every manager who has ever lived believes in themselves and believes they have something different that might work.
It's one thing to believe in yourself, it's another to believe you can turn a squad like ours around. AVB was very confidant, some may say overly so, and look where that got him...
Somewhere you'll get time, support and understanding? Honestly, the only top names we have a chance of luring to the Bridge are those that have something to prove.
If you think of it like this
Tier 1
World Class Managers, ie. Pep, Jose etc
Tier 1.5
Excellent managers who have recently failed, ie. Hiddink, Van Gaal, Benitez etc
Tier 2
Solid managers with little proven at the top level, ie. Moyes, Emery
Tier 2.5
Managers who haven't been that successful but have potential, ie. Zola, RDM, Martinez etc
Tier 3
Good but limited managers, ie. Warnock, Curbishley, Allardyce.
Tier 47
McLeish
we are hunting in the 1.5-2 range. We cannot offer the stability, the support or the squad to attract a tier 1 manager, so our best hope is to take a somewhat disgraced but previously excellent manager (relatively high risk, high reward) or to take the more solid, but more limited tier 2 choice (fairly low risk, most likely to be a medium reward). You're overestimating how much our wealth and status count for considering how toxic the club seems to be to manage. That is the reason clubs like United and Arsenal are far more likely destinations for your tier 1 candidates: they can offer the things that matter most to a top tier manager in the form of time and stability.