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If Gary goes, who comes in?
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If Gary O'Neill were to get the sack... Could we see Zizou at the Molineux? Is Gareth ready to bring his waistcoat to the Midlands? Nathan brings you his thoughts..
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Managerial Replacements for Gary O'Neill at Wolves
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Hello, hello Wolves fans, welcome in. My name is Nathan and I'm your host for today and I'm also on my own today that lads unfortunately couldn't make this recording but as you will have noticed from the title of today's episode I will be going through all of the potential replacements or the ones that in my opinion and I think we'll start off with what is realistic and what could possibly happen and then I'll throw in a few at the end maybe for to sort of see and if we can broaden the horizons in a dream world of um what managers could potentially come in to replace Gary O'Neill. Now
00:00:47
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It's obviously worth noting that at the time of making this recording, Gary O'Neill is still in charge of Will Hampton Wanderers. He is still a first team manager and we are all just hoping for a change in in our form obviously and there's there been a lot of talk about him getting the boot off the back of only three draws in the first 10 games and sitting rock bottom of the Premier League table with a negative 13 goal difference and 27 golf conceded after 10 games which is just completely bonkers and so we're We're a bit of a laugh in stock at the minute and we're hoping that our fortunes change. So I'm going to be going through a few managers and who I think could potentially come in if Gary O'Neill were to get the sack.
Evaluating Graham Potter and David Moyes as Candidates
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Now in my personal opinion before before I start going through these, I don't think Gary O'Neill is going to actually get the sack. I think they're going to give him the opportunity to go through the next
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four or five games where we've got a few games at home where there's opportunities to pick up points and I believe that he's a bit of a yes man to the board so I don't see there being a huge amount of change and also worth noting that Wolves at the minute are maybe not necessarily the most attractive club to come to with what Lopategi said at the end of last season with the lack of investment in the squad and the overall vibe around the place if we want to call it that just isn't very good so it's always we can talk hypothetically about these managers but this is all of course hypothetical and worth noting it's all my opinion as well so um take it with a pinch of salt so the i'm going to start off with a couple of managers that i think are
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the most likely candidates or the ones that would most likely take the job ah based off of their background and their experience.
David Moyes' Suitability for Wolves
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And those two managers are Graham Potter and David Moyes. Now, I think David Moyes would be the more likely candidate out of the two simply because of his experience and specifically experience with clubs of our size, I want to say.
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um I don't know sort of exactly how much more budget West Ham United had. I think they did have slightly more than what was had in the past. um And then of course he's had experience at United and Everton prior to that as well. And he's he's got so, so much experience as a manager in the Premier League. Some people do see him as a little bit of an old school manager. and I think obviously you don't make it as far as he has in management without having some depthier tactics but from the way that he lies his teams up and the ah kind of I always refer or think of David Moyes' teams as kind of having that
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that grit and determination and the kind of, um I don't know, the they kind of have a bit of a dirty attitude towards winning games.
Graham Potter's Fit and Challenges
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I don't know if that's absolutely correct and I'm sure there's some West Ham fans might correct me out there, but ah the fact that he was able to bring them to a to a major trophy winning the conference league of West Ham with a massive achievement and just the overall experience that he'll bring through his many many years of of managing in the prem and 20 seasons in total he was a Premier League manager for so if you're asking for experience and someone to kind of steer the ship towards the end of the season I don't think there would be many better people out there for it and the other name that I mentioned just then was Graham Potter and I think he on the other hand
00:04:34
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it's i I see it as obviously highly unlikely that Graham Potter wants to come to Wolves and to be honest I think it's highly unlikely that any managers are sitting there at home out of a job thinking oh gosh I'd really love to come to Wolverhampton Wanderers at this moment in time but Graham Potter's I guess experience has been always having a ah project on his hands. He's always had something that he's kind of built and the one opportunity or one time that he hasn't had something to build was at when he was thrown in at the deep end at Chelsea and there was a lot of changes going on above his head. um
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with this kind of ownership and understood situation at Chelsea. I ah personally yeah i don't see it, but he would potentially be a good a good choice.
