The squad is poor but it's not "no win in 15" poor.
This is like Dele's wages going up every time they get mentioned - our players just get worse after every game somehow
yet would probably walk into teams around us and we don't want to even sniff some of the players in their positions.
Or we can just admit we replaced one atrocious manager with another atrocious manager based on "he's the best we can get, he's experienced and can shout at them!!!" and it's not entirely on the players that we have no consistent and working game plan 90% of the time and we rely on chaos or luck.