After a slow end to the season, Wolves eventually finished the 2023/24 campaign 14th in the Premier League.
But it was still a season that offered plenty of positives as Gary O’Neil completed the first full campaign of his managerial career.The season began in confusion and turmoil and finished up with more uncertainty and dissatisfaction.
Throw in the fact that the ghastly VAR system reserved an inexplicable and wholly disproportionate percentage of its infuriating misjudgements to deflate us. This incompetence could have proved to be permanently wounding and the club’s proposal to abolish this ignominy may be perceived as grandstanding, but respected pundits conceded that Wolves suffered on an industrial scale. Currently, the system is a nonsense and simply has to reform itself dramatically.
The principal objective was achieved, splendidly so but reasons for the subsequent fall out cannot be ignored. Manchester City paid handsomely to take Matheus Nunes off the books and we didn’t miss him one jot. Conversely, we have been suffering since Diogo Jota left for Liverpool; clubs of our size need to do business with some flexibility and imagination. How Wolves line up in August is speculative, but currently the outlook is far from positive.
With hindsight, remarkably, we needn’t have worried. Although we didn’t know it at the time, by December 30 we’d enough points to stay up. Compared to being bottom, at Christmas, the season before, surely that shows improvement or does eventually finishing one position lower, in 14th, suggest not? For Wolves, our fluctuation was mainly driven by the availability of our front three. We lost Neto on matchday 10 for 10 games and he did not start any of our final 10 either. From matchday 20 Hwang missed 10 of the next 13 games while Cunha left the field on matchday 24 and missed 10 of the next 11. A few too many stats there but collectively their impact was significant.
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