Add me to the list. Lampard is looking a lot like very late career Derek Jeter right now: capable of short streaks where he seems 27 again but mostly washed up. From start to finish this has been handled poorly by every party and hobbled by bad luck because every poor decision has played out as negatively as could possibly happen.
I just saw the interview @MikeDatTiger mentioned and wanted to punch the screen when Kreis said that. It just reaffirms that Kreis is a great coach but sadly unprincipled fucking liar who is all-too-comfortable and smooth in his BS to the public. "Well let me say that Lampard's both feet are in" [except he chose not to be here now]. And he says it so calmly -- I don't think his pulse jumped above 50 bpm when he said it.
And I don't want to hear that Kreis has no choice. There are lots of ambiguously favorable things he could say instead of just purely false nonsense. When the interviewer says "And you have Frank Lampard one-foot-in one-foot-out according to critics, let's say" all Kreis should say is "We look forward to his arrival and will welcome him when he gets here." Not negative, in fact vaguely positive, not insulting to Frank, to the team or management, and not a lie.
On top of that to put Lampard's commitment to this team on the same plane as Villa's is a damn insult to the Captain, who probably has too much class to care but it still stinks.
Every time I'm about to get over it these assholes give me a new reason to be annoyed. Kreis couldn't get one week past that absolutely positive awesome home opener without being a lying prick.
It would be awesome if Lampard came here and turned into a valued contributor. It's not beyond every reasonable possibility. I want the team to succeed. But if it does happen it would amount to a complete turn in the way this has gone so far given that every piece of timing has been disastrous. And they're not going to let him go, or transfer him back to MCFC. We're stuck with him. How many years is the contract?
I just saw the interview @MikeDatTiger mentioned and wanted to punch the screen when Kreis said that. It just reaffirms that Kreis is a great coach but sadly unprincipled fucking liar who is all-too-comfortable and smooth in his BS to the public. "Well let me say that Lampard's both feet are in" [except he chose not to be here now]. And he says it so calmly -- I don't think his pulse jumped above 50 bpm when he said it.
And I don't want to hear that Kreis has no choice. There are lots of ambiguously favorable things he could say instead of just purely false nonsense. When the interviewer says "And you have Frank Lampard one-foot-in one-foot-out according to critics, let's say" all Kreis should say is "We look forward to his arrival and will welcome him when he gets here." Not negative, in fact vaguely positive, not insulting to Frank, to the team or management, and not a lie.
On top of that to put Lampard's commitment to this team on the same plane as Villa's is a damn insult to the Captain, who probably has too much class to care but it still stinks.
Every time I'm about to get over it these assholes give me a new reason to be annoyed. Kreis couldn't get one week past that absolutely positive awesome home opener without being a lying prick.
It would be awesome if Lampard came here and turned into a valued contributor. It's not beyond every reasonable possibility. I want the team to succeed. But if it does happen it would amount to a complete turn in the way this has gone so far given that every piece of timing has been disastrous. And they're not going to let him go, or transfer him back to MCFC. We're stuck with him. How many years is the contract?
