Now the dust has settled I think my genuine position is that I’m sad he’s gone, but more for what he could have helped us do in the transfer window than for the performances we’ve seen.
He’s undoubtedly dropped a few clangers tactically but he brought in some quality (at least two of which would never have come if not for him) and got a hell of a tune out of DCL and, to a lesser extent, Pickford.
If he’d have been able to bring in 3 or 4 more, maybe worked that magic on one or two other existing players (I know, I know…) then we’d have been in much better shape going into next season.
Nothing to say the new man can’t do that, though, and maybe even more besides.
We HAVE to get it right at some point, don’t we? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and all that…