We must avoid this short-term thinking when appointing the new manager.
The possibility of relegation, at this stage in the season, should NOT be a consideration when deciding on the manager.
Reasons:
• We have TWENTY-EIGHT league matches left to play. i.e. a possible 84 points left to play for.
• We have the January transfer window to invest in the players required to balance the squad and turn this around.
• There are worse teams than us in the division: Crystal Palace, Swansea, West Brom, West Ham, Bournemouth.
• We have some very good players in the squad (Pickford, Coleman, Gueye, Schneiderlin, Sigurdsson, Bolasie) who would walk into most teams.
If we appoint with the short-term in mind, we'll only end up looking for another new manager at the end of the season. That would then be FIVE managers since Moyes.
I always took pride in the fact that we were different as a club; that we looked for long-term, sustainable success rather than the quick fix.
I hope that we see past this sticky situation we find ourselves in at present and look to the long-term when picking the new boss.