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Welcome, Nuno son.

Not my first choice, wish we were more forward looking and all that. But he's here, and to be honest, he's probably what we need given everything we all know is wrong with the club and the team at present.

Positives are he was a goalkeeper, so he'll surely make the best decision on that front going forward. Hermansen has looked shocking, but those that had watched him regularly all rated him, so who knows, maybe in a different set up he might not be so bad, but expect Areloa to be first choice.

Brought Kilman into the Wolves team, and built him into a player we were stupid enough to pay £40mil for. Can't see if myself, but maybe he'll make him look competent, whatever way, the defence will improve under him. It can't not. And set pieces against us won't feel like penalty's.

He favours attacking fullbacks who get forward, and ours are suited to that. JWP won't start from now. The biggest positive of this appointment. He loves wingers, and we have one of the best in the league in Bowen, a rapid one in Summerville, and Guilherme will hopefully get some game time as back up in a style that will suit him. Fullkrug can maybe be our Chris Wood. Probably not, but lets hope so.

Ovbviously he's a counter attacking manager, but I don't think he's from the last 2 years of Moyes playbook. Hopefully it'll be the early version of Moyes, with quicker pressing and faster counter attacking. Let's fucking hope so. I remember Forest beating someone 7-0, and they scored loads of goals throughout the season.

The main problem remains, but fucking hell, this change was needed.

Massive Attack" wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 11:29

They always back their managers and give them plenty of time....

Yet another clear lie exposed.

Cant get past the feeling this is another dud appointment. This guy has done the rounds and got good contracts without really achieving much. Still it's going to be hard to attract a good manager to a club that has Sullivan and Brady involved. 
Good luck Nuno, let's see where we are by Xmas and whether we can get anyone in over January to give us a lift. 

zico wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 10:17

stubbo-admin wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 08:00 If we can get the football of the first 18 months of Moyes
...mid block, aggressive in our half, and fast attack on the break....am all in for this.

If he's the 18 yard Maginot line, hide in our box passive shite, then he won't last his 3 year deal.

Simply don't know enough to judge which it will be. But looking forward to seeing the best of Paqueta, Summerville, Bowen, Guilherme, and maybe even Soucek again.

 

Yep got to agree with that.  The frustration was once Lingard wasn't interested we never went out and got another player of that type which made it click, just a succession of slow players that contributed nothing counter attack wise. 

As much as many of us may want to see attacking football, could you imagine Ange's high line with the slow coaches in this team, it would be absolute suicide.  Fingers crossed Nuno will get a tune out of what we have because it's a hell of a wait until we can get anyone else in playing wise.  

 

honky cat" wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 09:54 Has any other club had 4 managers in less than 18 months?

Bloody hell!!!!! yesterday was way too much for a West Ham fan, a sacking and appointed on the same day.....

Saying we’ve had four managers in eighteen months sounds bad but maybe it’s better put as two managers through a season. 

I am sure that Watford, as an extreme example, had three managers in a season of league games.

honky cat" wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 09:54 Has any other club had 4 managers in less than 18 months?

 

stubbo-admin wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 08:00 If we can get the football of the first 18 months of Moyes
...mid block, aggressive in our half, and fast attack on the break....am all in for this.

If he's the 18 yard Maginot line, hide in our box passive shite, then he won't last his 3 year deal.

Simply don't know enough to judge which it will be. But looking forward to seeing the best of Paqueta, Summerville, Bowen, Guilherme, and maybe even Soucek again.

 

From what I've read, Nuno works a lot on organisation and there's a lot of repetition on the training ground to drill specific roles into the players. This seems like a much more effective approach at getting the best out of the players at your disposal, compared to Potter's emphasis on flexibility, wanting his players to be able to adapt to different roles, tactics and formations, often in the same game.

Has any other club had 4 managers in less than 18 months?

