Football

Just because we've been in hock to the manager as auteur/deity doesn't mean that with the right people it won't be able to succeed, look at how Benitez got all control freaky, when he had total control of Liverpool and how you kind of rolled downhill as signings weren't made and if they were, they didn't settle/play up to their abilities.

There's much more to it than that with the purse strings being tightened and him not having total control.. he wanted total control