A replacement? If RvN was to go I reckon we'd likely end up with Gary O'Neil. I bet there'd be some deluded souls complaining that we didn't get Iraola, 'cos we're a "bigger club than Bournemouth."
Iraola will go to Spurs in the summer.
Which means he'll be back in Spain inside 2 years.
If we go down & try to get O'Neil he'd more than likely laugh at us & put the phone down & he'd be right to do so. Nobody is taking this job except a desperate journeyman or a young untried type.
Same goes for the profile of the players we'll be signing for the next few years. It's over & we're back where we started. It's been a decade & we & Forest have swapped places again.
We're going back to the days when being a City fan was about celebrating individual great days during a season when we manage to put one over a decent side. Nuggets of achievement.
There'll be no more trophies, no more european adventures, no more national attention or headlines.
Just getting a hard fought draw against a big club in a cup tie before getting battered in the replay. Or getting a promotion. Or surviving a relegation scrap.
It's who we are. We throw opportunities away every single ****ing time. We did it under Gillies, we did it with the team Bloomfield built, we did it after O'Neill left, we're doing it again now. The process of chucking it all away started 5 minutes after we lifted the FA Cup.
We're going down & we won't be back for a long time. The best we can hope for is that it won't be as long as last time. The club needs gutting completely & rebuilding from the ground up AND getting rid of everyone at the top too. Young players, young managers, new faces. It'll be hard work & at times it'll be horrific. There will be embarrassments & hammerings aplenty.
But our kids might see us do something noteworthy again. I doubt we will.