He hasn't got the best managers job in Europe ..... It has the potential to be a very good job, possibly the best, but it certainly isn't at the moment.
Question, forget you support us and ask yourself this. You're a top manager, you're used to managing the best there is. If you were today offered the job of managing City, Barca, Real, AC or Inter, who would you go to? Honestly, would it be City?
Which manager would you bring in if we got rid of Hughes Monday? Would a top manager, managing a top level club leave his club mid season to come to us? Maybe in the summer, probably not now. Which managers presently available have got Premiership experience and if the ones available are so damn good, whey are they out of work?
moomba said:
As for waiting a few years, I think that reduces some of the appeal of the job. Picking a club from the lower reaches of the league is going to be seen as more of an achievement than gaining success from a club already on the brink of it. Sure it might be a bit of a longer process, and there might be a few difficult times early in the piece but I reckon the "wakening the sleeping giant" job is one of the best ones there is.
Moomba, but how many managers actually do this? The top level managers move between the top level clubs, clubs where 'crisis' consists of coming 2nd in the league and not winning the CL. We're no where near the level Chelsea were at when Jose took over there, we're not even at the Ranieri level of progression! People seem to think we'll get a big name manager and immediately be challenging for honours. What happens if we still underachieve? Boot them out too?
Our squad is paper thin, not as good as some people seem to think, the whole club has been run by a load of clowns (or despot lunatics) for as long as I can remember. It has been massively underfunded for years, two summers of spending don't even come close to making up how far behind we were.
I've become just as disillusioned as most after the last few weeks and I'm very grateful I don't have to make any decisions! Hmmm, where is that fence ....!!!