What is this obsession with 'upgrades' and 'downgrades'? The issue I had with vic's 'upgrade' comment is that he phrased it as if Fosun had literally come out and said 'this manager is an upgrade on Nuno'. It's just untrue.
Teams change managers for many reasons. Managers, even the best ones, reach the end of their time and change is needed. That's clearly what Fosun thought about Nuno, and that call will be assessed in time. I think all of us would have given Nuno at least some of next season (if he wanted it), but we don't run the football club. We can say what our first impressions and likely projection of that call are at this point, but to be so aggressively definite before we make a major signing or sale or even kick a ball is just knee-jerk and frankly one-note.
It's not a revolutionary new idea vic has come up with to say appointing Bruno is a risk. Everyone on here thinks it's a risk, there are plenty of posters uncertain about this change, but there's no need to beef that opinion up with extra speculation and then get antsy when people want to debate that. In fact, I don't think a single person is 'drinking the Fosun/Mendes kool aid'. We all have varying degrees of scepticism.
As for the other Nuno myths, I've already addressed the fact that Nuno didn't leave us at a peak, he went during a period of decline, and that star players also left while he was still here, and may well have left this summer even if he stayed.
We can't pretend that keeping Nuno wouldn't have been a risk either, or that it's a given he would be able to sort out the mess he contributed to getting us into last season.
