Treinadores - Rumores e Transferências

[El Shafto]

Citação de vakjew, há 22 horas:

Eu gostava era de saber qual é a equipa adequada para o Amorim. Depois do falhanço no United, não vai aparecer nenhum clube estruturado e com um plantel no lugar atrás dele.

Vai ter de se meter noutra equipa em problemas e dar ao pedal.

Eu recomendaria Sporting Clube de Portugal

Parece-me uma belíssima equipa para ele, até pode ser arriscado mas, nunca se sabe, pode correr bem

[Mwangaza]

Citação de Chandler, há 1 hora:

Pepa é melhor do que qualquer outra solução de que eu me pudesse lembrar. E é, certamente, o treinador mais caro da história do clube.

Conheço algumas pessoas da equipa técnica e estão super motivados. Com jeitinho ainda faço a minha estreia na Reboleira. 

[Chandler]

Os dois adjuntos? São os mesmos?

[Ghelthon]

Citação de Chandler, há 1 hora:

Pepa é melhor do que qualquer outra solução de que eu me pudesse lembrar. E é, certamente, o treinador mais caro da história do clube.

Como estão aqueles problemas administrativos de que se tem falado? Espero que não se entalem por isso.

[Mwangaza]

Citação de Chandler, há 2 horas:

Os dois adjuntos? São os mesmos?

Um deles pelo menos é. Mas penso que vão os dois sim. 

[Sandes.]

Citação de Jimpo, há 13 horas:

Aquilani no Sassuolo. 

Seria importante tê-lo debaixo de olho. 

A pesquisa no cmpt é fraquinha, mas lembro-me de o referir há uns tempos quando o Amorim ia para o west ham ou assim. Obviamente que na altura era mais como meme, mas já estava a mostrar resultados fixes 

[pedritsh]

 

[Sandes.]

Citação de pedritsh, há 1 hora:

 

Que aura de verde e branco

[Eden Hazard]

Wolves are not a serious football club

Spoiler

Just when you think Wolverhampton Wanderers are going to be a normal football club, back come Gestifute and Jorge Mendes to remind everyone what they signed up for.

The reaction of thousands of Wolves supporters to Rob Edwards being sacked completely out of the blue — or indeed neutrals seeing the surprising news break late on Wednesday night or early on Thursday morning — will have been a collective: “What? Huh?”

That will have been immediately followed by a click on Google to search “Cesar Peixoto”.

Even for Wolves, even for football, this is a bit of a mad one.

Sure, Edwards hardly had a convincing seven months in charge. He made some mistakes, he wasn’t universally popular with supporters, but he engineered some great results against Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal, and, amid extremely trying circumstances — he took over with Wolves in the midst of the worst start by any club to any season in the history of English football — it seemed certain he would lead the team in the Championship, which is effectively what he was hired to do.

Why did it seem certain, even though some supporters were chanting “you don’t know what you’re doing” at Edwards as recently as last month?

Well, because Wolves left no one in any doubt Edwards was supposedly staying.

When Brazilian international midfielder Andre surprisingly signed a new contract on May 26, 20 days ago, a member of the Wolves media team asked him if it reflected the confidence he had in his head coach.

“Rob, gaffer, gives me a lot of confidence, I am very grateful to him for everything he has done for me,” Andre said.

“With the players who are coming in I believe it will be a very strong squad in which he (Edwards) will have complete control of the situation.”

When ex-Newcastle United and England full-back Kieran Trippier signed for Wolves three days ago, he told club media this on Edwards:

“I had a good chat with the manager and what struck me first was how passionate he was for helping the club move forward to get out of the Championship next season.

“You just have a feeling straight away and I felt that chemistry straight away with the manager.”

And when Raul Jimenez, even more surprisingly, rejoined Wolves two days ago after leaving Fulham, Edwards was part of the official announcement video.

We’ll say that again: two days ago.

To sack him immediately afterwards smacks of a club that either isn’t very good at PR, or had absolutely no idea this was happening.

This shock move has the fingerprints of Mendes, Gestifute, and Fosun boss Guo Guangchang all over it, rather than sporting director Matt Jackson or perhaps even new chairman Nathan Shi.

Wolves have been here before.

In 2017, Paul Lambert was sacked 23 days after the end of a Championship campaign in which he had not entirely convinced steadying the ship after the disastrous appointment of Walter Zenga, who had Wolves heading towards a relegation battle.

But the general feeling was he deserved a chance at taking the team into the following season.

Ryan Bennett, the 2017 version of Trippier, had been lined up on a free transfer, with Lambert’s approval.

When Lambert got the boot, it was Mendes and his trusty lieutenant Valdir Cardoso who engineered what was next: lure a Portuguese manager from their Gestifute stable in Nuno Espirito Santo and deliver a load of either Portuguese or Gestifute players (or both), specifically Ruben Neves, Diogo Jota, Willy Boly, Leo Bonatini, Ruben Vinagre and Roderick Miranda, who all bought into the project.

It worked spectacularly well and, by late August, no one was missing Lambert.

Wolves romped to the Championship title, fans called the agent “Uncle Jorge” and wore Mendes masks, and the team were playing in Europe as part of the most exciting period in the club’s modern history.

This time around, the hallmarks are similar, but it all feels far less convincing.

