Okay so you want to have a whinge without actually considering what's going on. You do you.
He's right though. We really don't owe him anything at the club. Honestly for all the talk about structure supporting the manager, I think our failure in this club has been our lack of ruthlessness at the executive level. The structure so many people are pleased about, will make us more effective and efficient in the transfer market. However, the real selling point is that it protects the club from our poor managers. INEOS coming in with new staff members at the executive and football operations level, supports the club, not the manager.
We've had managers like Mourinho and Van Gaal come in trying to be messiah, tearing apart our squads and management of that squad, without interference from the club outside of a block for the transfer of Martial. They were allowed to make wholesale changes, and despite average to poor performances during a majority of their tenure, they were given way too much job security, as much support as any club in Europe can give. Yet you have fans here blaming the club for not supporting these managers, where they would most likely have been sacked within the first 6 months of other top european clubs.
Look at the climate, look at what other clubs do and the budget other clubs get. No club gives a manager 2 years without expecting good performances and advancements. No club gives a manager 400m and expects them to not be in a position to challenge. No top club would allow a manager play football in which they concede more shots than they attempt themselves. No top club would allow a manager stay after having a - 2 goal difference in March. None. That's the climate and there's a reason for that climate. You cannot afford to be poor for a long period of time. It can affect your wealth, but also your status and the ability to attract top level players. So it makes no sense to keep a failing manager who hasn't proven he can produce performances at your club, if the risk is even a season of your overall status being reduced. We are lucky to have survived this long due to the sheer amount of success we've previously had at the club. But if we keep going like this, we keep allowing poor managers the chance to keep us uncompetitive by giving endless time, we keep signing poor players, we can end up like AC Milan. Where the legend of the club still remains, but you no longer have the money or appeal to get back to the top of the european game. We can't afford to risk that by giving Ten Haag a chance, because that's what's at stake, irelavancy. What INEOS is providing is the executive setup to bring us into the 21st century in regard to our decision making. At board level we have been far too emotional and political on the football side. Sacking Ten Haag is the logical decision; the statistics, metrics and eye test says that the football we play is horrible. The money spent tells us that the squad we have available should not be performing at this level, regardless of injuries. The comparative metrics tell us that teams with far less talent even in depth are performing far better on the pitch than we are. Teams like Brighton can play out of the back, yet Varane can't.
Ten Haag is not the first manager from a weaker league to fail at the top level. As a club, we weren't wrong to pursue him, but we are wrong to persist with him for this long. He should have been sacked in December.
