Could've wrote this myself.

[elderslieblue 0]

Well, most of it..

 

Link: http://www.sundayherald.com/59004

[Super_Ally 0]

1 succesful sining out of 12?

 

I assume they are including the likes of Furman in this which is unfair as he was not bought to go straight into the team.

[calscot 0]

13 Signings actually but he has a point about 9 of them:

 

For 1st team - 6

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Sebo, Sionko, Clement, Svensson, Papac, Letizi

 

For squad - 3

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N'Dayai, Martin, Bardsley

 

For future - 4

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Furman, Ponroy, Stanger, Loy

 

This is where he has really failed so far. He inherited a team of underachievers and it was obvious that we needed to get rid of the deadwood and bring in at least 5 or 6 new players who would be first choices to really shake up the team.

 

He brought in six plus three more for the squad and had his choices been successful (and no injuries) then at least 7 would be playing from the start with the five best players of the inherited squad - Ferguson, Prso, Boyd, Burke and Smith giving a team of say:

 

..........................Letizi

Bardsley....Svensson....Papac....Smith

...............Ferguson....Clement

...........Burke........Sebo........Sionko

..........................Boyd

 

with MacGregor, Rodriguez, Murray, N'Dayai, Martin, Prso and Buffel on the bench.

 

The fact that only Svensson (who has already proved a bit dodgy) and Clement (who has only really showed flashes of promise) got a start on Sunday reflects badly on Le Guen.

 

It means we still need 5 new players even though we signed 9. THAT is our biggest problem.

 

The other failure is that he has also failed to make the same players he inherited play any better than Eck did. In fact they are playing worse. A lot of us didn't rate Eck so to do worse than him is pretty damning.

 

At the same time he is demotivating players like MacGregor (sorted now) and Boyd as well as others such as Bardsley, Hutton, Svensson, Rodriguez, Papac, Sionko, Sebo, Rae and Buffel. The latter group have brought it on themselves but you can see that we have an unhappy squad. That is another failure by Le Guen.

 

I'm not saying PLG is the wrong man for the job as he was my favourite before he came (except perhaps Co Adriansse) but I' saying he has so far failed in three important parts of his job:

 

Recruitment, Coaching and Motivation. You can probably add Tactics and Media Relations to that list too.

 

These are the big problems for the manager but does anyone see him tackling any of them?

 

He needs to recruit better players in January, coach the present one's into playing a lot better, get the team motivated, happy and playing for him, change his tactics for the SPL and start dealing with the media properly like an OF manager should.

 

Talking of motivation does anyone feel that he has brought the same kind of mood at Ibrox that Advocaat had just before he was moved upstairs and Eck took over?