I don't believe for one second that our manager is under threat to lose his job at the moment. He will be given time to turn things around, get players back from injury and the new players settled.
That patience will not be indefinite but, as long as we are getting enough points to keep us ticking along until Christmas at least I think he is safe and then after Christmas it would be expected that a more settled team should then pick up better results having us challenging for a position between 6th and eight.
If that is not what happens and he is removed from his job I do not want another untested young manager that we take a flier on. We have done this with Martinez, Silva and to a degree Koeman. Arteta may be great, but there is absolutely nothing to suggest that he would be, it isn't as if Pep never won anything until he teamed up with Arteta.
Next time I want an older manager with a history of winning prizes and somebody who has managed big clubs to come in and establish us in the top six.
We need to become a top six club for a two or three year period before we are even close to moving to the next level and I would like a manager who knows what that is all about.
My personal choice would be Benitez , Mourinho.. managers of that ilk. At present out of work or managing in that hotbed of world football... China.
We are a big club, we have a chairman who is prepared to spend and I think we have a squad of players that experienced managers would feel they could work with. We are a club, I feel, that big name managers might just feel that we have sufficient standing in the game to consider joining us.