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Introduction and Team Updates
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everybody and welcome back to Daily Wolves as your host Will and today I'm joined by Chris. Chris, hello, how are we?
00:00:16
Chris
Hey hey, happy Wednesday as you hear this people, and presumably hopefully we're going to get some big news today.
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'll start us off with the big news by saying that we are also joined by a new member of the pack here at Daily Wolves. James, James, how are we?
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you happy happy to join us?
00:00:32
James
yeah Yeah, very happy, excited to get going and talk about some of the some of this stuff about the new manager.
Management Changes at Wolves
00:00:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, this is it, yeah. At the time of recording, obviously there's been a lot happened since since you guys last heard my voice. Lost Whip switched, O'Neill's been sacked, and Vital Pereira is currently on his way, or sort of in and around England at least, to to sign for Wolves, but we've had no official confirmation as of recording.
00:01:06
Chris
Where have you, where have you been? Well, I've been leading this freight train without you. All this new, all this news coming out. I've been here front and center. What's going on?
00:01:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
um but
00:01:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah um well i was gonna ask you that chris i was gonna say have you uh calmed down a bit since um i last heard you talking was um actually i listened to our the past two episodes the other way around um not not that i listened to our own recordings guys um may have you calmed calmed down a bit since episode
00:01:35
Chris
No.
James' Player Insights
00:01:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:01:38
Chris
Simple no.
00:01:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, fair enough. Mr. Optimism is fully fully sort of done a 180. And I'm in a weird way, I'm all for it, strangely. um But before we continue to ah backtrack and and look at, ah you know, the results and the stories and news surrounding O'Neill and potential new managers,
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
James, I'm going to put you in the hot seat for a moment here, just just so we can start to get a picture of of some of your thoughts and feelings as a fan. I'll start off with, um first of all, who is your favorite player right now that is out of the current squad?
00:02:18
James
Ooh, right now.
00:02:22
James
i About two weeks ago would have gone the mirror, but after the previous stuff that's happened, it might might be the wrong choice to make.
00:02:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:31
James
um I'm a goalkeeper myself, so I'd probably say Saar. I ah don't think he, some of the hate he gets, I ah don't really think he deserves. Though he's got a mistake in him every now and again. I do ah do think he's carried us through a few games.
00:02:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so I think that's four out of four of us on the Daily Wolves podcast who saw over Johnston. um And I'm going to ask you another question here along similar lines just to, ah I think just to paint a picture for Chris more than anybody else or just to wind him up a bit. is who Who's your favourite, sort of your first ever favourite Wolves player?
Favorite Players from the Past
00:03:12
James
well i so I started watching wolves not religiously but maybe in the Mick McCarthy era so I would I would possibly go down the Kevin Doyle kind of train it's the first one that comes to my head
00:03:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i like it i like it chris that that's um yeah yeah slightly different able to uh who was your favorite ever wars player when you growing up chris oh asides aside from
00:03:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:37
Chris
I mean, I'm a child of the 80s, so Steve Bull. I mean, ah i'm I am of the age to have watched Steve play. i've what I watched him play at Italian 90. You know, I watched him play for England. I am i am that era. So i't I mean, I look at it fabulously. But some that is that is my you know, that's my that's my my day. That was my guy. That was my guy. He's still my guy.
00:04:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's just um sort of mentally taking me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out which current Wolves players or which Wolves players in our lifetime that I've seen play through England and there's only two that spring to mind um first of all is Matt Jarvis I can't remember if he scored but I remember him getting called up after scoring against Filler away um I think it was away anyway that was that was prime Mick McCarthy ever and the second one obviously Connor Cody
00:04:21
Chris
Mm hmm.
Match Analysis: Wolves vs. Ipswich
00:04:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
anyway anyway sorry i'm i'm rambling on rambling on um so yeah uh james i'll go straight back to you with um you know obviously we're you well you're joining us a rather difficult period at wolves fight now we've just come off the back of a 2-1 defeat at hipswitch at home and i just want to know what are your thoughts on the game and the scenes after the game and just just everything that's gone on really in the past the past few days around the club
00:05:09
James
Well, I think that Ipswich game kind of capitulates everything that's gone wrong in the Gary and Neil era with just having our moments in that game, because there were moments where we were totally all over them, but we're just not taking any chances from them.
00:05:26
James
And then Kunya coming in and saving us yet again.
