Nuno to leave Wolves

[Dire Wolf]

I think you're overstating how good Nuno is. His history at various clubs suggest Wolves had achieved as much as they could under him and the regression we witnessed last season was part of a repeating pattern at all of his clubs.

 

[PuntsWolf]

I don't think we'd have got worse, and we're going to finish 12th-14th.

Some people forget too easily what we've been for the last 40 years or more

You can’t really fall much lower than 14th without being in a relegation battle!

On the second point the goalposts haven’t just moved, they are on a different pitch.

 

[Aikiwolf]

I'm disappointed to see Nuno leave, I would have preferred him to still be here next season.

My biggest concern is Jeff, he isn't a football man, and living/breathing football for 4 years isn't quite the same.

I worry that there is a huge gap between the business side and the footballing side, and we haven't filled it since Thelwell left.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

If you have the Wolves calendar don't turn over to December when the time comes :-(

 

[The Bear]

Let's not pretend we were any good this season. I've seen plenty of other comments from various rival fans saying how boring a team we look, that we'd regressed, we were basically the Portugese Burnley, and questioning if Nuno had run his course. It's not like we were getting results to justify it either. We had our moments but overall we were a poor watch and had a poor return.

In reality we weren't as bad as other fans said, but our attacking play was extremely one dimensional and revolved around getting the ball to Jimenez, later getting the ball to Neto/Traore, and hoping one of them could do something.

Vitinha helped us play through the middle as he was a bit more positive, but it was a small bright spot in an uninspiring season.

Does this mean I'd have binned Nuno? No. I'd still want to give him a full season playing mainly 4-2-3-1 and see what we could do with Jimenez hopefully back.

I do yearn for a higher pressing, more dynamic and attacking team though. If Fosun believe there is a better candidate out there to achieve that then that's up to them and I'm not going to lambast them for it.

 

[WarwickWolf]

I'm going to miss Nuno the man as much as Nuno the manager. He seemed approachable, polite, humble, honest and straight. He brought so much to our club with his dignity and genuineness. He owes us nothing after four amazing years but we owe him a lot.
It's a big summer for our chairman that's for sure. Whoever comes in has some big boots to fill, a lot of goodwill to win back and a busy transfer window to get right.

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

One thing we know about Fosun is they are ruthless.
They want top 6 regularly they obviously have seen something they are not happy with.

With regard to a lack of Transfer funds, we have money put aside for RAN, and for Vithana, that must be the best part if £30m.

I would doubt we would spend much more than an additional £30m.

Did Spiers mean additional funds, because €50m too me is a big transfer fund.

This is a massive close season, i would hope we get a new manager in within the next 10 days, so he gets a month to have a look around for some available players.

We have to see Bonatini, Mir, etc leave hopefully for money and not on frees.

Next season we need to make sure we are above the relegation battle say 12 -10.

A central defender, and central mid is about what we need, and Traore to sign an extension, if he says no, we cannot afford to lose him on a free so would need to let him go for as much as we can get.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Adama has two years left on his deal, it's something that needs sorting but it's not the biggest concern in the world.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I'd be really surprised if we do buy RAN and Vitinha at the prices quotes initially, I think they'll come in for a lot less, so the damage to our budget won't be as significant IMO.

Also I'd read before that Nuno chose Podence over Olmo, so not surprised to see it brought up again by Spiers.

 

[SSB]

Mark Lawrenson has just said on Football Focus Wolves are primarily owned by the Portuguese in the 5 seconds they’ve allocated to talk about Nuno leaving.

 

[Charlie Wolf]

Mark Lawrenson has just said on Football Focus Wolves are primarily owned by the Portuguese in the 5 seconds they’ve allocated to talk about Nuno leaving.

yeh, I just saw that SSB.
The blokes an absolute tosser, football intellect of a newt

 

[Dire Wolf]

Mark Lawrenson has just said on Football Focus Wolves are primarily owned by the Portuguese in the 5 seconds they’ve allocated to talk about Nuno leaving.

I think you can basically ignore anything and everything Lawrenson says, he's as thick as pigshit. And that's doing pigshit a disservice...

 

[darlowolf64]

Mark Lawrenson has just said on Football Focus Wolves are primarily owned by the Portuguese in the 5 seconds they’ve allocated to talk about Nuno leaving.

and the other two idiots agreed... Absolutely no clue!
He was obviously insinuating Mendes, I guess

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't see the need to hide behind Tim Spiers being a rubbish writer and Mark Lawrenson being a clown who should have been pensioned off 25 years ago. They're non-issues.

