I know, it is fine lines and all that. I am just not one for pulling the trigger too quickly perhaps. if we had done that with Kendall we would not have gone onto success in the following years perhaps.
We live in a very disposable society now though and things are very different.
Perhaps is the big word here isn't it. You are of course quite right that we might have sacked Kendall, appointed some no mark who we thought would be the next big thing, got relegated and never come back. On the other hand, we may have sacked Kendall, coaxed Alex Ferguson from Aberdeen and become the most successful in the world over the next 20 years. We'll never know.
It is a different world now, and not because of 'society'. The days of being able to build a dynasty from the bottom have gone, it's just not possible anymore because the players won't stay around while you do it. Rooney was supposed to be the one who catapulted us forward but he left as soon as he could, then we looked on the verge of something under
Moyes but Lescott jumped ship, then Pienaar, Arteta and then Fellaini. We never got to where we were aiming. Fast forward 10 years and the same happens again, one minute we're 5th with Barkley, Lukaku, Stones and Deulofeu looking like they're the future, the next minute they've all buggered off and we're back at square one. Progress has to be quicker now, treading water for 3 years means your best players aren't there anymore - do we take the chance that our best hopes for the future end up playing their football elsewhere because they got bored of waiting for us to do something, or do we roll the dice and try to be ambitious?
