Vitor Matos on West Bromwich Albion | Reaction

[ARQS]

He's had 12 games in charge of a division 2 Portuguese side.
Wilder is a tried and tested Championship manager who took 9 weeks to get two wins on the bounce with a much better squad that was 15 minutes from the Premier league in May.
I have absolutely nothing against Matos and I fervently hope that he's a brilliant success. I don't have words to describe what I feel about idiots who are recklessly gambling with the club's future.

It's been alluded to elsewhere but I genuinely believe the board think we have an underperforming mid table squad that just needs a manager to have us playing to our true potential.

In a nutshell, they don't think it can get any worse than it did under Sheehan.

If they actually believe that we are going to be in a relegation dog fight then it's an absolutely astonishing gamble.

If we had an experienced manager in charge and one of the sides down the bottom with us had appointed someone with Matos CV, I think we'd all secretly be quite pleased.

On the contrary, if they'd appointed someone like Manning, Still, Carrick, Hellberg, even old Russ, I think we'd all be a bit concerned.

Matos could turn out to be brilliant but there's no way anyone can know that at this stage and in all probability there's more chance of the appointment failing than it succeeding

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

Yes they have started both games much more positively and more aggressively. They aren’t fit which is much more their failure (and Sheehans) than his.

Yes I agree, if this is the route he's taking (same shape, players as Sheehan, but doing it better), this will take a long time to work. Good long term but we need results now.