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Gary O’Neil feels he has the assist of the individuals above him at Wolves however questioned the membership’s mannequin after blaming the lack of numerous skilled gamers for the predicament they discover themselves in.
O’Neil’s place at Molineux is hanging by a thread after Wolves went down 2-1 at West Ham final night time in a recreation that was believed to have been essential for the managerial positions at each golf equipment.
Because it was, objectives from Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen both aspect of a Matt Doherty strike gave the Hammers a vital three factors and inflicted a 3rd successive defeat on Wolves, who stay within the relegation locations.
How the bottom-half of the Premier League desk seems…
West Ham go 9 factors away from the drop zone as Wolves struggle within the relegation zone 📉 pic.twitter.com/MPwWiK1qRG
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 9, 2024
The individuals above me are supportive – O’Neil
Requested about his job safety after the sport, O’Neil, who joined Wolves in August 2023, informed Sky Sports activities: “The individuals above me are supportive. However after all the supporters need their soccer membership to achieve success.
“I perceive them pointing the finger at me and it’s my staff and I’ve to take duty, however once I arrived at this soccer membership that they had picked up simply 41 factors within the Premier League [the previous season].
“Since that second, we now have managed to make £200m in participant gross sales. Now we have offered an terrible lot of gamers should you return to Ruben Neves, Joao Moutinho, Daniel Podence, Adama Traore, Raul Jimenez, Diego Costa, Pedro Neto and Max Kilman.
“After which we’re not now procuring in that market, we’re on the lookout for the opposite ones who’re for the longer term that may assist us within the now.
“As we’re discovering within the Premier League, it’s a ruthless league. The group are doing every little thing we are able to to stand up to hurry. However I’m actually happy with them.
“I do know we now have solely 9 factors and we’re in a tricky spot within the league however they’re giving every little thing. So I hope the supporters are nonetheless happy with the gamers regardless that they hate the place we’re in. They gained’t hate it greater than me. I’m proper there with them, whether or not they realize it or not.
“We gained’t hand over and we’ll maintain pushing. An enormous recreation in opposition to Ipswich is coming. And hopefully just a few of the little bits, our bits, the bits from the officers go our manner.”
“How is that not a foul?” 😮@Carra23 and Jermain Defoe are in settlement that there was a foul within the lead as much as West Ham’s winner. pic.twitter.com/sYfZCU9nVK
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 9, 2024
Wolves unlucky with a number of huge selections
O’Neil was rightly aggrieved that numerous key selections went in opposition to his staff on the London Stadium, significantly the awarding of West Ham’s winner from Bowen after Dinos Mavropanos climbed throughout Santi Bueno within the build-up.
VAR’s reasoning for permitting the objective was that Bowen scored from the following section of play however O’Neil disagreed.
“It’s loopy that,” he stated. “Santi Bueno goes to move the ball away, so it’s irrelevant [that the VAR said it’s a new phase of play] as we’d have cleared the ball.
“It’s a blatant foul on Santi Bueno and there’s no manner it’s a unique section. The ball continues to be in the identical space.
“They are going to discover causes, and naturally they may, and I get there might be gray areas and the wording of the rule may be interpreted in many alternative methods. However that’s a blatant foul on Bueno within the seconds earlier than the objective. That’s a blatant foul.”
Wolves had been additionally unlucky that West Ham’s opener got here from a nook that ought to not have been given with the ball coming off house defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
