“Who’s going to do a better job?” » Or “long-awaited”?

We asked for your opinion on Gary O’Neil’s departure.

Here are some of your comments:

Steve: I’m always sorry to see a manager lose their job and it’s especially difficult since it’s a week before Christmas and O’Neil is such a nice guy. That being said, this is the right decision for the club and is probably a few weeks too late. This should have happened after the Everton defeat. The key now is to bring in someone before the January window who can consolidate the club and prevent relegation.

Dave: Honestly, what does the club’s board expect? Constantly forced to sell his best players and replace them with second rate players or unproven youngsters. It’s like Southampton a few years ago. On the pitch, they created chances but didn’t miss them, and there were too many individual nightmares in defense (not mistakes, nightmares). O’Neil was unlucky due to this culmination of circumstances on and off the field. He couldn’t have done much else without being on the field.

Phil: I should have left weeks ago. Certainly, selling off our best players doesn’t help, but the quality that remains is capable of doing much better.

Carl: It’s a real shame – £200m worth of players sold and more to come. Who the hell will do a better job with the same team, the same result and more convinced players to balance the books? I love Wolves – and that’s a big but – it’s inevitable, it only goes one way.

Chris: O’Neil’s dismissal was long overdue. His team had no identity and no idea how to defend corners! He didn’t know his best team. Jeff Shi and Fosun must now take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves: do they want to be here?

Michael: Thank God! The media’s love for Gary has been so misplaced. We have a very talented group of players who are constantly moving around the iPad and getting confused and baffled. There is not – and has not been – a discernible pattern of play. And O’Neil’s constant acceptance of applauding himself when things go well, and blaming players for “not doing what we told them during the week”, simply remains in the belly.