Re: Post-Wolves Meltdown

[Deano's Shorts]

When Wolves won League One in 2014 with 103 points, they finished their first season back in the Championship in 7th place, similar to the position we're in now.

How aggrieved they must have felt to not secure automatic promotion with a spine of Stearman, Evans and Clarke in their ranks and spending a few million in the transfer market.

The following two seasons they finished 14th and 15th.

Cue Chinese investor buyout in 2016, a £50m spending spree (including two players over £10m each) and hey presto, you're running away with the league.

Wednesday's first three seasons back in the Championship from 2012 saw them finish 18th, 16th and 13th respectively, spending approximately £1m on players each year. Cue Thai investor buyout and two seasons of spending £10m+ per year, and they're in the playoffs two seasons on the bounce.

However, despite another £15m on players this season, their current standing proves that spending money doesn't always guarantee league position. As it stands the Blades are still hugely overperforming, and under a different manager we may well have found ourselves fighting to stay up.

 

[Sheffsteel]

True.....but the United team from last season was better then both the Wolves and Wednesday promoted teams.
I know we got 100 points but it should have been far more. We started really poorly.
Last season I’ve never seen any team dominate league 1 matches so much as what we did.
Some matches our defence was camped on the half way line and some teams hardly got in our half.
Logic suggests it’s was pretty obvious we’d have a good season (at least mid table) in the Championship.

 

[EzxaBlade]

True.....but the United team from last season was better then both the Wolves and Wednesday promoted teams.
I know we got 100 points but it should have been far more. We started really poorly.
Last season I’ve never seen any team dominate league 1 matches so much as what we did.
Some matches our defence was camped on the half way line and some teams hardly got in our half.
Logic suggests it’s was pretty obvious we’d have a good season (at least mid table) in the Championship.

If you're honest though you didn't see that Wolves side every week so you don't really know how easily they were beating teams. To come up with over 100 points suggests they were just as good as we are now.

 

[Harry's Game]

Wolves had Premier League parachute money when in League one and still had it the following season when finishing 7th in The Championship, which makes Wilders achievements last season and so far this even more remarkable.

Also makes it a bit frustrating to wonder what we could have done this season with the sort of money Wolves had when they came back up.

 

[Tezza1889]

The crucial part is the managerial changes, the turnaround for wolves who were spending well and also the pigs was the appointment of higher profile managers who had instant success where previous managers plodded on and eventually ran out of ideas.

Like at the bigger prem clubs the new managers impact seems to be the first couple of seasons then it wanes a little and they’re fired (Carlos) pigs missed the boat against hull cause foristieri got a whack in the first five mins of the final against hull and went in to the corner sulking, and again a player let them down by sulking and getting scared against Huddersfield... with wolves they’re bypassing the playoff lotto by breaking FFP in half and paying the fine... also enabling them to buy a top class side to take up with them, forgot the name of the manager at wolves ( Nino?) but he’s only got one or maybe two seasons at wolves after going up, unless he takes them into the top 6 on his second season in the premier, the ambition at wolves is the same thing the prince wants for sheff utd, get up, stabilise and sell for a profit, the problem is, we don’t have the money not by a long shot, as far as football is concerned the Prince has five star expectations and three star pockets, something it seems kev has got fed up with..

Ps I’m not prince bashing here, how can you when he’s never “here”

 

[Harvey Robinson-Smythe]

The crucial part is the managerial changes, the turnaround for wolves who were spending well and also the pigs was the appointment of higher profile managers who had instant success where previous managers plodded on and eventually ran out of ideas.

Like at the bigger prem clubs the new managers impact seems to be the first couple of seasons then it wanes a little and they’re fired (Carlos) pigs missed the boat against hull cause foristieri got a whack in the first five mins of the final against hull and went in to the corner sulking, and again a player let them down by sulking and getting scared against Huddersfield... with wolves they’re bypassing the playoff lotto by breaking FFP in half and paying the fine... also enabling them to buy a top class side to take up with them, forgot the name of the manager at wolves ( Nino?) but he’s only got one or maybe two seasons at wolves after going up, unless he takes them into the top 6 on his second season in the premier, the ambition at wolves is the same thing the prince wants for sheff utd, get up, stabilise and sell for a profit, the problem is, we don’t have the money not by a long shot, as far as football is concerned the Prince has five star expectations and three star pockets, something it seems kev has got fed up with..

Ps I’m not prince bashing here, how can you when he’s never “here”

Wolves won't breach FFP. They posted a profit in 2016/17. Yes, they will post a loss in 2017/18 but as FFP is over 3 years. It won't matter.

Sorry to disappoint.