Be interested to see what the general turn around is, a few days seems keen. It's far from uncommon for clubs to have at least a game or two with caretakers in charge when they sack someone mid season. Bournemouth still haven't appointed anyone have they?
I just object to us chucking a season in the bin in order to retain someone who was ludicrously out of his depth and couldn't manage the squad.
Obviously we’re attractive compared to West Brom but anyone who thinks we are as attractive as we would have been in May is deluded and quite simply wrong.
Indeed. Say to anyone in May "we're going to spend £100m+ on new players and we won't sell Neves". You'd get some very high calibre candidates.
It's not there being no-one around though necessarily is it? There were already rumblings of things with Sevilla, they obviously have a connection to Lopetegui previously so assume they would've known and probably why they'd set their sights on him again.
Nearly every managerial appointment in top leagues is a head hunt though, it doesn't change the process just the pool of candidates. Exactly the same situation could've occurred completely exclusive to any Mendes links, Wolves picked their man and now it's fell through.
This is true obviously.
Some of the comments on SM and the Mix about Martins are just weird. He looks a very good option, would have been a really good appointment instead of Lage. Not sure he's the best option now maybe.
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3 goals in 9 games isn't a blip either. They we are going we are likely to score 12 goals this season. To let it get to this point is a damning indictment of Jeff's stewardship since he disbanded the senior management and took on total responsibility himself. He is well on track to personally lose Fosun £200m by May next year.
Where do you draw the line? When do you move from “benefit of the doubt” to “he’s incompetent”. Every single passing moment tells you he is.
But it hasn’t happened and it’s not new. Thomas Tuchel doesn’t want to join us because we’re shit. Him turning us down isn’t bad luck. He was never an option, and shouldn’t have taken us this long to find this out.
As above, It is. He went for an unattainable target and then wasted time doing so.
I’m fine with Martins tbh. But we could have employed him 10 days ago.
And more importantly, he isn't a Mendes client.
And of those Martins is best qualified by some distance. Looking on Twitter you’d think he was coming from the Sunday leagues. He has more experience right now than Lage may ever attain.
It's crazy.
Tbf that does show a certain lack of judgement.
