I know this is a humorous take so I’m genuinely not having a go at you mate
Just for a second can we also consider though: Ten Hag was the ‘progressive’ manager in Europe at the time, schooled under Guardiola at Bayern his Ajax team was total football with young players going all the way to the CL semi final that they really should have won.
He goes to United and with a squad already stacked full of good players he falls out with Sancho, spends 100s of millions on new players some of which he now doesn’t even rate himself and need to be moved on, and has taken them from top 4 gradually down season on season
Now if we’d fired Dyche after his first few months as some wanted, and we showed our ‘ambition’ and got Ten Hag in (let’s pretend for a second he didn’t go to United and was available) and he did the same job here taking us backward in league placing every season, we’d have gone down, chaos would have ensued and then the points deductions would have hit and we’d have gone.
It just shows that sometimes it’s horses for courses. I believe Dyche has been the right horse for this course and hopefully soon this course will be at an end and it will be about finding the right manager who can move us from mid table back to pushing for Europe.
Ten Hag is a cautionary tale though that not all ‘progressive’ managers in continental leagues can cut it in the PL. We’ll be in a much better position to take a gamble on one once Friedkin have taken over but I still maintain that the last 18 months was not the time to roll the dice on a gamble. The upside was minimal and the downside was the end of the club as a top flight entity. Thankfully we’re moving away from this perilous position now.
