Caporegime
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You realise they played Burnley right? They finished out the season in probably top half table form yet weren't even that bad against Burnley in the last match.
But again there is talk about many other issues and it's extremely unlikely De Boer went into the interview and said, I'm going to switch formation straight away, hopefully they'll all adapt in a few weeks and it will be great. If he did he likely wouldn't have gotten the job. He probably said his goal is to play Dutch style football, maybe it was unsaid and assumed that he meant over several years(as any sensible manager would mean) and there was miscommunication, but it's likely De Boer's plan wasn't to be this bad. Ultimately performance dictate if a manager stays, no team has ever started with four losses and no goals scored, even amongst all the bad teams that have been relegated that hasn't happened and that is fairly telling.
Like I said, I won't be surprised to see him get one or two more jobs, pull the same thing, know basically one way to play, no idea how to improve players or really coach, just keep a team in the particular style he knows ticking over till that all goes wrong as well(as it did at Ajax also).
