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What scares me is the thought that DL has run out of ideas and a cohesive p!an to take the club forward. If he sees Jose as a project and is prepared to give him time and (allowing for club finances) money to spend them all well and good but if it is literally him having a punt on Jose then that is a concern.I think fundamentally the issue is ENIC have failed to put a continuous system in place.
Under Arnesen and Jol they spoke a lot about playing 433 at all levels and put focus onto technical ball players. Essentially they wanted to turn us into the classic Dutch team.
Once Arnesen left he was replaced with a DOF who bought high quality players, often young, with little sense of how the team would function.
Since then the buying has been all over the place. Ramos to Redknapp to AVB to Poch to Jose. The current squad didn't appear to have the qualities that Poch liked and now we have a completely different style of manager.
I don't think any manager could really come in right now and solve this.
The buying plan has to be right. At the moment a Redknapp buying style of "fill the gaps" is definitely required. Hopefully Jose is in constant contact with the board to let them know what he needs to turn this lot into a team.
But another management change isn't what we should be focusing on right now.