LyonGer
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She's an ex for a reason matePics please
She's an ex for a reason matePics please
Billy Davies probably!Who were the other options for manager around the time he was appointed?
Steve Mandanda any day now lol.
I don’t actually remember him playing cause of my age but I started playing FM06/07 last month. He had 5star potentially and is valued at something like 6 million at the start. Shows how wrong FM can be sometimes.Even the 2-2 draw at home to Dundee United when we were 0-2 down I was still quite excited with what I saw of us going forward.
We were well beaten at the Piggery and never got going after that. Karl Svensson must be one of our worst ever centre halves?
The french club chairman said 'PLG inherited a Ferrari- but he drove it beautifully'
He may have inherited a Mini - when he joined us - but crashed it before he got out of 2nd gear
I have no sympathy for PLG whatsoever- he had 6 months preparation time before he joined us- how many managers get that luxury?
& I'm convinced he never even looked at the Scottish scene in all that time
If he'd watched a video of our game against Dundee Hiv's the season before he joined - he'd have seen an almost identical squad- playing identical tactics to the match under his command- yet it was painfully obvious he was unprepared - even surprised at the opposition & clueless how to play against them
I know he won't have been helped by 'ma baw' tantrums & player attitudes - & I'm sure he wasn't helped by our board at the time - but he didn't help himself either
Why he went to one Austrian club for his signings was a mystery to me
Iirc the press linked him with potential French players even before he arrived with us
Now I know the press are hardly to be trusted - but it seems possible to me that he didn't have the 'goodwill' from French football to help make potential signings we could have hoped for
Whatever the reason - I remember thinking the week before the season started that the squad wasn't up to it - but I also thought- we've got a tactical & motivational genius at the helm & maybe the quality of the squad won't matter for the moment
How wrong could I get ??
I think Murray absolutely shafted him.
There is no way he signed here to then have Sebo etc as his transfer targets.
Martin Bain signed guys who were way down Le Guen's list of targets.
I got the French National Anthem as a ringtone, felt pretty stupid anytime my phone rang.Where has the time went scary doesn't cover it, remember alot of posters changing their names to gallic names and phrases.
Foreign managers just don't understand it.
I can't believe that last comment; to be any kind of football man you need and will instantly recognise a good and bad player. I remain to be convinced that he was entirely satisfied with the squad he had that season.At Lyon the players were signed for him and to suit his style of play/system. With us he had to choose players and couldn't spot quality.
I think it showed early doors PLG had no eye for a player.
Your wife give up her French passport?I was living in Lyon at the time of his appointment.
I was buzzing, certainly got that one wrong, bit like my ex french wife.
Not very well today never thought when I typed thatYour wife give up her French passport?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.Not very well today never thought when I typed that
I went all in on Le Guen. Genuinely thought he was next level fantasy stuff.
Another fraud who came unprepared.
I remember going to Motherwell for the first game of the season and thinking, "Well, they are just finding their feet. It'll get better.". History says otherwise.
I can't believe that last comment; to be any kind of football man you need and will instantly recognise a good and bad player. I remain to be convinced that he was entirely satisfied with the squad he had that season.
Got my season ticket that summer, my timing as impeccable as ever
Taking part in some tough mudder type contest except it was in the Sahara.Was he not running about in a desert for weeks when he should have been planning what to do at Rangers?
You’ve missed the key point that he was a sh.ite manager.Shafted and deceived by David Murray, I reckon.
Always remember thinking he'd be a great appointment but no marquee signing whatsoever and the headline for his first game was 'Come and see Paul le Guen's first game in charge' rather than the enticement of new signings.
I think he found out he was deceived, was never going to win against the players, some howling domestic results yet excellent in Europe (the latter is sounding familiar?) and gave up as it was him versus everyone else.
You’ve missed the key point that he was a sh.ite manager.
I think Murray absolutely shafted him.
There is no way he signed here to then have Sebo etc as his transfer targets.
I suspect he was doomed to fail, but I also strongly suspect he was deceived on his transfer budget by Murray.
We went from trying to sign Sidney Govou, Johan Elmander and Steve Mandanda to instead signing Sionko and Letizi on frees and Sebo.
This is my opinion also.Shafted and deceived by David Murray, I reckon.
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I think he found out he was deceived, was never going to win against the players, some howling domestic results yet excellent in Europe ... and gave up as it was him versus everyone else.
St Johnstone iircMy recollection was that we were played brillianty that day against Motherwell, only winning narrowly because we passed up a lot of chances. I remember being pretty excited coming away from it - little did I know the depths we would go on to plumb.
Those league numbers. P23, W11, D6, L6. Absolutely howling, and knocked out of the league cup by a lower division side at Ibrox.
I'm still raging Le Guen got rid of Ricksen. When he was in the right frame of mind he was the best player in Scotland. If Walter had the chance to work with Fernando and do what he did with Hutton then Ricksen would have been a top player in my opinion.
Le Guen admitted that he had underrated the task; that said, he didn't get the backing needed anyway. PLG didn't manage Lyon with his eyes closed, and he is an intelligent and considerate man; I don't think it would have taken him too long to acknowledge what he had in front of him. I suspect he wanted out earlier than he left.I remember that exciting summer of rumours. Elmander was one that would have been a very good signing but instead we got Sebo.
Like others I don’t think Le Guen did his homework on Scottish football and his career since has been awful.