New Head Coach

Am I forgetting someone?

 

Kompany also had a relatively brilliant season before the relegation.

I dont get the sense this guy did.

 

For perspective, Beale had a better record here (33% win rate) than Le Bris has had at Lorient (30% win rate).

 

He finished 10th with one of the lowest wage bills the season before he got relegated

 

Don't defend him, Cam...he's ****e

 

It’s easy to look at the stats but you need to take into account the league and squads etc.

 

Don't want Le Bris because of playing style. People can disagree because everyone has a preference on how they want the team to play but I just don't like direct, playing the percentages football, would much rather dominate the ball.

Don't care about relegation though considering if he was appointed this time last year people would be calling it a bit of a coup.

 

The squad he had looks canny ****e like

 

Sooner have someone like Challinor than this bloke ffs.

 

Average squad age of the players he used most last season was 25.

So it's not even as though they can say he's amazing with youth, right?

Won 50 odd games as Lorient B manager in 150 odd games.

 

Reported in France they had the 8th biggest budget in the league the season they went down.
https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.c...al-failure-sees-lorient-relegated-to-ligue-2/

 

Was he in charge of transfers or is it like here and they have someone who does that for him?

Jesus, it gets worse.

 

Someone on RTG who watches french football reckons it was the board's team

 

Quite a random

I thought this after reading through the opta article, the way its described seems a bit misleading when you watch how they are direct, its through quick passing through the lines

https://theanalyst.com/eu/2022/10/lorients-unique-overperforming-attack-under-regis-le-bris/

The clips its showed mirror our goal v reading that we loved

Granted I would not be excited by this appointment

 

Are the bookies taking bets on how many pages this thread will get to ? Maybe time for a competition , I’ll make a seperate thread for it

 

Still a serious lack of possession though, even in the season when they finished 10th it was with an average of around 45% with a middling level of completed passes per game. Along side playing with a low block which isn't what I like and I don't think would get the fans all that excited watching us. Just doesn't suit our squad unless we plan on selling and signing around 10 players each.

Think it makes little sense to target a specific coach and then ask them to change their style as well when you could just get a coach who already plays that way.

Just personal preferences though, can understand if people like that playing style. It clearly worked in one season for him but not in the next, unsure on any outside influences played a part in the poor season either.

 

Scout said he’d be very happy with the name he had, wouldn’t panic about it being the lorient fella

 

Apparently it’s him

 

Low block defending is awful, its what we did for 10 years in the prem and it was a bad watch

Fans react to a high press and with a younger playing squad id hope that is what we will eventually get, tried it at times under Mowbray and it worked mostly

 

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Regis Le Bris is just Chris Coleman's alter ego