a higher position
 
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I didn’t say we are a selling club. It’s very likely Clarke will leave this summer though. That’s the same thing as what happened to le bris at Lorient.

It’s the model for a lot of clubs to be fair. People are reading it as a dig at the club and it’s not. It’s just a fact that managers have to deal with squad turnover. It’s not an excuse for what happened at Lorient.

I used the example of Reims the other day (forgetting will still) who finished below Lorient, lost more of their big players and finished in a higher position
It’s how most clubs operate I’d guess at least half the French league made a profit on transfers.
To be fair to him he is probably working with a bit less wiggle room they (Lorient) have been lower middle table/relegation for much of the last 10 or so years.
 
It’s how most clubs operate I’d guess at least half the French league made a profit on transfers.
To be fair to him he is probably working with a bit less wiggle room they (Lorient) have been lower middle table/relegation for much of the last 10 or so years.
8th highest budget in the league apparently. Doesn’t mean they spent it well though but he’s not going to have as much wiggle room here.
 
8th highest budget in the league apparently. Doesn’t mean they spent it well though but he’s not going to have as much wiggle room here.
It’s the difficult thing to judge in all this. He almost certainly wasn’t spending the money and no idea how much say he had in it.
He probably isn’t going to have a great deal of input here either, so will be relying on some good recruitment.
 
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