Lycan
Jeff Shi's Bitch
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I said when we sacked Vítor that I'd want the new man gone as soon as we hired him. It's not Edwards' fault at all, I just don't see anyone we hire at this point having any kind of success and anyone who signs their name on a Fosun contract at this point has an instant black mark against them. You only do that through either stupidity/nativity or through a desire to further your own career.
By all accounts Edwards seems like a nice guy but he's completely fucked over 2 clubs now (FGR & Boro) after making promises to their fans & boards. I don't think for a second that because he played for us for a few years that he wouldn't do exactly the same here. If he performs above expectations and another, better positioned club comes calling then he'll be gone, no matter what he'll soon say about how proud he is to represent Wolverhampton Wanderers.
He's also shown some pretty poor judgement previously when it comes to tactics & generally running a club. It was a long time ago now and it's still the butt of a few jokes but that Derby game where he played Doherty & Cameron Borthwick-Jackson as inverted full backs actually happened and is a massive red flag. He did it because it was what Pep was doing with his full backs at the time, there wasn't any more thought behind it than that. He clearly didn't understand why Pep was doing it or how to implement it and at the very least that shows a nativity and lack of understanding.
The Luton team he got promoted was Nathan Jones' team and the more he put his own spin on them the worse they looked, the game at Molineux when we beat them under O'Neil they looked as hopeless as any opposition I've seen at this level. Then you look at what happened the season after, with a squad far more equipped to succeed in the Championship than what we currently have and alarm bells are ringing.
He was doing well with Boro but again, it's a team that has been fighting at the top end of that league for 3 years and he had by far the best midfielder at that level in Hayden Hackney. He clearly won't have anything like that level of experience, professionalism, fight or quality here.
We're not asking him to come in here and take over from someone who had been succeeding and has been pinched by a better club or had built a good squad but just failed to meet expectations, we're asking him to come in and completely revolutionise a failed squad in the way that Lopetegui & Vítor did. I can't see anything in his CV to suggest that he's capable of that kind of turn around and even if we have accepted relegation and are looking to build towards next season there are massive questions around him there as well.
I haven't decided exactly where he sits on the Idiot - Grifter Scale (Officially known as the Saunders Spectrum) but he's definitely somewhere on it.
The only thing I'm vaguely happy about is that they're appointing someone who I don't immediately hate or feel embarrassed by. Hopefully that doesn't act as a shield for Fosun or this pitiful playing squad who both deserve (in varying degrees) to be absolutely pilloried at every opportunity for the remainder of this season.
TL;DR: Fosun are cunts, Edwards probably isn't but he's more than likely out of his depth.
