Here's what I have learned this morn...and I'm not an ITK, by the way, not by any stretch, but I spent MANY years 'in' papers and still have scribey friends within those sh*tty realms, down sarrrrf as they may be, ya' get me...
Anyway...
The feeling press-wise is that he ISN'T going anywhere, forced or otherwise. It's not even an option, the consensus within being that after a big high will quite naturally follow a low. And we're in Europe, why rock the boat? Bollocks, I know...
However...
The feeling WITHIN is that if the attitude & refusal to alter the 'style' of play when required (i.e. NOW) remains in situ then it poses a HUGE problem. It would also be fair to say that over the next few days (if it's not happened already) he will be 'reminded', in no uncertain terms, that things as they stand cannot continue, that now - simply - it is not good enough. Ditto the players. To say the slide isn't noted from within and being addressed (as I have, BTW, I've suggested this myself because I've felt that's what was happening) is NOT applicable. It IS being so, quite aggressively I hear too & by numerous...
In a nutshell what I'm getting is that if there's an unwillingness to change then a change is gonna come, swiftly. Until then, it is what it is and all...ALL is focused on KIEV & NU.
I've read bits & blobs, in particular from Davek, RE this being a non-story in the press thus everything being funky, based - it seems- around SKY not carrying much about it etc???
So, here's how it works mate...it's gonna get bigger as a story as the concern grows, and ALWAYS the first sign of this tends to come with the local 'big', trusted & 'named' scribbler making the same noises/voicing the same concerns as the fan majority. Now this has happened with the DP article. Therefore, to the agencies & others, it's official...there IS a prob thus there IS a story...here the snowball starts...betting markets are focused on, all that palaver....
So, vague as the above is, little will surprise me now because it's a situation that will gain, as BOBSY himself would say, 'momentum'. Look at LAMBERT etc, when it starts being talked about & mooted as possible it generally happens...
Anyway, there ya go...