Surely they wouldn't be able to make an appointment before our game if he leaves? So no new manager bounce this time hopefully.
Julen Lopetegui watch
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Feck sake. I'm confident for that game but if they sack their manager now the doubt would start to creep in.
How many times did we have to face it last season? Fecking typical it starts so early here 
They've got Gary O'Neil lined up and ready to go apparently so I imagine if he's gone in the next couple of days O'Neil will probably be in before Monday.
Im confused, are posters just joking and looking for a reaction when they post stuff like this or are some just that pessimistic ?
Im trying not to be the sucker at the poker table.
Why would there be a 'new manager bounce'?
Not exactly like the Wolves players want him to leave, they are more likely to down tools should he leave surely?!
Not exactly like the Wolves players want him to leave, they are more likely to down tools should he leave surely?!
Wolves early contenders for banter club of the season.
This is the probably going to be the opposite of new manager bounce. That usually happens when a team has lost faith in the old manager and a new guy comes in, gees everyone up and they all try and prove a point to him.
In this case it'd be a disaster for Wolves. Lopetegui is a great manager and would be a big loss. They've just lost half their first team, the season is just about to begin and they can't afford to buy replacements. This would be incredibly demoralising.
I already thought Wolves would get relegated, if Lopetegui goes I'd put them in a race with Luton to finish bottom.
In this case it'd be a disaster for Wolves. Lopetegui is a great manager and would be a big loss. They've just lost half their first team, the season is just about to begin and they can't afford to buy replacements. This would be incredibly demoralising.
I already thought Wolves would get relegated, if Lopetegui goes I'd put them in a race with Luton to finish bottom.
Is there a new manager bounce when a quality manager who did a decent job is fired Surely seems like it would be the opposite, no?
Surely seems like it would be the opposite, no?Deffo no new manager bounce. They're gonna get battered. Theyve lost key players and brought pretty much no one in.
They're bringing in a new manager less than a week before the season starts, after allegedly knowing Lopetegui wanted out all summer. They're a shambles at the minute.
Right now, they're a good bet to go down.
They're bringing in a new manager less than a week before the season starts, after allegedly knowing Lopetegui wanted out all summer. They're a shambles at the minute.
Right now, they're a good bet to go down.
Feel like he has an attitude problem, the whole Spain/Madrid debacle etc.
Where will poor Jorge Mendes traffick his players if that happens?
Poor, poor Jorge Mendes.
Regardless of who the manager is we are going to ravage them. I see them finishing 19th right above Luton Town.
Gary O'Neil will be a risky appointment. Not sure he even speaks Portuguese.
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3 days before the opening games. Yikes. Didn’t he pull some shit in the lead up to the opening game of the 2018 World Cup?
Perfect situation for us to play them on day 1! Great news
I remember him quitting his Spain NT job to go coach madrid yeah. Not 100% sure re timing but you could be right. Obviously didn’t last long at madrid either.
New manager bounce only comes in when a team was underperforming and a manager was sacked for results. That's a legit thing. A manager leaving because the owners haven't supported him after he did a good job with the group, is the opposite of new manager bounce.
Another season looms, another season of clubs managers getting the sack before we play them
He didn't quit, he accepted an offer to coach Madrid after the WC and the Spanish FA had a complete meltdown and fired him.
No I think it was him agreeing to be the Real Madrid manager and it was announced a few days before the start of the World Cup and Spain weren’t having it so they so sacked him. Probably harsh to say it was his fault because the timing of the announcement probably had nothing to do with him .
Wolves are in for a serious relegation battle it seems. For me, the change in manager and the lack of signings to replace some key players means they’ll be going down.
Aargh, yeah that makes more sense. Memory isn't what it once was
Aaargh yes, as Gandalf said above. Just shit out of luck with his timing it seems
Does anyone know what caused the separation with Wolves at this point?
Either he's really an ass to work with or he has awful judgment when it comes to choosing his workplace.
They've set themselves up for relegation with the summer they've had. I can see why he would want to jump.
Yeah that's it. Don't seem to be spending money so time to get away from the madhouse.
That is mad
Perhaps he didn’t fancy living in Wolverhampton
Another situation where we play a team that’s just sacked there manager…
It's luckier than Nkunku injury
Celebrating injuries is an absolute d… move, feck outta here.It's luckier than Nkunku injury
But in this case the club can't afford to buy players despite selling, he didn't get any support that he was supposedly expecting from meetings earlier in the summer and the squad has no depth.
Wolves are going down.
If Wolves have a bad start I can see them spiralling. And given that they face United, Brighton, Liverpool and City in their first 7 games, with the other 3 all away from home, that's entirely likely.
You let Jorge Mendes run your club. Every club he touches burns and dies, look at Valencia. Wolves are getting relegated and their financial situation will probably worsen as well.
Welcome to Jorge Mendes hell.
Welcome to Jorge Mendes hell.
I don’t blame him.
Probably the right move for him. They pocketed a hefty fee for Neves and have not even reinvested it in a league where virtually every club is spending significant amounts of money to try & build a team capable of staying up. They'll be battling relegation against Luton, Burnley, Sheffield and a couple of usual suspects and I'm not even sure they'll have enough to stay up which is possibly not what he had signed up for. Nobody wants to have relegation on their resume, you could see how much our fan base despised and belittled Ole for going down with Cardiff in what had also been a hopeless situation at the time.
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Liverpool are lucky to face Chelsea without injured Nkunku.
I think United are luckier to face Wolves in this situation.
I have to say Julen Lopetegui will have no problem getting a job. He came across well in the media anytime i saw him and has a decent playing style so if the guy feesl he is hamstrung he had no other option than pull the plug. Managers rarely resign so shows he has at least integrity as most would have sat on their hands and waited for the inevitable payoff when things went wrong.