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Manager Sack Watch

Vitor Pereira gone...

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Vitor Pereira: Wolves sack head coach after winless start to Premier League season

Wolves sack head coach Vitor Pereira after failing to win any of their 10 Premier League games this season.
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Wolves have sacked head coach Vitor Pereira after failing to win any of their 10 Premier League games this season.

A 3-0 defeat by Fulham on Saturday was Wolves' eighth of the top-flight campaign.

They are bottom of the table, eight points off safety.

Pereira took charge in December 2024 and signed a new three-year contract in September.

But a section of supporters turned on Pereira after the 3-2 loss to Burnley last week, when he was escorted away from heated discussions with fans after full-time at Molineux.
A club statement,, external which said all eight of Pereira's backroom staff have also left, said "results and performances this term have fallen below acceptable standards and as a result a change in leadership was deemed necessary".
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He was lauded after they beat us in April: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cpvrjppx0eeo

Since then they sold two of their best players (Cunha and Aït Nouri) and gave him 3 months before panicking. The new manager will probably have an effect, keep them up and then they'll have the same problems next season. Rather than building something, it's just a cycle of hire-sack-hire-sack until eventually you get relegated.
 
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The position of football manager is more than ever caught up in the fast forward world of scrutiny, over analysis and expectations. How is one expected to deliver anything (especially when also considering the variation of a mess they walk into in the first place) when everybody is itching to deliver the 'hes not good enough' mantra.

I'd happily have a rule where managers can only be changed in the summer.
 
Does it make sense for Edwards to move to Wolves? He could get promotion with Middlesbrough (currently 3rd) and pass Wolves on the way down. It would be embarrassing to jump ship, get relegated and see his old club promoted.

www.theguardian.com

Middlesbrough reject Wolves approach for head coach Rob Edwards

Wolves have had an official approach to make Rob Edwards their next head coach rejected by Middlesbrough, who are determined to keep him
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jts1882 said:
Does it make sense for Edwards to move to Wolves? He could get promotion with Middlesbrough (currently 3rd) and pass Wolves on the way down. It would be embarrassing to jump ship, get relegated and see his old club promoted.

www.theguardian.com

Middlesbrough reject Wolves approach for head coach Rob Edwards

Wolves have had an official approach to make Rob Edwards their next head coach rejected by Middlesbrough, who are determined to keep him
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Yeah, bigger club, higher ceiling, a chance to mange in the PL, which isn’t guaranteed to ever come again.
 
They are towards the bottom I guess but it’s a brutal, brutal business.

In a world where managers have less control over recruitment, much more scrutiny from media, much less patience from fans and less power within the club because the players are valuable assets, it’s an impossible job for all but the truly elite.

The knee jerk vitriol to individual results, something I’ve been guilty of at times, really needs to stop but it won’t.
 
DeanoAustin said:
They are towards the bottom I guess but it’s a brutal, brutal business.

In a world where managers have less control over recruitment, much more scrutiny from media, much less patience from fans and less power within the club because the players are valuable assets, it’s an impossible job for all but the truly elite.

The knee jerk vitriol to individual results, something I’ve been guilty of at times, really needs to stop but it won’t.
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You forgot. Relegation will cost a club around £100m. Missing out on champions league roughly the same.
The stakes are so huge these days.
 
Since PL WBA have had 14 years in it with an average position of 11th being relegated 5 times with a highest position of 8th in 2012/3. The last 4 season they have finished mid table.

What do their fans and owners expect, they are a second tier team and like most in that division struggle to stay in PL if promoted.

I don't think teams come under scrutiny from the media, someone notices results or league position and and fill space/time with "manager facing sack" story without much investigation.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
Since PL WBA have had 14 years in it with an average position of 11th being relegated 5 times with a highest position of 8th in 2012/3. The last 4 season they have finished mid table.

What do their fans and owners expect, they are a second tier team and like most in that division struggle to stay in PL if promoted.

I don't think teams come under scrutiny from the media, someone notices results or league position and and fill space/time with "manager facing sack" story without much investigation.
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It's a fair point. Scrutiny maybe the wrong word as it implies actual analysis.

They are subject to much more attention/spacegoating from the media.
 
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