By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Recent reports on the coming European Central Bank leadership reshuffle have left the outlook strikingly close to the scenario we sketched nearly a year ago: former De Nederlandsche Bank President Klaas Knot succeeding Christine Lagarde as ECB president, with a Frenchwoman — quite possibly Banque de France Second Deputy Governor Agnès Bénassy-Quéré — taking over the chief economist portfolio.