I back the guy but I’m very much in the camp that is expecting a glorious ending to the journey now. He’s done a lot of good work and deserves an opportunity to see it through however if this season tailspins into a disaster then I’m not sure there can be any defence for him given the money spent and the obvious deficiencies that remain up front.

Also, having to play Villa, Spurs, City, Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea in the opening portion of the season was always going to be difficult and some dropped points were to be expected. So I won’t throw the toys out of the pram just yet but our football is absolutely shit right now and a lot of work needs to be done to get the season back on track. I prefer to believe that we’re a good team going through a bad patch rather than a bad team that’s found it’s level.