it's a very good point but what we seem to do when things go against us is reboot and retry, often taking years in the process rather than see the bigger picture and act on a consistent basis. What we've stopped doing in the past few years is to keep trickling hungry fresh faces into the squad on a regular basis which keeps everything from becoming as stale as it is now. the scum, chavs, pool, united, etc have all lost numerous finals/big games over the past years but they keep evolving and build on it where we seem to see it as an endpoint. if you picked semi-finalists/finalists of all of the cups over the time we've been competing, it would still be a surprise to see us there whereas even when they're supposedly bad, our rivals still seem to make it to finals and win silverware. This is the step that we need to take, regardless of how we do it.
Mourinho might be in by then.Official site has crashed, any idea who the caretaker manager is for Saturday? This really sucks, hate that it ended this way
I think part of the lack of criticism stems from not knowing exactly who is responsible for our failures in the transfer market in recent years. Our recruitment was awful for years leading up to the summer of 2018, to the extent that it is understandable why Poch would have put his foot down and demanded he not be given any more Njies, Nkoudous, Auriers etc. to work with.
So on the one hand you have years' worth of second-rate bargain bin punts that didn't work out (seems like a Levy problem), and on the other you have Poch's seeming stubbornness paralyzing us from bringing in new players at a crucial moment. It's all a huge mess and impossible to sort out who is responsible for what from the outside.
When the results start to suffer it's easy to blame Poch, thinking "Oh, he turned his nose up at the likes of Tielemans, Olmo and Berge, look where it's gotten us" without stopping to think about Levy's role in why he came to a point where he was so stubborn. There's definitely blame to be shared by both sides and emotion and lack of information make it easy to lash out at the manager, who's the face of the team.