The Fear
A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Making a wider point Jonathan. Managers don't have to be from Spain, Germany, Portugal or South America. Smith has promoted us,got us to a Wembley final,where a post prevented us taking a club who buy the world's top players to extra time. Then kept us in the premier league with a team who finished fifth in the championship. Then he lost two of his best players, Tuanzabe and Abraham, compounded by losing Heaton and Mcginn to long term injuries. He was not helped by shambolic recruitment which used moneyball rather than his preferences for Webster, Phillips, Benrhama and Maupay. He took over a shambles not too many months ago and despite recruitment issues and calamitous injuries,we are a premier league club.
I didn't say anything about location JP. You go for the best, not for their country of birth.
Also did edit my post to add Ron wasn't average.
Wembley, yes, I don't over buy into that bit, two rounds were gifts. Leicester, fantastic though, agree on that when people mention. And to be fair, you can only play what is in front of you. The Cup was devalued even more last season with the antics of so many teams, including Wolves and also what Liverpool were forced to do.
Not going over the same arguments re who did and didn't make decisions, the CEO and manager both said they were heavily involved, if they allowed Suso to fully recruit and neither had a say, then a) they shouldn't have said otherwise b) they should both be sacked on the spot for allowing that!