Exactly. Problem is, people always need to point the finger. Can you blame Kenny for buying the players? It makes you a bad fan apparently so it's not his fault.
It's a good month until the end of the transfer window, we've had a lot of departures, and i think people are panicking thinking "FSG are tearing the club apart". Whereas i see that it's fairly obvious we'll be seeing new people come in towards the deadline day.
If they did it the opposite way for instance, done all the business at the start of the window, and had a massive over sized squad, Brendan and the owners would be accused of hanging onto dead weight, and not being ruthless enough.
Some people you just can't please
FSG backed Kenny on transfers. They gave him lots of money and they allowed players to be signed early. We can't fault them for that. I wasn't impressed with the way we handled the Suarez/Evra thing, but I'll put that aside.
That Kenny and Comolli could be sacked was a given. It wasn't necessarily the right choice, but there was a clear case for it. Where things get a bit strange is after they were sacked. Not even a double cup win would have saved Kenny, but will the same be true for Rodgers? And when Comolli came, he was going to be central to everything. We then realised he did too much. So did we offer him help? No we sacked him and abandoned the structure we had in mind. Why? Because probably the least experienced manager we spoke with said so. We gave Rodgers the powers we were not willing to give Kenny, nor Capello, van Gaal, AVB, Benitez etc. Will we now expect Rodgers to finish top four, or have we lowered our expectations? We shall soon see. Either way, we've put ourselves in another corner.
When it comes to the departures this summer, I don't panic because we have seen two-three exits. It's the choice of players we have parted with that I question and how little money we have gained (or rather, that we have managed to lose money on their exits). With them gone, if that's our new standard, then we have many players left to sell. I just don't think it will happen. We'll keep them.
When I then apply a critical eye on things, it may be that 2+2=7, but still, I'm beginning to wonder if we are not seeing a structured lowering of expectations. Where we accept that mid-table is where we are going to be for a while. I don't see much evidence that we're moving in the right direction.