22 Sep 2025 10:06:15
Been away on holidays and off line for two weeks.
Since I last looked, 4 significant things seem to have happened
1 good, 1 not surprising, 1 bad and 1 insanely surprising.
JSL signed a new contract without a release clause
Wolves lost away at Newcastle .
Wolves lost, seemingly quite badly, at home to Leeds. The 2nd of the 8 must win games I identified in an earlier post "the road to survival" both lost at home!
Wolves gave Vitor a new contract!
As Wolves have picked up 1 point from the last 9 league games in normal circumstances he would be on very very thin ice and in my view should actually be gone now! However sacking him either this week or even over the next few weeks will both be highly embarrassing and very expensive!
What is going on?

I can totally understand why Vitor signed a new contract as he was, (in the rational world), just about to be sacked and a new contract hugely increases the pay off he will receive. However, why did Jeff offer him a new contract as, even as a non football man, he knows he is likely to have to sack him soon - lesson learnt from not sacking GON soon enough?
Was he frightened that Vitor would walk and no one credible would take the job?
To be honest I have no idea - but is Jeff really this stupid?

However the far far more relevant question is why is the club in this mess?
The short answer for anyone with the wit and willingness to see is that this has been coming since Seville.
Phil, (an ex-poster for those that don't know him), used to ask me if Wolves would go down this season and I would reply no not this year but its coming. Now I am not so certain that the club has done enough to avoid the drop this year.
But specifically this year?
I tend to agree with Wandering and say that to a large extent it sits with Vitor
Yes Wolves had yet another abysmal transfer window - selling high quality and experienced players and buying, for not insignificant sums, 6 largely younger players with no Prem experience. (Incredibly Wolfe already appears written off - 3rd choice LWB now? - and only Krejci is seemingly currently playing at the levels required.)
Also to be fair to Vitor I question if this really is his side?
I know I have read that he has said he is "happy" but given he was being given a new contract to quote Mandy Rice Davies "he would say that wouldn't he?"
We certainly know he wanted Krejci as he was on the "list" but if he is happy with the rest of this squad he is even more damned than I had thought. I suspect that he wouldn't have wanted to lose the quality players he did and we know he wanted to buy "better" players, including some of those on his "list". He can however only operate within the restrictions of the market - prices Wolves will pay, wages Wolves will pay and even more relevantly players willing to come to Wolves.
But it is far worse than this. The squad is awful but nothing like this bad. Vitor seemingly has lost if not the entire dressing room at least elements of it - Andre, now one of the 2 best players is clearly out of sorts and the body language of several others including seemingly JSL is apparently poor.
Selections, tactics, fitness and morale all are poor according to numerous pundits and social media posters.
Like Emmanuel's form in the second half of last year was that brief flurry of results against the bottom 6 last season the high point of Vitor's reign?

1.) 22 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 10:47:39
As I said in my previous post TFIOG it's a multi layered mess no doubt and sadly it won't get any better whether we survive relegation this season or not.

For Shi and VP to both claim he got the players he wanted is pure PR nothing more, nothing less. The Club is on it's knees now thanks to the owners lack of investment and Shi's incompetence controlling the way whatever money they do have, is spent.

Everyone is trying to work under continually deteriorating circumstances, it makes no sense.

2.) 22 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 11:20:36
Unfortunately my friends Jeff is guilty of the old doing the same things over again and expecting a different result. As they say good luck with that one!
Obviously I do hope we get a different result but I am not going to hold my breath.
COYW

3.) 22 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 11:32:14
Clearly something is amiss, what? I don't know. Is Jeff really stupid enough to give VP a new contract knowing he will need to fire him before Christmas, I don't know and without knowing the details its hard to say, but yes it may be difficult to replace the manager this time.

4.) 22 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 12:29:19
I have started to question as well if VP has lost the players as Future mentions. Krejci I think looks a good player, Lopez has potential, the rest of the new signings, to be kind, need more time to settle. Arias and Wolfe not looking likely to ever be good replacements for Cunha and RAN.

I do still think we are a better team than the way we are performing, maybe this poor form is due to the players not being happy, whether this is down to VP or the actions of Jeff and Co, something is not right.
Will we beat Everton, Spurs or Brighton?

Best chance seems to be Everton if they play a weakened side, real possibility we lose the next 3 unfortunately, then what?

5.) 22 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 14:50:50
They always say the first sig of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, well step forward Jeff Shi who is the ultimate proof of this statement.

As stated no one with credibility will want to touch us with a barge pole. If people think Nuno would come back when the problem is still here (Jeff again) then think again, would you go back to a company you had a fall out with the boss I think not.

When the same story is being peddled out by 4 previous managers then the issue is still there (Jeff again).

On Fosun they may look at it different and think they bought it for £50 odd million and now worth £350 million so in theory he's done his job.

I don't know how it will turn out but unless something changes quickly we will go down. It will be worse in December when at least 5 players leave to the Afcon.