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............and the rumours/gossip are true, please do not employ Lampard as manager.

Alan Shearer, John Barnes, Bobby Charlton, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Neville, Tony Adams, I could go on, all fantastic international footballers who have failed miserably when stepping into a managerial role.

Leaving their undoubted football ability aside they all had one thing in common, no evidence or testimonial that any of them could manage a football team. They were all a gamble which led to the inevitable outcome.

So why Mel are you doing exactly the same thing with Lampard?

You are a shrewd business man generating phenomenal wealth based on good business practice, and I guarantee, the employment of experienced and shrewd staff.

So why employ Lampard, the scenario is exactly the same.

From my prospective, if Lampard is employed we are faced with another two to three years in the wilderness with heaven only knows what carnage will be left behind.

Final plea, employ a proven and successful manger, do not meddle, leave then to do their job and you will eventually realise yours, and the supporter’s dream, of Premiership football.

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Guardiola, Pochettino, Zidane, Conte and Simeone are all ex-footballers who have done pretty well for themselves in recent years. Where is the evidence that Lampard can't manage a team?

What's the alternative? Emply Nigel Pearson because he once coached Leicester to the PL?

Lampard could be a great choice with ideas that go beyond setting up cones on a training field and picking the starting XI. There needs to be some clear plan or identity put in place...

How do you know there isn't one? 

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Every manager has to start somewhere. If he brings a good coach with him there is no reason he cant do well here.

Afterall Rowett had managed a team before and we got some of the worst football ive ever seen.

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2 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

There needs to be some clear plan or identity put in place...

How do you know there isn't one? 

Hasn’t been one for the last 3 years.  I think though it must be the turn of gung ho for six months, therefore on that basis Lampard seems a good shout.

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3 minutes ago, Pearson said:

Where is the evidence that Lampard can manage a team?

He has his coaching badges. So he is elegible to coach... So why shouldn't we consider him?

Does he have to do well at another club first? Why are we so different to Barca, Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid?

Lampard is a smart guy. If he has a clear plan in place that falls in line with Mel's thinking, why shouldn't we go for him? Having never managed before means he has never done a bad job anywhere.

Hiring him is a risk. But so is hiring anyway. Who knew when we got Paul Jewell that we'd get the PJ the Porn Star and not the Jewell who took Wigan from League One to midtable in the Premier League...?

For every suggestion out there, a manager would have done a decent job somewhere and probably a poor one elsewhere.

If ourselves and Lampard have the same vision, the same way of moving forward, the same strategy then it would be daft not to appoint him considering the extra benefits of hiring a former world class central midfielder who won the Champions League only five years ago.

 

 

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24 minutes ago, Pearson said:

Alan Shearer, John Barnes, Bobby Charlton, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Neville, Tony Adams, I could go on, all fantastic international footballers who have failed miserably when stepping into a managerial role.

There is always the exception!!

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As the OP states the owner of Derby is a shrewd business man. I'm sure he as looked at the CV of all the candidates but also during an interview listen to what their plans for bringing success to the club were and how they would implemented them.

We as fans can give an opinion on who we would like as our next manager. As fans we have not been privy to this interview processes, so can only hope that the best person for the job as been identified wether this be an experienced manager or a novice

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There's no proven managers available.. The only one you could argue is McCarthy. 

People have been going on about Dean Smith but for all his plus points he's never actually won anything in his managerial career. 

It's a pretty bold statement to say Lampard can't  manage without knowing anything about what he's been doing in-between playing and now. You've not seen him interview and you don't know the way he wants to play. We know he's a risk but Zidane won his 3rd champions league in a row last night, he had as much as experience as Lampard when he took the role. 

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3 minutes ago, clarkeram7 said:

There's no proven managers available.. The only one you could argue is McCarthy. 

People have been going on about Dean Smith but for all his plus points he's never actually won anything in his managerial career. 

It's a pretty bold statement to say Lampard can't  manage without knowing anything about what he's been doing in-between playing and now. You've not seen him interview and you don't know the way he wants to play. We know he's a risk but Zidane won his 3rd champions league in a row last night, he had as much as experience as Lampard when he took the role. 

Smith has been good at wheeler-dealing and his teams play great football

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If you are reading this Mel

employ who you want but please not some miserable opinionated old goat with a track record of getting results by attrition, gamesmanship, lump ball and clodhopping. 

You know who I mean don’t you ? 

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