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Absolutely nobody is disagreeing with that.

No question at all - he found a team which was outstanding but the tools were provided to him and it would have been more notable had he still failed to win games despite the talent in that team. It ended a lot better than it went for the first 3/4s. Wouldn't you agree that goals flowed sooner...

His performance at Chelsea supports the opinion. But Chelsea are a basketcase with wild and fundamental problems. It might not be a reasonable sample to judge him on but his Chelsea team had the same problem his Brighton team had. When he left us, the problem was solved almost immediately...

He stumbled across a midfield of Caicedo, Bissouma and Mac Allister. It didn't take a genius to select them together and it's no real surprise the team all of a sudden went on a glorious run. Obviously, he and his team totally transformed the football and fair play to him for that.

Every time this sort of thread comes along I smile a little bit, remembering that he's gone now. Luckiest manager in our history.