23-01-2026, 10:20 AM
Slept on it badly i have come to this conclusion.
EM wanted the CL, didn’t get it and fell out with Nuno, the relationship was never repaired despite the new contract, Edu was a convenient excuse and vehicle for Nuno to engineer his own dismissal.
EM thought he knew best and appointed Ange, lets hope he keeps away from football decisions. That led him to the only way out which was to appoint a firefighter and someone with a club connection to get the fans back onside from the mess. It may work in the PL (just) but our opportunity in Europa is unfortunately thrown away. Then there change in style from Nuno to Ange back to Dyche shows the total lack of clear thinking.
Then there is Edu. We've spent a load of money and these players were supposedly hot property so they must be good? Really? See my comment on Diakhaby on the other thread. As rightly pointed out recently its very very easy to spend money on players who agents convince you are far better than the reality. There has been no research on some of these players and no strategy.
That said some highly paid players are letting us down. Unfortunately it seems likely that some of the crown jewels will leave in the summer to fund those who arent as good.
My only conclusion is EM needs to take stock of this, my feeling is reluctantly get to the summer with Dyche then he sacks BOTH Edu and Dyche and we start again with a management team with a clear plan. Who I really don’t know but the big man has to have a clear out and start again because he’s just wasted our best opportunity in 30 years.
EM wanted the CL, didn’t get it and fell out with Nuno, the relationship was never repaired despite the new contract, Edu was a convenient excuse and vehicle for Nuno to engineer his own dismissal.
EM thought he knew best and appointed Ange, lets hope he keeps away from football decisions. That led him to the only way out which was to appoint a firefighter and someone with a club connection to get the fans back onside from the mess. It may work in the PL (just) but our opportunity in Europa is unfortunately thrown away. Then there change in style from Nuno to Ange back to Dyche shows the total lack of clear thinking.
Then there is Edu. We've spent a load of money and these players were supposedly hot property so they must be good? Really? See my comment on Diakhaby on the other thread. As rightly pointed out recently its very very easy to spend money on players who agents convince you are far better than the reality. There has been no research on some of these players and no strategy.
That said some highly paid players are letting us down. Unfortunately it seems likely that some of the crown jewels will leave in the summer to fund those who arent as good.
My only conclusion is EM needs to take stock of this, my feeling is reluctantly get to the summer with Dyche then he sacks BOTH Edu and Dyche and we start again with a management team with a clear plan. Who I really don’t know but the big man has to have a clear out and start again because he’s just wasted our best opportunity in 30 years.