Josep Gombau Is New Wanderers Manager

very happy with this, like him as a person and a coach

what a guy

Very Happy!

Welcome Josep.

Very happy with this. The only downside is we are going to see more of Sotirio.

3 minutes ago, hughsey said:

what a guy

You make him sound like Ace Rimmer from Red Dwarf...what a guy...lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0

1 minute ago, Upthehill said:

Very happy with this. The only downside is we are going to see more of Sotirio.

Gombau seems to get something out of Sotirio so if that continues maybe it may not be a bad thing.

Very happy with this, good appointment.  Fits with the strategy of the club both longer term and will be able to slot straight in with our current set up.  I imagine Baccus will be very happy as he seems to value ball playing from deep.

Very happy with this as well.

Hey Guys!! We appointed Gombau!

So we are bacially Barcelona now. 

Kinda relieved. I had a feeling we were going to do something stupid like stick with Foxe or get Kewell in.

Welcome.

I was quietly hoping that we'd sign Schuster, he did an ace job in Darmstadt. He would have been something else for the HAL. But hey, Gombau will do. Any word if he is bringing in his own assistant?

Paul Lederer: " “We have a shared vision for how the Wanderers can develop and shared ambitions for our future – mark my words, we have a bold plan for this football club and I look forward to having Josep lead our team this season and beyond.” 

Don't you worry, Paul, I am marking, and I will remind you of these words in time.  It's one thing of having a plan, it's another thing of implementing it.

We now have the four amigos with Gombau and Riera from Catalonia, Cejudo from Andalusia and Llorente from Madrid.

Tsatsimas to institute Spanish lessons as part of regular training 😎

Waiting for the running touchline celebration

1 minute ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Waiting for the running touchline celebration

Under the new FFA clamp down on fun he'd get a card from the referee...

happy with this. Feel like his cuddly demeanour and pitch side antics will reinvigorate our match days and maybe provide some spark to the side when we usually go missing in the second half! 

Not sure on how he will go but certainly a quality replacement with passion for the game and it appears the community at large. I think Google Translate is gonna get a hell of a work out this season. 

If we get an Injury time winner, I expect him to run toward rbb and crowd surf. 

Just checked his career and Oriel.

There were both at Barcelona youth in 2003-2004 so lets hope they parted on good terms.

Could we see a collaboration with the Wanderers Academy and Barcelona Academy in the future? That WOULD improve our overseas scouting.

44 minutes ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Waiting for the running touchline celebration

With a yellow or red card to ensue

Bugger - Davo beat me to it

"After a worldwide search we've signed the guy that's been sniffing around a couple of our home games"

"We are confident he's the best man for the job, after our first two choices said no to our offer"

4 minutes ago, ColdRock said:

"After a worldwide search we've signed the guy that's been sniffing around a couple of our home games"

 

"We are confident he's the best man for the job, after our first two choices said no to our offer"

I've been out of the loop with the interview process, but who were the first 2 choices?

9 minutes ago, teddies said:

I've been out of the loop with the interview process, but who were the first 2 choices?

1. Ante Milicic
2. Dirk Schuster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Schuster
3. Josep Gombau

I couldn't be happier about this!

PS I won't even miss having goal celebration music any longer - just seeing what Josep comes up with in response to a goal will be celebration enough!!

1 hour ago, StringerBellend said:

He’s going to lose some weight running to the crowd at spotless. Parts of the  stadium feel like they  are in a different postcode to the pitch

  But but...he HAS already lost weight!!

Well...he was quite skinny when I saw him after two of our Soulless games last year!

The press conferences will be a highlight as well....

Now we just need to get back to Parra. Still think the stadiums are killing our performances.