Tbf Poch is a great man manager who has a consistent record of improving players. We have a load of young promising players who I think would thrive under him, including some of the ones mentioned above.
Do you want improved players or wins though, or maybe both? Ange may not be perfect but he's shown consistently through his career wherever he has been that he can win trophies, and the way that Bergvall, Gray, Moore and Udogie are advancing right now you'd have to say he improves players too.
This week was the 19th competition he's won, and he's six years older than Poch, who has won 3. Now you can say what you like about the level those competitions were at, but you can only beat what's in front of you, and he does, over and over again. He knows the DNA required to win competitions, and backs himself to win and build a club to do that.
Please don't misunderstand me, I've found the league form awful to watch this season, but I am still able to be objective about how many games we have lost due to injuries, and how many due to what now has been shown to be a laser focus on the Europa league.
Ange deserves 2025/26, at least the first 10-15 games at a minimum, to see if what he says comes true, that things improve. He said he'd win in season 2 and has, so we have no reason not to believe he can turn this cup form and approach towards the league.
Whoever is the manager though, there's a lack of depth in the team which makes rotation almost impossible at the back across the midfield and up top. We are not able to rotate Solanke, Maddison, Kulu and Romero without a huge drop off in performance.
