Lopetegui

[Rabid Wolf]

Maybe. I do wonder what Spain reneged on to make him declare he was jumping ship a day before a major tournament.

Without doubt a good manager. Shame we can't say the same about him as a man.

He accepted the Real Madrid job without telling the Spanish FA apparently.

 

[Dr Wolfenstein]

I remember the old days when we used to sing ‘Goodbye horse, goodbye horse, he was saying goodbye to his horse and as he was saying goodbye to his horse, he was saying goodbye to his horse’.

Never understood it and why we sang it, but it sounded good.

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[lets all have a disco]

I hope lopetugui doesn't get the job.....the only reason if we have a chance at En Nesryri it could make it more difficult ......

 

[brianm]

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yeah, I assumed it was saying "horse" instead of "whore"

 

[Wolf316]

He accepted the Real Madrid job without telling the Spanish FA apparently.

Wasn’t it Ramos gobbing off that Lop was joining Madrid that started it?

 

[Tring Wolf]

I’m a big fan of Lopetegui but surely this isn’t true…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786428729276710914

 

[GoldenHorseshoe]

Can you give us a lie he's told?

Can't think of a specific one, most egotistical narcissists are liars by nature. It was alliteration.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Can you give us a lie he's told?

Jeff lied to JL to get him to Wolves.

Loppy has been nothing but complimentary about Wolves. The only dig he did have was at Jeff and the lack of ambition

Jeff informed JL that Wolves do not have the resources to back his ambitions and the two parties parted ways….

It paints a bad picture more about Jeff than JL. He wasn’t going to stay at Wolves long for us to be a bottom half club.

Credit to Hobbs and Gary for picking up the pieces and keeping us in the league. We’ve all moved on.

 

[moseleyite]

I’m a big fan of Lopetegui but surely this isn’t true…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786428729276710914

"Enquired about his availability"


... apart from sipping lattes in Tettenhall, it's not as if he's "unavailable" is it?

 

[Olivergoldblack]

"Enquired about his availability"


... apart from sipping lattes in Tettenhall, it's not as if he's "unavailable" is it?

You never know he might have promised his neighbours he'd look after their dogs when they're on their 2 week holiday in benidorm. Bayern will just have to wait.

 

[Wolf316]

I’m a big fan of Lopetegui but surely this isn’t true…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786428729276710914

Top tier source for German football though.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Wasn’t it Ramos gobbing off that Lop was joining Madrid that started it?

I thought that it was Real themselves but....

 

[hollo]

Which wolves players would lop want?

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

Can't think of a specific one, most egotistical narcissists are liars by nature. It was alliteration.

Well maybe just suggesting attributes for people on the basis of alliteration isn't the fairest method eh goofy

 

[WickedWolfie]

Which wolves players would lop want?

Cunha
Neto
Possibly Gomes
He didn't rate RAN last season but who knows about this year's version....

 

[Axle]

Mourinho is out of work.

He would be bloody hilarious as well.

If GON left l’d have Moyes or Mourinho.

Both proven at the top of the game

 

[WickedWolfie]

If GON left l’d have Moyes or Mourinho.

Both proven at the top of the game

Both would want a budget which means that they ain't on any list Jeff has....

 

[brianm]

After the way he utterly imploded at Sevilla and then turned his back on Wolves, I'll be curious to see how he gets on with his next employer.

I wouldn't trust him very much, frankly. Doesn't seem like it works out long-term.

Where has he succeeded again? I know he's one of a litany of managers to win the europa league cup with Sevilla (before things went very bad)...and the qualifying run with Spain was promising. His job keeping wolves up I still think was about par for the course given the squad and money spent, but I guess he did a better job than Brendan Rodgers.

 

[Tojo the grass]

Which wolves players would lop want?

Would they want to join him after he abandoned them at the start of the season with the implication that he did not think they were good enough for him to work with?

 

[JadeWolf]

Which wolves players would lop want?

Guedes, Podence, Fabio and Sasa hopefully! £100m job lot!

 

[Redrockwanderer]

Cunha
Neto
Possibly Gomes
He didn't rate RAN last season but who knows about this year's version....

