by Greatwesternline »
12 Aug 2019 13:52
His main benefit that everyone is attributing to him is that he "got everyone feeling happy about the place again".
I would say that was the easiest thing to do on his list of things he had to do, which were:
Improve the atmosphere
Improve the results
Sign the right players in January
Keep Reading up
Improve the quality of football
He improved the feel good factor by telling everyone how hard he would work, how much he loved the club, why he was determined to be a success, and chatted less bull than previous failing managers.
I would argue that bit wasnt that hard, its easy to say you love a club, when its sort of the highest profile club you've ever managed, and nothing on your CV suggests you really deserve the opportunity. I would love it if a 2nd flight top european country team approached me as manager if i hadn't much success to speak of anywhere.
He did improve the results, we stopped losing. We didnt necessarily start winning any more than before.
Hi did sign the right players.
He did keep us up.
Still to be proven whether he has improved the football. We aren't winning more. We began to draw more. We've started with two defeats. 2 tough matches next. He needs to start winning. He doesn't have that much credit in his account. He has some, for the fact we became harder to beat, but not that much harder. He has some because he kept us up. But if we are in the relegation zone again this season he'll have lost that.
As to giving him time for his signing to "gel", other teams need their signings to gel too. Perhaps teams who are more strategic in their thinking dont sign all their players once their pre-season is complete....