00:05:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:30
James
But then another set piece exactly the same is West Ham ball lofted into the back post and it's just, It's just unbelievably frustrating to watch.
00:05:42
James
but ah yeah But at the same time, this might go down poorly, but I do feel for Gary and it on some level due to having maybe one hat and tie behind his back most of the season.
00:05:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:54
James
but
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah to an extent i do and i've started to think that only recently when he's come out and sort of slagged off jeff she a bit essentially um but it's you know it's not jeff's fault that we've conceded 39 goals and um you know what is that 16 17 now of those have been from
00:06:16
James
It's 616 from set pieces, yeah.
00:06:17
Chris
16.
00:06:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Goodness me, um so I would have a lot more time for Gary had he not wound me up You know for the past however long it's been um But yeah,
00:06:29
Chris
Yeah, I mean, just to just to reiterate that, you know, people are feeling, some people are now feeling this kind of sympathy or he's won over some empathy from in his last couple of press conferences unleashing, cause he knew he was on the way out.
O'Neill's Managerial Decisions
00:06:43
Chris
um And not to sound like a broken record for the people that have heard it before, but yes, there's stuff above him that it still needs a lot of fixing and it's clearly been an issue, but it doesn't detract from the fact that, you know, the the inconsistency in defense, the lack of like the constant changing where it,
00:06:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:07:01
Chris
it ah you not knowing what he wants to do at the back, and who plays where, and then playing people at a position, not playing Lamina at center back when he didn't need to, like playing Gomez on the wing, forcing people into like square pegs in round holes, and not making changes when we are, I'm gonna come to you in a minute, while cause Will, because Will's frantically nodding at me, and like just, you know, like forcing the situation, and then not adapting when we are, you know,
00:07:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. No, it's just, yeah.
00:07:28
Chris
clearly it's not working within the first half an hour and he just persists. There's so many things we could go on about where, yes, there's a bigger picture, but if you scale it down to just what he's got to work with, there's still massive issues for me that just showed that there was needed to be a shift.
00:07:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Chris, I've got two things to say off the back of that. First of all, if I ever have to watch Bellguard play on the wing again, I'm going to burn my season ticket. It's just painful. And and know he's the one who I do actually feel for, because I don't think it's necessarily through a lack of effort. I think it's just potentially a lack of quality in those positions. That is when you said,
00:08:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um ah forgotten the phrase now round circles square pegs yeah that's the one um it just yeah it sums it up so so well and also chris it's it's almost like you and i have traded places in a weird way or not traded places but i i feel like i was very anti-oneal perhaps too early on and to see you sort of worn down to um the the facts that you are spitting there um it's in a weird way it's sort of
00:08:06
Chris
Square pegs round holes.
00:08:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I wouldn't say it makes me happy because it's it's annoying the situation we're in but I just think your transition there and ah everything you just made sums it up in the same way that James said that ah Ipswich performance sums things up in the way things have gone this season.
00:08:52
Chris
Yeah, what were you going to add to that, James?
00:08:54
James
Uh, yeah, I was just going to talk about some of the substitutions he's made in the previous games, which really doesn't help his case where I can't, I can't remember if it was, um, West Hamill Ipswich, but he'd make like for like substitutions while losing. He'd say, bring on Tommy Doyle for Andre. It's just like, that's not going to change your game. When when you bring on a like flight, McField, or it's just not going to really bring that spark to a game when you one nil down or two one down.
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah it's weird how he's gone from um i mean uh chris you speak about the sort of you know how i don't want to say makeshift but yeah the makeshift the back fours at times and the the just the inconsistency i think um and some of his decisions is uh strange and just speaking of which i remember him um in his press conference before he got sacked, essentially slating Nelson Samado for at the Dallap goal, not Dallap goal, sorry, but you know, they got outmuscled in the build up to that goal.
00:10:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's, well, you know, perhaps don't play a full back at center half anyway. Like, do you know what I mean? If you were Ipswich, that's exactly the sort of mismatch that you'd be looking to capitalize on, isn't it? But
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00:10:15
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00:10:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
And with that being said, I think it's time that we learn more about what Chris has to say.
00:10:52
Chris
Well, I was just gonna, this may have been on the topic list, but because we we touched on the aftermath and that seems the right place to do it, the aftermath of the game
00:10:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Yeah.
FA Charges Against Mateusz Konya
00:11:00
Chris
against Ipswich.
