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Cheers, so nothing official but being bandied about behind the scenes.
Don't think there's a really a story there, then, as doubtless there are other possibilities also being discussed and the reporter has just picked the most sensational of the lot.
That's my take, anyway.
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The waiver isn't conjecture, it's going to the teams next week. What they choose to do and what they are allowed to do at State level is up for debate.
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"Waiver proposal" reads to me like they're sending the idea of having the waiver to teams to get a feel for the viability of the it. Suppose I could be wrong, but if it was the final waiver itself going out, it would be much bigger news here, I think.
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You can get people to sign whatever waivers you like. If you think you can prove that a club has not fulfilled their 'duty of care' somewhere along the lines then you can still take them to court if you want.
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You would have to prove what's called "gross negligence", and I guarantee that the NFL can afford better lawyers than you.
So the liability waiver may not count for so much in the UK, but in the US it makes the legal mountain almost impossible to climb for the signer.
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You'd also have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you indeed caught COVID at the match. Good luck with that.
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Raul and Coady up for Player of the Month
https://www.wolves.co.uk/news/first-team/20200703-coady-and-jimenez-up-for-june-award/
https://www.wolves.co.uk/news/first-team/20200703-coady-and-jimenez-up-for-june-award/
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"Right chaps, we need a video with a clip of each of the POTM nominees. Easy for the forwards, pop in a goal, ok what about Coady? right lets go with him at the coin toss v West Ham. Great moment for him"
https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFIFA/status/1279021405330432000
https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFIFA/status/1279021405330432000
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Anyone got a log in to the Telegraph to cut & paste this one in full? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...inside-wolves-managers-inner-sanctum-secrets/
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It is Friday morning, just over 24 hours before Nuno Espirito Santo’s 150th game in charge of Wolverhampton Wanderers, and like most days he is sitting in the coaches’ room with his staff.
This is Nuno’s inner sanctum: a small, sparse office with a window overlooking the main training ground pitch. There is also a table, where the management team will gather round for the Friday meeting to plot their latest assault on the Premier League in exquisite detail.
It is the nerve-centre for one of English football’s most stirring stories of recent years. Wolves had finished 15th in the Championship before Nuno’s appointment yet face Arsenal this weekend with a place in next season’s Champions League tantalisingly in their grasp.
The last three years have been a remarkable magic carpet ride of success for Nuno, but the secrets behind this fairytale have been rarely told.
For this brooding but brilliant Portuguese, the seeds of Wolves’s transformation are sown in that tiny office and on the pitches at their Compton base.
It is an approach that has improved so many in the squad, from £75,000 signing Matt Doherty to £30million club record buy Raul Jimenez. The enduring pursuit of developing players is the drive for Nuno and his team.
“From the moment you have a player on your hands you have to dedicate everything,” said Nuno on Friday. “That is trying to figure out the right things, the right information and drills for them to always improve.
“That is our style of coaching and has been since the beginning of our careers. The satisfaction you are able to take from making a player better is what it’s all about, and it always will be.”
Just look at Adama Traore. Signed for £18 million from Middlesbrough in August 2018, his pace and skills were already key attributes but Nuno has refined the rawness and turned the 24-year-old into one of the most potent attackers in the league.
The improvement over the last 12 months has been tangible. Adama has nine assists this season from 41 chances created and developed a deadly partnership with Jimenez, where they have combined for ten goals: more than any other pairing in England’s top division.
“Nuno has worked with me a lot and it’s made me a much better player,” said Adama this week.
“There are things I’d never worked on before I came to Wolves. He’s helped me to see which each position demands and the advantage I can have against teams as a striker, or as a wing-back.
“Nuno likes to play with five at the back so I’ve had to adapt. I’ve learned so much about movement, shape and how to work together with team-mates.
“I like to see my games after and where I can improve yourself, so I watch everything at home on the iPad. It’s important to see the situations where you can be better.”
Training and preparation is everything for Nuno and his staff, and simplicity is the watchword.
Sessions are short and sharp, starting almost every week-day at 10am, and never longer than 90 minutes. Schedules are prepared two weeks in advance and then sent by WhatsApp to the players by medical and sports science staff.
Conor Coady, the captain, is another player completely transformed. Before Nuno’s appointment, he was played in midfield and right-back by Paul Lambert, but it soon became very clear in June 2017 that he would be the central figure in a back-three.
