If Selles was good enough, we wouldn't have ended up with the fittest man in history in the first place. If he's now considered good enough to keep us up, firstly after Jones and then Marsch then it screams of cost saving and/or not finding anyone stupid enough to take us over.
Yup. If they thought he was ready they would have let him take charge of training for the break and given him a short run. They could have given him the caretaker title and explored other options guilt free, having a new manager in place mid jan if it really wasn’t working out.
You may be right. But I’m not ruling out the possibility he turns out to be the answer, unlikely though that may seem.
IF the board have been honest about money , then I don’t see it as cost saving . I’m sure I read that they were ready to spend big to get the manager they wanted in , so compensation .
Selles is a highly experienced and respected coach. He's had a pro license for nearly 15 years and gained experience across a variety of leagues. You can see he was hired to promote from within. Needs help, but there's potential there to be a top manager. He's masters level educated so there's a chance he can actually understand some of the analytics that will be presented to him
I admire your hope and optimism. Yes things can turnaround quickly, but in my opinion the difference between when Hughes came in and now is that the teams around us this season are better than the ones around us when he kept us up.
The last person they were impressed with in training, for their dedication etc etc....well, yeah...we don't need to mention him again. That whole Rasmus experiment cost the club £8.4m for 94 days work. You can see why Solak might be disinclined to spend a bunch more right now.
Mental. In my job, if me or my immediate colleagues were replaced, there is no way one of the apprentices with no experience could step up into this role. Let alone a premier league managers role in a relegation scrap with everything that goes with it. Absolute basket case of a club.
If it makes anyone feel better, Todd Boehly suggested that he'd get a return on his enormous expenditure on players because the club are "always in the Champions League". When it was pointed out to him that they were tenth, and didn't qualify automatically, he was somewhat shocked as he thought they did. So maybe, just maybe he's mental enough to sack Potter, and we can get him in...
The sad, sad part is that this should be a really bright time for the club, but it's been undone by some spectacular mismanagement of the asset at board level, and we've been reduced to relying on a lucky break to stop us from halving in value. As I said before, no way does Solak allow this to continue in an industry where he knows his way around. But I suspect he's been taken in as much as anyone with Ankersen's supposed "football knowledge". I can hear him now, "don't worry - this is actually a positive, and short term pain for long term gain. We're breaking something that was merely just surviving, in order to rebuild it into a winning machine from the bottom up" or some-such bollocks.
Most football fans feel the same way about whichever club they support. Seems that running a football club is difficult. And that fans are unreasonable in their expectations.
I guarantee it, 100%. Same in a lot of jobs. You don’t let the apprentice go and speak to the CEO of a customers business. You’d quite rightly never sell anything ever again. This is just saints being super cheap after spending so much on appointing an idiot.
Mate. Come on. It’s not unreasonable to expect a football club to appoint a manager. I appreciate people want to defend the club, but really you’re defending the indefensible. Spunked a load of money on the worst manager in PL history, and now we are left with peanuts to keep us in the premier league. It’s a ****ing joke. Our relegation is totally, totally avoidable.
