27-02-2026, 01:28 PM
(27-02-2026, 10:59 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote: Disagree that fans have had a chance to judge him (though they certainly are anyway).
You don't judge someone who's job it is to set strategy after one season.
OK Arsenal haven't won the league yet but they've been close for a number of seasons now. Would they have done that if their fans had got Edu booted out after one season? We'll never know of course.
Again, EM’s plan was to build a squad that could compete in multiple competitions this season. Whether realistic or not that meant a top half finish and I reckon he genuinely wants to win the Europa league. Edu was tasked with delivering that ambition and was given a big budget to do so.
We all know what’s gone wrong on the manager side of things but there also is a harsh fact with the squad that we have a core who are good enough, the rest are not delivering when called upon with the result we went out of the 2 domestic cups in the first round, stuttered in the Europa when rotating and struggling badly in the league. Yes some may well come good eventually but that wasnt the plan and wasnt why we spent big.
Im pretty sure EM will judge the entire set up in the summer, just need to hope we do so from a position of strenght as a premier league club.