I think I'm one of those guilty of overlooking the red flags.
If you go back and look at the games after the League cup final, we really were shit for most of the rest of the season. We grinded out the wins to make top 4 but it was pretty grim to watch. And the 7-0 result really was a sign of the shambolic lows we'd end up going through this season.
I’m kinda in the same boat too. I gave the benefit of the doubt because 80% of the season we were playing two games a week, mainly due to the Winter WC and finishing 2nd in the EL group, meaning two additional games which could have been avoided. I think we’d have been fecked if we had an FA Cup replay game at any point, because there was literally nowhere to slot it in the calendar.
ETH got rightfully criticised for the Brentford game last season and then he adapted his game which yielded much better results and he was rightfully praised.
But this season, all the way from game one with Wolves at home, it looked worrying and the elements from that game are still persisting even now. He has not changed approach even after getting humiliated in the CL and by the likes of Bournemouth and Brighton at OT.
He’s just weirdly stuck with it, which makes me think he has given up as he knows he’s leaving.