I think AK's more of a bad fit for Forest more than a bad manager.
Stylistically it's dire. There's no two ways about it, he bought in 10 players last Jan, 13 players this Summer, he's got essentially an entire new squad and I can count on one hand the amount of games I've enjoyed watching us under him. It's usually either be awful & get beat, or be awful & scrape a result. I can certainly count more games which I've not enjoyed under him than ones I have enjoyed that's for sure. The defence still can't defend, and yet he's bought an entire new defence & had a full pre-season with the side on top of 6 months previous.
He's also gone & killed things for those with a connection to some of the players already here, especially the young guns. The likes of Brereton & Worrall's progression was something which I was enjoying, and that's now binned off too. Heck I even thought Walker was starting to come on last year.
Doesn't help that his arrival created bad blood with Warburton's departure, he's spent loads and yet the squad still looks thin in areas, and he took a side which was 14th to 17th last season. 25m later we're 1 place better off (and at this time last season we were actually 6th - I worry what's gonna happen when injuries hit)
I still hope he gets time to get all these peices working together & push us on, Lord knows we've been desperate to have a manager see out 1 full season for years. But his arrival took us from the highs of beating Arsenal to a constant tream of mids or lows ever since. Part of me thinks even if he succeeds it'll be under a black cloud.
So far he's on par with Dougie for me. Except whereas Dougie had an umbongo to deal with, AK has spent more than any other manager in our history on players. He needs to make it work and bring some good feeling back to the team sharpish. If that means spending 24 hours a day retraining himself to change his methods to suit us that's what he should do.
Stylistically it's dire. There's no two ways about it, he bought in 10 players last Jan, 13 players this Summer, he's got essentially an entire new squad and I can count on one hand the amount of games I've enjoyed watching us under him. It's usually either be awful & get beat, or be awful & scrape a result. I can certainly count more games which I've not enjoyed under him than ones I have enjoyed that's for sure. The defence still can't defend, and yet he's bought an entire new defence & had a full pre-season with the side on top of 6 months previous.
He's also gone & killed things for those with a connection to some of the players already here, especially the young guns. The likes of Brereton & Worrall's progression was something which I was enjoying, and that's now binned off too. Heck I even thought Walker was starting to come on last year.
Doesn't help that his arrival created bad blood with Warburton's departure, he's spent loads and yet the squad still looks thin in areas, and he took a side which was 14th to 17th last season. 25m later we're 1 place better off (and at this time last season we were actually 6th - I worry what's gonna happen when injuries hit)
I still hope he gets time to get all these peices working together & push us on, Lord knows we've been desperate to have a manager see out 1 full season for years. But his arrival took us from the highs of beating Arsenal to a constant tream of mids or lows ever since. Part of me thinks even if he succeeds it'll be under a black cloud.
So far he's on par with Dougie for me. Except whereas Dougie had an umbongo to deal with, AK has spent more than any other manager in our history on players. He needs to make it work and bring some good feeling back to the team sharpish. If that means spending 24 hours a day retraining himself to change his methods to suit us that's what he should do.