Turgid, miserable, dull, depressing…. Pick your adjective to describe quite easily the worst season many of us have ever endured.
The writing has been on the wall for the past 4 or 5 years and has finally delivered the relegation we all knew was an inevitability. The steady decline in the quality of the squad has been overseen by a clueless ownership, who have sold the crown jewels every year, only to replace them with a trolley dash down the middle isle of Finchfield’s Lidl.
It would appear that the Fosun misdirected strategy has been a constant cycle of hire a manager, don’t back the manager and then sack the manager when the inevitable failure happens. From Lage, Lopetegui, O’Neil to Periera; none have been backed and all have had their best players sold to undermine their plans.
Jeff’s decision to place Periera and Teti in charge of the recent recruitment, proved as wise as giving Liz Truss the keys to 10 Downing Street.
I was at the recent Wolves Forum and although Nathan Shi appeared to understand and acknowledge the mistakes of his incompetent predecessor Jeff, the proof will be in the pudding as to whether he is the right individual to rectify these shortcomings and help deliver promotion at the first time of asking.
And do we really trust the Fosun ownership to get it right next season? Nathan Shi spoke in the forum about identifying the right players they want in the club, getting transfer dealings done earlier, playing the right kind of football. Blah, blah, blah. We’ve heard, and swallowed this rhetoric from Fosun for years.
Rob Edwards has had a woeful season. Yes, the squad he inherited wasn’t anywhere near good enough to be competitive at this level, but with very little credit in the bank going into the next campaign, how many of us are confident he will deliver? Hopefully he can bin players like Tolu, Hwang, Tchatchoua, Mosquera and Toti and reinvigorate a squad and put together a collective who are of up for the fight.
The worry is that if he doesn’t start the season well, then the crowd will get restless, as will Nathan Shi.
We can only hope that the recent Andre four year contract extension was a clear sign of intent. I pointed out the clear lack of leadership on the pitch to Rob after the event, stating that Krejčí is quite clearly captain material, having recently taken over that role for his national side. That could be tricky, replied Rob. Intimating that, as we would expect for a player of his quality, Krejčí’s future lies elsewhere.
With the World Cup kicking off in exactly two weeks time, will we see any transfer business done before then, as promised by Nathan Shi at the forum? I seriously doubt it, but who knows, perhaps we really will see a new dawn and pig’s flying over Molineux.
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