We need some quality signings, everyone knows that. We may or may not get them. I agree the chances seem to be receding.
However, when the window shuts, I think we’ll see ETH start earning his money, showing us how he can assemble and develop a winning team from the players he has. He will cut out the chaff while he’s at it. It won’t be immediate but he’ll do it.
People don’t seem to like comparing our current manager’s position with Pep and Klopp when they came in. They both took time to settle and suffered pretty heavy defeats because there was work to do and it couldn’t be done immediately.
The state we are in now, when you look at the squad and results over the last year or so, is not that different to what SAF came into when he first joined here. There was a ropy squad with an attitude problem (in those days it was boozing and partying) and he had quite a job on to sort it out. There is a parallel with our current entitled, underperforming squad and these things can’t be sorted in a couple of weeks.
Having said that he may well be gone by November. The club is certainly shambolic enough to let that happen.
