The evidence in the case against Puel is accumulating and becoming incontrovertible:
1. Craven capitulation in the Europa League
2. Shocking and inexorably deteriorating league form
3. impotent attacking threat
4. turgid, negative football
5. gratuitous rotations and puzzling selections, guaranteed to alienate and demotivate players
6. almost every player's game, intensity and overall form has worsened under his tenure
7. threw the FA Cup
8. players strongly rumoured to want to leave and some already have
Mitigation:
1) League Cup Final. Beat a series of distracted reserve sides. It is a cinderella cup, the truth be told.
2) Reed screwed up the summer and Jan. But Puel could suck the life out of Ronaldo, Bale, Neymar and Messi.
Verdict: Failure
Sentence: Sack