The most infuriating aspect is that if you'd made it known in the summer "the Wolves job is essentially available, ignore Bruno Truss in his shit hoodie, there's £100m+ to spend and they aren't selling Neves or Neto", imagine the quality of manager you'd have interested.
Just by being in the bottom 3-4 a quarter of the way through the season and with potential candidates having taken other jobs in the meantime, you massively reduce the available pool.
All so we could keep Bruno fucking Lage who was SHIT and we all knew it. And because we kept him, we lost a load of senior players who hated him. Unreal way to run a club.
Yep. And it's not hard to imagine how much more restrictive and unappealing the conversation with Shi must be now:
"The squad clearly needs a striker - can I bring one in in January?"
"We've already bought one and signed another on a free, plus Raul will be back by then, so no."
"Well, what about other attacking players? Nobody has a record of consistent scoring or chance creation at this level, and at the very least a natural 10 would help."
"We spent more than £100m in the summer on new players, including two midfielders with attacking capability in Nunes and Traore, so no."
"OK... can you at least let me know if I'll have a veto on contracted players like Neto leaving next summer? And that you'll provide the resources to convince Neves to sign a new contract?"
"We've already engaged on a substantial rebuild in the summer at considerable cost, so unfortunately no."
"...will you let me bring in my own backroom team?"
"You can bring some in, but Scott Sellars oversees scouting, data analysis, and other staff. You'll have to work with our existing teams there."
"Um..."
"We'll pay you a lot more than QPR if it helps?"
"..."
