As I a Wigan fan I feel I should contribute…..before I start I should add that he is one of the nicest people in football, always has been from when he came from Spain all those years ago to play for us.
How people ask what all the fuss is about on here seems a little silly, he’s well regarded as one of the best young coaches by some of the top men in football.
At Wigan he did qiute well, the players he lost over the summer, Moses, Rodallegga Diamme, do make a massive dent in our sqaud, and they’re aren’t big funds available to replace them. As soon as he got here all the big earners followed Bruce to Sunderland, so it was obvious that he needed to reduce the wage bill.
He is a builder and has brought in some superb signings like Alcaraz, Mcarthy, Mcarthur, Malony, Kone aswell as the the now departed Diame, Moses all on a really tight budget, and we have some fantastic young players coming through a lot have been on loan in the lower divisions.
Tactically he was a little inept and part of the problem was half the players we have just aren’t good enough to play the wants to play football week in week out, we could be so frustrating to watch as we either looked like Brazil or a pub team and its not easy when buying a season ticket your only going to see your team win 5-6 home games if your lucky a season.
Wigan did hold him back slightly in my view as he was given the time and trust but never the funds to really push the football club on like he would have liked, but he will never find a set of fans or a chairman as supportive an forgiving as Wigan.
Personally I think he owed the fans promotion, four years ago he took over a premier league club and now we are in the championship, we’ve had dreadful luck with injurys this year our back line was depleted, but they knew this in January.
Good luck to him and he has won us something they can never take off us.