Said at least a half a dozen times elsewhere but whatever....
He’s not the guy who’ll win the trophies. He’s potentially the guy who cleared the way for a more talented guy to come in and get the glory. I really cannot see a man who spent a decade in Norwegian football and failed massively in his one venture outside of Norway, is suddenly going to win major honours at the highest level. I don’t think theres ever been a manager who’s made that significant of a leap and been successful.
What hes doing currently has the potential to be lauded in the future a while after he leaves.
I‘ll say that under him (and maybe the clubs convoluted hierarchy have a big part in this too) the club is fading out the marquee figures that are too disruptive like Sanchez and Lukaku, as well as names that just don’t belong here like Fellaini, Young and Jones (not even eligible to play league games now). Phase Pogba from the squad and I think we’re left with a squad that most of the good managers we want, would like to manage as there’s no massive figures in there who hold sufficient clout to rock the boat. A lot of these transfers that have happened under him seem safe, obvious and low risk like Maguire, AWB and James (price was low for James), and then you get Bruno who they probably should have signed last summer but ended up getting him in January (god knows if that meant reduced price in January compared to summer or they weren’t sure in the summer), then DVDB and Telles coming in for lowish prices (especially Telles). Pellistri and Diallo making up as kids who could potentially be awesome or at worst can sell them later for some money back. Cavani whilst a marquee name, on a year contract only with an option for a second year. They’re all players who you can’t really see causing trouble for a potential new manager.
I get the feeling OGS’ ultimate goal as manager is buy all the obvious good players and just brute force through everyone with individual magic, especially when Grealish and Sancho seemed to be his only focus. Problem is that approach is REALLY expensive plus there’s no guarantee they’d live up to the price tag anyway like Veron, Berbatov and looking more likely now, a certain Paul Pogba.