I'm fairly sure that only choosing from whatever available out of work (i.e. Failed) managers happen to apply has been proven beyond doubt now to be an absolutely disastrous option?
And for the second time this year, giving it to people we know and like without making a real effort to identify another option is proving to be f**king wank too...
Surely this time round we have to have a long term plan of where we want the club to be and accordingly a method to achieve it and as such a manager we can identify to achieve this with the necessary qualities and apply the effort and resources to get him.
As for the players, I think we're now at the point where I don't care if any of them stay or go to be honest. I certainly don't care for x is/was a good player or y sometimes offers this or z has got potential/or did whatever in the past,
Right now, if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck then it is a duck. And we are well and truly ducked