No and I can't disagree with that. I think most managers would have failed in the same circumstances though.It's an annual thing for their managers and they have had some decent ones.
He could have resigned, but they were threatening anything from 6-18 months gardening leave. I can see why, for am ambitious coach that was a no-go. Watford should have let him go, and in failing to do so have screwed themselves over along with Everton and Silva.
I can understand people want a bigger name manager. Our last search has ended up with us taking a fella who hasn't finished in the top half for about a decade and has recently managed Crystal Palace and Sunderland. I have very little faith that we can deliver and close on a major deal, particularly for a manager within a club. While there is undoubtedly an ambitious rhetoric from Moshiri with each passing day he looks more delusional to me, a problem heightened by the incompetency and low expectations of his board.
In that context I am very wary about setting our ambitions much too high and ending up keeping Allardyce or with another equivalent appointment. The fella has managed Sporting and won the league in very impressive style at Olympiakos. He seems very much a good appointment for the level we are at, albeit not a perfect appointment for where we want to be or where Moshiri thinks we are.
Who do you think we could go for come the summer mate? Do you think we could attract a Tuchel?
To be honest no, I don't think we can attract Tuchel or someone like him.
If it was of my choosing, I would try to get Jardim before he is snapped up by someone else but that's probably not feasible either.
Despite my views on Silva, he will still come here if Moshiri hasn't been put off by this turn of events.
Fonseca seems to have something about him, but another risk really.
I think we really need a tracksuit manager next time round, someone that can try and get in the players heads and get stuck in with training and offer some passion from the sidelines. It needs to be someone who will project a positive image of themselves and the club as our reputation is in tatters.
It should be a really simple task for the club to compile a shortlist of the best available candidates. We need to choose someone perhaps still making a reputation for themselves rather than the finished article. It's rather like where we were in appointing
Moyes. There should be 4 or 5 names tripping off the tongue of Moshiri and the board in that regard, whether there is ever a vacancy or not.
