That's all well and good. I can't disagree with much.
However, people can only get time if they keep improving us.
Whatever way you look at it, we've stagnated under Brands too.
Now that's obviously not all on him and he has had his hands tied to a certain extent. But in each window he has made some dreadful decisions to take risks which have ultimately cost us.
He seems to have an approach that the team will be good enough to get away with it. Well, they aren't. And that's been proved time and time again.
In January we need at least one player, probably two. The issue is we have a DoF (and manager) who don't like doing business in January. Well why not push the boat out in the last few days of the last window and really, really make a statement. Keep the momentum going etc.
One suspension is all it's actually taken for this team to go from looking like genuine top-four contenders to mid-table fodder. That's not on Richarlison.
I don’t entirely disagree with you either.
We are generally too quick to pull the trigger and look where that’s got us! Some of the best managers have been given time initially and got there in the end and I’m sure that’s the same for Directors of football.
Yes he has made mistakes, But he’s also made quality signings too. Richy, Digne, Niels,
branthwaite, etc
Gomes did well on loan then was signed permanently and the vast majority of us were happy at the time but he’s been tat since the injury, he must have despaired with the JP Gbamin injury too...
I’m sure he’d have got every dept covered if he could last summer but the reality is they had to prioritise but by improving our midfield it was at the expense of everywhere else it seems we need to reinforce.
I’m sure he’d have got rid of Tosun if another club actually wanted to take him/ he wasn’t injured but he still needed to reduce the size of the squad.
I do agree that more work needs to be done by him in January (ins and outs where possible) and that we have to see progress this season but in the same way we shouldn’t have got carried away by the first 4 games, we shouldn’t be getting the knives out after a few poor results/performances.
