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Lambert: I'm Seeing Marcus Face-to-Face Next Week
Friday, 19th Feb 2021 10:14

Under-fire boss Paul Lambert says he hasn’t spoken to owner Marcus Evans since Tuesday’s 0-0 home draw with Northampton but is due to meet with him face-to-face next week.

The expectation among fans since Tuesday has been that Evans would finally end Lambert's tenure but he remains in place and will be in charge for tomorrow's game against Oxford at Portman Road.

However, he says the two have a meeting next week, where it seems certain his position will be discussed.

“I haven’t actually, but that’s not unusual, that’s not unusual because his schedule is incredibly busy as well,” Lambert said when asked if the two had spoken since the game the other night.

“Owners are all different. I get on well with Marcus, I’ve always said to you. I’ve got a good relationship with the guy. I’ll see him face to face next week and we’ll discuss things from there.

“It’s like Mr [Peter] Coates at Stoke, he would come in every Friday and have lunch with me and I’d have a chat with him, but everybody’s different. It’s not unusual.

“I’ve spoken to [general manager of football operations] Lee [O’Neill] loads of times since Tuesday night. Marcus, no problem, I’ll speak to him next week at some point face to face, I guess hopefully, or through one of these things [computer].”

Lambert made a number of critical comments regarding the structure of the club following Tuesday’s match and also in his talkSPORT interview.

Pressed further on that, asked who he meant with a few people in the club having wondered whether it was them he was talking about when spoken to, he asked who had been talked to: “Who have you spoken to then?”

When told several people but that he wasn’t going to be told who they were, he responded: “I'm not going to answer your question then.”

Is it recruitment, the academy, communication that you were talking about? Which areas are wrong at the football club?

“You're a football journalist and you understand what a structure is, I guess,” he said. “Maybe you don’t. I think you do.

“I've seen it and as I've said before, I've been to the top level and the structure for me here at this moment is not right.”

Asked to elaborate further, he said: “I won't do it the now because now’s not the time, the time’s [for talking about] Oxford.”


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WeWereZombies added 12:07 - Feb 19
@BlueAndTruesince82

'He is married to Debbie Chin, an American former model, and lives in Huntington Beach, California.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klinsmann#Hertha_BSC

Difficult commute in Covid times
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KernewekBlue added 12:14 - Feb 19
As Truthhurts stated in his comment previously, the problem with this club is Marcus Evans.

All of you who defend Evans and trot out the old cliché that "Evans is our saviour, he is our messiah who came to deliver us from administration, he is our hero, without whom we wouldn't survive", must be living in cloud cuckoo land.

He may have invested a few quid in the club but lets get real for a second or two, what has he actually achieved?

I'll tell you what he's done... he's completely ruined our club!

One p*ss poor managerial appointment after another, a lack of direction and vision, a lack of visibility, the spouting of empty rhetoric every pre-season promising great things he doesn't have the intention or knowhow to deliver, all to sell season tickets... need I go on?

There has to be a forward thinking, wealthy individual or consortium out there who can see the potential in owning and PROPERLY managing a football club of ITFCs calibre with the fanbase and history that we've got.

Let us face facts... ANYBODY could do a better job than Evans has... ANYBODY!!!
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BartonBluee added 12:22 - Feb 19
He's not stupid, he is manoeuvring his way out of the club by slagging the world and its wife off. Evans will have no choice but to sack him, and then cha-ching Lambo skips off to the bank with a nice little 6 figure cheque.
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Europablue added 12:26 - Feb 19
MonkeyAlan I totally agree. Marcus Evans' biggest fault is that he hasn't installed a culture at Ipswich. He just lets each manager chop and change until they fail and the next one comes in. Lambert made all the right noises, he was talking about building a team around academy players with a return to the Ipswich style under Burley and maybe even further back.
Marcus Evans has invested a lot of money, he just hasn't been wise with who he allowed to spend the money.
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Europablue added 12:29 - Feb 19
Sixto6 I've gone from supporting Lambert and hoping he would turn it round to refreshing TWTD in the hope that he has been sacked. When you lose suporters like me who want to give the manager time and resources, then it's really time for a change.
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Len_Brennan added 12:32 - Feb 19
@Kernewek
To be fair. I don't think anybody (too many) are defending Marcus Evans at the moment; it's more a recognition of the difference in changing a manager & changing an owner.
If ME decides that enough is enough, the fans are right, I'm giving up & not putting another penny in this club; there is a long tricky road ahead to the better life we are craving. We don't want him to let his ITFC company go to the wall, nor do we want him to just flog the whole thing to some dodgy corporation looking to sell of the assets & wind it all down. Obviously extreme scenarios, but ones that aren't on the horizon when merely sacking a rubbish & petty manager.
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KernewekBlue added 12:38 - Feb 19
The sad, sorry truth here is that while Evans continues to be the owner of this club, we are going nowhere but down and out!