Frank Lampard as a Potential Manager
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He's had four seasons in the Premier League, obviously guided Brighton to Premier League stability and loads of great success there as well, and he really had an opportunity to mould his own squad. Now, the barrier that I see for Graham Potter is that the Wolves board don't seem to be or they don't seem to have backed the previous couple of managers as much as those managers would have liked. Apparently Lopatei, he was promised a load of investment and he never came. So Gary O'Neill seems like the type of manager who's, or apparently he seems comfortable with the with the investment that has that has happened over the summer. Although his recent comments have maybe suggested otherwise, but we we covered that in the previous episodes. And if you'd like to hear myself and Chris have a good old rant, then feel free to to check out um
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Tuesday's episode there. But yeah, Graham Potter, I think would be a good option for us. He long term would be, in my opinion, a fantastic appointment, in that he can build his own squad and really put his stamp on the style of play that he wants. And he plays the style of football that I think Wolf fans would like, which is sort of that expansive playing out from the back attacking football. Now, I see him as way less likely than David Moyes.
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A few of the managers that are kind of out of the job at the minute is Frank Lampard. I remember seeing him at at the weekend. He was on the soccer soccer Sunday or whatever they call it, Super Sunday um on the the Chelsea United game. He's always got some interesting things to say, but as a manager, his record is... is alright. He did really well at Derby in the championship obviously and then came to Chelsea, had a decent first spell, then got the sack and came back again as a caretaker. He's got good experience. I think the one thing about Frank Lampard is that he he commands a bit of respect always initially because of his stature as a player and how good he was and throughout his playing career.
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I really don't see it from a logical point of view. I don't know if Frank Lampard would like to to move out from his um it London base and move to the sunny Midlands and Wolverhampton. But yeah, there's there's an option there. he's He's out of a job and then there's a few others. and um some of these are Some of these would be would be quite um unusual appointments and before I do actually go into that I just wanted to let all you listeners know that here at the Global Sports Podcast Network we spent a lot of time selecting our delivery platform. Zencaster came out the clear winner with 4K video recording from your phone and AI editing that automatically removes all those ums and r's
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Unlikely Candidates: Allardyce, Zidane, Löw, ten Hag
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so the Some managers that I think would just be funny to see are wolves and just even thinking about it is just just a bit odd. The first one um that i that I thought of or that is on this list of managers that are out of the job at the minute is um Sam Aladeis.
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Although I'm saying it's funny, the more the more I look at Sam Allardyce's record as a manager, he was last in a job on in June of 2023 when he was a manager of Leeds United. um His experience is all with clubs that are about to get relegated pretty much, or he's brought clubs from the championship into the Premier League. So as a um ah style of management and the clubs that he has managed, he's got probably the best CV to come and manage at Wolves. But I think the fact that he's been out of a job for the past year and I don't think anyone's wanted to really touch that amount of dice.
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um would mean that i think he's so sort of yeah left field when it comes to that appointment but it's just funny to think of big samma at the molyneux i think um it's funny almost in a sad way that this is even potentially a possibility but anyway samana dice has been out of the job for yeah just over well yeah just over a year now um and and Yeah, he's got he's got obviously all the experience in the world when it comes to to managing clubs that are near the bottom of the Premier League table. he He's had success at some of those and some of those have completely flopped, but he is, as you will, I'm sure, remember, and they only the only England manager to have a 100% win record. So that must mean something, right? um The other manager that I thought would would be a funny, funny appointment,
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would be zenadine zidan now i am I personally think it would be be brilliant to have Zizou at the Molyneux, or Zizou, as they say in France. I don't know if his style of play ah or language barrier would really work well in Wolverhampton. However, I think his ah he would obviously command a bit of respect, and imagining him in his suit in the dugout at the Molyneux is something that he would make Gary O'Neill look a little silly, I reckon, if they were standing side by side.
