he is a good DoF but has immense task ahead of him. first of all the team needs to be successful and that aint easy.
also new DoFs at rivals too Edwards at Liverpool and Berta at Arsenal also joined not too long ago to their clubs, Viana is in direct competition with them. if Viana does well but those another two does great thats not good enough for us really.
its sort of luck that lets say various DoFs of rags spent shitload on likes of Antony, Van Beek, Sancho, Hojlund and many other flops for large fees which directly affected their on the field success to be limited. and also choosing rubbish managers which is usually also DoF decision partially.
Viana needs to deal with Txiki's lack of planning, somehow the old Txiki stopped working and the work he did since the treble was nowhere near as high quality as his earlier years. getting to the allow that despite heavy recruitment was needed and refreshing the squad they agreed with Pep to completely delay it. its complacency at the highest order.
I prefer Viana to buld the squad as he sees fit with consulation of Pep or whoever thee next manager but the manager needs to work with the players and get the best out of them. annd if we need to get rid of a 29 yo players while there is good fee ppossible for him we need to do it rather then watch him deteriorate ven more and lose value big time.
we did wonderfully when we let Sterling go for 40m on huge salary, instead holding onto him and let him go down in performance like he did since he left us. should we done it with Bernardo too maybe last summer?
of course not sure having Grealish here already after overpaying for him was the best business, especially he gave us about 1.5 good seasons only so far overall. if you spend 100m for someone you want so much more than that. for 100m I would want KDb, D. Silva type of legacy almost.
but this is what Viana left to deal with.
that RB position is tho a big dark cloud above him. he better hopes we arent losing lots of games due to RB errors-issues as it will just put even more spotlight on this position while drive up the price of whoever our target will be there later windows.