MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
The new manager has to be fireproof a bit like Ancelotti was, it’s the only way to get anything out of these players. If they feel they can unseat him, they’ll have him out as soon as possible.
The message to the players has to be that this manager will outlast most of them and that sweeping reforms are coming unless they buck their attitude up immediately. If it’s a nice appointment to just keep the camp happy then they’ll play along for as long as it suits them then will have the manager out once it gets close to transfer window time again.
This has to be like Ancelotti was where the manager had such standing that the problems were laid at the door of the players and they had to answer to them or they’d be shipped out. It worked for a while as well until Carlo had his head turned. Mourinho would give us that. He’d call the players out and the board would hopefully back him on it. I fear that a weaker manager will just go the way the rest have.
But the players did down tools on Ancelotti so I don’t know what your point is here? He didn’t scorch the earth and kick them out either, he rewarded Sigurdsson with the captain’s armband and kept accommodating the likes of Iwobi and Coleman.
Mourinho would be a disaster of an appointment, things would pan out exactly the same way as they have with Benitez.