Yesterday was the day unfortunately. Like many others I've thought it was the right thing to do to give him time and let him try and fix us over a number of windows with a bit of money to spend.
But you have to take a step back at some point and look at what's happening in the here and now. There wasn't a Kopite or Geordie who didn't tell us in the summer that he'd 'get us organised.' I was so attracted to the idea of boring stability. Just make us a normal, boring football team instead of a screaming mental wreck, and then build from there under the stewardship of, whatever else you might say about him, an experienced, credible manager.
3-4 months in, look at the state of us, honestly. Yesterday was bad enough in isolation but on the heels of Brentford, shipping 5 at home to Watford, abject surrender at Wolves and Aston Villa, and ultimately just the raw data - 1 win in 10, 4 points from 30. Setting up to defend and counter when we can't defend, or counter. Falling out with players all over the shop and yesterday losing the few fans he had left onside. How can you possibly make a case for him to stay?
Think someone else said a few pages ago and I hadn't thought about it like this, but take aside who he is and his past and imagine he's some young hipster we'd appointed from the continent. There's absolutely no way this would be allowed to continue. The situation is disastrous and toxic in every imaginable way.
Unfortunately he probably won't get sacked because there's a total vacuum of leadership and direction throughout the club and he's the only one who seems to be saying he has a plan - however flawed - to salvage anything from it. Sacking him would be an admission from Moshiri that he hasn't got a clue and I don't think he has a) the humility, b) the financial wiggle room or c) the first clue what he'd do next.
