That spirit of optimism contributed at Old Trafford to a display that brought no points - due in no small part to a now-familiar VAR controversy - but plenty of encouragement. O’Neil has not spirited away Wolves’ problems in less than a week at the helm, but the former Bournemouth boss has, instead, chosen to leave them to someone else and adopted a glass-half-full approach to the players he has. The Athletic has been told that the mood in his final weeks in charge was downbeat but businesslike.īut there was a nagging feeling among staff that had the Spaniard remained in post and continued to talk down the club’s chances of success amid the refusal to spend money on players, morale would have inevitably trickled away, however justified some of Lopetegui’s grievances were.
Lopetegui’s reign did not end with misery at Molineux. On Monday night, he was repaid both on the pitch and in the stands at Old Trafford with a defeat that was greeted like a victory, such was the hope it generated among a fanbase desperate for reasons to be optimistic. After defeat in his opening game in charge, there remains much work to do at a club facing significant financial issues.īut in less than a week in the role, O’Neil has been relentlessly positive.
O’Neil has barely had the chance to get his feet under his new desk. The new boss told his players they would use the adversity as extra motivation to prove wrong the naysayers tipping them for relegation. In his first meeting with his players a day earlier, O’Neil had addressed head-on the negative “noise” around the club amid a summer of no transfer spending and the departure of Julen Lopetegui.
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