His new role was honed during pre-season in Austria and now, three years later, he epitomises the club’s identity and progress.
Coady is arguably one of the best passers in the Premier League and integral to Wolves’s style of play: the wing-backs Matt Doherty and Jonny are played high up the pitch and very wide, looking for switches from Coady’s long passing to the flanks.
“The big thing for me with Nuno’s training is attention to detail,” says Coady. “Every little thing you could cover he will go through. We do a lot of repetitive stuff, and that has never changed even if we’ve tweaked formation.
“We could be on the training pitch for hours and hours, just to go through every tiny thing to improve us that extra 1%. He’s always standing in the middle of the training field, shouting and talking.
“One thing I always notice is that when the ball is over on one side of the pitch, he’s looking at the other side to see what the lads are doing. If you’re not doing the right things, he’s quick to tell you and that’s important. It then becomes your own problem and you have to sort that out.”
Confrontation is rare, however, and Nuno prefers to have a squad working in harmony. Players frequently socialised together before lockdown and “Protect The Pack” is a mantra Nuno has drummed into them. “Stay Humble” is another message written in graffiti in huge letters on the gym wall at the training ground.
First-team and under-23 players all eat together at 1pm in the canteen, and attendance is mandatory.
There is no fines system operated by management staff. As Nuno explained to Telegraph Sport’s Chief Football Writer Sam Wallace in February, “money, for a footballer, is not an issue”, so he prefers to utilise different methods.
When Morgan Gibbs-White breached lockdown rules in May by attending a house party in London, there was a clamour from some fans for Wolves to punish and even sack the young midfielder, but Nuno refused.
Instead, Gibbs-White missed up to two weeks of training sessions as he required Covid-19 testing, and was then behind the rest of the group in preparation. That was punishment enough in Nuno’s world. It is Ruben Neves, the 23-year-old midfielder, who looks after fines.
Nuno places complete trust in his staff, and they are an extremely tight-knit group. The three key figures are assistant Rui Pedro Silva, Julio Figueroa [a master at the mental side of the game] and Ian Cathro.
A former colleague on the pro-licence coaching course in Largs, Cathro usually surveys games from the stands in the first-half and is in regular contact with the bench.
Tweaks to formation or shape are made at half-time in the Molineux dressing room by using a vinyl pitch which covers the floor, to make the message easier to understand.
It all sounds so simple, but is brutally effective. Since returning to football for Project Restart, Wolves have a 100 per cent record from three games, also keeping three clean sheets.
Wolves face Arsenal on Saturday in fifth place and they could overtake both Manchester United and Chelsea this weekend if results go their way. They also face Olympiacos in the second leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie next month, and appear a shrewd bet to win the competition.
Nuno will start talks over a new contract later this month and, on Friday, there was a definite sense that this is still the beginning for the 46-year-old.
“The three years with Nuno have been incredible, nobody could have imagined it five years ago to have a manager like him and these set of players,” says Coady.
“It’s an incredible situation we find ourselves in but one that the club has worked really hard for.”
This is Nuno’s inner sanctum: a small, sparse office with a window overlooking the main training ground pitch. There is also a table, where the management team will gather round for the Friday meeting to plot their latest assault on the Premier League in exquisite detail.
It is the nerve-centre for one of English football’s most stirring stories of recent years. Wolves had finished 15th in the Championship before Nuno’s appointment yet face Arsenal this weekend with a place in next season’s Champions League tantalisingly in their grasp.
The last three years have been a remarkable magic carpet ride of success for Nuno, but the secrets behind this fairytale have been rarely told.
For this brooding but brilliant Portuguese, the seeds of Wolves’s transformation are sown in that tiny office and on the pitches at their Compton base.
It is an approach that has improved so many in the squad, from £75,000 signing Matt Doherty to £30million club record buy Raul Jimenez. The enduring pursuit of developing players is the drive for Nuno and his team.
“From the moment you have a player on your hands you have to dedicate everything,” said Nuno on Friday. “That is trying to figure out the right things, the right information and drills for them to always improve.
“That is our style of coaching and has been since the beginning of our careers. The satisfaction you are able to take from making a player better is what it’s all about, and it always will be.”
Just look at Adama Traore. Signed for £18 million from Middlesbrough in August 2018, his pace and skills were already key attributes but Nuno has refined the rawness and turned the 24-year-old into one of the most potent attackers in the league.
