Drain the Swamp

Not surprising, as you'd probably get a carbon copy of what happened at Wolves. Stay up by the skin of their teeth, mass exodus of players in the summer with horrid recruitment to replace them and then an atrocious second season before he's sacked and the merry-go-round starts again.

FWIW, I think he's been dining out on overachievements at Burnley for years. His time at Everton and Forest, frankly, show he's nowhere near Premier League level these days. If we have aspirations of getting back there in three or four years, he's not the one.

De Zerbi and Frank are similar in the sense that they looked excellent at clubs with top notch recruitment, but struggled afterwards. The poor quality of Forest's recruitment this season is a big part of why they've seriously declined.

He's in luck!

I'm torn on Dyche, even if he would come here. Which I doubt. Yes, we'd show a lot more fight and probably do so overnight. He'd absolutely achieve the short-term goal of keeping us in the Championship this season. The problem is that I suspect he'd keep us in it for some time to come as well, because I'm not sure he's the project manager the club needs to completely and utterly rebuild a destroyed team. We need a forward-thinking manager who'll get us playing aggressively from the off, bring in our tranche of talented youngsters and find hungry bargains in the transfer market. Hassenhutl, yes. Skubala, yes. Dyche? He'd cost considerably more than both and I'm not sure he's as close a fit as either. I worry he'd smack of short-termism. Everyone who knew of Dyche thought he'd thrive at Forest with his past there, probably the best squad he'd ever worked with after some fairly modest ones at Burnley and then-skint Everton and it's ended similarly to how his team at Goodison ended.

If it doesn't happen this season, it'll happen next. No way they comply with PSR for a start. Nuno had only just been given a new contract before being sacked, Ange will have been on big money and now Dyche. That's just managerial appointments. Then the amount they spent in the summer with very few who've actually improved them, the bonuses and pay rises they handed out to the players from last season to ward off bigger clubs and to attempt to lock in European football. They're relegation battlers with Europa League expenses, and we know for ourselves how that ends. Plus you'd have to question who goes there with all of this hanging over them as Marinakis may not be able to back them too much over the summer, the likes of Anderson, Gibbs-White and Murillo will leave and he gets through managers at a rate of knots. Similar to the way that Wolves sold Cunha, Ait-Nouri and now Strand Larsen with little to replace them, but with the added pressure of an owner who sacks at will. Different problems to us, yes. Similar outcome in the long-run.

West Ham will get out of it, I think. They're really battling and look a bit like Forest did when he first took over from Cooper. Not much in the way of quality, but you can see they're giving it a go and not chucking in the towel. That can be enough when you're up against similarly poor sides who aren't showing the same mettle, as Forest, Palace and Spurs aren't. Leeds will also be fine barring a drop-off; they dominated Forest last week.

They'll catch Forest in the next couple of weeks, I suspect. They've definitely got a bit more about them lately.

Like us, the manager isn't the problem. Like us, the problem is the owner and his right-hand man. Like us, they got carried away by a successful season (longer in our case admittedly) and spent far more money than they should on average players and holding on to players who clearly wanted to leave. Like us, it'll end in tears.

The luckiest club in European football. It'll run out eventually, but it's frustrating until it does. Especially given it's coincided with our collapse.

With their wage bill, they're probably two or three years behind us if they drop.

The only Frank who'd consider us is Frank Spencer. It'll be someone unemployed or someone from League One.

Skubala? Significant local ties.

The thing is that I actually think Hassenhutl would be an accidentally good appointment and an example of falling up.

But worth it for the amount of players it could produce and money it could save on transfer fees. Nelson, Aluko, Page, Silko, Monga, Braybrooke, Alves, Evans and Hutchinson cost not a bean between them.