The other issue with the “what’s the worst that could happen” idea:
The form we’re in, not just currently, but over the last year or so, could easily see us finish 11th-14th. I don’t for a second think we’re in a relegation scrap, there’s a few teams who are just that poor that they will ways drop down before us.
But say we look at this as what’s the worst that could happen and let’s give him the rest of the season. We drop out of the cups, which I’m expecting us to do. We won’t beat Liverpool, the FA Cup who knows but I’d still fancy the first proper team in a bit of form to turn up and put us out, and the Europa, I think it’s there if we want it, but we need a proper manager to go for it - either way, let’s just say he doesn’t win anything, that’s one bit.
Then, the fact we so rarely win two league games on the bounce, his PPG and all the other stats that show we we lack any kind of consistency mean that we could quite conceivably, finish somewhere between 12th and 14th.
Regardless of what you think of them personally as personnel and whether they’re good enough, I would say Vicario, Porro, Dragusin, VDV, Romero, maybe Udogie, Kulu, Maddison, Solanke are all good enough to play in europe, so without it, we could lose any number of those players if the bid comes in.
To replace them, we know Levy doesn’t pay big wages and if anything with no Europe he’s likely to cost cut. So, we give Ange till the end of the season, no cups are won and we finish lower half of the table - where do you go then? Our worst players are all that remain, the players we can attract are even lower level than we can get now, and you’ve got a manager so unbelievably, woefully, embarrassingly out of his depth that next season with all the above, you could genuinely find we’re in a real problem area of perhaps not being directly at risk of going down, but instead we’re now fighting to even be a top half club.
