Why is it that so many people are terrified that he will take us down?
He went through a large part of the season playing a B team, and unsurprisingly get poor results. When he got his defence back, he lost his midfield.
To cap it all, he lost his goal machine and yet for most of the season we had one of the best GD figures and there are only 5 teams currently with a better goals for column. Our problem was playing with the second 11 defence.
Then when we started to get the whole defence - we started to get close to a trophy - which he achieved, but at the expense of burning results, by playing the B team defence again.
we need a replacement for Son - sad but we know he's MLS/Saudi league standard now, and he needs to be let go. We need a good holding midfielder, our midfield even with all the best players is porous, and (IMO) Tel and our academy starlets aren't pulling any roots up, we need to buy in some talented offensive players to feed Solanke and Richie (if he stays)
To the 1976 turkey - Ange isn't dumb, but you put in a good role model performance if he's prepared to have a lobotomy.
He has a preferred offensive formation as we know, and he has shown a pragmatic face for "none shall pass" games. I'm confident he will mix and match this into the team moving forward.
It's easy for me to say - because I haven't been slagging him off all the time, but I thinks he needs another season and the missing players. Spinning the revolving door based on the crap from ignorant fans is no way to run a club. It's continuity we need and support from the board - get players in early, not on the eve of the end of transfer session, clean out the surplus, give the manager what he needs.