Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday sacked supervisor Gary O’Neil after a run of 4 straight Premier League defeats.
The membership are second from backside of the desk with 9 factors from 16 video games after Saturday’s 2-1 dwelling loss to fellow strugglers Ipswich.
“Wolves have parted firm with head coach Gary O’Neil and his backroom employees,” the membership stated in an announcement.
“O’Neil arrived at Molineux simply three days earlier than the beginning of the 2023/24 Premier League season, taking over a major problem and in the end guiding the Outdated Gold to a profitable marketing campaign.”
Chairman Jeff Shi stated: “We’re very grateful to Gary for all of his effort, dedication and laborious work throughout his time on the membership, and we want him and his crew the most effective of luck for the longer term.”
Feelings spilled over at full-time on Saturday as Rayan Ait-Nouri was proven a second yellow card and Matheus Cunha additionally needed to be restrained.
O’Neil, 41, was appointed in August 2023 following the departure of Julen Lopetegui and signed a brand new four-year cope with the membership in August this 12 months.
Wolves completed 14th in his first season on the membership however have discovered themselves in a relegation scrap through the present marketing campaign.
Frustrations additionally boiled over in Monday’s defeat to West Ham when Mario Lemina scuffled with Jarrod Bowen after the full-time whistle, ensuing within the Wolves midfielder being stripped of the captaincy.
Wanderers had been then crushed by Jack Taylor’s stoppage-time header on Saturday and following the full-time scuffles, O’Neil stated his gamers wanted to “take some accountability”.
“We cope with issues like that very, very significantly, as you noticed final week,” O’Neil stated.
“It is annoying in that we have sufficient to do at this second in time, we have got sufficient to repair with out me having to spend time on issues that go on off the pitch.
“So the gamers do must take some accountability. However I am going to assist them with all of it so we get again to work on Monday morning.”
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