The more I think of the horror show of managers we’ve had recently, the more I think we actually should have considered sticking with Ruud. He’s the only person that’s actively come in and made any real attempt to plug the gaps in our culture. Had he stayed for that summer, we very likely would have seen an exodus of the right people and who knows how he would have got on.
I didn’t rate him as a manager, but we needed a swamp draining and he might have just got us there a lot faster. I feel like if we had to replace him mid season, we’d have been in a far better situation than we ended up… because every new man had to give the same people a second chance… rather than us just washing our hands with them from the hop. Not to mention that he may have continued with the youth development he started at the end of the season
(worth acknowledging I would have been criticizing the club for actually doing this… but power of hindsight)