1) AVB arrives at lane with tarnished reputation, great first season with a lot of help from Bale,
2) PSG and maybe others come knocking for AVB, he says no, was maybe promised Bale staying or a shedload of money for players
3) Bale goes and we buy a load of new players to make up for it and keep fans quiet. AVB probabaly didnt want many of them, he never mentioned any of them before arriving.
4) He really doesnt look same happy guy that was given a chance year before, he has a system (Porto's) that he doesnt have players for, and he is having problems getting his system through with many square pegs in round holes and no ace in the hole
5) We get tactically found out at west ham and liverpool and really struggle to score goals with the personnel and setup. Andre doesnt seem same guy, even rift with Freund, he probably regrets decision in summer
6) AVB sacked in the worst time of year to get a quality manager as by definition in football terms who is available in Oct/Nov in a world cup year if they are "successful"? Nobody
7) Sherwood in - a pure gamble, started with a nice run of games, let by Adebayor resurgence in a few of them and some good injury returns (notably having a left back). In fact all the other midfielders have been on a merry go round, the fact we have a striker and a left back better than naughton the only difference in real terms, as goals have gone in.
8) We lose against Norwich and it all hits home again how flimsy we are as we had to hire the only guy who was available and would do whatever levy says. He is doing his best and it is just so sad that if we had ANYONE with experience of football management, even someone with 5 years success we would get somewhere, if sherwood can get this many points, ANYONE with experience can get the norwich wins, and hold better against big sides, turn the 5th into 4th.
11th richest club in world - do we have 11th best manager - do we fuck, reboot next season from manager downwards, it doesnt matter who stays or goes the VALUE of our squad post sales and purchasing will be higher than ever and we cant fuck it up, the manager has to get the players they want
2) PSG and maybe others come knocking for AVB, he says no, was maybe promised Bale staying or a shedload of money for players
3) Bale goes and we buy a load of new players to make up for it and keep fans quiet. AVB probabaly didnt want many of them, he never mentioned any of them before arriving.
4) He really doesnt look same happy guy that was given a chance year before, he has a system (Porto's) that he doesnt have players for, and he is having problems getting his system through with many square pegs in round holes and no ace in the hole
5) We get tactically found out at west ham and liverpool and really struggle to score goals with the personnel and setup. Andre doesnt seem same guy, even rift with Freund, he probably regrets decision in summer
6) AVB sacked in the worst time of year to get a quality manager as by definition in football terms who is available in Oct/Nov in a world cup year if they are "successful"? Nobody
7) Sherwood in - a pure gamble, started with a nice run of games, let by Adebayor resurgence in a few of them and some good injury returns (notably having a left back). In fact all the other midfielders have been on a merry go round, the fact we have a striker and a left back better than naughton the only difference in real terms, as goals have gone in.
8) We lose against Norwich and it all hits home again how flimsy we are as we had to hire the only guy who was available and would do whatever levy says. He is doing his best and it is just so sad that if we had ANYONE with experience of football management, even someone with 5 years success we would get somewhere, if sherwood can get this many points, ANYONE with experience can get the norwich wins, and hold better against big sides, turn the 5th into 4th.
11th richest club in world - do we have 11th best manager - do we fuck, reboot next season from manager downwards, it doesnt matter who stays or goes the VALUE of our squad post sales and purchasing will be higher than ever and we cant fuck it up, the manager has to get the players they want