For a start, sacking Edwards 18 days after the end of the Premier League season is utterly humiliating and embarrassing for Wolves, given the recent Edwards PR overdrive they have undertaken — which included him, Jackson and Shi fronting up to disillusioned supporters at a very rare fans’ forum just a few weeks ago.

They look incompetent and shambolic.

If Wolves had ditched Edwards on May 25, a day after the season — “Thanks Rob but it didn’t quite work out, we thought you could do slightly better with the players you had, the fans turned on you, we feel it’s time for a clean slate in a new division” — then fine.

However, the manner and timing absolutely stinks, especially at a time when the club has preached transparency and a new era in the Championship with Edwards at the helm and Trippier, Andre and Jimenez under his wing.

It would also be more palatable if, say, Kieran McKenna, who left Ipswich Town this week, had been lined up as Edwards’ replacement. Or, if it really has to be another Portuguese manager, at least someone of Nuno’s ilk.

At the time Nuno was hired in 2017, Mendes’ best mate had taken Rio Ave to Europe for the first time in the club’s history, then guided Valencia into the Champions League and had a passable season with Porto.

Peixoto? Well, he’s clearly a talented coach.

As The Athletic’s Guillermo Rai points out, he is considered one of the most promising coaches in Portuguese football.

And he has inspired Gil Vicente to be able to compete with clubs boasting significantly larger budgets.

However, his career history is checkered to say the least.

He was sacked after short-term stints at Pacos de Ferreira and Moreirense, and his 15 months in charge at Gil Vicente is the longest he has lasted at any club.

While guiding them to sixth in the Primeira Liga is a notable achievement, it’s not exactly unheard of. They finished fifth in 2022, after all.

He was recently linked with the Benfica job, but didn’t get it.

Instead, they hired Marco Silva on Wednesday and then on Thursday, Peixoto was put in place at Wolves instead.

The Mendes carousel in full flow. He’s not exactly subtle.

Look, this is football and this is what happens when your owners have a financial commitment which ties them to an agency (Fosun have a minority stake in Gestifute).

Plus, Edwards left Middlesbrough in the lurch a few months into last season, abandoning them when they were riding high in the Championship. Now Wolves/Fosun have left him in the lurch.

It happens.

And yes, perhaps if Edwards had solidified his position, both with some slightly better results and a better relationship with the supporters, we probably would not be in this position.

He started with a run of seven defeats and ended with a run of eight games without a win.

Whatever the circumstances — and he did have one hand tied behind his back with a limited, flawed squad at his disposal — those sequences put you at risk.

But what about Wolves and their new era?

Jackson’s position as technical director now looks fairly futile when it comes to making big decisions, just as the role did at times for his predecessors Matt Hobbs, Scott Sellars and Kevin Thelwell, who were all promoted from within and were often sidelined by Fosun and/or Gestifute.

He, Edwards and Shi attempted to, briefly, put on a united front as part of the club’s new dawn.

Shi’s predecessor Jeff Shi had eschewed notions like public accountability and was so unpopular that fans hounded him out via protests last year.

The new Shi represented a new start and Edwards and Jackson were front and centre of it.

Instead, everyone remains at the whim of Mendes, Gestifute and Fosun owner Guangchang, pulling the puppets along on strings.

Wolves are not a serious football club.

It may all work out. Peixoto may be the new Nuno, Mendes may deliver a raft of exciting Gestifute signings this summer and Wolves may be back in the Premier League in a year, asking everyone what were they worried about.

But right now, just when Wolves supporters who had to endure the team’s worst season in its 149-year history thought they were getting their open, transparent, sensibly-run club back, they are heading once more into the unknown.

Entrada de César Peixoto provoca enorme reboliço no Wolverhampton

[Chandler]

Citação de Ghelthon, há 14 horas:

Como estão aqueles problemas administrativos de que se tem falado? Espero que não se entalem por isso.

A ideia era que o investimento externo ia resolver isso, e uma parte significativa da SAD estava para ser vendida ao Muller, ao Sommer e ao Hummels. Vinha um CEO do Bayern. Parece-me que a chegada do Pepa já vem na sequência desse dinheiro.

[Ghelthon]

Citação de Chandler, há 1 hora:

A ideia era que o investimento externo ia resolver isso, e uma parte significativa da SAD estava para ser vendida ao Muller, ao Sommer e ao Hummels. Vinha um CEO do Bayern. Parece-me que a chegada do Pepa já vem na sequência desse dinheiro.

Bom, não sendo uma parte maioritária, acaba por ser uma boa solução, e certamente melhor do que afundarem.

[Diogo_CFB]

Subiu à I Liga, mas deixa Académico de Viseu: "Saio de consciência tranquila" - O Jogo

[Fajo]

Citação de pedritsh, há 3 horas:

 

Vamos ver agora, é um ponto importante na carreira dele.

[pedritsh]

 

[Thierry Henry]

 

 

[JGabriel]

Lembram-se do Sandro, que jogou no Tottenham há uns quantos anos e chegou a ser associado ao Sporting a certa altura? 

Vai treinar o S. João de Ver e na senda de ex-jogadores que ganham um segundo nome quando viram treinadores, passa a ser Sandro Raniere. 

[Immobile]

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