No but he did have Saints playing more than the sum of their parts. He wasn’t my first choice, LVG was the big name and he rejected us for United but we ain’t a money club or even a well run club.
Getting managers with records is pointless with us, you need managers who can make the most of what they have and play an attractive style of football and blood young players. It’s why I thought Ten Hag and Potter would be ok, not because they are elite but because they might fit.
And before they took a chance on him I think he'd left Espanyol in the relegation zone hadn't he?
I'm not actually all that opposed to Fonseca really, we tried the big name (albeit an over the hill one) and it didn't work. There are no guarantees that even a serial winner can get our squad of wet lettuces to man up.
The main reason I'm pissed off is that we have spent all this time fucking about only to hire some random guy who happens to be out of work. Throughout the process I was fairly relaxed thinking that there was some reasoning to it and that it was taking so long because it was something really exciting, and that Levy had it under control, and that those losing their shit were just overreacting.
This is proof that they weren't, there was no plan, there was no point sacking Mourinho when we did, th "leadership" of the club is an absolute clusterfuck and as much as I still resent Ken for wanting to leave our club, I now actually understand it.
He has to deal with these fuckwits day in day out, he can't just naively hope that next year will be our year, he knows everything that we don't and he wants out.
Fonseca may turn out to be the second coming of Poch, he might even win a trophy, but if he does it's not a vindication of Levy's method, it's in spite of it, a fluke.