The one game to win to get us out of the relegation zone, get other teams worried get the whole club united and buzzing for the great escape and they blow it. Complete and utter bottlers.
Still believe with the squad we have Bielsa would be ideal. Although also happy with Gerrard - although appreciate Beale seemed to be the tactical brains when he was at Rangers. How about if he brought in Benitez as his assistant/consultant for 4 months? That may work.
Absolutely staggered that he’s still there. The only glimmer of hope I’m holding onto is that things are being done behind the scenes to get the new manager in place before then sacking him.
Has to be someone with Premier League experience and can command instant respect from the players and unite the club. So for me thats Benitez, Bielsa or Nuno.
That could be the route they are going down, lot of legal stuff to do if that’s the case. Which may mean it may not be an early announcement this morning.
It’s over, he’ll be gone by Monday morning. Get Nigel in to manage to the end of the season to unite the club and Bielsa to do his thing behind the scenes with the academy (which he wanted to do at Everton I believe) and then he can take over in the summer.
Interesting looking at strikers in Europe that Juanmi who wasnt great for us has been pretty prolific in the Spanish league over the last 5 years for Sociedad and Betis. We maybe got him too early - but I guess he was ‘young and hungry’ back then.