Puel reminds me very much of Levein's time here, you want them to succeed as they both had similar ethos on developing younger players yet in reality the football on the whole is slow, turgid and uninspiring, however just when it looks like a poor run of form is going to be their downfall the pair of them have a knack of pulling off a couple of results and performances that keep people dreaming of what could be, in Levein's case beating Sheffield United 4-2 and Spurs in the cup, only to return to the dull as dishwater performances afterwards, Puel seems to be following a similar path, looked a dead man walking at end of last season until Arsenal at home, and then this season when it looked to be all over again, the Chelsea and Man City results come out of nowhere, only to see a return to the norm when Cardiff arrive at the KP.
I just cannot see Puel surviving long term because like Levein he isn't brave enough to release the shackles week in and week out, the football is too conservative and therefore stops our more creative talents from really expressing themselves, hence why we have this stop start form, we win one, lose 2, draw 1, lose and then win 2, we are so predictable at the moment in that we cannot string together any kind of consistent run of results and therefore keep fluctuating between 7th and 12th.