This 18 month spell reaffirms my belief about him as a coach.
He has a relaxed approach that he likes to transmit to the team and his strengths are: organise the team out of possession, preparing for one off games tactically and reading a game in transition and adapting to it.
His flaws are that he struggles to motivate or inspire his players and he doesn’t appear to have an offensive game plan, coach the team on patterns of play in possession and off the ball movement - particularly in the final third.
These flaws were masked in his first stint by having a number of self-driven, hungry and confident players in the team and a reliance on the individual brilliance of players to create and regularly score goals out of nothing or half chances.
He no longer has those things in this group of players and those flaws are becoming more evident.