The club have made what we would largely have seen as being a very poor decision if asked 48 hours ago. So why the scrambling to defend them? It was vitriol towards those who said "Nuno should be sacked" after the Spurs and Everton games as they were being stupid and reactionary. Well, he has been sacked. So why back the club?

 

[Wolvensam]

If it was a knee jerk I wouldn't back the club, but it wasn't and it explains so much of what has gone wrong this season.

As I said elsewhere, I wouldn't have sacked him but I don't know how much of that is out of sentiment or the genuine belief he could have turned it around. I love the man dearly, but that 4-0 loss to Burnely is one of the worst Wolves performances I'd ever seen.

You can accuse Nuno's Wolves of many things, but they were never gutless or gave up. This season we have surrendered so many times.

Nuno deserved more time, but not at the cost of him probably getting sacked next season.

 

[SSB]

I think you can basically ignore anything and everything Lawrenson says, he's as thick as pigshit. And that's doing pigshit a disservice...

He also was unaware Edinson Cavani had signed one-year extension to keep him at Manchester United.

 

[Deano]

If it was a knee jerk I wouldn't back the club, but it wasn't and it explains so much of what has gone wrong this season.

As I said elsewhere, I wouldn't have sacked him but I don't know how much of that is out of sentiment or the genuine belief he could have turned it around. I love the man dearly, but that 4-0 loss to Burnely is one of the worst Wolves performances I'd ever seen.

You can accuse Nuno's Wolves of many things, but they were never gutless or gave up. This season we have surrendered so many times.

Nuno deserved more time, but not at the cost of him probably getting sacked next season.

I disagree. We never "surrendered" I hate it when people use this as a reason for a loss or poor performance. Very few people when you get the top level "give up" or "surrender" the issues behind losses and bad performances are usually tactical or individuals underperforming on a given day - I've seen no evidence of players giving up under Nuno at all.

 

[PuntsWolf]

The club have made what we would largely have seen as being a very poor decision if asked 48 hours ago. So why the scrambling to defend them? It was vitriol towards those who said "Nuno should be sacked" after the Spurs and Everton games as they were being stupid and reactionary. Well, he has been sacked. So why back the club?

In your opinion. The consensus of the posts on here suggests people wouldn’t have thought it was a very poor decision.

I’ve openly been questioning his football all season. Chuck in results start to turn and ive been questioning his position since Christmas. I’ve been very open on that.

I wasn’t asking for him to be sacked out of sentiment. Taking the sentiment out of it, the Fosun way, then there’s plenty of logic behind it.

Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t. It also doesn’t mean either side is right.

Bit like sacking MM wasn’t wrong. Hiring TC and having no plan was.

Making a bad appointment doesn’t make sacking Nuno wrong. But that hasn’t even happened yet so let’s wait and see.

 

[redvictor]

I don't think the heirarchy at the club are all people think they are. There is no-one there who you could say that are 100% football brains.
Very interesting reading (for me) that the back room staff actually wanted to stay, but Fosun said no.
That is very unusual,as the back room staff just walk with their coach.

There's a ton of stuff about this which is strange. I'm not confident at all that the appointment they make will be an upgrade on Nuno. But i've been wrong before....

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

In your opinion. The consensus of the posts on here suggests people wouldn’t have thought it was a very poor decision.

I’ve openly been questioning his football all season. Chuck in results start to turn and ive been questioning his position since Christmas. I’ve been very open on that.

I wasn’t asking for him to be sacked out of sentiment. Taking the sentiment out of it, the Fosun way, then there’s plenty of logic behind it.

Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t. It also doesn’t mean either side is right.

Bit like sacking MM wasn’t wrong. Hiring TC and having no plan was.

Making a bad appointment doesn’t make sacking Nuno wrong. But that hasn’t even happened yet so let’s wait and see.

Would I question our football at points this season? Yes, certainly, although I think at times we haven't got what we deserved, and there are huge mitigating circumstances. Let's see how Spurs do if they play 30 games without Harry Kane.

I do think it's revisionism to suddenly go "ah, well it was fair enough, I suppose" when hardly anyone held that opinion 48 hours ago and those that did were mostly complete heid the ba's.

I don't think we have a plan, I admire the optimism.