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  • 12/06/2025
Well, it was certainly a season of two halves for Wolves. Under Vítor Pereira’s guidance, they built a resilient, combative side that often rose to the big occasions. Wins over top-six opposition and key performances from emerging players showed a side capable of competing with real purpose.
We spoke to Charlie Haffenden of BirminghamWorld to reflect on the standout moments from Wolves’ campaign—a season that, despite its ups and downs, gave fans plenty to hope for, in the future.

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00:00Well, it was certainly a season of two halves for Wolves.
00:07Under Vito Pereira's guidance, they built a resilient, combative side that often rose to the big occasions,
00:13with wins against top six opposition and key performances from emerging players showed a side capable of competing with real purpose.
00:22Momentum was generated throughout a strong spine and fearless energy in midfield,
00:27evidence that even without the biggest budget, Wolves found a way to be greater than some of their parts.
00:35The question now, can this squad take the next step under Pereira next season?
00:39We spoke to Charlie Haffenden of Birmingham World to reflect on the standout moments from Wolves' campaign,
00:47a season that, despite its ups and downs, gave fans plenty to hope for in the future.
00:53Charlie, let's look at Wolves in terms of their moments of the season.
01:00It was obviously a sort of season of two halves, you know, pardon the cliché.
01:05And in terms of the turnaround that Vito Pereira came in and pulled off was certainly, we've mentioned it before, how incredible it was.
01:13You know, a lot of credit ended up being nominated for Premier League Manager of the Season as well,
01:18albeit, you know, Arnish Lott champions taking that crown.
01:22But, you know, a lot of respect for Vito Pereira in terms of the worst moments.
01:26You know, let's look back at the first half of that season under Gary O'Neill.
01:30It wasn't going to plan at all.
01:32The goals conceded were absolutely, you know, monstrous.
01:35And they were just completely being taken to the saw by so many teams.
01:39At home as well, it was really becoming a dismal place.
01:42Smaller new foot for Wolves and sort of carrying on from the back of last season as well.
01:46You know, 2024 was really not the year for Wolves.
01:51In terms of that worst moments, is it more of a period, that first whole half of the season we could maybe look at?
01:58Because the record was only pointing one way and that was the Championship.
02:03Yeah, I think it is the entire period.
02:05Two wins in your first 16 Premier League games is relegation for, quite simply.
02:10And Gary O'Neill probably should have been sacked a bit earlier than he was.
02:13I think just the fact that the board had backed him so much in the summer, getting that new contract in
02:18and hoping that he could be the man to turn around their fortunes.
02:21There was all the excuses of, oh, it was a difficult fixture run.
02:24But once you're 16 games in, you've played most of the teams in the division
02:27and you've got to have better results than they did.
02:30They're a bit of bad luck at times, but there was no excusing the defensive record,
02:34especially conceding so many goals from set pieces.
02:37Just unbelievable.
02:38I know there's quite a few injuries in there.
02:41The Yersin Mosquera one was a big one.
02:43Wolves kind of lacking a big dominant centre-half for a while.
02:46And we've seen how much of a difference Emmanuel Agpadu has made since the January window.
02:50But yeah, I do think that it wasn't good enough at all, regardless from Gary O'Neill.
02:54Too many excuses.
02:56And he'd also start press conferences by saying, I'm not going to have any excuses.
03:00And then go on and talk about many things that you could argue are excuses.
03:03So, a terrible period, but at least Wolves have said goodbye to that and on the rise again now.
03:08Yeah, obviously, Vitor Pereira comes in and sets a new top-flight record for Wolves in terms of consecutive wins.
03:16They had the FA Cup run where they could have gone very, very far in that if they didn't knock out its penalties with Mateus Cunha's red card.
03:24And Mateus Cunha, he has to probably stand out as a positive for Wolves this season.
03:28You know, albeit the difficult periods they've had, he was magnificent.
03:33You know, 15 goals as a Brazilian equals a record in the Premier League as well.
03:37And as you touch on Emmanuel Agpadu as well, so many positives in the second half of the season.
03:43What did you make of the turnaround that Pereira has come in?
03:46Is that sort of the standout moment?
03:47But, you know, you do have to look at a few of the results as well.
03:51And it is a bit of a stark reminder how tough the Premier League is going to be.
03:53It's not going to be plain sailing unless Wolves get some, you know, real good business over the summer window.
04:00Yeah, I think it's been an extraordinary rise under Pereira.
04:03Feels like a weird moment to say a standout because they've been relegated.
04:07But that win away at Leicester, just kind of an immediate feeling of, OK, we're back now.
04:11We can try and push on from here.
04:13It might not seem much of winning against a team that ends up getting relegated.
04:16But at that point, it was a six-pointer.
04:19It was a must-win for Wolves.
04:20Then to go and back it up against Manchester United on home soil as well.
04:24Starting to get that belief back in Molyneux.
04:26But it does show, doesn't it, the connection with the fans and how important it is.
04:29And we've seen that with the results on the pitch.
04:32Ending up so far away from the relegation zone.
04:34Finishing above Tottenham Hotspur, who come on to win the Europa League.
04:38I think that's a pretty amazing achievement from Wolves.
04:40And hopefully they can go and kick on next year.

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