His time never should have started in the first place. With no thought or research, I can think of four managers who would have jumped at the opportunity and fielded a better, more attack-minded squad. (Knutsen, Marsch, Nancy, Curtin) The board are cowardly and unimaginative. The supporter base are too rooted in the past and too committed to managers with the correct accent and passport. I truly thought they had learned a lesson during Ange's time with the club. It seems they did not.
The sad reality is that we’d be lucky to get that: we have no prospect of actually keeping him beyond his contract, and anyone interested in buying knows we can afford to lose him for free, have his value go down, or turn down a big offer only for smaller ones to come later. He’s worth more, but we won’t get more. Just like VVD. He was worth more even when leaving us, but we couldn’t get more.