00:10:25
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So although I'm sure Gary O'Neill would have um absolutely had him in his pocket on the pitch back in their their playing days Zizou would be a say just be a funny appointment I don't think we see that many managers at the molyneux with suits on and but yeah, it's anything sedan strikes me or at least or I always visualize him with a suit on and I think he would be a Yeah, another left field appointment that would be, it it's it's nice to dream sometimes, right. The other one, um and the final one that I've, well there's actually, there's a couple more on on this list when i when I'm looking at it that that would be um an amusing and amusing watch on the sideline would be, one of them is Joachim Lo, the former
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Germany manager. And um yeah, I don't know if we want and a nose picker at the Molyneux, someone who just enjoys their bogeys just as much as managing successful football teams. But you know how Kim Lo has got got all of that in his um in his CV. And he was last managing in 2021 when he got sacked from the Germany job. So he's been out of a job for, yeah, over three years now.
Gareth Southgate's Prospects
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And the likelihood of that is again very very low but just you know stay with me here guys i'm i'm trying to keep us entertained with some um some ideas the another one that has recently got the sack from Manchester United as Eric Tenhar um i don't think his time in England was very fun at all it wouldn't surprise me if he's headed straight back to the Netherlands uh to move back in with his family and all the rest of it but
00:11:59
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the The man was never wrong, to be fair. He found an excuse for absolutely everything, and that is in line with Gary O'Neill. Potentially, yeah Eric Tenhar could learn a thing or two from garoneil because ah Gary O'Neill's managed to to wiggle in some lies into his interviews as well, which I don't know how much Eric Tenhar lied in his interviews, but I'm sure he could learn a thing or two.
00:12:20
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and um The final manager that I'm going to mention here is Shavi, 44 years of age, little experience in management, and similar similar sort of experience in management to Gary O'Neill in the length of time that they've been managers. Obviously, super similar when it came to their playing careers, especially of the the level that they were playing at.
00:12:43
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um Obviously I am joking, ah but Shabu played an interesting start of football at Barcelona and him on the sidelines again, a funny thought for for the Wolves fans out there. um But yeah, that's that's it from the from my ideas today as managers that could potentially come in at Wolves.
00:13:05
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I hope it's been somewhat enjoyable and something different for you guys in this period of, well, it's a tough time to be a Wolves fan at the minute. It is a tough time. Before I leave you, I just wanted to remind you guys that this podcast is part of the Global Sports Podcast Network.
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It's the only network bringing you exclusive daily news and views on your Premier League team, the Premier League, Women's Football and Fantasy Football. A unique listening experience that puts fans first, bringing you the very latest breaking news from your team. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and make us your first listen every day. Global Sports Podcast Network, every club, every day. And on that note everyone, um I think that that is pretty much it from me today. As I mentioned, I think Graham Potter and David Moyes are probably the most likely candidates to come up for the job. I actually have just realised that I've forgotten Gareth Southgate out of this list. I don't know
00:14:06
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if he wants to get back into club management, but I think he would be, if if he's looking at that, Wolves would be a very, very big challenge, as it would be to any manager coming in at this point, especially given the situation going on with the owners and investment or or lack of, should I say. But Gareth Southgate, again, got some experience with Middlesbrough and the Prem, has obviously plenty of international experience with England. His style and the way he builds his teams are over ah especially with the England team was over a long period of time. He was able to establish a sort of stamp on it over the best part of a decade. So I don't know how well suited he would be to club football and how different that environment is to the international
Episode Conclusion and Farewell
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setup. But why not? Why not? Gareth Southgate, waistcoat himself, could maybe be at the Molyneux. So yeah, on that note, everyone.
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I hope you have a lovely end to your week and we will catch you in the next episode.