maineroad68 said:
well there's no way of telling is there? and agreed time wil prove the wiser. and agreed- maybe he hasn't had adequate time to put his stamp on the side. but every manager who takes over a new club is in the same position but i don't see each newly managered club stuggling. he should have adequate enough skills to manage what he has inherited before he puts his own stamp on a team of his players- therefore buying himself that time he needs to make the team his own.
instead what he has done is fail to do that, and therefore he has cost himself precious time. so he hasn't managed the players effectivley nor has he managed his time. nor has he managed to keep us away from our dreaded drop zone.
he's not very good at managing then, imo.
Because a few new managers get a few wins doesn't mean anything, imho. We have to think long term and over the long term Mark Hughes has been successful. Roy Keane performed miracles when he arrived at Sunderland, now he's back to being a useless twat. Keegan was useless the first 10 games back at Newcastle, then he played us. De Ramos is the greatest thing sliced bread, then the cause of problems, now world class at Real Madrid. Rijkaard: useless, European champs, useless again. Schuster: league champs, now he's useless.
Martin O'Neill's a good example. I've always admired his exploits at Leicester and wanted him at City. A few on here said he was useless and could prove it by us beating Villa and Villa's mediocrity. Now that it seems the cream is rising to the top.
Very few clubs have the finances to be patient. We have the finances, so I think we should give the manager some time to get things in place. If after a season, he proves lacking, sign someone else up with more experience. Even, in the worst case, if we go down, we have dosh to spend. I'll go on record and say we won't go down and we'll end up about tenth which is nothing to write home about.
