Lol! Weren’t we linked a few seasons ago?…in my dream he is the heir to GON and that’s why we’ve brought in the South American lads to fit his system and technical side of the game…maybe the delay is he’s learning English and GON is simply a stop gap until then….If Carlsberg did Wolves breaking news! LOL!
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Have just looked at his managerial stats…this guys record is incredible! Won pretty much everything to win in South America and has a 54% win rate in 463 games! His teams have scored nearly two goals a game in that time (over 800!) with a plus 422 goal difference having conceded less than a goal a game. Like I said above, with 4 South Americans now in our squad this would be the perfect time to go and get him…use some of the Nunes money to make it happen….come on Jeff…you know it makes sense!
Coach watch: Marcelo Gallardo - The Coaches' Voice
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Holding out for a Prem job apparently…plays technical attacking football but solid defensively aswell. Plus we now have a South American contingent and don’t think he would cost much having only managed in Argentina. Go get him Mr Hobbs and let’s have an enjoyable season please!
Or he could try getting them a lot fitter, as JLO did when he came in...
Many are giving him a chance but it's the falling off a cliff after halftime that's losing us games which didn't happen under Lop
Maybe we could get him to change his name to Mark Gallard on his application
Depends on your pov. Big weaknesses already being exposed but no plan B to deal with poor 45 to 60 min displays evident so far.
If O'Neil started winning games you'd hear barely any dissenting voices.
On your last two paragraphs, they hit the nail on the head perfectly in describing GO’s tactics and strategy for subs is old school and shows he has absorbed all the coaching manual but forgotten that feeling and intuition are crucial in the prem with the timing of changes to stay competitive.
Lost interest when they realised Luton would want compensationLuton boss Rob Edwards was in contention to take over at Wolves
Football Insider has learned that Luton Town manager Rob Edwards was a leading contender to take over at Wolves when Julen Lopetegui quit as boss in August.www.footballinsider247.com
Just proves we’ve got no money and no ambition.
"But Wolves abandoned their pursuit given the hurdles in poaching from a rival top-flight club days before the new season was due to begin."Luton boss Rob Edwards was in contention to take over at Wolves
Football Insider has learned that Luton Town manager Rob Edwards was a leading contender to take over at Wolves when Julen Lopetegui quit as boss in August.
Maybe we’ll wait until Luton sack him
Will they though? They must be expecting to go down and I doubt any other manager they could attract will change that.
I dunno they just seen desperate for Rob to be our manager
Everything is subjective because you never get to see an alternative reality where different substitutions are made, but for me Doc was the right substitution as we were exposed down the right, but it was too late. It was clear Hwang was struggling, but by the time the change was made Liverpool had gained the impetus and psychological advantage. It is one of my key concerns with O'Neil (or any manager with such limited in-game experience) that he lacks the conviction of a seasoned manager like Lopetegui, who made changes proactively to seek to influence the game (and mostly to positive effect). Likewise, Boubacar made sense but it was pretty clear we were starting to flag a little in midfield and needed fresh legs long before the change was made. It's funny - you never know but maybe Lopetegui had a point about the squad and the reinforcements that were needed?!
Agreed.
They are building a team to get promoted from the Champ.next season.
I think they’ll stick with Edwards. I don’t ever seeing him being a constant premier league manager but a decent championship one.
This is it in a nutshell.
To be fair many 'experts' on here (possibly including me) said that Newcastle were planning for Championship promotion when they appointed Eddie Howe. That didn't turn out to be all that insightful.
And we've got a leaky defence like Dillian Whyte.
Bang on mate…it was all about how we aimed to stop them and not how we intended to win the game or attack them and clear as day second half that it was hang on for our lives. The players must be wondering why they bother because almost everything he says is a dig at the way they play and making out we are some team of paupers! We have international players and winners throughout the squad for gods sake! We are not your crappy Bournemouth side of last year! We’ve shown what happens when we attack teams (United, 1st half v Brighton and 1st half at weekend) we’ve also then shown what happens when we drop deep and stop playing that way! Wake up Mr O’Neill or ship out and let somebody do the job that realises the potential on this squad and doesn’t write them off to the press!!!
I don’t know if it has been mentioned on this thread, but I do wonder if the players aren’t fit enough, which is down to our training staff. Conceding 10 goals out of 11 in the second half of our 5 matches would seem to confirm that.
Jl doesnt start out games like GON is, they have the fitness, but we were coming into games 2nd half mainly with JL and getting stronger throughout, but resolute defence to not concede.
Spot on - I am old too but that first half was excellent
Weirdly I was going to throw a similar boxing analogy in there as well!! It's bang on, if a side can weather the storm until 60 mins then we are in trouble if we aren't ahead by then.
Our coaching staff is league one ready
In which case, management and players need to use their brains a bit more to manage the situation throughout the game.