00:11:01
Chris
Obviously, the news has broken today that we, what we probably all expected, that the FA have charged Mateusz Konya with misconduct following the actions at the end of that game.
00:11:11
Chris
We saw the not so subtle elbows at the back. of a an Ipswich coaches head and then like pulling off his glasses and all that kind of stuff. He's got till the 19th of December to appeal. Not that that's going to make any difference. I mean, the evidence is there for all to see. So, I mean, I presume we're looking at a multi-match ban at least. ah So, I mean, what do you make of it, James? And how long do you think the band's going to be? And is this going to be, I mean, is this going to be, this is potentially doomsday because one of our best players.
00:11:41
James
Yeah, yeah, it might possibly be the net in the coffin for our season. I might be jumping the gun there, but um yeah, ah we saw Kudus not too long ago kind of come under the same type of thing for violent conduct and he got, I think it was a six game ban. So I think we're probably going to be looking at that probably more. Bear in mind, it was was an elbow. And yeah, so I think it's probably time to start panicking.
00:12:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Is now a good time to say that I haven't seen the elbow all all I've seen up until you guys have just mentioned it was the um host ah Pinching of the classes which um I think if we're looking at um Sort of multiple game bands for for that alone, which is all I was aware of and I was thinking the game's gone but regardless of that regardless of what it is and it's stupid before it's anything else you know you've just both said he's our most important player and james he he insisted that yeah it could be the it could be the end of our season i don't quite know how we replicate um the sort of attacking output of kunya with with any of the other players um
00:12:15
Chris
Oh.
00:13:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And just to do that, it's the same as the Ait Nuri sort of having a squabble and Lemina last game. You know, you've just had 90 odd minutes to show that fight and passion and determination. And I'm not saying that those players didn't necessarily, but it's too little too late and it's childish, to be honest with you.
00:13:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:13:28
James
ah think it I think it um more shows that Gary Nils just kind of lost the dressing room a bit. i don't think I don't think it shows a sign of the players wanting to fight anymore because I think Percy the players have fought quite a bit this season.
00:13:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah yeah
00:13:44
James
They might not have looked like it, but I think it's just more of a sign of Gary Nils completely losing control of them.
00:13:50
Chris
Yeah, I mean, that that connects nicely with, if you want to hear me ranting about discipline, the last two episodes, that's pretty much what I've gone on about is it it looks like he's, you know, I said, he's tried to be too much of their friend, not enough of a disciplinarian.
00:13:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:03
Chris
I've said that wrong, disciplinarian.
00:14:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:06
Chris
And, um you know, just lost the, key like, that clearly, you know, if Lamina has had the one thing against Bowen after the West Ham game and then he's like we'll deal with it internally and he's taken the captaincy off him but whatever he did was not enough because then we've seen more fallout and it's just getting worse at a time when they need to be professional and calm and just yeah so this new guy that we're going to talk about in a minute we've mentioned him already and obviously on recent episodes And my hope is because he's from what I've read, like many of you probably out there so far is that he is a bit more um harsh.
00:14:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:42
Chris
I don't want to say harsh, but like, I suppose more. ah Yeah, there you go.
00:14:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, I think, authoritative, perhaps?
00:14:48
Chris
That's a good word.
00:14:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm more of a manager, just better, just just better, yeah, maybe.
00:14:49
Chris
Authorative.
00:14:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
i Sorry, it's only just dawned upon me now whilst recording that, Chris, O'Neill's finally gone.
00:14:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:15:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's finally happened. Goodness me, I've campaigned for this for for what feels like an eternity, but it's not, it's just been the past sort of couple of months, that's how much it's dragged out.
00:15:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and um I mean, Chris, I'm sure you thought I would come across a lot happier that then than I currently am having having heard that news, but I still just worried that um so Vito Pavera, the guy he was just alluding to. um I mean, me personally, apart from him, I know he won the league at Porto, and I think an Olympiarchal switch, to be honest, I dare say O'Neill would have a crack at winning the league with those two teams.
00:15:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I don't know an awful lot about him James, I don't know if you can educate me on the topic at all but yeah I'm not too sure.
00:15:52
Chris
Listen to the pastor.
00:15:52
James
um ah I did try and do a little bit of research on Vitor, but um he yeah bizarre it's bizarre.
00:16:02
James
it's I mean, no one saw it come in.
