In fairness there's more to go on than just part match interviews isn't there? I know IQ isn't a perfect indicator of 'intelligence' but it's one piece of the puzzle and doesn't Lampard have a very high IQ? I must say that he always comes across as a fairly smart guy to me...doesn't mean he'll make a great manager, mind.
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Ah @Pogue Mahone you were talking about Rooney...I misunderstood, apologies!
The world is weird enough at the moment without us trying to create a reality where Wayne Rooney is an intellectual.
He’s not an intellectual but you don’t need to be an academic to be a good football manager. He’s clearly not as thick as you portrayed him anyway.
Latin GCSE doesn't translate to results in the Premier League?He has a GCSE in Latin I think.
Just think he's ill suited to situation he's been parachuted into. Thought the same of Howe going to Newcastle in fairness but he at least had half a season and it took him two months to get Newcastle winning. May be too late for Lampard.
Lampard's IQ is something like 150 odd.
Rooney turned down the Everton job.
Lampard accepted it.
Based on that alone, I’d say Rooney had displayed the greater intelligence.
Lampard would have taken any job. He was so desperate to get back into management. If things go wrong here, I can see him finished at PL management level.
Well that is what Arry Redknapp said.
He was offered the Norwich job and he rejected it.
There's a few rumors doing the round on social media that Calvert-Lewin is in court tomorrow but doesn't say what for.
Lampard has been in self-preservation mode from the off. Compared to Benitez he has DCL back plus Dele Alli and VdB but has only managed a pitiful 3 points from 18.
Newcastle
“I have come to a situation where we have to get better in a lot of things. I’ve come into the club when they were on a run of results that’s left them in the position we’re in. It’s my job to change that but there isn’t a magic wand on that front,”
Southampton
“I know they’re good lads, I know they want to react, but sometimes when you’ve been in a hard run of form away from home – and generally before I got here – it’s easy to seep back into,”
City
“If the table doesn’t look great in a couple of weeks, so be it. It didn’t look great when I came,”
Spurs
“We’re 17th for a reason: before I got here. There’s a clear discrepancy in home and away form, issues that were there before me and don’t take care of themselves overnight. The players understand the gravity of the situation. They understood it before I arrived because they had been on a long run without a win,”
Wolves
“Myself and the staff came in with the team on a bad run, used to the feeling of losing and not getting points,”
Newcastle
“I have come to a situation where we have to get better in a lot of things. I’ve come into the club when they were on a run of results that’s left them in the position we’re in. It’s my job to change that but there isn’t a magic wand on that front,”
Southampton
“I know they’re good lads, I know they want to react, but sometimes when you’ve been in a hard run of form away from home – and generally before I got here – it’s easy to seep back into,”
City
“If the table doesn’t look great in a couple of weeks, so be it. It didn’t look great when I came,”
Spurs
“We’re 17th for a reason: before I got here. There’s a clear discrepancy in home and away form, issues that were there before me and don’t take care of themselves overnight. The players understand the gravity of the situation. They understood it before I arrived because they had been on a long run without a win,”
Wolves
“Myself and the staff came in with the team on a bad run, used to the feeling of losing and not getting points,”
Exactly , he's constantly blaming others.
It must be something to do with his genius IQ and knowledge of latin.
If his Latin is so good someone should tell him to give Everton's badge a read...
Unfortunately, that's the only thing he picked up from Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.
Yeah.
He’d have been better off seeking an opportunity at a lower league club, possibly abroad, with ambitious but patient owners and a good youth setup. Everton is the diametric opposite of that.
I’m not sure the inevitable Everton disaster will finish him off actually. He’s got enough friends in the media to make excuses for him, which some gullible club chairman will fall for.
Exactly. Arteta would have been sacked before Ole this season at almost every other club considering his finishes the previous two seasons. He's just managed to wield enough influence and hold on long enough for it to be paying dividends....at least right now. Plenty of time for Arsenal to mess up and finish below Spurs again.
Not just about him tbh its just the media generally pundits media outlets etc
Isn't this to do with his speeding fine.
Yeah it was but when i wrote it no one knew. In hindsight it probably wasn't going to be anything big otherwise the press would have got hold of it sooner.
Big win tonight. Go on Lamps.
Broke his hand during the celebrations apparently
Not something I expect from a guy with a huge IQ.
He sustained the same injury while celebrating his GCSE in Latin.
Veni, Vidi, Vroke it.
What is he doing there. How do Everton do it? Ancelotti, Rafa, Lampard.
Hope they get relegated.
Another heavy defeat but I suppose they weren't going to win the FA cup
He's not very good, is he?
I think he's taken on a poisoned chalice. He's probably had too much too fast in his managerial career.
No. Just a very odd appointment all-round and I bet 99% of this forum felt the same before he got the job.
Zero experience in a relegation fight (and very little in general) and his teams have leaked goals, why they thought it was a good idea to appoint him considering that combination I don't know.
Which is also a mark of his quality as a manager, choosing the right jobs and knowing when to make the step up is important.
Already at Third Season Jose levels of burying the players.
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I agree. I mean only if half of the stuff that was said about him at Chelsea is true, then there is a long way to go for Lampard before he can maybe become a successful PL manager.