I remember the same discussions when Moyes rolled up second time. The concensus being that so long as we were getting results the football would be tolerated. And do it came to pass. After an 18 month spell of getting results our league form fell off a cliff in the second half of the 21/22 season ( which I still link back to the departure of Alan Irvine ). The calls for Moyes to go grew louder and louder from that point onwards. He manahed to survive because in Europe his style was still effective and that and winning the Conf cup papered over the poor form.  

Nuno having complete control of recruitment via super agent Jorge Mendes is probably key to the future this time around.  He managed to attract Portugese players to Wolves they would not ordinarily get to create a bery good team albeit ultimately it was a stepping stone as many then went onto the richer clubs.  

So assuming he can get some improvements immediately ( no guarantee ) I see maybe 2 ok seasons before it all unravels but will be overjoyed to he proven wrong

Next 2 games are his honeymoon. After the international break the real work starts.

A new manager should have been in in June.

this is mentalism on dpeed

I'm not at all fussed about Moyes/Numo football when it works.  It's when it doesn't work, it becomes negative and boring

Fast, counter attacking football (which it can produce) keeps me on the edge of my seat.

It fell apart when teams allowed us to have the ball under Moyes.  He didn't have much of a plan B to that.  Hopefully Nuno does.

That's exactly where I'm at, Stubbo.

The Moyes football in the and around the Lingard era was electric, we were always in games, was never bothered about going behind because we always seemed to turn games around. That I'd be more than happy with, and I do actually think we're more suited to that than anything at the moment.

If it's just basic 10 men behind the ball, barely getting out of our half, getting Antonio out of retirement style of football, then it will be a disaster. Not that I'm an expert on his teams, but I can never remember them being like that, he's always managed to get the best out of good classy players, like Neves at Wolves and Gibbs-White at Forest, hopefully he'll do the same with Paqueta and Fernandes.

Let's hope so.

If we can get the football of the first 18 months of Moyes
...mid block, aggressive in our half, and fast attack on the break....am all in for this.

If he's the 18 yard Maginot line, hide in our box passive shite, then he won't last his 3 year deal.

Simply don't know enough to judge which it will be. But looking forward to seeing the best of Paqueta, Summerville, Bowen, Guilherme, and maybe even Soucek again.

Good luck Nuno…

Potter a shambles…but a very rich one…

Shown up for the fake he is…

We have problems all over the squad…

Cant defend…Can’t Score…Slow non creative MF…

Anything above 15th will be an OK FIRST SEASON…

Not bothered how we get the points…

Just win a few fuming games…quickly…





Tough times ahead…

I thought we were giving Potter Everton to work his magic. Ha ha ha.
I am interested to see how Nuno does.
Welcome to the merry go round, Nuno.

I see we have the usual bad mouthing from that failed breakfast TV host Richard Keys. You'd have thought the prick was a member of the board the amount of time he passes his limited knowledge on to the faithful. "Be careful what you wish for"  is what he said when they sacked the Walrus. What I wish for is this know nothing twat loses his job.

He did very well with Forrest last season

I'm optimistic

How long before the "Nuno Out" thread is started and in full swing Get a poll up Stubbo son!

Its maybe not the West Ham way, but certainly the WHO way...................

I give it 2 weeks, he gets free pass for Everton, but after we get demolished by Arsenal????

*Happy to be wrong BTW and im optimistic, but not expecting a strong start, our rabal will need month or so to sort out....

This is all very depressing and I can't get remotely excited about this appointment - although I'm glad Potter's gone and, given our ownership, he might be the best we're likely to get. I literally can't remember the last time I enjoyed a game at the LS and wish I had listened to my sane self and not renewed this season. 
It would appear that Nuno is a Moyes type of manager and I'm not sure how much more of that I can take. There must be someone who can keep us up and at the same time give us something decent to watch. Not anyone we're likely to get I guess.

I'm really hoping this turns out much better than I'm expecting. Maybe it will. 

RBshorty wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 19:22 Calling it now NYC. 
Wolves.
Burnley.
And Us.
Championship bound.

”ALL HAIL. THE GLORIOUS LEADER MASTER PLAN.!”

9898 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 19:24 Love getting a manager that's been sacked twice in the last 3 years!