Gary O’Neil: Keith Wyness can’t believe source’s Wolves sack reveal

Gary O’Neil: Keith Wyness can’t believe source’s Wolves sack reveal

Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness has insisted Wolves would be “guaranteeing relegation” by sacking Gary O’Neil.

Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – suggested he can’t believe the Englishman is already under scrutiny, claiming “people have very short memories”.

Sources told Football Insider on Tuesday (24 September) that O’Neil will face intense sack pressure at Wolves if the Midlands club’s results don’t improve.

The Molineux club are bottom of the Premier League and are yet to win a top-flight game in the 2024-25 campaign.

Liverpool, Brentford and Man City lie in wait for Wolves in their next three league games.

Sources say O’Neil has “credit in the bank” with club chiefs after leading the Molineux club to a 14th-place finish last term following huge player sales.

Wolves would ‘guarantee relegation’ by sacking O’Neil, says Wyness

Wyness told Football Insider‘s Insider Track podcast: “People have got very short memories.

“He did a great job last season and had them performing so much better than Wolves deserved to be with the resources he had.

“They’ve lost some players again in this summer window.

“The board have got to stick with him, and that may be difficult for them to do.

“But changing at Wolves would almost guarantee they’d be going down.

“O’Neil’s got the ability to turn it round, he’s had some unlucky results – I don’t think it’s been necessarily bad performances through this season.”

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A ninth-place Premier League finish and a Europa Conference League trophy in the previous season weren’t enough to save Moyes from getting the sack at the end of last season.

Lopetegui was brought in to replace him and the club spent an impressive £121.6million on 10 new first-team players over the summer.

“We’ve spoken about David before, and I don’t really think it was time for him to go, people didn’t want David to go, what they wanted was for him to get the traps of them and let them go and play football.

“They would have been happy with that, and as he kept saying, ‘This man wins games’ and he did, he won games and did brilliant but that’s gone now.

“I didn’t think he’d come back the second time, nothing surprises me now in football, he knows the club inside out.