But what good manager would come here and work under the same financial constraints of Lambert and Sherwood?
Hopefully someone who could get better out of the players we already have.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but who? Lambert was good at Norwich, Sherwood was ok at Spurs, O'Leary did ok at Leeds, the French bloke whose name completely escapes me wasn't too bad before us either.
Or (in chronological order)
O'Leary. The epitome of a cheque book manager. Clear narcissistic traits as well.
Houllier. Yes very experienced and managed at the highest levels in 2 leagues.
Inherited a squad where the dominant personalities seemed to be sulking over MONster departure and was probably 3 or 4 years past his sell by date.
Lambert. Did a job getting Norwich through the divisions. If he hadn't come to us everyone would have been asking about 2nd season syndrome.
Sherwood. 6 months as emergency cover with someone else's squad. Not exactly a track record.
The only common theme from DOL,TSM II and Sherwood is that they'd only got a record at one club under relatively benign circumstances when coming to us.
I said when we appointed Sherwood that we needed someone who was experienced in dragging clubs kicking and screaming upwards from the sort of death spiral that we seem to be caught in.
