Jeff has had different stages in his time with Wolves.
Always worth remembering though, he is here to grow the name of Wolves. Not just the club. Fosun work on expanding brands to improve their worth, so while the eSports, Music, attracting "fans" from across the flat earth can be annoying, that is his job. He just totally lost control.
Stage 1 - A guy who had little clue on the football business but was like an excited kid and under the spell of Jorge
Stage 2 - Calmed down a little and let those who know about things run the show (when the likes of LD were here)
Stage 3 - Got a bit cocky, thought he had learned it all and also wanted to make the fans like him "This will be a great transfer window" (Spoiler it wasn't)
Stage 4 - Decided he knew more than others, so in one way or another got rid of them. Put himself as King of the World, signed players and surrounded himself with yes men. All this played its part in getting rid of the best manager we have had for fook knows how long. Nuno wasn't in a great place anyways and that was reflected on the pitch but KIng Shi ensured he was happy to get binned. How Scott got promoted above his level, how we ended up with price rises and how it felt like the club was flicking the V's at its core fans
Stage 5 - Bit of a flip back to Stage 1 but with Jorge now the puppet master. We get a manager not because we want him but because Jorge said so (he did at least let Scott look his folder so he could say yes boss, he is the man).
Stage 6 - A thumping realisation of what he has been doing since stage 4. Admittedly only came after Beale said no. I think Beale says yes and he slips back to Stage 4. Thankfully, despite a lot of positives on getting Beale (maybe we were just desperate) we got JL.
JL has smacked the club around and Jeff has responded. Restructured some of the behind the scenes stuff, with Scott being sent packing.
Hoping he has finally got what his job is about again. Go back to August, if we had signed Gomes, under similar circumstances Jeff would have been all over the social stuff, the videos, pictures, interviews. Not a peep from him.
If he we stay up, he goes back to speaking once or twice a year. He surrounds himself with better, more informed people then he can grow the brand etc like he is meant to do and not get in the way of what JL and his team are doing.
Big moment coming when Vinny is released from whatever cupboard they now keep him in to reveal prices, for whatever Division we are in next season. Since JL arrived (and that is on Jeff) the club feels transformed and back to how it should be. Lets see
So just for Lupollet - Is he a good Chief Exec - if he sticks to what he is good at, yes. If he tries to do things he isn't good at - Fuck no.
He has spent too long trying to do the stuff he can't and was fast tracking to the sack but may have just saved his job with his latest manager appointment.
