At the time, i remember feeling incredibly sad, but probably that it was the right time. Nuno's demeanor had changed in that last season, he didn't seem happy and he looked like he needed a break.
At the time i thought maybe the impact of covid and not being able to see his family so much had just done him in a little bit too much.
In hindsight, and i didn't realise it at the time (maybe others did, i don't know), but that last Nuno season was the start of Fosun changing how the club was operating. I seem to remember (maybe incorrectly) at the end of that covid interrupted 2019/20 season, we finished 7th but with a general understanding that the squad was too small, and the club (including Nuno) making noises about wanting a bigger squad for the 2020/21 season......... then we somehow started the season with an even smaller squad, Raul got his head caved in and Nuno was expected to muddle through with Silva and Willian as his attacking options.
He could clearly see the direction that Fosun were going in, "the project" that was talked about so much prior to Covid was dead, and he couldn't work under the new operation........ and neither could any other decent manager which is why we ended up with Lage.
Maybe my memory is a bit off, but i'm certain the final straw for MGW at Wolves was being dragged back from Swansea in that 2020/21 season by Nuno (because he was forced to name a bench of kids) and then not really being used.
We'll never really know, but watching Forest, Nuno, MGW......... i just can't help but wonder what we might look like now if Fosun had invested in that 2020/21 squad adequately, keeping Nuno happy, allowing MGW to stay at Swansea to develop **.......... fuckers
** i know MGW then had a good season at Sheffield United to develop and then came back to Wolves before going to Forest..... but by then we were giving him Bruno Lage as a mentor for fuck sake
