On the contrary I’ve wanted rid of all three previous managers until I spotted the blindingly obvious improvements we’ve made under Ole.
Did you expect us to win the league this year? Is that it?
Of course not nobody in their right mind expected that. Did I expected more points? Yeah I did, but I didnt expected being 3rd so that kind of evens out.
My critique to Ole is not that he's a bad manager, of course he has some remarkable man managment skills, the squad seems happy and some players have improved under him. But he's not special and I think we should aim for special, a revolutionary manager one that can close the gap between us and Liverpool and City, one that can make us challenge for the UCL again.
No manager would do it with the current squad, but I dont think Ole can do it at all. His tactics are very basic and Im still after 18 months not seeing any definitive playing style. Are we a counter attacking team? Are a possession based team? Do we play from the flanks? Do we play centrally? Each game it seems we are out specting some player to do something magic rather than a system being implemented and getting better.
Thats why we have so many patches IMO, of course no team can be consistent the whole year every team has his ups and downs during the season but our up and downs are really marked. We are either playing like were the best team in the league or we playing as if were fighting relegation. We depend way too much on creativity from our players, if they dont produce anything special by themselves the system wont, and thats on Ole.
See Neegelsmann, results aside you can clearly see what Leipzig aspire too. You can see the managers hand in their play, weve been for over 18 months with Ole and I still dont see it. If we bring more quality players of course well get better, but eventually we will face teams with the same if not better quality than us, and then its the managers job to beat the other manager and I dont think Ole is the man that will do it.