What a mess we have got into. Why were we ever happy to have-
A) an unqualified manager with barely a year of coaching experience
B) A manager who as a player here didn't set the professional standards on the pitch for effort or keeping himself in shape
C) A player who brought with him rumours early on this season that he was looking for coaches for this job, that wasn't even available.
D) A player/manager funded through our sponsor using some elite deal.
We just couldn't resist the lure of the high profile, global superstar. We didn't care the tank was empty, he was going to make us rich.
I can't help but feel totally disillusioned with the club. In my opinion Cocu was an inspired choice but we saddled him with a player bigger than the club, a player with aspirations as a manager. A player who totally undermined his boss.
Now Cocu may still have failed but we allowed ourselves to get into a position where we had to sack the manager because of a so called superstar player. I wish we had chosen to sack Rooney not Cocu. If Cocu went, they all had to go. It stank early on and it stinks ever stronger.
Rooney may turn out to be a good manager elsewhere but this was never on. How can he demand desire and energy from the players with shoddy example he set here?
