I suppose several bigger clubs, Spurs and Newcastle spring to mind, could point to their own nuanced missed opportunities for sustained improvement and success.
QuoteI suppose several bigger clubs, Spurs and Newcastle spring to mind, could point to their own nuanced missed opportunities for sustained improvement and success.
It's easier to provide "continuous improvement" when you take over a club in the lower half of the Championship. Even then, Smith was massively struggling with a team with Abraham, Mings, McGinn, Hourihane and El Ghazi in it. 1 win in 11 games and going nowhere, until Grealish came back to save the season. Then whatever you do in the Premier League, even if we'd finished 20th, it would still have automatically been an improvement on any place in the Premier League.