Wolves report card: Grading the managers

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00:00oh yeah it is friday baby and we are talking about the management and we're not talking about one

00:14manager all season no because um it might be news for a lot of wars fans but we've had two

00:18two two that's two that's not one that's two different managers uh this year mr gary o neil

00:23and mr vito herrera i think we're gonna be different uh grades for both of them this i

00:27don't think they're because they've been particularly close let's be honest in terms of their

00:31overall grade i think we were all even though the wolves finished the season poorly under gary o'neill

00:36his first season in charge what he did i think was excellent but the way they started this season

00:41and the amount of losses and took them a long long time to get that first win it was always going to

00:46be he was always against it gary o'neill i think from the very very start and you can look to certain

00:51situations not replacing max killman i think being one of those uh why it didn't work out for wolves

00:55and you saw when they got someone in like i would do uh what change it made however there were a lot

01:01of mistakes that gary o'neill made and i think that i think we both agree that he will come back

01:04stronger i think we're both thinking he will make a good manager however he will definitely learn and

01:08i think assess of some of the some of the band managerial decisions that were made this season

01:13and you know it probably showed his experience and the only way you can improve is to get more

01:17experience i think this will be a learning curve for gary o'neill of course sacked after that that awful

01:222-1 late defeat against ipswich in december and we saw the turnaround under vito perere in terms of

01:28gary o'neill uh um look i mean stock was so high really going into pre-season wasn't it um you know

01:34despite like i say that the fall off which you can understand with no forwards there back in the last

01:38season but it was a disaster campaign there was some awful awful awful results um i mean too many to

01:45mention really but like you say that that defeat away at brentford that that loss away everton the defeat to

01:51home against ipswich you know being three of the many nails in the coffin that saw

01:55gary o'neill as sacked as manager wolverhamson wanderers yeah it's an e for me i think i have

02:02to agree you know i don't maybe d-minus at very best but i think that's probably been a little bit

02:07kind um i think his overall wolves contribution in his time at the club is definitely higher than that

02:12um i know some fans won't agree but we both think he's a a good coach and someone who will go do well

02:18elsewhere but purely on this season it just didn't happen now things out of his control

02:22in terms of recruitment obviously went against him but then he made his own mistakes as well

02:26i mean set pieces all over the place the set piece coach was in and out within three months

02:31and that was a mess um i think the decision over the midfielders and the formations was a mess

02:38playing a back four was a mess and then a lot of the individual performances and results so

02:43unfortunately um i think that's that is only fair really of the overall performance from gary

02:49o'neill albeit i do think he's someone that will will come back stronger and do better elsewhere and

02:54learn from this experience as well and in comes um on the 17th mr vito perera um what a man man the

03:07myth of legend um turn this side around um i think beyond anyone's wildest dreams really to to

03:13have wolves some way took them to to where they finish i know even they had a chance to be in

03:17finishing 12th at one point um but then they finished 16th and there's that little tail off

03:21towards the end of the season um a couple of um poor runs and that end to the season also in the

03:26middle where they lost four games albeit against very good opposition uh but overall um look he was

03:31in with them you know in the voting for manager of the season which just shows how highly he was

03:35thought of not just internally but externally um magnificent and the way he's turned this

03:40around the way he's made this team hard to beat some of the results that he got

03:43um this was um this was a a city and a fan base that were completely torn apart really

03:50and he's united them pies pints and with with fans i mean everything and everything he's done

03:56in such a short space of time coming from saudi arabia as this journeyman to someone who is loved

04:00and adored uh by by everyone really including the media you know i think he's he's just a magnificent

04:07job and let's hope he gets back this summer because i think he deserves it and i think he will be

04:11um they know how important he is to this to this football and to this group of players as well by

04:16the way you need to get a group of players who are going to play for you and he definitely earned

04:20that respect very very quickly had some difficult decisions to make and he wasn't he didn't mince his

04:25words big decisions and he got them all right nearly all of them right i think that just showed in

04:30the way that he the product he produced on the pitch um he deserves a lot of a lot of high

04:35acknowledgement i think he has got that and i fully expect him to sign a long-term deal

04:39at wolves going forward whether that be this off season or going into the start of next season i

04:43think the the hierarchy and the movement at the top of the top of the football club maybe show that

04:48they are all in on vita perera and and so they should be it's an it's an a plus for me and that's

04:54that's regardless of some of the some of the defeat it's an a plus because of the change and where

04:59wolves were i don't think they could have expected much more i'm going to go a um for a couple reasons

05:06which i'll give but just very quickly before that completely agree on all that from a footballing

05:10perspective there were lots of excellent performances that six game winning one of course

05:15sticks out but more than anything bringing the fans and the club back together and that sort of

05:20restoring that togetherness i thought was massive and the way he did it was was fantastic and he's a

05:25real character a really interesting person so i think all of those things were massive massive pluses

05:30i do think you know early january before they brought agba doing a couple of the players in

05:34there was some there was some difficulty there with results and performances they ended the season

05:39you know having one draw and three losses in the in the final four a couple of small things that

05:44maybe take a little bit of the shine off which maybe leads me to do an a rather than a plus but

05:49i'm also not mad at a plus because without vital prayer and other things i.e some of the players in

05:54january so the decisions that were made wolves won't be in the premier league so i think that's

06:01about right and if it doesn't start with an a it's not right because it was uh fantastic to deliver

06:07i mean what would have been probably european football to to where they were um and one of

06:10the worst teams in the football league i think that that's fair and look if we'll finish 16th next

06:14year under vito parade when we're getting an a plus that's for certain they could finish

06:17finish his 14th he won't be getting an a plus but i think just the job that he did in in

06:21retrospect to where wolves were that's why i think given yes of course there's

06:24some some things to improve and that's yeah i guess a plus is you can't improve on that but

06:28just i think in the situation he came into lee and that's why um i'll give him an a plus but yeah a a

06:33plus is a magnificent uh story is it is a story of um of what he's done and what he's come up come

06:39about and you know what he delivered to this football club i want to thank veto i want to thank you

06:43liam because it's been a long week we are friday and we've gone through and we've had the goalkeepers

06:47the defenders the midfields the forwards and finished off with the management and we're excited to

06:52see what is to come um both in pre-season and the season ahead from me from kino have a great weekend

06:58and take care bye-bye

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