Excellent article on the Athletic. Nuno talks more than i have heard him before.
Nuno Espirito Santo is copping a huge amount of stick for the first time in his Wolves tenure, but admits the criticism is justified
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One of his quotes is about things which you never hear him comment on.
Nuno, for the first time in his Wolves tenure, is copping a huge amount of stick.
While the head coach does have a Twitter account, he’s not tweeted anything since Wolves were playing in the Championship.
So has he seen the criticism – and is it warranted?
“The criticism is totally fair,” Nuno says. “The only question, or the only issue I have, is: who is behind it? Criticism is totally fair, I deal well with that. If those are the same people who wrote fantastic things a while ago, then that’s even more fair. But if these are new, who only come now, then that is not fair. If they are only coming on now, then I have to ask why?
“You never know who is behind (accounts), you never know who is writing that.
“The fair judge in football is the end of the game – good or bad. A boo or a cheer, applause or a whistle, it’s fair.”
And before you jump straight on to Twitter to vent your feelings to the man himself: “My account was some time ago. I don’t use it any more.” Probably for the best.
Are Wolves’ problems in the mind? “It’s a lot of things,” Nuno says. “You can call it momentum, you can call it bad luck, you can call it mistakes, you can call it doubts, you can call it lack of confidence, whatever. Call it what you want. It’s reality.”