Mostly the management. Everybody with half a brain could see that Pellegrino was not up to the job. He should have been removed before the transfer window which would have given a new man the chance to buy a couple of players better suited to the Premier League. As it was he stayed and then bought Carillo for £19m. The worst deal ever on a striker who doesn't seem to know how to score.
The manager had a lot to do with our position in so far as how he wanted us to play. The players partly due to way they now fold easily when under pressure.
For me LES REED has to take the most responsibility. It was his position of power that ran /runs this mess.