This is all a jockey/horse or F1 car/driver scenario.
Does anyone seized of sound mind think any manager could have kept us up this season?
You can talk about tactical set up, you can talk about training routines, you can talk about motivation – but the reality is that if you have 11 clowns on the park you can be an absolute magician – but you’ve still got 11 clowns.
The impact of a manager is usually marginal – and where you finish as a side is at least 95% influenced by budget.
That’s why the Premiership table (barring once in a blue moon) looks exactly the same year in year out no matter who is in charge of any particular club.
Pep or Klopp couldn’t have kept us up this year on this budget – although maybe we’d be sat on 25 or 26 points rather than 24.
Daws has a better record than recent incumbents but look at the players at the club now compared to then – you don’t even have to go back that far, just look at the squad 12 months ago compared to now!
