Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
But this view of giving him the season, is that so black and white also? Because where i stand that means a potential relegation this season by sticking by a manager who isn't good enough for the top league with so little inexperience. At the very least it puts us in a spiral that leads us to having to offer someone like allardyce a contract and for longer than a few months which rips up this big idea of getting better in the summer. And that is the thing, getting a better option in the summer, why do you honestly believe that to be the case? What makes you think that this board is even capable of doing that? When they struggle to even competently get through a transfer window 2 years running? When they can't replace the one player thst needed replacing this summer? Their one job above all others?
What I have seen so far is young Kenny lose a hell of a lot of confidence and actually struggle this season in the team. I have no doubt the kid will be our right back in years to come and he has really impressed me but he is not only struggling but doing so in a team constantly getting beat. How is that positive for his or ant other young players development? And on the case of Benni, again he will be good enough one day but he isn't at the level we need him to be now. Picking him over klassen/schneiderlin/McCarthy/besic alone is always going to send out the wrong message to the team. That the current manager won't even consider them anymore? What's the point in them caring then? At a time we kinda do need players to give a damn about our situation?
You say we look 'more' a team except do we? Again from where I stand we are leaking goals actually more consistently than we ever did under koeman. 4 games in and we concede 2 minimum under unsworth, meaning we do have to score 3 a game to win. And we did win last week, massive relief for all of us. It only took niasse chasing a lost cause, them losing 2 of their first team and a missed penalty to do it. Do you really think that was not just down to luck? That if niasse doesn't grab a goal out of nothing again that we go on and lose again? It's purely fantasy to think based on that one game we have turned any sort of corner. Even the worst teams this league sees gets a win or two, Sunderland thumped palace 4-0 last January, didn't do anything to their survival bid though. I'll always disregard the Chelsea game considering the circumstances the manager had but for his other 3 games he got it wrong, every single game. Leicester beat us in 45 minutes because the tactics were wrong from the get go. Lyon was a must win game and we went there without a striker on the pitch. I don't care if we had a good little spell in the game, what was the end score? Watford we were dead and buried before our write off striker saved another managers arse this season. Because if we lose that game I guarantee you not a single fan would even consider the prospect of unsworth taking charge of any more games. Same as bournemouth bought koeman time, Watford seemingly bought unsworth time, time I genuinely believe he shouldn't have if we have any ambition as a football club.
Because here's the thing, still over 80 points to play for this season. As of right now we can still challenge for the title , we can still finish top 4 and we can certainly finish top 6. I don't believe we will under any circumstances but theoretically the whole season is ahead of us. So to relate back to your point about giving unsworth the season, do you think he can take us to the top 6? Challenge the top 4? That's the aim, that's ambition off the back of 140 million spent. To write the season off in November by having an intern manager with no experience just to hope the board who can't buy a striker for 2 years can pull off a good manager? Makes me embarassed to be a blue, because last time I checked nothing but the best is good enough and right now we just want to accept anything we can get.
Oh and we stick with unsworth for the season, we stay up, perhaps lower half and season over in August. What actually decent manager even looks twice at us? Never mind how much money we pay them, you wouldn't expect a good manager to go to stoke , to west Brom, to Burnley? Because despite everything, despite all the money spent, despite all the ambition spoken out, in 3 years we aren't even better than them clubs. We finished below them under Martinez for 2 years straight and seemingly we are back to their level again. But it's fine, we bought their best players as our insurance policy. Really helped us out there