00:16:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:05
James
Absolutely no one. It is a really bizarre kind of appointment. um But yeah, as you said, he's won leagues at ah Porto and at Olympiacos. He's also won the league with ah Shanghai, but again, it's not really anything too special.
00:16:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:23
James
I think he averages just under two points a game, which it isn't bad, but I mean, he's He's been managing in Portugal, China, Saudi Arabia.
00:16:36
James
and it's just it's nothing It's nothing special.
00:16:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
Vitor Pereira's Potential Impact
00:16:40
James
So it's it it is worrying.
00:16:42
Chris
Yeah, the the weirdest thing is, but the account the you know the reports coming out today that he's been, ah the verbal agreement that he's coming over and he's flying over today to to sign all of the, on the dotted line is for a year and a half to take him to the summer of 2026.
00:16:59
Chris
So that would actually be his longest stint in management in like the last five clubs he's had.
00:17:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:06
Chris
That's the weirdest thing. All of his recent jobs are really short.
00:17:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I mean, to be honest, I dare say, like a lot of the players, he's not worried about it because he's he's not coming with us when we go down. I hate to bring us sort of the tone down so badly. and But yeah, like you said, for that to be as long a stint and James, the clubs that you reeled off there is a bit of an unknown. I think the only sort of potential saving grace or also the very issue um that that could lead to us going down is um
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know, it could be a case of Uncle George coming to the rescue, getting his hands, you know, stuck back in the mix. of um Because there's there's this, there's a Portuguese bloke in charge down the walls and we're signing a couple of players in January, um who I imagine will be ah clients of George Mendez. So with that in mind, things are kind of looking up, I think, guys, potentially.
00:18:16
James
um Yeah, I looked through a few of his previous tactics especially for Porto as well and um he did He does attacking wise it seems kind of similar to what we've been doing previously with a winger say like Cunha, whereas input but when he was at Porto he'd be using Hammers Rodriguez. He'd kind of let that winger drop a bit into a pocket to drive with the ball. So attacking wise I'd say is looking positive. Defensively He, because he's managed like bigger teams in lesser leagues, he's very possession based and very, he uses a very high press, which I'd say is a little worrying for a team like Wolves. And it it defensively, um ah I don't know if he's going to solve all our problems. I really don't.
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i mean it's just this is it i the the one thing speaking to people about it um as i mentioned when we came onto the topic i i know very little of him but i also knew very little the very little about nuno you know so it's one of those um i suppose we'll just have to wait and see but one thing's for sure is he does have one hell of a job on his hands when he takes uh takes the reins
00:19:29
Chris
I mean he.
00:19:37
Chris
Yeah, the the thing that, you know, may be ah um a credit or, you know, silver lining is that he has wanted to manage in the Premier League by all accounts for a very long time.
00:19:47
Chris
He's applied for multiple jobs in this league. So he he will want this to work. I know that, you know, we speak about his short-term contract arguably because he doesn't seem to do very long ones.
00:19:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:58
Chris
And because there's the ah thing of whether we go up or I mean, whether we stay up or go down.
00:20:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:02
Chris
but he wants to prove that he can manage in this league, surely that's his, he's been waiting this long to get a job and he's come close, at Everton, come close at Chelsea and different teams. He will want this to work, so it's in his interest to make it happen, not just for a payday, but for what he's been waiting for this whole time.
00:20:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well speaking of which Chris is it true I've seen that um I'm asking you personally here so you should know this is it true that he's paid his own release clause or at least he offered to or something like that I've read something like that
00:20:36
Chris
I think I did see that headline flash up today, but I haven't confirmed if that is just a you know ah for want of a better term, fake news.
00:20:45
James
Yeah, I also heard that. I yeah i don't know if i don't if they let him because I knew he was very keen to do that. He was like that keen to leave and go to a Premier League club he would have paid out himself.
00:20:58
James
But i mean that's another good sign, I'd say.
00:21:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah the only thing that's made me think that that could not be a good sign is if we go down and he gets the sack he's going to be getting a hefty payoff anyway so you know sorry sorry i didn't mean to bring this down um uh what i'm good
00:21:17
Chris
yeah You say that, but it's only a year and a half contract. So
Financial Implications of New Manager
00:21:20
Chris
even then it wouldn't be, it's not like they've given him a huge four or five year deal to pay off, you know, because by then there'd only be a year left anyway.
