Intensity. Not every league plays Sat, Tues, Sat.
This is my fear if we appoint from abroad again. We've had
Slutsky - Out of his depth and didn't appreciate the intensity
Silva - Great effort but ultimately glorious failure to keep us up
Shota - Out of his depth
Someone with experience of the Championship would be my preference for next manager
Thing is though, any decent manager should be able to come in and sort it out. The Championship is the fifth most attended league in the world, it's not as though foreign managers aren't aware of it and it's like this brand new world for them. The games are shown around the world because many of the clubs are former Premier League clubs. If they're any good, they should know exactly what it's like.
Clubs like Wolves, Fulham, Watford, Brentford, Huddersfield etc have all had foreign managers get them promoted out of the Championship no problem, I don't see why it's suddenly a problem for us. We had Adkins who was alright, McCann who was pretty **** and before them Steve Bruce and Mike Phelan who were great and **** respectively. I have no problem with appointing somebody like Allardyce, Parker or Dyche at all, any of those would be a fantastic appointment, but simply being English doesn't make you brilliant and an automatic success, just like being Brazilian doesn't make you **** hot at football.
Whoever comes in, whether they're coming from the Championship, Bundesliga, Serie B or the Ethiopian Premier League, needs to look at the squad, decide on the best formation for those players and then get the most out of them. What we've had is a string of managers who already know what they're going to play before they've seen the squad and then assume the players will simply slot in and crack on.
We're also lucky enough to be in a position where we're not just looking at free agent managers but have the money to poach somebody else's manager if we need to.