Thought I'd add to this rather than derail the match day thread.
As I left the Milan game I said to my mate that I'd be amazed if Conte was still our manager for the forest game.
Our performance in a must win game was dire. Their keeper had one save to make ... in the 94th minute.
We took of Kulusevski and put Sanchez on when we were down to 10 men with only 8 minutes left.
We have since wasted two of our remaining 12 games by allowing a manager who does not rate the players (ones HE chooses week in week out), plays uber defensive, **** to watch football that is failing to win very winnable games and clearly has no interest in staying.
The only solution is for Conte to go now.
Just pay him off the rest of his contract...it's only 3 months.
If there's some clause, suspend him for publicly bad mouthing the club and place him on gardening leave til his contract is up.
Get our first choice of manager in...now... so he can use the rest of the season assessing the squad, decide what areas he wants strengthened and pick his transfer targets accordingly.
Many of us said the same in February 2020 after the EL debacle but instead we wasted another 2 months, then sacked JM 6 days before a cup final to distract from the clubs moronic decision to join the ESL and then wasted a further 10 weeks screwing up getting a manager because we were too incompetent to put a plan together in February when it was obvious JM had to go.
We look odds on to repeat that stupidity.
Mainly (imo) because Levy continues to make the same mistakes when choosing and replacing managers.
He sacked bloke in a coat just before a semi final v Arsenal and employed Hoddle. There was no rush to change managers and Hoddle was a very risky choice as his man management skills were notoriously problematic.
He then employed Pleat (who had a history of not getting on with Hoddle and viserversa) and the problems between them led to various public spats.
He sacked Hoddle in September after just 6 games...why didn't he get rid at the end of the previous season as many fans thought needed to happen (I say this cos this ain't hindsight). This lack of a clear strategy led to us having a caretaker manager for the rest of a very very depressing season.
I have no idea what to say about appointing a manager (santini) who did not trust his DoF (Arnesen) which led to signings not being played.
Jol was an Arnesen choice and was a success. The treatment of him by Comolli (excuse spelling) ... appointed by Levy ... was a complete joke. His sacking was a total disgrace as was Ramos' reign.
It took Redknapp's appointment in 2008 to undo the comolli/Ramos car crash.
I kind of understood Redknapp's sacking due him refusing to sign a contract when he thought he'd get the England job and then demanding a new one on live TV when he didn't get it while Levy was at his mother's funeral.
But getting AVB was always going to be a car crash.
Pochettino was a great signing but to give him £150m in the summer an then sack him in October was stupid.
There were reasons to consider replacing him (terrible league form from mid Jan - May 2019 and playing out of form players week in week out while ignoring others) but to do it then made no sense.
Not even bothering with JM. Everything that happened was beyond predictable.
There is nothing positive to say about the process followed that led to Nuno.
And yet we again appear to be floundering around in the dark rather than having a strategy.
Next season will be decided by what happens now imo and with Levy making football decisions I have no optimism in a good decision happening
You've answered your own point there. We haven't sacked Conte and we don't have a "first choice manager" for one and the same reason: Levy has not got a ****ing clue.