Lopetegui leaves!

[theplater]

Julen Lopetegui is the 6th manager to leave Wolves since Fosun bought the club in 2016.

I have to now question the management's competence, especially Jeff Shi's competence in planning and recruitment in that time. From Kenny Jackett, Walter Zenga, Paul Lambert, Nuno, Bruno Lage and now Lopetegui only two have seen some sort of success.

Kenny Jacket wasn't really given the time, although the performances in the Championship after realizing promotion from the third tier were hardly breathtaking and Zenga was completely out of his depth. Paul Lambert steadied the ship somewhat, but even then only just kept us out of a relegation Battle. Considering they'd already gambled on an unknown entity in Zenga, taking another foreign gamble in Nuno was a huge risk. It turned out to be a massive success. He reshaped the side, gave them a strategy and belief and the next two years were beyond our wildest dreams. Promotion, and a finish in our first season back in the Premier League brought about a European Tour. Then Covid, and I believe, a different direction Shi and the board wanted to go in ended that dream. Lage was basically a yes man, and another with limited experience and success. It was always going to be hard to follow Nuno, but from dropping to a possible 7th place finish a few weeks before the end of his first season to ending up mid-table, with a shocking poor run of results that continued into the start of last season ended that relationship. If you add the care-taker manager that followed it comes to 7 managers in nearly 7 years. Finally, after nearly 7 years Fosun finally got the man they originally wanted to manage the club. Julen Lopetegui. The ex manager of Spain, and Europa Cup winner. Probably the highest profile manager in our history. Three times they tried to get him. When he joined we were odds o for relegation. He didn't have the squad he wanted but he made the most of what he had and guided us to safety. I'll take that as some sort of success. Now it's ended horribly.

I don't know where it went wrong! I don't know what he was promised when he came! I know we gave him a **** load in January to give him a squad to keep us up, but no sooner as the season finished last May he was complaining of not having any funds for transfers. I'm not sure I believe he would have been completely unaware of our situation with FFP, as it used to be called, but also, given what we've sold since the end of last season I can't believe we don't have any funds available to go into the market!

To me both Party's are to blame. Lopetegui, I believe has manufactured the situation to make his post untenable with giving an unauthorized interview with the Spanish Press on a pre-season tour in Portugal. Jeff Shi, and the board have bee culpable in not delivering, on at least some of the promises I believe they must have given. Jeff Shi's open letter to the fans last week I believe was in response to Lopetegui's interview.They have both tried to throw the other under the bus!

I just find it hard to believe that a board that has tried to get a certain manager for so long takes so little to let him leave. I don't blame all of this mess on Jeff Shi but apart from Nuno their track record in recruitment is little short of embarrassing!

[Woking88]

Spot on Plater!

[nortonwolf]

Julen Lopetegui is the 6th manager to leave Wolves since Fosun bought the club in 2016.

I have to now question the management's competence, especially Jeff Shi's competence in planning and recruitment in that time. From Kenny Jackett, Walter Zenga, Paul Lambert, Nuno, Bruno Lage and now Lopetegui only two have seen some sort of success.

Kenny Jacket wasn't really given the time, although the performances in the Championship after realizing promotion from the third tier were hardly breathtaking and Zenga was completely out of his depth. Paul Lambert steadied the ship somewhat, but even then only just kept us out of a relegation Battle. Considering they'd already gambled on an unknown entity in Zenga, taking another foreign gamble in Nuno was a huge risk. It turned out to be a massive success. He reshaped the side, gave them a strategy and belief and the next two years were beyond our wildest dreams. Promotion, and a finish in our first season back in the Premier League brought about a European Tour. Then Covid, and I believe, a different direction Shi and the board wanted to go in ended that dream. Lage was basically a yes man, and another with limited experience and success. It was always going to be hard to follow Nuno, but from dropping to a possible 7th place finish a few weeks before the end of his first season to ending up mid-table, with a shocking poor run of results that continued into the start of last season ended that relationship. If you add the care-taker manager that followed it comes to 7 managers in nearly 7 years. Finally, after nearly 7 years Fosun finally got the man they originally wanted to manage the club. Julen Lopetegui. The ex manager of Spain, and Europa Cup winner. Probably the highest profile manager in our history. Three times they tried to get him. When he joined we were odds o for relegation. He didn't have the squad he wanted but he made the most of what he had and guided us to safety. I'll take that as some sort of success. Now it's ended horribly.

I don't know where it went wrong! I don't know what he was promised when he came! I know we gave him a **** load in January to give him a squad to keep us up, but no sooner as the season finished last May he was complaining of not having any funds for transfers. I'm not sure I believe he would have been completely unaware of our situation with FFP, as it used to be called, but also, given what we've sold since the end of last season I can't believe we don't have any funds available to go into the market!

To me both Party's are to blame. Lopetegui, I believe has manufactured the situation to make his post untenable with giving an unauthorized interview with the Spanish Press on a pre-season tour in Portugal. Jeff Shi, and the board have bee culpable in not delivering, on at least some of the promises I believe they must have given. Jeff Shi's open letter to the fans last week I believe was in response to Lopetegui's interview.They have both tried to throw the other under the bus!

I just find it hard to believe that a board that has tried to get a certain manager for so long takes so little to let him leave. I don't blame all of this mess on Jeff Shi but apart from Nuno their track record in recruitment is little short of embarrassing!

Something stinks about the situation with Lopetegui, whether it's him or Fosun I'm not sure. If JL clearly understood the situation at the end of last season he could have gone then... Why did he leave it to a few days before the start of the season? That suggests an ongoing lack of clarity to me.

Shi's open letter doesn't stack up for me either, why wasn't he open about the transfer situation from the end of last season both for JL's and the fans benefit? I suspect a few fans wouldn't have renewed ST's if they knew what was going to happen.

Given the history of Manager and player recruitment in the last couple of seasons I'm surprised Shi still has a job.