And DC, I'm sure they were evn less fans when the player Jol convinced them was surplus turned out to score 30+ goals last year and help knock us out of europe with a couple of goals.
Hi BC - the thing is I'm not sure the board needed persuading by Jol, I think he upset a lot of the Spus heirarachy past and present -
there's no doubt he has done brilliantly at Seville but as Joey says (though in a more in depth way) Spain ain't England.
He was part of the all star cast that took West Ham down (big plus mark to him for that :wink and we never really threatened the top 6 or winning trophies while he was with us (from memory) - of course neither scenario was 'his fault' - but I can tell you I know a few West Ham fans and none of them think Fredi was that great - and he wasn't that great with us either
And if he did burn his bridges with Jol, well it's as well we sold him because what good would having a disaffected FK on the bench have been?
The team did better without Fredi, whether we would have done even better had we kept him - who knows?