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Regis le Bris - confirmed


Randy Savage said:
RLB is exactly what Dreyfus and Speakman have always wanted. A bilingual continental coach who has experience of working with and developing kids, who seemingly won’t have any issues working within the strict parameters set in place by those above, and who apparently plays decent football.

If this goes tits up, especially if they allow RLB to bring in back room staff (which is a good thing btw), the ‘model’ will be a total busted flush imo.
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I hope he proves me wrong, I really do, however I can’t help but think he’s a Poundland Will Still and was not high up on their list at all. After all, if it was so toxic over there and we wanted him so badly, surely it wouldn’t have taken so long to get it over the line?
 
Meathead said:
I hope he proves me wrong, I really do, however I can’t help but think he’s a Poundland Will Still and was not high up on their list at all. After all, if it was so toxic over there and we wanted him so badly, surely it wouldn’t have taken so long to get it over the line?
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Other than managing in France what does he have in common with Still?
 
Randy Savage said:
RLB is exactly what Dreyfus and Speakman have always wanted. A bilingual continental coach who has experience of working with and developing kids, who seemingly won’t have any issues working within the strict parameters set in place by those above, and who apparently plays decent football.

If this goes tits up, especially if they allow RLB to bring in back room staff (which is a good thing btw), the ‘model’ will be a total busted flush imo.
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Im not sure why it would be a busted flush, it's a good model but you can implement it poorly, it doesn't mean it needs ripping up.
 
Jambezz said:
Other than managing in France what does he have in common with Still?
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Not many years experience, both young, both managed relatively young, pressing sides, both had their clubs punching well above their weight in recent years. Both worked Onan budget. One however was clearly more fancied, has received a lot more plaudits and is seen by many European football experts as one of the best young managers around.
 
This lad is no mug. By all accounts, he has been good at developing youngsters. He thinks deeply about the game and expresses well in his interviews.

However can he get results on a Saturday afternoon? His record is very questionable at this. He's supposed to be into video analysis but his team shipped the most goals last season, including the most from set pieces. There's a difference between knowing went wrong and putting it right.
 
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gatopreto said:
This lad is no mug. By all accounts, he has been good at developing youngsters. He thinks deeply about the game and expresses well in his interviews.

However can he get results on a Saturday afternoon? His record is very questionable at this. He's supposed to be into video analysis but his team shipped the most goals last season, including the most from set pieces. There's a difference between knowing went wrong and putting it right.
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I am more concerned if he can get a result on a windy and rainy Tuesday night in Stoke.
 
Meathead said:
Not many years experience, both young, both managed relatively young, pressing sides, both had their clubs punching well above their weight in recent years. Both worked Onan budget. One however was clearly more fancied, has received a lot more plaudits and is seen by many European football experts as one of the best young managers around.
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RLB is 17 years older than Still, taking his first managerial position aged 46. Also RLB doesn't play a pressing game, he plays with a low block.
nz joe said:
Hadn't read that before . Fuck me Speakman is a clown with verbal diarrhea.
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Laser focused, obsession with progression.
 
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The Beautiful Game said:
They aren’t. He didn’t get their highest finish, they only sold one player in the summer (the others had left on loan the season before when he finished 10th), they backed him to the tune of £60m and they had the eighth highest budget in the league.

Saying he’s justified in getting them relegated because they sold enzo le fee is like saying it’s ok for us to get relegated because we’re about to sell jack clarke.
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Second highest points tally is what he achieved.

3 players were sold in summer 2023 for €50m. One, their top scorer, had left in the January on loan - the other two, Le Fee and Kone had played the full 22/23 10th place finish season. That's the front spine of your team sold within the space of 6 months.

They didn't back him to the tune of €60m. Their spending in 23/24 mounted up to €28.9, the most expensive of those being 20 year old defender Isak Toure for €8m. Their net spend over the two years he was head coach was €39.55m. They'd sold €98.65 worth of players, and brought in €59.1m (there's your €60m, which didn't tell the whole story).


It doesn't justify relegation, nor is it making excuses. But it does paint a slightly more detailed picture of what's gone on there. And let's face it, none of us had the first clue about goings on at FC Lorient 'til the middle of last week.


We're just going to have to wait and see, and hope this time their data processes and all that palaver have gotten it right and he fits in.

I'm not gonna fixate on the bloke's relegation any more than I will his tenth place finish. Different club, different circumstances. And there are extenuating circumstances given the club's transfer activities.

Wait and see.
Roker Scoreboard said:
I think the excitement shown over the weekend was more to do with the process coming to and end, rather than the actual person we've managed to get in.
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There was excitement? :lol:
 
chriswallace85 said:
Second highest points tally is what he achieved.

3 players were sold in summer 2023 for €50m. One, their top scorer, had left in the January on loan - the other two, Le Fee and Kone had played the full 22/23 10th place finish season. That's the front spine of your team sold within the space of 6 months.

They didn't back him to the tune of €60m. Their spending in 23/24 mounted up to €28.9, the most expensive of those being 20 year old defender Isak Toure for €8m. Their net spend over the two years he was head coach was €39.55m. They'd sold €98.65 worth of players, and brought in €59.1m (there's your €60m, which didn't tell the whole story).


It doesn't justify relegation, nor is it making excuses. But it does paint a slightly more detailed picture of what's gone on there. And let's face it, none of us had the first clue about goings on at FC Lorient 'til the middle of last week.


We're just going to have to wait and see, and hope this time their data processes and all that palaver have gotten it right and he fits in.

I'm not gonna fixate on the bloke's relegation any more than I will his tenth place finish. Different club, different circumstances. And there are extenuating circumstances given the club's transfer activities.

Wait and see.

There was excitement? :lol:
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Those signings last season don’t half remind me of what Moyes was given here. New fella last season has a lot of parallels. If folk can’t see he had both hands tied behind his back and was blindfolded, I don’t know what will convince them. Results I guess.
 
gatopreto said:
This lad is no mug. By all accounts, he has been good at developing youngsters. He thinks deeply about the game and expresses well in his interviews.

However can he get results on a Saturday afternoon? His record is very questionable at this. He's supposed to be into video analysis but his team shipped the most goals last season, including the most from set pieces. There's a difference between knowing went wrong and putting it right.
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So basically its beale 2.0?.....you can learn all the theory you like and become very knowledgeable on the subject and can talk the arse of a donkey but when it comes to practical application your tracksuit just doesn't quite fit right when dealing with human beings in a squad some of which are just not up to it!Football is a simple game that has been over complicated by some coaches ,just recruit well for the team, drill the defence and let the players play the game !
 

Tactics used at Lorient​

Le Bris wants his side to play in a very distinctive way - setting up in a 3-4-2-1 shape going forward and building out in an unorthodox style. No team in Ligue 1 during the 2022-23 season where Le Bris guided them to 10th, had a higher percentage of passes ending in their own third of the pitch than Lorient with 32 percent - and had least percent of passes ending in their opponent’s third with 19 percent.


From Chronicle in depth look at Le Bris.
 
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