This is a really bad decision that will only be undone by appointing someone who is immediately obvious as being better than him. I am not sure such a person exists, and even if they do we are probably not going to get them; I’d imagine we will just pay millions to gamble that someone is slightly better than what we have again.
His record at the club speaks for itself; on the playing side at least we’ve gone from being an expensively assembled shambolic collection of basket cases to dare I say it a sensibly run, profitable outfit. When there was an internal debate over whether players were good enough, it stayed internal and most importantly time has proven him right on nearly all of those debates so far. His stance on January transfers was emphatically correct, given that a large part of the waste was down to such panic signings and that not bringing people in forced the two managers involved into reassessing what they had, resulting in better tactics, better performances and ultimately better results.
If we end up appointing someone, like Weir for example, because of his “links” to the club rather than his competence then we may as well start the “Yanks Out!” chants now - because that’s exactly where we will end up sooner rather than later. This club has stood by familiar mediocrity for far too long at this point and it needs to stop.
