Harsh methinks. Denigrating an actual meaningful trophy win - our biggest since 1991 and arguably since 1984 - is curious. We’re not serial PL or CL winners so I’m not quite sure what you expect. We’ve seen decades of bottling finals and semi finals. When we won in Bilbao, were you celebrating like crazy, alongside 100s of 1000s of fans around the world, or were you sitting there tutting saying that things aren’t good enough? There’s a clear reason why the league campaign collapsed, namely injuries and a thin squad. That’s not on Ange. It’s the ENIC effect seen over and over again. No manager under them has been able to deliver a strong league campaign and silverware. It’s just unrealistic and severely misguided to think we should in DL’s tight environment. The real miracle for me is how Ange kept a young, depleted and struggling squad together, week after week, and still maintained a laser focus on winning something as big as anything most fans have known in their lifetime, despite all the challenges, flack and negativity both inside and outside of the club. That is leadership - winning leadership - and the statements being released by our top players, from VDV to Bergvall to Madders, Sonny and the rest, would appear to back that up.
Jaynola has forfeited any right to celebrating that trophy. He now lives in a desert world bereft of joy entirely of his own choosing.
I simply cannot fathom how bitter and joyless he must be but fuck him - he's made his bed the bitter sexist prick.