So what? He stabilized a squad that had lowered their guns for the previous manager. Is that enough to keep him?
On the contrary of what you think my opinion is that we don't change managers enough, it's clear we've made pretty poor decisions at picking them. But what's poorer it's keeping them for so long. It was clear Moyes wasn't the right fit yet we let him throw the whole season, we gave LVG another season after we all saw we were heading nowhere under him. Mourinho was good for two seasons still we let him rot the squad for months when it was clear he was self sabotaging. With Ole it's been clear as water for a long time that he's not up to it yet we persist.
We have no problem replacing players but when talking about replacing managers seems people have a blind faith about them. Somehow turning against a player is ok but turning against the manager means you're a plastic fan.
We should sack and hire sack and hire until we hit gold. Persisting with Ole because we've been changing managers before and that doesn't work would be like persisting with Lingard because we've signed players before and that has takes us nowhere.
It’s not blind faith and in fact it’s not letting them stay for too long, it’s been appointing poor fitting managers who have entirely different ethos and style from one appointment to the next.
One manager comes in and tears up the squad and we start the ‘process’ all over again, we did it with LVG, we did it with Moyes and what did all of them say when we sacked them? ‘We didn’t give them enough time.’
Im not saying let’s stick with Ole forever, what I’m saying is we are at a point where it’s vital, more so than ever, that we ensure the next guy is the right fit.
In the absence of a prime candidate I think it fairly obtuse to overlook some fans concern of repeating the tumescent cycle of the last 8 years.
We are just as likely to panic into something like Conte and miss out on somebody who may be a far better fit for us, meanwhile we will be busy giving Conte a chance only for him to fall out with everybody in no time whilst trying to sign feckin Sanchez and Lukaku.