ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
What you're suggesting is that Benitez should never have been appointed as EFC manager in the first place which is a debate for a different time.
Ultimately however he was apppointed manager and with that came a responsibility from the chairman to act in a manner thats good for business.
At the time of Benitez's dismissal - we were 16th, a buffer zone away from the bottom 3, just getting key players back from injury & had the January transfer window to invest in players that suited the managers system.
A wise business decision, would have been to have allowed the manager to see us to safety, sound out potential replacements in the summer if the situation still warranted it & brought in a higher calibre of manager with the benefit of a summer transfer window & pre season with the squad.
Instead, the chairman did his usual act of trying to appease the fans with sentimentality, by relieving the manager of his duties way too prematurely, bringing in a serial loser as his replacement based not on his CV but of his "likeable" personality, allowing that manager's close family contact to negotiate in bringing in Dele Alli on big wages (and Van Der Beek on loan) and ultimately leave us with a ticking time bomb and millions of pounds flushed down the drain in paying off the former manager at a time of funds being tight & the PL looking at our books.
Decisions like this born out of sentimentality, like giving contract extensions to players like Coleman despite having suffered a serious injury at an age of near retirement, jobs for the boys contracts for players like Tom Davies is the reason why the business has failed.
If a businessman like @ForeverBlue92 was chairman and not someone like Bill Kenwright, this club would have been in a much more productive position these past couple of decades.
I see the same scenario with Mr Dyche, a decision to spend tens of millions of pounds to pot him would be a further act of folly.
