Ole has rebuilt the club from a fairly sorry state, and can probably progress us beyond this but probably with a ceiling, especially given how competitive the top of the league has been and will probably end up this season (you'd have needed high 90s to 100pts to win, which SAF never got in many many attempts).
I think the club could very easily go backwards with the next step, by appointing Allegri or someone similarly insane. Fans would need to recognise that Poch means total rebuild, Greenwood frozen out, a totally totally different direction. There is probably a correct decision the club could work towards over the next several months of the right type of different direction, but they have shown over and over they will make the wrong decision, so it would be better to get a manager that builds in the same direction as we have been building in the absence of the club appointing someone that can start from scratch intelligently.
I think the squad is top 4 quality and Ole needs to do that again, and I think thats probably it this season without going into intangibles. There are 'fans' on this forum that say the squad is better than top 4 quality, that is is high 90s points quality, but they aren't worth listening to, they don't actually believe that they are just so desperate for a point given that Ole has had very good results over the last year.
We go out of this group fairly unfortunately on the balance, is that way below expectation? I think it is approx where my expectations were given we are against two of the best 4 teams in the world from last season and we didn't meaningfully improve over summer. I think expectation is that we narrowly went through or narrowly went out, we narrowly went out.
In the league over the last year we are approx on course with my expectations. If he can't get top 4 this year then Woodward hasn't much hope of improving the squad in summer and we might as well give up on this then and look at the next guy
