Zat.....you have identified my unease with Koeman.
The fact that I don't feel, and have never felt from the moment he was lured away from Saints by a salivating owner with an open cheque book, that he is here for the long haul. Or even the medium haul.
Rightly or wrongly, I have never felt he is going to stay the whole three years.
And that his safety first approach to the football on the pitch is more to do with him making sure he doesn't harm his own reputation and with it the prospects of a move to a "higher level" than owt else.
One would have thought it would have been relatively easy to move our malfunctioning squad from last season a few rungs up the ladder, maybe even into seventh place and a European spot so long as both domestic cups are won by teams finishing in the top six.