I think with his managerial style, being the nice guy it can work for a season where the whole camps nice and happy. It was like that with us where we won the league but after that it turns in to slackness across the whole squad and nobody there to give them a kick up the back side.To be fair, Real Madrid must have thought he was half decent or they would surely never have appointed him? And although he got sacked there, didn't he get like 95 points and lose to perhaps the best club side of the past 20 years? And his CL record was pretty decent.
Personally, I think he's been absolutely shite, but I can understand why we originally thought he would do a good job. We should have fired him at the end of last season .