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[Jinky]

If it is Lopetegui, he'll be our most decorated manager of all time won't he?

Possibly. Taylor had been managing Villa in the top division and then England before he came to us, so at the time that felt like quite a coup. Hoddle, likewise, had been managing for years in the top flight and also England.

But yeah, I'd say Lopetegui is up there, if not slightly ahead.

 

[Lycan]

Stan Cullis...

 

[Tony Towner]

Possibly. Taylor had been managing Villa in the top division and then England before he came to us, so at the time that felt like quite a coup.

That definitely wasn't the feeling of the majority. He was on a short leash from the beginning because we didn't want him and contributed to him being turned on quicker than another manager probably would have been

 

[Kenny]

That definitely wasn't the feeling of the majority. He was on a short leash from the beginning because we didn't want him and contributed to him being turned on quicker than another manager probably would have been

Similar to Hoddle as well.

A small group in the North Bank protested when he took over (sadly most of them left before the end of the protest and ruined it)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That definitely wasn't the feeling of the majority. He was on a short leash from the beginning because we didn't want him and contributed to him being turned on quicker than another manager probably would have been

We were SHIT though.

We'd have gone down if he'd stayed.

 

[Kenny]

We all generally knew nothing about Nuno but that did feel like a coup. Going from Lambert, KJ, Saunders etc to attracting a coach from Porto. That one felt like we had moved up a step in our standing. Turns out most of us were right...


Oddly Solbakken didn't feel like that despite him coming over from a successful team. At best that felt like the club trying something different, which was nice.

 

[Deano]

We were SHIT though.

We'd have gone down if he'd stayed.

I always find it mad how many people say that he was sacked far too early. There seems to be quite a few fans and even a fair few ex-players that say the same.

 

[Tony Towner]

We were SHIT though.

We'd have gone down if he'd stayed.

Oh I agree, but he was sacked in mid November and the fans had turned 6 weeks or so before that which is quick given we made the play offs the prior year

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

His final 25 games were W5 D13 L7. Simply awful given our expectation was to win the league.

 

[Jinky]

That definitely wasn't the feeling of the majority. He was on a short leash from the beginning because we didn't want him and contributed to him being turned on quicker than another manager probably would have been

I was 10 at the time so having the ex-England manager rock up at Molineux felt like big news at the time!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I was 10 at the time so having the ex-England manager rock up at Molineux felt like big news at the time!

Can I interest you in Peter Taylor, Stuart Pearce or Steve McClaren?

 

[Lycan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577675978834329600

 

[Nando]

Podence has stuck the knife in and twisted.

 

[Tony Towner]

Podence has stuck the knife in and twisted.

Poison dwarf

 

[Mel Evo]

Certainly sounds like he's found it within himself to 'accept it'.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ki-Jana Hoever is a shite footballer but he was their team mate.

What Lage did that day after the Palace game drove a permanent wedge between him and the squad. Moronic behaviour.

I'm just annoyed that this was all obvious six months ago and we did bugger all about it, and lost players in the meantime because they couldn't stand him.

 

[prawnking]

You can tell they all thought he was a bellend

 

[Tony Towner]

You can tell they all thought he was a bellend

Annoyingly you could in April. Brighton was the ultimate fuck you performance to the manager. If Shi knew anything about football he'd have seen it.

 

[PuntsWolf]

I don’t know how senior figures didn’t know. If training ground staff are telling people about bust ups, people refusing to play and the training ground mood being shit then why are Sellars, Shi whoever unaware?

 

[Tony Towner]

I don’t know how senior figures didn’t know. If training ground staff are telling people about bust ups, people refusing to play and the training ground mood being shit then why are Sellars, Shi whoever unaware?

Boly, Saiss, Coady, Dendoncker, Ruddy big dressing room characters all ditched. They knew, but backed him. Doesn't get you very far when it's the whole squad who thought it though, including presumably now those who weren't even there at the time. If Shi had the requisite experience he'd have known the fix was Lage not purging the squad