It baffles me how people expect a manager to come in and immediately and effortlessly transform a long term mid table side into a top six side within a season.
It is ,for me ,an utterly unreal expectation.
I am not aware of any extant manager who would be capable of such a feat. Certainly none of the alternative names posited in various angst ridden threads suggest to me they would meet that level of expectation.
It takes more than a season to create a functioning team from the disparate recruitment of 4 previous regimes.
Patience is required, if we are not willing to grant at least a modicum of it then any person we may or may not appoint in the future will be similarly doomed to ignominious failure to our lasting detriment.