Wolves will now enter a new dawn, after Gary O’Neil was finally sacked today as first-team manager.
The defeat to Ipswich Town proved to be the final straw, and the hunt is now on for a new man to lead this struggling club.
It’s already been reported that Vitor Pereira has held talks with Wolves about succeeding O’Neil, Apparently, he’s keen to come, and personal terms won’t be a problem.
It’ll certainly be a fascinating appointment if it happens, but fans won’t expect too much to change while Fosun remains at the helm.
Today, fans have been reflecting on Gary O’Neil’s tenure.
It started out so promising, but things started to go wrong following the defeat to Coventry City in the FA Cup last season.
Things have been especially bad this season, and now, details have started to emerge as to what the true feeling about O’Neil was behind the scenes.
Gary O’Neil’s ‘management of the squad, tactics and team selection’ left Wolves hierarchy ‘bewildered’
The Telegraph have provided some information regarding what the feeling was about O’Neil behind the scenes.
The narrative has always been that O’Neil was still impressing despite poor results, and that he was still held in high regard.
But the Telegraph has cast a slight bit of doubt on that now.
They claim O’Neil’s ‘management of the squad, tactics and team selection has often left the hierarchy bewildered’ and interestingly, it’s also claimed there were doubts internally over O’Neil’s coaching staff, which included Tim Jenkins, Shaun Derry and Ian Burchnall.
There is also mention of Jack Wilson, the set-piece coach Wolves hired and then fired after only a few months. He was said to have been a ‘divisive’ figure, who was ‘regularly clashing with staff in meetings’.
The ‘final straw’ for the Wolves hierarchy with O’Neil was the perception that he had ‘lost’ some of his players, which had become evident in the way he spoke about the group after the defeat to Ipswich.
Pundit Ashley Williams said on Match of the Day that he didn’t like O’Neil’s interview after the Ipswich defeat, feeling he was not taking accountability himself.
O’Neil sacking was long overdue
The decision to sack O’Neil has come weeks after it should have done, and fans are worried that it may have come too little too late now in terms of surviving relegation.
It is the right call for him to go, but fans know there are far more issues for the club than O’Neil.
| Position | Team | Played MP | Won W | Drawn D | Lost L | For GF | Against GA | Diff GD | Points Pts |
| 14 |  West HamWest Ham | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 28 | -8 | 18 |
| 15 |  EvertonEverton | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 21 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 |  LeicesterLeicester | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 30 | -9 | 14 |
| 17 |  Crystal PalaceCrystal Palace | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -6 | 13 |
| 18 |  IpswichIpswich | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 27 | -13 | 9 |
| 19 |  WolvesWolves | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 38 | -15 | 9 |
| 20 |  SouthamptonSouthampton | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 31 | -20 | 5 |
Ultimately, recruitment has been poor in recent times and the desire to get Wolves to become self-sustaining has not allowed for progression – it has actually probably had the opposite effect.
So while O’Neil deserved to go, he should also go with the well-wishes of fans. He did bring some great moments during his tenure, and at one point he did genuinely get fans believing he could achieve great things.