
Originally Posted by
KingCanny
What's peoples opinions?His tactics sound good on paper but as much as I will back him 100% I still worry. Could be a genius appointment or it could be a Thomas Frank at spurs appointment.
I don't like to make really direct comparisons as they can be taken a little bit more literally than I'd intended, but I feel that getting Iraola in now would be the equivalent of getting "Mainz Klopp" in rather than "Dortmund Klopp".
I think it's going to go well, but it might need a bit of time.
A good yard-stick for us overall though is that despite an "awful" season, we attained Champion's League football (I grant you that we squeaked it....) plus reached the quarter-finals of both the FA Cup and the Champion's League -with us losing to the eventual winners of both competitions.
So if we do improve, we're off to a good start. Feels a bit Houllier-to-Benitez somehow in terms of where I expect our trajectory to go for the next few seasons.
I think he will see out all 4 years of his contract. As to more......time will tell.
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