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I would agree Paddy, Periera has been promised some Mendes Christmas presents to help him.

Given our most successful time was due to very close links to Mendes, i dont have the dislike for him that some on here do.

Other than the Silva, most of his direct players have been good. Givens Silva's record as a Youngster you can sort of get the transfer, it was a Gamble that failed.

Gambles for a club if our size are what we’ve paid for the likes of Gonzalez, Rodrigo etc. What we paid for Silva was preposterous considering the budgets we were required to work to and the fact that we’d paid 1/2 as much for the likes of Jota and Neves who had Champions League experience.

 

[prawnking]

As for O'Neil himself - yes, he let himself down a bit with some of the comments towards the end of his tenure but I can excuse a little bit of stress etc. Genuinely don't dislike the guy - and it's simply wrong to suggest we didn't enjoy some really good days under him so I 100% agree with @Deutsch Wolf's ranking. He's nowhere near as bad as the likes of Saunders, Hoddle.

Sadly, he wasn't up to the task and I'm pleased he's gone. I just don't wish him any ill - I hope he is able to learn from his time here and goes on to be a success in his coaching career.

The PL is a relentless place and not somewhere to cut your teeth managerially.
Not O'Neil's fault he got the job; that's on the continuing hubris and delusional arrogance possessed by our senior management, who think they can achieve high performance without investment.

Not sure what so many people found 'nice' and 'likeable' about him, but each to their own.

As for his managerial career, I doubt it'll be kind to someone who sets up so naively and doesn't seem to understand that defending is part of the game too, but maybe that will be less exposed at a lower level.

 

[Langers]

The PL is a relentless place and not somewhere to cut your teeth managerially.
Not O'Neil's fault he got the job; that's on the continuing hubris and delusional arrogance possessed by our senior management, who think they can achieve high performance without investment.

Not sure what so many people found 'nice' and 'likeable' about him, but each to their own.

As for his managerial career, I doubt it'll be kind to someone who sets up so naively and doesn't seem to understand that defending is part of the game too, but maybe that will be less exposed at a lower level.

Yeah, agree with most of this.

I honestly thought that until the last few weeks, there wasn't really anything to actively dislike about him personally. Maybe I just don't hang on his every word - I've always been good at screening out the bullshit from coaches during press conferences! I wouldn't go as far as to say I 'liked' him, but there are far worse out there, and we've had far worse as well.

No doubt he'll learn a lot from his time here because you're absolutely right in your last paragraph.

What is undeniable is that he and the board have done some serious harm to us as a club because I cannot see a way out of relegation trouble this season. Not with the defence we currently have, not with the set of fixtures we have coming up, not with the weak way we've surrendered points to fellow strugglers with kamikaze defending etc etc. A lot of that is on O'Neil.

 

[Tony Towner]

As for his managerial career, I doubt it'll be kind to someone who sets up so naively and doesn't seem to understand that defending is part of the game too, but maybe that will be less exposed at a lower level

Punished less, although probably exposed more. If he plays his stupid high line and silly press with players even less capable of retaining possession and probably not as fit then he won't last long.

 

[The Dude]

Guo cannot give a single fuck about wolves if he won’t can Shi

Shi has to go regardless of what happens this season. May at the latest, let him quietly slink out the back door back to the far east.

I understand Fosun's desire for self sufficiency and that ultimately it's all about the bottom line...

Shi though has proven to be woefully inadequate at delivering the bottom line while maintaining a balanced playing squad of sufficient quality to achieve mediocrity... Which from Fosun's perspective must surely be the remit.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Shi isn't going anywhere.

 

[SSB]

Shi isn't going anywhere.

Johnny Phillips mentions:- "Shi has rarely attended games in these recent weeks, preferring instead to focus on contests in the e-sports world."

I presume "you might want to sit this one out" is the only piece of advice he's ever taken off someone.

As a non e-sport aficionado. Where are these held, is he attending in person, or sat at home cheering them on watching on YouTube?

 

[Kenny]

China has a lot of the e-sports and Saudi is making a big push on hosting them.
Big in the USA as well.

I am certainly at the age where I don't get it or see the value but there is something there or else why bother.

If Jeff, in his role is now more interested in using our branding to push and grow the e-sports, then Fosun should just make him head of whatever the group looks after that and then pop someone in as exec Chairman at Wolves who has knowledge of the game and how to bastard run a football club

 

[Derby Wolf]

Johnny Phillips mentions:- "Shi has rarely attended games in these recent weeks, preferring instead to focus on contests in the e-sports world."

I presume "you might want to sit this one out" is the only piece of advice he's ever taken off someone.

As a non e-sport aficionado. Where are these held, is he attending in person, or sat at home cheering them on watching on YouTube?

Shi has gone full circle.

Finally moved to the UK after realising you can't run a football club remotely and is now working remotely after realising he can't run a football club.

 

[Jolemai]

Has there been any social media messages from the first team about this?

 

[prawnking]

Probably get some guff soon about how they miss their mind-blowing training sessions already

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Has there been any social media messages from the first team about this?

Cunha has a bit

 

[Langers]

Cunha has a bit

I guess it's easier for him to read social media now he has a new pair of specs

 

[Keef]

 

[The Dude]

First chance I've had to comment on this as I've had a very busy weekend, fortunately that didn't include a trip to Wolverhampton on Saturday...

It's WAY too late in happening - he should have gone weeks ago. We've wasted some valuable games and have dropped points against fellow strugglers which I'm certain is going to come back and bite us come May. What the hell the board were thinking letting that farce continue when it was painfully obvious that there was no way O'Neil was turning it around is anyone's guess.

As for O'Neil himself - yes, he let himself down a bit with some of the comments towards the end of his tenure but I can excuse a little bit of stress etc. Genuinely don't dislike the guy - and it's simply wrong to suggest we didn't enjoy some really good days under him so I 100% agree with @Deutsch Wolf's ranking. He's nowhere near as bad as the likes of Saunders, Hoddle.

Sadly, he wasn't up to the task and I'm pleased he's gone. I just don't wish him any ill - I hope he is able to learn from his time here and goes on to be a success in his coaching career.

I never liked the guy, couldn't warm to him. Accepted all the plaudits when it was going well but deflected all criticism when it went badly.

Since the Coventry match he's been an abject failure, yet he's shouldered none of the blame.

Charlatan, fraud, out of his depth. All fair descriptions of the man. Good riddance.

Now for Jeff to follow him out the door (Hobbs too).

 

[The Dude]

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