He’s not even close to getting sacked
He has earnt the rest of the season. Finishing 3rd last season and currently being in and around the top 4 earns him the right to continue his work until something goes drastically wrong
Narrowly avoiding qualification from arguably the toughest group whilst disappointing; is not drastically enough for him to get the sack. Sorry knee-jerkers
This. I cant remember last time i was this gutted. Could barely sleep. No doubt we bottled it when we had such a golden chance to qualify, but we missed out on qualifying by the narrowest of margins from a tough group so that alone is not a sackable offense.
Lets see where we are at the end of the season. If we end up outside the top 4 then he should probably go. As long as there is tangible progress in results and performances than i see no reason to sack him. The big argument his critics bring to the board is "
a top coach would have done x,y,z", to which i would say
1. You dont know that and you cant prove it
2. LvG and Jose were by all intents and purposes "top coaches" and that did not turn out too great.
3. "
Poch is going to win us the league". Poch won nothing with Spurs in 5 years, while our ex manager currently have them top of the table and might very well win the league with them
Ole is by no means perfect and hes made some real blunders in his time here. Hes still not nearly as bad as the "individual brilliance" crowd tries to portray him though. Some of them would not be able to praise him even if he pulled on a shirt himself and scored a hatrick. Also all this lamenting about coaching is pretty tiresome. None of us has a fecking clue about what goes on at Carrington and i bet the ones shouting the loudest about this has not even coached at a U7's level
Postives:
1. Very good transfer record compared to his predecessors
2. Our attacking play is the best its been since Fergie. And no, its not all "individual brilliance". Pretty much all of these players have played under top class coaches before and if all we did was fecking around in training then they would have ousted Ole about 1,5 years ago.
3. We never give up. Even yesterday when going 3-0 down we kept fighting and we were nearly managed to pull of a miracle.
Negatives:
1. We concede way to many stupid and unnecessary goals and this season we've been bailed out by our attackers time and time again. Imo, Maguire and AWB are good enough while the others need upgrading in time, thought its not the most pressing issue. Ole was a striker his whole career so really i dont think hes the best at organizing defenses. We need to bring in a top notch defensive coach to sort out this mess or its going to be the downfall of Ole
2. Midfield is still a a problem. Personally i think Bruno/Fred/VdB is the best we can line up, but they are really untested and we need to see more of them to make an informed call
3. Although our consistency in the long term, in terms of W/D/L ratio has been quite good, our consistency
in games is lacking. Time and time this season we have started out half asleep and it needs to be sorted ASAP. Having to fight our way back from a losing position every other game is simply not sustainable