If you get into that situation the answer is to go defensive and grind out results with dull football like Ancelotti did. Results matter, performances don't. Ideology tactics that don't suit your squad (i.e. zonal marking) are not what we need.
This is a midtable squad. Any manager who gets them anywhere near the bottom is doing a horrific job.
A midtable squad should come midtable, but 1 win in 11 or 12 would not be midtable form. So if we get to that point, surely no one can honestly suggest he deserves to stay in his position. That's where we are heading and the board should already have acted to stop it from happenning, but instead we will wait for the inevitable to happen.
Perhaps that is what the club expected also? We have finished mid table with a lot more money spent so at a time when we have none, so to speak, a mid table finish would be good? If that is what is expected then benitez is right on track and hitting the same level that ancelotti did, that silva did, that allardyce did and so on.
The team i lised in my last post, not sure if you are replying to it, where would you place that team in the league? Better than the likes of norwich sure but across the board, without doucoure/allan/lewen/richarlison/digne/coleman , where does that second string team finish after 38 games? We have had the lot of them injured so far (allan as well?) so its the second team that has taken over. In all reality, is townsend and gray good signings to be higher than 10th? they had a great start but over the season will they still be scoring / assisting or will they drop into the form that led them to be at palace or sold for buttons?
I knew it coming into this season but reality is, our squad is poor, it is bottom 6 level, simply for the fact that we have no other better players to come in. Look at them lot as a good example. You know their first 11, is keita better than tom davies and delph? Is jota better than iwobi? Is origi better than rondon? We could discuss them lot (don't really want to like) but the point i am making is that despite their lack of investment they have players to plug holes. That is what we are doing now, plugging holes, are the plugs good enough to replace the first ones?
Players have to take account as well. If you think benitez tactics fail then fine, that is always an option and has been on sight. But then it wasn't benitez tactics that made the team capulate against villa and watford so quickly. it isn't his tactics that see keane fall over, godfrey to cost us a goal, davies to not throw a tackle in, that is the players. It is a whole medley of different issues all at once.
So if you remove one problem if you feel that way, the other problems remain. Keane is still a liability, godfrey still isn't a fullback or in form, davies still isn't a premier league player etc. The club will still be poorly ran and our transfer history is still picking up 80 grand a week despite not being good enough.
