Here we completely agree. But I hope we can also agree that the trend is not good, and we have several challenges in our game. Ancelotti is the one responsible for this, and if he fails to solve it - without buying half of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich - then it is unwise to waste valuable time on him.
completely agree that we have problems, we’ve had problems for years. Now we can either have a manager incapable of solving those problems (Koeman, Silva) or one who works through them and comes out the other side. We’ll have to see which one Ancelotti is, but I’m not sure why there’s an expectation that we wouldn’t have problems at all, as though if we did lose the performance would have been amazing anyway, that we’d find a consistency in a way of playing when we’ve had multiple managerial chances and player changes over the last few seasons.
We’ve seen very good football this season under Ancelotti, we’ve seen some very bad football also. That’s inconsistency and is to be worked through, but after each bad performance we have the same shouts of ‘he doesn’t have a plan’ ‘Leeds and Southampton have a way of playing etc.’ This is the same Leeds who got battered 4-0 by Palace? Where was the way of playing then? The same Palace we turned over on their own patch? If all these other teams have a way of playing and we don’t why do they ever lose a game? It’s because we don’t notice when they’re losing at home on MOTD to some other mid table team and look completely clueless, we only see them when they’re beating us.
