First 18 months were amazing. Immediately made exciting signings in areas we desperately needed improvement and we were great to watch.
December 2015 was the pinnacle, best football Stoke have ever played.
Since then though it's been dire. He's frozen out Muniesa, Imbula, Bojan, Shaqiri, Joselu and Diouf - giving them little or no minutes or sending them out on loan. Instead he's persisted with Whelan, Crouch, Walters and even worse - Charlie Adam.
The football is tumescent, there is no excitement and his refusal to play the players who were responsible for the best time to be a Stoke fan in decades is sending us backwards.
He needs to be replaced before more players leave and we're left with a Burnley/Swansea level squad.