Koeman won trophies, as did Martinez, Martinez for one had the mentality of believing we could win every game.
Eventually you have to look and say we are not a club in a position to appoint a manager who is 'a dead cert' very very few clubs are in that position either though.
Manager is very young = he hasn't the experience
Manager is old = he's lost his fire and won't want a project
Manager hasn't managed before = we need someone with experience whose won things
Manager has experience and has won things = he'll want a bigger club why would he want to come to a project for etc
If we are looking at the last 6 managewrs we have had (permanent)
Walker - flavour of the month - prem experienced - flopped massively
Smith - serial winner - proven in europe - flopped massively
Royle - former player with not great experience in the top flight managing - success
Moyes - young with little experience and in the lower leagues - have to say a success for the first 8 years at least
Martinez - prem experience - young and ambitious - won a trophy in this country - flopped
Koeman - winner as player and manager - prem experienced - single handedly tried to destroy the club
Allardcye - vast prem experience, most hated manager we have ever had.
On the continent - quite often a team outside or even inside the elite level of clubs will give a manager his first big job at a really young age, maybe it's time we sdtopped thinking about ourselves as some sleeping giant etc and realised that what we are is a project and a long term one as well, and need a manager who maybe has the fire in his belly to actually go and dive fully into that and succeed.
Knowing our luck mate we'll end up with Kevin Nolan lol








