It's just facts for $#@!'s sake, they're presented there for all and Tim had the privilege of sitting in the same $#@!ing room as where aforementioned facts were relayed. All he has to do is record them, make them interesting then present them in a timely fashion. That's his job. If he can't do that how is he still in a $#@!ing job?
I mean... no, that isn't his job. He's a journalist, not the club's press officer - we can all go to wolves.co.uk for the "facts" and the videos of what the people at the club said. He's meant to ask difficult questions, or at least questions that go beyond merely what the club want things to appear like (which is: stable, solid, not with massive problems with squad depth nor a manager who's only in a job out of circumstance).
What should have been asked are questions like:
- With Fosun stating that they see Wolves as a club with a huge, untapped potential for growth, does that imply that Steven Morgan's tenure has been one of missed opportunity?
- Since Kenny Jackett has been allowed to stay on as head coach, with first choice replacement Julen Lopetegui choosing the Spanish national side job instead, can we assume that he is already under a huge amount of pressure?
- You've said you're willing to spend "what it takes", but also ruled out a bottomless pit of money. Under what conditions would Fosun consider Wolves a failed investment, and divest?
It's a hard balancing act for the local press and the sports teams they cover, though, so I sympathize with Spiers and the E&S to some extent. To do the job of a journalist beyond simply regurgitating press releases, you've got to have contacts who are willing to break the official lines, off the record, and point the direction to stuff happening out of sight. On the national titles, that's easy for a sports journalist. You're covering the biggest teams, which are each massive organizations with staff often based in different places around the world. Plus you've got the monetary incentives for agents to leak stuff, to create rumours and have players press for a move and so on.
The E&S just has Wolves, and Wolves isn't a massive organization. It doesn't have *that* many staff, at least at the level of making serious decisions on things like buying players. (Just think how we only heard about the takeover in advance because it leaked out on the Spanish side of it.) Any big leaks will get traced back to their origin pretty quickly I'd wager, quite easily, so it's not worth it - especially since it's not like there's much to gain from it for any leaker.
So Spiers and the E&S are stuck, really. They haven't got a way to crack open the club's most secret operations, so they've got to rely on things like scheduled interviews with people like Jackett for "exclusives" like "there is a takeover happening but can't say much else tbh" from a couple of weeks ago. If they go too hard with stuff - like, say, actually asking difficult questions at a press conference - then the club will cut them off entirely, and then they haven't even got the puff piece interviews where someone like Jackett is allowed to let tidbits go. After all, they've got the official site to speak directly to the fans, they don't *need* the press. The E&S's job is to try and be the intermediary between the fans and the club, and it can only do that as long as it doesn't challenge the club's own branding and PR plans so much that it becomes more troublesome than it's worth. It's self-preservation as much as journalism, sadly.
It's also the job of a reporter to do basic research on the participants in a press conference beforehand, mind. "How much is Fosun worth," christ alive.
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