Apologies, the title should have had a question mark. The next few weeks will need us to spend 20m plus in order to change the squad balance to fit the style and formation Slav wants to play or can get results playing. Justifying doing that seems hard when the start he has made is so poor. His preparation for the season in terms of knowing what the strengths and weaknesses of our player are and the same regarding our opponents has not been good enough and led to questionable decisions in line ups, team shape, preparation for set pieces and substitutions. I would love him to have the players he wants and us playing slick, attacking football that gets results. However, if I was the board I would be less confident in his plans and skills now than when he was hired as it would have been hard for any manager to get worse performances and results with this group of players than he has.
in terms of a solution, if we did decide not to trust Slav to rebuild the entire squad, I would look to steady the ship. Get Heckingbottom to take over and revert to the the formation we played when promoted last time. Buy or loan couple of players to help that system, a creative midfielder in the Duffy role and a goalkeeper.
When appointed the brief was evolution not revolution, the line up against Birmingham did not suggest this and from the at point on we have seemed lost.
Only Slav will know if he still had the hunger. For the money he will be on and with the back room team he has in place. He should be able to do a better job with the tools at his disposal.