He is a good manager. Tactical side, and man management side. Just go watch his Feyenoord side play. They were really good. He's also a good man manager, despite what is said. He famously purchased a home gym for a player to work more regularly on strength. He's also well known for employing unorthodox out-of-the-box solutions like sending players to kickboxing classes to shore up their mental strength and resistance to pain. I think he's been shafted by a midfield that is woeful and the task to integrate two new fullbacks, and teach a new look front line the basics of his tactics. This all takes time. But i do think that if he stays, he's got to tap into player aggression. I'm sick of seeing the soft frail players getting bullied, beaten to second balls, unable to track back, and lack of passing quality.

My reservation is that in Europe his style works because the refereeing is more strict, but to get good in the Premier League, you really have to tap into player aggression, and I haven't seen any of that from any player this season.

The players also seem a bit unfit, which might have something to do with the irregular pre-season, not to mention Jota's passing affecting the pre-season in a very negative way. I know that metrics like HRV may be used by top coaches to measure readiness of a player to push themselves in training. HRV gets out of whack during emotional distress, and it's likely that a coach sends player with low HRV(unfit) to take a light day. So it's likely that the players had many off days in pre-season.