Paddy Wolf
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Am I the only one concerned by the seeming naivety of the new owners?Whilst we all welcome an injection of cash into the club, I can't help but feel that the new owners are underestimating the demands of this league.
Every manager linked seems to be a foreign manager with no experience of English football, let alone The Championship, and a big name foreign manager doesn't guarantee success at this level - give me Sean Dyche over Paulo Sousa any day of the week.
I was in Portugal a few weeks back and was chatting to a Porto fan, when I mentioned Lopetegui he grimaced and uttered the damning assessment 'He is a huge flop'. Another was more polite suggesting that he is not cut out for club football and should stick to youth international football where he built his reputation. Either way it was a worry that a manager with no real success at club football would be appointed our manager seemingly on the say-so of Jorge Mendes - a man with history as an agent, no history of running a football club.
Also, when has a club ever had so much upheaval in one summer (replacing a chairman and manager and soon enough a Chief Exec) and then made a success the following season. Even United a few years ago went from Champions to 7th following replacing the Manager and Chief Exec in the same summer. I appreciate that a lot of circumstances dictated that league position but retrospectively it's been suggested that they were well behind the competition in terms of player acquisitions due to the new men settling into their roles and with just over a month to go until the end of the transfer window, it doesn't give us a lot of time for the new men in crucial leadership positions to find their feet.
As you may have guessed, I'm a strong advocate of keeping Jackett. I don't feel he should be judged on last season. The first two seasons were resounding successes and last season he had the rug pulled from under him massively. The money-saving bright idea of replacing Sako with Ojo, Morgan's decision to sell, Afobe angling for a Transfer, the farcical last few days of the Jan transfer window and of course the three key players lost to cruciate knee ligament injuries all made it a nightmare season for the manager.
Yesterday's vague post-match comments didn't explicitly say that he's been told he's staying but surely the man deserves a chance to finally spend some decent money and build a proper team to have a real crack at promotion.
Every manager linked seems to be a foreign manager with no experience of English football, let alone The Championship, and a big name foreign manager doesn't guarantee success at this level - give me Sean Dyche over Paulo Sousa any day of the week.
I was in Portugal a few weeks back and was chatting to a Porto fan, when I mentioned Lopetegui he grimaced and uttered the damning assessment 'He is a huge flop'. Another was more polite suggesting that he is not cut out for club football and should stick to youth international football where he built his reputation. Either way it was a worry that a manager with no real success at club football would be appointed our manager seemingly on the say-so of Jorge Mendes - a man with history as an agent, no history of running a football club.
Also, when has a club ever had so much upheaval in one summer (replacing a chairman and manager and soon enough a Chief Exec) and then made a success the following season. Even United a few years ago went from Champions to 7th following replacing the Manager and Chief Exec in the same summer. I appreciate that a lot of circumstances dictated that league position but retrospectively it's been suggested that they were well behind the competition in terms of player acquisitions due to the new men settling into their roles and with just over a month to go until the end of the transfer window, it doesn't give us a lot of time for the new men in crucial leadership positions to find their feet.
As you may have guessed, I'm a strong advocate of keeping Jackett. I don't feel he should be judged on last season. The first two seasons were resounding successes and last season he had the rug pulled from under him massively. The money-saving bright idea of replacing Sako with Ojo, Morgan's decision to sell, Afobe angling for a Transfer, the farcical last few days of the Jan transfer window and of course the three key players lost to cruciate knee ligament injuries all made it a nightmare season for the manager.
Yesterday's vague post-match comments didn't explicitly say that he's been told he's staying but surely the man deserves a chance to finally spend some decent money and build a proper team to have a real crack at promotion.