The Premier League side are keeping their faith in coach Gary O’Neill despite his side’s winless start to the season and the fact they sit at the bottom of the table with just one point.
The club parted ways with set-piece coach, Jack Wilson, after the club conceded set-pieces in five of their seven matches.
At the moment, it appears that winless Wolves will lose their next two matches, as they will face Manchester City and Brighton. Currently, Wolves are around 8/1 to beat last season’s champions according to most opinions Gambling sites in the United Kingdomwhile Gary O’Neill is the second candidate to be the next manager to be sacked on 7/2.
Having finished the 2023/2024 season in 14th place, Wolves fans and staff were hopeful of going one step further this season. Working to a fairly limited budget, they brought in nearly £60 million in new players during the summer transfer window, but saw highly-rated winger Pedro Neto leave for Chelsea with Maximilian Kilman also walking out the door, departing for West Ham. In total, Wolves saw a net transfer income of more than £30m.
After seven games, some observers may question the club’s transfer policy as they sit at the bottom of the table with just one point earned in a 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest. They had a very tough run of games at the start of the season, but faced Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool, as well as neighbors Aston Villa.
Wolves’ last match was against mid-table Brentford. the next Losing 5-3Manager Gary O’Neill described the match as the most disappointing of his tenure – a sentiment shared by the Wolves board. Sporting director Matt Hobbs said after the match that everyone at the club expected more.
However, in a show of confidence in O’Neill, who signed a new contract in the summer after a successful debut season, Hobbs went on to say that the club is looking for ways to support the manager. He also realized that the club played most of the top teams in the division and had not been completely bested in any match yet.
Things will not get easier in the team’s next match, when it faces defending champion Manchester City, which currently ranks second, and then Brighton, which is sixth. After that, they will have an easier series of matches with fellow strugglers Crystal Palace and Southampton.
While the club maintains faith in the manager, they have done so We parted ways with free kick coach Jack Wilson. Wilson was appointed in the summer, having previously worked with Manchester City. He was the club’s first specialist dead-ball coach, but after conceding the most goals from dead-balls in the league, and having scored just one goal in return, the manager and club collectively decided to let Wilson leave.
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