We don’t disagree mate.
I think there’s lots to do all round but for me keeping EtH after this performance should be unacceptable at a club with our/Ineos’ ambitions.
We can all list the qualities we’d like to see, I’m saying the pretence that people should band around names or not question EtH’s position isn’t ground I have interest going over. My interest, does a manager that loses the games he has in this period deserve to manage this club? The answer for me is no.
Adding a football structure isn’t some magic pill if the manager lacks tactical nouse against the likes of Fulham, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace. Again, we aren’t losing 3-1 to Citeh every week. When we hire key figures above him the pressure will actually ramp up. He’s been given a bit of a free hit this season & still fell short. Name me another manager that’s had the football structure excuse used so regularly? Fulham & Bournemouth both came to Old Trafford with injuries/absences of their own to play us off the pitch.
I can only speak personally. I don’t think sacking EtH in a silo then airdropping any manager in would yield a dramatic upturn in our fortunes, I do believe that a replacement manager using different tactics could have gotten better results out of this bunch but again that’s a low bar because this was never a league winning/challenging squad. I’m saying it’d be closer to Villa is all.
In general I agree with your bullet points. I just think it misses a key 4th, which is that we need to improve in the dugout also. You can still do all the things you list, look at what EtH has done for the past year & look to improve there too.
Who’s asking a manager to come in and single handed my resolve the clubs issues? I think part of your post is pointed at others cause I’m not. There’s a whole lot to change & I’d put the manager near the top of that list.