00:21:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's true that's true yeah
00:21:27
Chris
So not necessarily the end of the world.
00:21:31
Chris
Um, before you go.
00:21:31
James
It's not like Fosu in the short on money either.
00:21:33
James
so
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean they fooled me.
00:21:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:22:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
every day. and But Chris, Chris, I could see you were eager, eager to jump in there on that point.
Wolves' Attacking Lineup Without Cunha
00:22:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So so do tell detail the floor is yours. so
00:22:20
Chris
Yeah, well, to get on the like optimism freight freight train on the back of the whole Konya impending suspension thing, I wanted to put it out there that there's a potential silver lining in that is that the new, you know, new manager coming in is going to be, you know, hopefully looking at people with a fresh slate. He'll be just familiar in terms of familiarity with world football and potentially watching stuff about walls, presumably on the flight over. If I'm like, if I'm managing them, I'm going to be looking at all the stats and figures.
00:22:48
Chris
He'll know about Kunya, right? I mean, he that's a more obvious name, no more obvious candidate. Potentially a chance for during his ban for some players that we've been wanting to see more of to get a chance to to show what they're capable of and fight for a spot.
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:02
Chris
and Because I'm almost... In some ways, I know he has been our guiding light, but we are better in attack than we are defense. We've got still got some some quality players up front.
00:23:14
Chris
Strandalarson's still scoring. It's a chance for some other people to get back into form. I know that people don't love him, but you know if Wang were to get a chance to get his scoring boots back on, He is capable, we've seen it last season.
00:23:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:23:26
Chris
Gedge, I'd love to see more Gedge. So I'm just putting it out there that there's a potential for a new new manager coming in. There's always a chance for people to, they're going to have to earn their spot, right? Everyone's going to want to level up.
00:23:36
Chris
You get the new manager bounce, you get everyone having to start with a fresh slate. And so maybe, maybe the band could actually be a chance for someone to get a chance to shine.
00:23:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, no, I do think you're right and I'm going to put you both on the spot here on that note, um which assuming we're playing say a five, two, three, so no matter who those defenders and midfielders are, you've got ah your three attackers. um Chris, since since you brought it up, I'm going to give you the honours of going first.
00:24:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I just wonder who would be your front three in the absence of Cunha because me personally, um just off the top of my head, I think it would be laer Larsen Guedes or Gedge as you so rightly pronounce it. And um probably I think I'd give i think i'd give Rodrigo Gomez the star on the left hand side. um But it's very, you know, there's a lot of room for maneuver there. So who who would you go for?
00:24:40
Chris
I think, um, you know, because if he's fit, then given my, my love of him and the fact that I've said recently that this is a time more than ever now, especially when we've seen the amount of emotion going on and the lack of discipline and all the carnage and I'm fed up with people shaking their heads and weeping and everything else.
00:24:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mhm.
00:25:02
Chris
I'd go for some experience in there. So I'd probably alongside Strandalarsson or whatever formation you play them in, I put Sarabia in there.
00:25:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:09
Chris
because in like a number 10 role, because I firmly believe that in, when he's allowed to float freely in that kind of number 10 hole in a very different way to someone like Konya, because he's more about like picking out passes and and playing other people in with through balls and that kind of stuff.
00:25:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:22
Chris
he He finds pockets of space. So I'd put him in there and because of his experience and his seniority, I think he'd remain calm when we need people to be calm. um But then Gedge has proven for me that in the last few games that he's earned a chance to start some some more. um And then obviously Strand-Larsen. So Larsen, Gedge and Sarabia.
00:25:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:44
James
Yeah.
00:25:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. And James.
00:25:46
James
Yeah. um Chris, your mention of Sarabia has kind of made me question mine a little bit because I think he would be a good choice. um However, I personally think if we're losing our goal score in Cunha, I think we need to replace him with someone who has proven he can score somewhat like for like.
00:26:04
James
So I think I'd put Huang back on the left as much as I've
00:26:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:09
James
said, I don't like him recently he and how I don't think he's played very well. I do believe that he he has shown that he can play and score. He might not perform as well as some players, but he does score goals.
00:26:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah.
00:26:23
James
And yeah, obviously Guedes because previously he's come on and I wouldn't say change games, but added to our game. So yeah, I'd say Huang on the left, then Larsen and on the right Guedes.
00:26:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, so we're all in agreement of Larson and and Huang, I can see a ah real shout for, you know, Chris.