The improvement over the last 12 months has been tangible. Adama has nine assists this season from 41 chances created and developed a deadly partnership with Jimenez, where they have combined for ten goals: more than any other pairing in England’s top division.
“Nuno has worked with me a lot and it’s made me a much better player,” said Adama this week.
“There are things I’d never worked on before I came to Wolves. He’s helped me to see which each position demands and the advantage I can have against teams as a striker, or as a wing-back.
“Nuno likes to play with five at the back so I’ve had to adapt. I’ve learned so much about movement, shape and how to work together with team-mates.
“I like to see my games after and where I can improve yourself, so I watch everything at home on the iPad. It’s important to see the situations where you can be better.”
Training and preparation is everything for Nuno and his staff, and simplicity is the watchword.
Sessions are short and sharp, starting almost every week-day at 10am, and never longer than 90 minutes. Schedules are prepared two weeks in advance and then sent by WhatsApp to the players by medical and sports science staff.
Conor Coady, the captain, is another player completely transformed. Before Nuno’s appointment, he was played in midfield and right-back by Paul Lambert, but it soon became very clear in June 2017 that he would be the central figure in a back-three.
His new role was honed during pre-season in Austria and now, three years later, he epitomises the club’s identity and progress.
Coady is arguably one of the best passers in the Premier League and integral to Wolves’s style of play: the wing-backs Matt Doherty and Jonny are played high up the pitch and very wide, looking for switches from Coady’s long passing to the flanks.
“The big thing for me with Nuno’s training is attention to detail,” says Coady. “Every little thing you could cover he will go through. We do a lot of repetitive stuff, and that has never changed even if we’ve tweaked formation.
“We could be on the training pitch for hours and hours, just to go through every tiny thing to improve us that extra 1%. He’s always standing in the middle of the training field, shouting and talking.
“One thing I always notice is that when the ball is over on one side of the pitch, he’s looking at the other side to see what the lads are doing. If you’re not doing the right things, he’s quick to tell you and that’s important. It then becomes your own problem and you have to sort that out.”
Confrontation is rare, however, and Nuno prefers to have a squad working in harmony. Players frequently socialised together before lockdown and “Protect The Pack” is a mantra Nuno has drummed into them. “Stay Humble” is another message written in graffiti in huge letters on the gym wall at the training ground.
First-team and under-23 players all eat together at 1pm in the canteen, and attendance is mandatory.
There is no fines system operated by management staff. As Nuno explained to Telegraph Sport’s Chief Football Writer Sam Wallace in February, “money, for a footballer, is not an issue”, so he prefers to utilise different methods.
When Morgan Gibbs-White breached lockdown rules in May by attending a house party in London, there was a clamour from some fans for Wolves to punish and even sack the young midfielder, but Nuno refused.
Instead, Gibbs-White missed up to two weeks of training sessions as he required Covid-19 testing, and was then behind the rest of the group in preparation. That was punishment enough in Nuno’s world. It is Ruben Neves, the 23-year-old midfielder, who looks after fines.
Nuno places complete trust in his staff, and they are an extremely tight-knit group. The three key figures are assistant Rui Pedro Silva, Julio Figueroa [a master at the mental side of the game] and Ian Cathro.
A former colleague on the pro-licence coaching course in Largs, Cathro usually surveys games from the stands in the first-half and is in regular contact with the bench.
Tweaks to formation or shape are made at half-time in the Molineux dressing room by using a vinyl pitch which covers the floor, to make the message easier to understand.
It all sounds so simple, but is brutally effective. Since returning to football for Project Restart, Wolves have a 100 per cent record from three games, also keeping three clean sheets.
Wolves face Arsenal on Saturday in fifth place and they could overtake both Manchester United and Chelsea this weekend if results go their way. They also face Olympiacos in the second leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie next month, and appear a shrewd bet to win the competition.
Nuno will start talks over a new contract later this month and, on Friday, there was a definite sense that this is still the beginning for the 46-year-old.
“The three years with Nuno have been incredible, nobody could have imagined it five years ago to have a manager like him and these set of players,” says Coady.
“It’s an incredible situation we find ourselves in but one that the club has worked really hard for.”
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Presume it is a bantz fine system. Something the players do themselves rather than approved by Nuno. You know, "Jonny wore some shit shoes, £50" "Boly made an error, fine MGW £200"
Nuno sends folk to Fiorentina or Reading if he thinks they have done wrong
