I believed we'd turned a corner yes
Fair enough, you can certainly argue you’re consistent in your support.
I’ve noticed some of your other posts regarding expectations, and it’s not unreasonable that you’ve brought this up as a reminder that we are probably performing better than expected, certainly on the results department overall.
I just think it doesn’t help the cause when you consider things like the CL crash and burn, the semi-final bottle jobs, top of the table drop off. These do influence expectations irrespective of the set objective last season. It’s the boom/bust cycle we seem to go through, it inherently feels unsustainable long term.
I’ve been way harsher on him than was probably warranted, but I am far from convinced that he is the right guy to lead the team to glory. Just shy of every game is a scrap to the final second, you’d expect a decent number of comfortable results at this point for a top 4 team. I still don’t see much coaching beyond “give it to Bruno, and persisting with certain underperformers & the late subs issue is incredibly frustrating. We can all point to Liverpool, Chelsea, Leicester but City have taken advantage and we haven’t. One of those teams has been hampered by injuries and the other cost a fraction of ours.
Unfortunately we’re in a position where the board don’t fully back us, so we need a top manager, and indeed coaching team, to give us the best chance with the players.
It’s never gonna happen but it would be interesting to see what was possible if we did have a better set of coaches behind him, rather than the mates club currently there. To a degree, you could say Ferguson was the man manager, who knew the right people to surround himself with for the football side of things.