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know I've been critical of him in the past, but in all seriousness, James, you just said if you need goals, he's that he's there for you. And, um you know, I think he looked good as well when he came on, actually, against Ipswich.
00:27:05
Chris
Yeah, he would he would have been for me. I was like a coin flip away between Surabir and and Wang and I think that is the more interchangeable spot depending on. the team that you're playing and all, even just half to half, maybe like a half each or something, um because they have very different ways of playing. But yeah, for me, when Hwang is on form, ah people, i think I think sometimes he's a bit of a scapegoat. I think he's easy because we have Fosun as the owners and the Korean link and everything. I think it's it's very easy for people to throw him under the bus. I get that he and performs in certain ways at points, but I think that just adds to the package.
Challenges for New Manager and Team
00:27:43
Chris
and makes it very easy for people to slice him and say that that that's the only reason he's here and it's the only reason he plays but there's a reason also that I firmly believe there's a reason that managers pick him that we've seen it under every coach because he's ah his work like he he worked clearly works hard and does what he's told to do whether or not we agree with with what he's being told to do i think that's what he tries like all the time
00:27:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you said that. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:28:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, um I think one thing's for certain, no matter who the front three is, and if slash when Vital Pereira is announced as the new manager, is whoever the personal is, they've got a hell of a job on their hands. I'm actually more worried for us now than I was when Lopategi took over and we were bottom at Christmas. I you know i think we'd sort of looked that far off the pace.
00:28:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
and um I don't think what helps is the fact that we've got a difficult run of games coming up. You know, we we face Leicester away this weekend, which, you know, it's ah it's a tough, tough game, a proper relegation scrap like the others we've played recently.
00:28:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
then Man United, then Spurs, then Forrester who are flying high with Nuno. Then after the FA Cup we we we travel up to a Newcastle so you know it's it doesn't get any easier anytime soon.
Alternative Managerial Candidates
00:29:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
But with that said, with that said and to conclude today's episode um I'm gonna again um ask ask the both of you um you know If it wasn't Vettel per ever who's coming in, who would have been your first choice pick for for manager if you were in Jeff Sheeves position? James, I'll go to you first.
00:29:36
James
Yeah, well, I've given this plenty of thought with with my mates. we've It's been the topic of conversation for the past past few days. um i would I think I would have said con sei sao.
00:29:53
James
as my main one, the ex-porto manager.
00:29:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:56
James
But that is fairly unrealistic, ah I think, mainly because of money-wise and how our owners self-sustained kind of ideology.
00:29:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:30:06
James
That just wouldn't work. um But ah fit also, I think Potter would be a great shout, because I think his... I loved his football, even though it didn't work at Chelsea.
00:30:18
James
I do think he was a great manager, especially at Brighton. ah But yeah, I think the ideal one for me would have been Conseil.
00:30:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and Chris, ah do you differ?
00:30:29
Chris
um Yeah, I think for a long-term project, Potter would have been the one, but given the situation and everything, even that might not have been always always dynamic, I think David Moyes would have been a solid shout given the situation just because he's so experienced in the league.
00:30:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:51
Chris
knows the premiership inside out, knows what it takes to stay in the division, and I think would help shore up shop a bit, you know. um So that even if it was just for a season, like a half season, whatever it was just to to to get us out, but clearly didn't that wasn't working.
00:31:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, on a similar note, I was just half tempted to give a big sound to the end of the season when I was watching us go zip switch. ah
Conclusion and Future Hopes
00:31:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, with that being said, um Chris, thank you for joining us.
00:31:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And James, it's been lovely to welcome you. I dare say that we'll, you know, have more time to learn more about your thoughts and feelings and before we wrap up.
00:31:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm going to go back to Chris just quickly because he's's he's looking at
00:31:36
Chris
Well, yeah, because I was going to say thank you for joining us. Well, because, you know, we're, you've not been here.
00:31:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh
00:31:42
Chris
So it's the other way around.
00:31:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:31:44
Chris
Thank you for joining me.
00:31:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
and you know what so since since you've since you've pointed that out would you like to do the honors because I'm sure I'm sure you know where I was going yes
00:31:56
Chris
I do, I do. ah Yeah, so thank you very much, everyone. Let's look forward to hopefully an announcement by the time you've heard this or in the next like 24 hours of this going out. And with that being said, it means that you never know. It could be the time to remember that out of darkness cometh light.