Rollo Tomassi
Player Valuation: £15m
What i actually want from our next manager is simple, a clean slate. No Walsh there, no expectancy on any players and no link to the past 18 months.
Have him come in, take the likes of Onykerwu/lookman/holgate/dowell (apparantly)/vlasic/walcott/davies/kenny/coleman/pickford and build a team around them and no-one else. I don't want a team of 20 year olds, i want actual talent to be played and used like a normal club. Sell or replace anyone who doesn't fit into the mould and go from there.
The issue we are going to have moving forward, and quote me on this in the future, is the following;
any new manager will be expected to make the transfer failures work in a team to lessen the impact of how many bad decisions are made. No matter who comes in, there is a list of players at the club who will be insisted on being kept and used simply for the amount of money spent on bringing them here. From Rooney to Williams to Siggurdson to Klassen. They will be expected to shape what we already have instead of being able to form their own team.
That will be our downfall because i cannot see the club writing off so many new players when we all know they should. There are very few players i would want to keep here for absolute experience (jags, baines, rooney) but there is plenty i would like to see leave and replaced as a new leaf.
Because that is what we need, a clean slate. If we are lining up with similar players come august then there won't be any optimism at the club anymore, it will all be dead. However no walsh, new manager, new formed team with 7-8 players at least gone out the club who aren't good enough? That will spark enough interest from the fans to renew optimism and get behind the new team.
I love it when a plan comes together