If we think it is bad at the moment, just wait to witness the new lows to which we will be guided under his continuing tenure.
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Europablue added 12:38 - Feb 19
Cheshire_Blue I'd bring in Danny Cowley personally, but I'd accept anyone who doesn't try and pass the blame and be antagonistic towards the media who aren't really that bad at this level.
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dirtydingusmagee added 12:41 - Feb 19
jayaps do you always back the favourites ?
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Ipswichbusiness added 12:53 - Feb 19
My choice would be Nigel Pearson ... but only if he brings Craig Shakespeare with him as his assistant (we don't want a repeat of the Lambert without Culverhouse situation).
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dyersdream added 13:00 - Feb 19
Just go Lambert o'neil Taylor and Gill
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BeattiesBackPocket added 13:09 - Feb 19
Again why wait if he has a plan to sack him why wait for yet another game to come and go? Makes no sense which indicates to me evans is just an idiot or that he has no intention of getting rid of lambert? He wasn't so courteous to magilton he just called him whilst he was visiting his sick mother with a replacement already in tow!
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Billericay12 added 13:30 - Feb 19
Probably nothing more than a routine catch-up chat.
If he does get rid of PL then I could see Terry Butcher filling in to the end of the season. It would be popular with the fan base because we all love him for what he did for the club. It would buy ME some time and take the heat off him for the time being and if Butch was successful it would be simple. Give him the job on a permanent basis.
Personally I am not sure he is the answer to all our problems but still love him to bits !
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Europablue added 14:37 - Feb 19
Ipswichbusiness I'd be really happy with Nigel Pearson too, but I just don't know if he would lower himself to our level.
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jas0999 added 15:05 - Feb 19
Astonishing that lambert is still in charge.
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therein61 added 16:02 - Feb 19
If you continue with your usual inept formation and tactics resulting in a loss v Oxford i don't think you'll be here for that meeting Lambo!!
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Pencilpete added 16:12 - Feb 19
Who actually think Marcus Evans will sack him next week ? i for one have no faith that he will do the right thing. Any other manager who had the biggest budget in the league and this squad of players and delivered an 11th place finish would be long gone.

It seems only at ITFC is this level of performance is not only accepted, its supported.
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90z added 16:19 - Feb 19
His just waiting to be sacked! Noway would he be so open about the club and how bad it is. Fingers crossed this is his last game.
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ian_marshall added 16:32 - Feb 19
Not sure if anyone knows this but Lambert had played at the top level. Huge clubs.
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Marcus added 16:33 - Feb 19
If Evans is true to form Lambert will have a contract extension
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runningout added 16:59 - Feb 19
if we steal a win v Oxford he stays I guess. What a joke of a club we are. Sorry Paul but you haven't filled us with an gram of hope.
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suffolkblueeye added 17:45 - Feb 19
I'm seeing Marcus face to face...fu*koff you pointless sh*t for brain
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Cloddyseedbed added 18:16 - Feb 19
With all that is coming out in the press this week, statements from Lambert and players, Lamberts job is now and has been for some time impossible. His behaviour towards fans, press, owner and his own players coupled with appalling record gives the owner no alternative than to sack him. The club is now a national laughing stock. The owner once again comes out very badly in all this and not being around lately has made matters much worse for all involved with ITFC. The writing has been on the wall for months, but the 5 year contract was always going to end badly as anyone with any common sense could see.
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bluesince76 added 18:57 - Feb 19
The itfc comedy show continues.
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FramlinghamBlue added 21:44 - Feb 19
Lee O'Neill - poor! Couldn't get us Category one status - a silly yes man. Get rid of him first
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