I mean, you're rowing back on it now, but you actually said GON did a better job than Lopetegui last season, and compared his imminent appointment to that of Mourinho at Porto.
'Benefit of the doubt' doesn't really work in football. You can't just put someone in an elite management position just because there's a 1% chance they might be amazing. Are you listening to yourself?
O'Neil got the job at Bournemouth because he was part of the backroom team, enabled a little continuity and minimised instability, probably got on with the players and had a base level of competence, then they fucked him off as soon as they could.
Occam's razor. Is it more likely GON is some undiscovered genius that Hobbs and Shi have spotted (they've never done this before), or is the greater likelihood that he's another unremarkable manager who will be battling relegation at small PL clubs as the absolute peak of his career and has been given the job because he's everything Lop isn't. Pleasant, mediocre, cheap, English, powerless and low maintenance.
