He’s had a very good spell since 31st Jan, I kinda expected it though because he and the club corrected the naive mistakes they made in the Summer and balanced out the squad superbly. Getting rid of 2 full backs (Young, Rojo) and adding a proper CF and Bruno was superb business and the reason I was so excited
here. Ighalo especially was proof that after a shit half season everyone had finally understood that concentrating on the present is just as important as focusing on the future. Neglect the former and you likely won’t be around for the future anyhow. There was simply no need to go into the season with such a weak unbalanced squad and we really did cut off our noses to spite our faces in many circumstances.
That said, I’ll wait another few league games before getting giddy. I had one criteria after 31st Jan, to show progress in the league by winning at least 50% of the remaining games. Right now we're bang on 50% from the 4 leagues since then, so it's still not amazing and we've a couple of very tricky games to come up.
3 easy cup games won't fool me and shouldn't fool you guys either. Expect genuine progress in the league between now and the end of May.