From what I understand… RAN was asking to leave due to LOP and Cunha wasn’t his biggest fan… hence why Cunha has kicked on and excelled this year under GON.

 

[Evthewolf]

If GON left l’d have Moyes or Mourinho.

Both proven at the top of the game

If he left, we may not attract many ideal managers. Couldn’t possibly see Mourinho being interested and whilst Moyes is a steady pair of hands, he’s managed bigger clubs than Wolves and won zero trophies, apart from the Europa Conference thing. I don’t think he improves Wolves.

 

[WickedWolfie]

From what I understand… RAN was asking to leave due to LOP and Cunha wasn’t his biggest fan… hence why Cunha has kicked on and excelled this year under GON.

Can't comment on RAN but Cunha was 100% a JL signing so....

Edited to add:
Something which the many Cunha critics last season were only too keen to point out just before they said that we'd overpaid....

 

[Wolf316]

I thought that it was Real themselves but....

Quite possibly. There was a story that Perez told the Real players Lop was taking over and when the national team got together Ramos was bragging about it in the dressing room.

 

[The Clock]

Wherever he goes now he's sure to want battered chips written into his contract

 

[SuperGran]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786406194875171187

 

[Wolf316]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786406194875171187

Who do they think they’re going to get?

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Who do they think they’re going to get?

Would like to know why they don’t want him? Big Sam will go back there and keep them up

 

[SuperGran]

Who do they think they’re going to get?

Amorim they’re moaning that Sullivan won’t pay the compo for him so going for the cheap option.

 

[Wolf316]

Amorim they’re moaning that Sullivan won’t pay the compo for him so going for the cheap option.

I though Amorim wasn’t interested?

 

[GoldenHorseshoe]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786406194875171187

" Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows the sorrow....."

 

[North West Wanderer]

haha a manager who thinks he is better than what he is, told no by fans who are the very same,

****ing beautiful

 

[Matt]

I really think the way he acted in the end here has severely damaged his reputation, in this country at least.

 

[Wolf in Kenilworth]

Talk about delusion of grandeur.

Do they think they’ll get Pep or something?

 

[WickedWolfie]

I really think the way he acted in the end here has severely damaged his reputation, in this country at least.

What, by daring not to accept Shi shafting him like he has every single head coach?

 

[Monketron]

Talk about delusion of grandeur.

Do they think they’ll get Pep or something?

Fans all listen to podcasts nowadays, they read all the tactical long reads on The Athletic and other sites about the top European coaches/teams, they share views on social media etc. It results in a generation of fans that are far more knowledgably and more likely to want their club to go for progressive younger coaches that entertain rather than an old clogger that will keep you in the league.

 

[Matt]

What, by daring not to accept Shi shafting him like he has every single head coach?

By arranging interviews with his mate in the team hotel slagging the club off. Whether you agree with his reasons or not, he came across as a *****, which is why nobody wants him, not because of his track record.

 

[StaffordWolf]

Watch them end up with Gareth Southgate.

 

[BlahBlah]

He accepted the Real Madrid job without telling the Spanish FA apparently.

He didn't need to tell them anything. His miscalculation was telling everybody just before a World Cup when he was the Spain manager, and they took offence as it unsettled the primary job he was meant to be doing just before a finals.

Bobby Robson did the same before the 1990 World Cup, said he'd be leaving his job with England whatever the circumstances, but he was getting pilloried in the press on a daily basis and nobody really cared either way. When we realised we were not actually the worst team in the world and might like him to stay on, it was too late.

 

[WickedWolfie]

He didn't need to tell them anything. His miscalculation was telling everybody just before a World Cup when he was the Spain manager, and they took offence as it unsettled the primary job he was meant to be doing just before a finals.

Bobby Robson did the same before the 1990 World Cup, said he'd be leaving his job with England whatever the circumstances, but he was getting pilloried in the press on a daily basis and nobody really cared either way. When we realised we were not actually the worst team in the world and might like him to stay on, it was too late.

He didn't, Real Madrid did....

Flashpoints of 2018: Julen Lopetegui sacked by Spain on eve of World Cup

Continuing our series on controversies that defined the year, the Spain manager is fired twice in 138 days, the second time by Real Madrid

www.theguardian.com