O'Leary: Better than Curbishley, O'Neill and Sven

"...the Board quickly identified that David remains the best person to lead us into the new campaign."

I'm sorry, but is David O'Leary really better than Alan Curbishley or Martin O'Neill?

I'm a bit perplexed, but maybe this is just a polite way of saying "we haven't got the money to terminate O'Leary's contract so he's going to be in charge next season."

As you can see, Doug's not giving O'Leary his full backing until Christmas, if he does the business between August and then.

It's going to be a worrying season and I just hope O'Leary really is the man to lead us into the top half of the Premiership.

But don't bet on it.