Are we really surprised ? Like most of us I shall be eternally grateful to Nuno for guiding us back to the P.L., which he did, so impressively. With an engaging wisdom he seemed to possess considerable man-management skills, so essential for any manager at this level of the game. However, I'm also mindful of last season when, occasionally, his tactical performance was less than masterful. When Wolves developed the worrying habit of playing with reduced intensity during the first-half of a game, they seemed to do so with an air of confidence that any deficit could be overcome after the break (sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn't) Nuno's seeming lack of concern worried me then and still does. It also worried me when he allowed his 'experimentation' with our defensive back-line to continue for most of the season. In the latter part of the season I began to wonder if Nuno's heart was still in the job ( I still don't think it was!).
Since a promising beginning at Spurs, he has started to look out of his depth amongst the higher echelons of the Premier League and
his recent post-match comments have done nothing to convince me otherwise. That said, wherever he goes and whatever he does, I sincerely wish him well.