[Football] Franck Haise - Lens manager

[RowZ]

Frank is EVENS on betfair.....jumped in as favorite.

 

[Clive Walker]

Bit of a difference. Like 100% of the people in Greece are good at English, the vast majority probably better than you, meaning there's no real need to learn a foreign language. Different for Bielsa as I imagine most people in England doesn't understand Spanish.

I don't think Bielsa talked "perfectly good English" as some say but I'm guessing he picked up some of the basics. Either way, don't really hold it against him - the ability to learn new languages goes downhill from your mid 20s and when you're in your 60s it is going to be very difficult to become fluent in a new language.

The term “hey up” means pretty much anything in Leeds it just depends how it is expressed.

Hey up can mean anything from “look out”, “you’ll be ok” all the way through to “ffs”

 

[Bakero]

Seems very odd if that's the case and, I dunno, a bit disrespectful. I recognise that British tourists are probably the worst in the world for making minimal effort to speak the lingo when on holiday, but British players and managers tend to learn and at least make an effort even if they're not quite fluent. See Tomori for an example, and it's well worth watching videos of Shaun Edwards coaching the French rugby team with a broad Wigan accent.

A guy in his 60s not being confident enough in a foreign language to conduct interviews is not disrepectful.

You can probably count on one hand the number of British players or managers that could do so. Tomori's fluency is pretty impressive and fair play to Abraham for having a crack at it too.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

un gateau ... c'est masculin

Blimey, you can just imagine what the grammar pedants are like on French message boards

 

[Machiavelli]

I thought Bielsa could speak perfectly good English, just chose not to

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Oh, with you all the way on this. It means that your media duties are diminished and that's got to be a good thing as a manager.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I think this is our man. Might need a translator for a while, Bielsa-at-Leeds style, but I'd imagine that he'll pick up enough English ove the next 6-12 months for this to not be an issue long term, unlike Bielsa who was such a genius that he still couldn't speak English after almost 4 seasons.

I was lead to believe Bielsa could speak English he just chose not to, a bit like sitting on the bench rather than a bucket

 

[The Fits]

Looks like someome ITK has lumped on.
Interesting one this. Seems to definitely fit with our collective ethos. You'd feel for Lens if they lost their man but what can we do?
Assistant is former Leicester and Plymouth hunk (and no doubt fluent English speaker) Lilian Nalis...or maybe he isn't...they've worked together at least.

 

[warmleyseagull]

You'd feel for Lens if they lost their man but what can we do?

Hurl abuse at Brighton board for poaching; boo Haise for being disloyal; shout loudly that he must leave all his team at Lens.

 

[warmleyseagull]

His near namesake has been to the Moon. Get him IN!!

 

[Justice]

Bit of a difference. Like 100% of the people in Greece are good at English, the vast majority probably better than you, meaning there's no real need to learn a foreign language. Different for Bielsa as I imagine most people in England doesn't understand Spanish.

I don't think Bielsa talked "perfectly good English" as some say but I'm guessing he picked up some of the basics. Either way, don't really hold it against him - the ability to learn new languages goes downhill from your mid 20s and when you're in your 60s it is going to be very difficult to become fluent in a new language.

Maybe now not many Greeks spoke English in the late 80’s, they still had the drachma as a currency. I could hold a conversation just about in Greek towards the end.

 

[Originunknown]

Shame he's French but can't have it all, spoken very highly of and has clearly done a wonderful job with Lens

 

[Justice]

Hurl abuse at Brighton board for poaching; boo Haise for being disloyal; shout loudly that he must leave all his team at Lens.

Will they be comparing house prices though

 

[SeagullinExile]

The more I read about this chap, the more I like the idea.

 

[The Fits]

And his other assistant Yannick Cahuzac looks like a BHS active wear model. I'm excited!

 

[Justice]

1/1 on odds checker

 

[saafend_seagull]

Maybe his team speak English. We just have trossard? Lost maupay, bissouma, zeqiri…


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[Gwylan]

Maybe his team speak English. We just have trossard? Lost maupay, bissouma, zeqiri…

I bet Veltman speaks French - everyone in the Netherlands seems to speak about six languages

 

[The Fits]

Maybe his team speak English. We just have trossard? Lost maupay, bissouma, zeqiri…


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Nalis will be fluent, he spent a decent chunk of his playing career here.

 

[maltaseagull]

I bet Veltman speaks French - everyone in the Netherlands seems to speak about six languages

Lallana has had a lot of time to study .......................................

 

[nwgull]

A guy in his 60s not being confident enough in a foreign language to conduct interviews is not disrepectful.

You can probably count on one hand the number of British players or managers that could do so. Tomori's fluency is pretty impressive and fair play to Abraham for having a crack at it too.

Not many British managers or players take their careers abroad, but there have been plenty (certainly more than 5) that do so and most learn the language well enough to give interviews:

Venables (Spanish)
Lineker (Spanish)
Hodgson (Multiple languages)
Nathan Jones (Spanish)
Potter (Swedish)
Michael Robinson (Spanish)
Tomori (Italian)
Paul Ince (Italian)
David Platt (Italian)

These are just the big names and those with a BHA connection. I'm sure there are plenty more that I can't think of off the top of my head.