#21

Each step sister uglier than the last… is how I feel about watching Wolves games under Nuno recently. They were very good value in his first couple premier league seasons. Gave the big boys a black eye or two but it’s definitely gotten a little stale. Feel like it turned during that run of games where it felt like they played United 100 times in three weeks. A roll call of 0-0s and 1-0s. Bad times for all involved.

#22

Genuinely no snark intented to this question - how can he donate more than his personal wealth? Does wealth mean assets and wages are separate?

Great effort from them both, good lads.

#23

I’m assuming it’s £££ his personal efforts have raised included.

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#24

Wolves fan here :raising_hand_man:

Nuno’s season in the Champ and first in Premier League were days I never thought I’d experience as a Wolves fan. We played some really brilliant football; somewhat unremarkable against the smaller teams but always solid defensively and then really quick and ruthless on the counter-attack against the big boys. During that first season we felt like we could beat anyone ~ and we did. Chucked United out the FA cup, beat Arsenal, Spurs, and Everton 3-1.

Then we blew it against Watford in the cup semi-final, after being 2-0 with 20 minutes left, and it changed something in Nuno. He went ultra-defensive, trying to stay in the game and snatch it late rather than start on front foot and get tired and we’ve just deteriorated. Slowly at first ~ there were some magic moments in that second season and I think we’d turned a corner just before the Covid break ~ but his insistence of a small squad and then the long season in Europe broke us a bit this season. Something hasn’t been right at the club for a while and as others have pointed out, we were stinking the place out before Raul’s injury (which has undoubtedly hammered us).

But! I also don’t know what I think of Nuno as a manager. How we ever got to a place where Jota was fifth choice for us last season speaks volume of our drop off. He’s stubborn to a fault, and his selections this season have often been bizarre. He definitely has his favourites who play 90 minutes no matter how bad their form is, and his subs have become laughably weird in recent months. But prior to that we played some properly good football.

But I feel really sad that he’s gone. The relationship he’d garnered with the fans was once-in-a-lifetime special and he seems a genuinely honourable person - he donated £250,000 of his own money to the city’s poverty appeal just a few months ago. It feels like the end of a really special era.

Sorry, this got long!

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#25

Yeah it’ll definitely include all the donations made to his work

#26

He’s looked like he’s had enough for most of the season tbh.

#27

I hope the new wolves manager comes with some fresh new ideas

Like deploying Adama Traore, but with 500% more greased limbs

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#28

And bringing back the old matchday programmes

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#29

Graphic novel starring traore, coady and Neto as animorphs bringing order to the bleak dystopia that is current day west midlands. Calfzilla grealish as the main antagonist.

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#30

I think Ridley Scott has already optioned this for TV

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#31

Karl Heinz Riedly (Scott)

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#32

You think Wolves were bad? Palace aren’t even on the graph! They had to release another one and stretch out the graph to show how poor we’ve been!

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#34

There was a 1-1 City had with Wolves in their first season up where they looked bloody good, City were lucky to get away with a point really. selling Doherty and Jota, plus Europa fatigue and losing Jiminez did a serious number on them, clearly just got their heads down and were grimly seeing out this season. No way have they been playing the worst football in the league if we’re talking Nuno’s whole span.

Obvious thing to say but it really could go either way for them depending on who they appoint next. Gut feeling is they slide into the Southampton misery zone rather than solidify a spot in the Everton false hope area.

#35

<3 what a captain, what a hunk, what a man

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#36

Aguero to barca done apparently

#37

Oxford need to turn a 3-0 deficit around tonight. Not gonna happen but it’s kinda fun to see what happens with the pressure off.

#38

That’ll do - 1-0 up after 7min

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#39

aaaaand 2-1 down. Let’s enjoy next season in L1 eh.

#40

Isn’t it fair to say that in most positions on a football pitch if you are sprinting it is because you have bollocksed something up?

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