We need a manager who can adapt to games and uses his tactical knowledge to adjust. Also, we need a manager who knows what to buy. Antony has been a disaster, emergency backup Wout as played way too much.
When your players are injured and players like Maguire needs to start, you adjust tactics, you don't force them to play our from the back and lose points - over and over again
Sure, the club spent big on Antony, and maybe that's not all down to ETH being desperate to address the right side of midfield with a player who had been great for him, but also because we probably still have a bit of a shit operation in terms of footballing matters and just lucked out in getting ETH in the first place. We likely overpaid because the club had not identified talent to recruit in some organised manner (of which this squad certainly is testament to) and we have been fleeced in every single player transaction since the SAF left, with the only caveat being able to recoup money on Lukaku.
Now, looking at the squad, I don't know what he can do to sort out our lack of goals. There surely was no money in January even though we were flirting with putting up a title challenge and Ronnie had gone, leaving us relying on unmotivated and injury prone Martial. Otherwise we'd have signed someone, or paid more for a higher level loanee.
Rangnick wasn't wrong when he tore the squad to shreds. We simply do not have the quality. The bench is shite. This was match #57, the most of any team in the top 5 leagues in Europe. They're gassed. And deflated too.
I was partial to Jose Enrique prior to ETH getting the job, but there's no way I'd favour another managerial change. Gut the squad, bin every single one of the players who cannot play his brand of football, if we lack numbers next season through FFP or whatever, bring through young players. We need to focus on the long-term as this squad is not build for the short-term or the long-term.
If we end up losing 4th to Liverpool or Brighton, which would be quite a shite achievement from the position we were in, we should absolutely prioritise the league next season and use the Europa as a mini tournament for the bench players.
The two lessons he's surely learned by now is that he needs to revolutionise the squad and we don't have the numbers to challenge on all fronts.