Quote Originally Posted by Dein-machine View Post
NQ - what do you expect him to say? If you saying we should applaud his honesty why doesn't he say - " Sorry, I shit myself everytime I play a top team as I know I am tactically inept compared to their more modern managers & because I won't buy quality players when I so obviously needed to do so in certain positions this team doesn't have the ability to compete" - Then I'd applaud him, otherwise he gets what he deserves. If I was paid £7mill a year & delivered the same inept performances against my main competitors year in,year out - I'd expect the same. Difference being, i would have been sacked years ago.
No, I posted it to counter the idea that ALL he said was he was puzzled.

Also, there is an amazing correlation between these "modern" managers and the billions they have spent or inherited, don't you think? Are there no modern managers below us in the table? And if there are, is it correct to claim complete incompetence in all aspects of football? because if you are completely incompetent then how do you end up with a team placed above most of these modern greats after 30 games? It makes no sense. Perhaps there is a middle ground buried beneath the media guff. Problems yes, offset against respectable achievement.