Honestly, every argument I have heard about EtH to me looks like a deja vu for the previous managers. That they are geniuses, that it will take time but ultimately they would win us big titles, that no one else would do better with this group of players, that they just need to get rid of the deadwood and continue signing good players, that the style is progressive. And then ultimately they got sacked for being shit, their style of football suddenly became ‘shit on a stick’, and that their transfers suddenly become deadwood. I do not see much difference this time around, I think in 18 months Antony, Malacia, Eriksen and Mount will be firmly in the deadwood category, and probably Martinez too if the new manager decides that he doesn’t want a bottom 10 percentile player when it comes to aerial duels in his team. Add to it Casemiro will be 32-33 and need replacing and the ‘400m well-spent money’ will essentially be Onana and probably Hojlund. Figuratively speaking, I think it is a cult where people defend the manager at all costs, and mistake supporting the club with supporting the manager. We should support the club, and keep accountable the employees of the club, be them high managers like Murtough or mid-level managers like ETH.
But with the main point I agree and have been screaming about it since the Mourinho days. We need a football structure in place, a DoF who is the manager’s boss, not manager’s bitch. We need people knowledgeable around him. The manager should be a head coach, a mid-level manager whose job is training the players, selecting them to play and doing the tactics. The recruiting should be not related to the manager, or at most he should have a minimal input to that. Essentially, we need to build a machine where the manager is an important, but small part of it. An easily replaceable part.
