Woolwich is a decent example. They were 8th twice but absolutely backed their manager and spent big when not in Europe and whilst making no money on sales. They also nearly won the league last season and went and spent £100m on a midfielder despite Partey and Xhaka having easily their best seasons for the club. I think you've got to be fairly rose tinted to think we'd sanction a deal like that in those circumstances.
As for Poch, yes at the end he was done, clearly dissallusioned as he hadnt been backed. I'm amazed he didnt quit after the non 2018 summer windiw after asking for a painful rebuild.
I hope they really back Postecoglou, i mean if not now then when? Klopp leaving, City possibly punished, Utd still rebuilding others struggling with FFP. The next 2 seasons are a huge opportunity and i hope they prove me wrong.
Ange has been backed and I see no reason why he won't continue to be.
But we aren't going to change our recruitment model for him or anyone.
What we can hope for is we continue recruiting as well as we have been over the last 3 years. Because our squad is really becoming quite something.
We will add depth for our full backs in the summer, we'll bring in a central midfielder and an attacking player or two. We just need to make sure we get them right.
More Van de Ven, more Maddison. Less Ndombele, less Lo Celso.
Think the new financial rules aren't going to give us any sort of advantage though now it's clear City will be allowed to spend up to 500m every season now under the new rules.