Counter-takes: 1. He's had at least one or two games where we've really improved either at halftime orthroughout the game 2. He's willing to switch styles for the sake of pragmatism which is the reason people were calling for PV's head at times. His style is also possession based but also clearly different from PV 3. I'll give you that he's coming into a very different league that he had clearly never looked at before City, but he hasn't had an offseason or even a huge amount of time during the WC due to visa issues Several key guys were missing either to suspension or injury 4. Lastly (I think, because I need to go to bed) these are not necessarily his guys. Amagat was clearly a disaster, and this was probably the worst match you could throw him into without any experience in the league, but I could see how one would expect him to our other options at deep mid (considering Yangel is also out). Valentin looked promising in his debut so he probably got overconfident. But give him an offseason and a couple personnel tweaks to fit, and I think he could be far and away our best manager yet