If Amorim fails as well and the money has run out I genuinly think they need to go full circle and go for a David Moyes type of manager next. And I am not trying to be funny.
They will finish around 15th this season, expected points from the last 2 seasons has had them firmly around 10th to 14th, their squad is filled with players that either came from the bench at better clubs abroad or players they have broken years ago, or are youth that are either not good enough or players that they need to sell to comply with PSR if they finish outside of Europe. They are by all intents and purposes a mid-table side already and there is no quick-fix. Their fans are too ignorant to see it but their only player that has delivered a season good enough to drag them anywhere in the last 3 years has just sulked his way to a better club.
If they can accept that they are where they are because they are fucking shite, and if they can get in a manager that can make them a cohesive unit on a budget and stabilise them to statistically be around 6th instead of a stastical anomaly, that is actual something they could build on.
But no let's get in a hipster City wanted that needs to buy a new squad and deliver the elusive title to be deemed a success. He can't win unless he happens to be an all-time great. They ask every manager they hire to do a Ranieri
They have been stuck in the mindset for 10 years that they are a manager or player away from being back to where they think they belong. Their fans see them fluke their way to Europe every other year and think they are underachieving, and that the tools are there for a title-push. But the truth is that the freefall has only just caught up with them. They can admit they are not the same club they were under Ferguson, but their problem is they are not the same club they were under Mourinho. They are Everton before Moyes came in the first time.
The cultural reset they need is to accept this, accept the fact that there is a core of 8 mid-table teams they need to overcome off the pitch before they start chasing the shadows of us and Liverpool. But the morons in their fanbase will never accept this, so they will continue parachuting in any flavor of the month or has-been they can get their hands on with the expectation that this is the one that will be even more of a statistical anomaly than the last one and stabilise them in the top 3.
Until they understand this it will be groundhog day at the swamp