I realise that many will disagree with me but why did we not retain Chris Brunt and then proceed to recruit Ivanovic who is even older. It doesn't 't make sense. Last season in the last few games Brunt was brought on to shore up the defence from a holding midfield position. This he did successfully with his calmness, control of a situation and passing ability. There is a strong possibility that he could have done the same job this season and then perhaps we would have won games that we drew and drew games that we lost. We didn't have to start him but use him in the same way. Ivanovic has hardly been a success and, in my opinion, keeping Brunt plus Hegazi would have made us a better side defensively.
I am not personally saying that Bilic should be sacked as he has been let down badly by Lai and the board but one win in the previous twelve games does make it difficult to justify keeping him on.