18 Jun 2026 23:53:47
Nice to see JLo getting smashed by Canada. Walking out on us saying the players were terrible. We could beat Qatar!

1.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 06:08:09
I think you'll find that he didn't 'walk out' on us after all. He gave Jeff Shi about 6 weeks notice so that a replacement could be found.

Have we learnt nothing from the last week in that we shouldn't believe everything that's written down.

2.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 08:11:04
Lop walked as he knew he wouldn't get backed in the transfer window.

3.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 08:34:07
He left because he thought, after spending £100m in January, he could do the same in the summer and didn't seem to understand PSR. He stayed on because he had nowhere else to go, and was still being paid.

He did a good job keeping Wolves up.

But beyond that, his career is patchy at best. He's at Qatar for the money. West Ham was a disaster, but the writing was on the wall there when they replaced Moyes for him, thinking the style of football would be better.

4.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 11:18:06
Also worth noting on Lopetegui that he left because he felt the club's transfer policy would see them relegated, was he wrong?!

5.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 11:27:22
Good, maybe don't be so aggressive towards people when replying. If VB has said something that isn't correct, it's easy to say what you need to without coming across as such an angry know it all.

6.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 13:06:56
No aggression on my part. I was just pointing out that not everything printed is true.

The Kieran Trippier ripping up his contract story is a very recent example. Likewise, the post I put up yesterday about Hakimisports and people reacting.

7.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 14:48:28
All good. Hard to read tone in written text. Lop, for me, is all about the money. Spending 100m and then thinking we could keep doing the same with no restrictions. The only thing I didn't like is walking away from a team with 3 days to go before the season starts. He could have stayed until Jan to see how things went.

8.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 16:54:53
I think Lop was sold an idea by Jeff that simply wasn't true. At the time, I was so angry with Lops, and how he walked away on the eve of the season, but then, a few months later, it transpired that he told Jeff on the pre-season tour that he wanted out.

He gave the club 6 weeks to find a new manager, but again, it was handled very badly.

9.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 18:22:03
If Lop gave 6 weeks notice, then why did he get paid compensation? Was the contract set up that if he chose to leave he gets paid anyway? Can't get my head round that.

10.) 19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 18:53:30
If he was sacked, he would have been paid the remainder of his contract. As it was a mutual agreement, he was paid a %.