king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
I'm not sure that's fully true Norm.
I get the bit about folk wanting him gone, so we can maximise our chances of staying up this season ................. but if we go down, the bloke has a decent track record in League 1.
Sure, if he got us back up, I'd want him to improve an awful lot - and do things differently - from his previous two attempts, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't be happy with him leading us in League 1.
I know that sounds wrong on the surface, but when you think about it, then it's quite logical.
I wouldn't trust him to bring us back up, i think he got us up last time after the Yanic fee allowed us to keep most of our key players and he inherited Powell, Burn, Grigg, etc in a squad far too good for the division. We don't have those anymore and i don't think IEC with FFP will be able to afford to keep most of our better players. So he wont likely be able to have a squad so vastly superior as he was afforded last time. I think there will be a fire sale to balance the books.
We also had the benefit of Cook being the clean slate, the fresh ideas and the broom that swept away the losing mentality, staleness and negativity of the previous season. But this year Cook is the losing mentality, the staleness and the negativity that needs sweeping away and we need fresh ideas - i don't think going back into L1 will be anything like last time.
I think sacking Cook and banking on his replacement keeping us up is a up is a much safer bet than going down and thinking he will bring us back. L1 is rubbish so there is a chance, but i think the rot is deep now and we need a fresh start.