Liam Keen and Jonny Drury discuss the changes at Wolves as Matt Hobbs departs from his role as sporting director.
Big changes came on Wednesday at Molineux as Matt Hobbs departed following a lengthy spell at the club.
Wolves are set to appoint a new man in the coming days - and Liam looks at whether the changes are a surprise, why they are being made now and how Wolves could be following the model adopted by Aston Villa.
Big changes came on Wednesday at Molineux as Matt Hobbs departed following a lengthy spell at the club.
Wolves are set to appoint a new man in the coming days - and Liam looks at whether the changes are a surprise, why they are being made now and how Wolves could be following the model adopted by Aston Villa.
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00:00you know big changes at wolves are afoot uh news came out on wednesday uh that matt hobbs was
00:08due to labels um the sport director although he's set to appoint dominico tetty as the new technical
00:14director moving from sport director to a technical director it was confirmed that hobbs's departure
00:18on wednesday evening um you know a lot of wolves fans have been taken by surprise by this hobbs
00:24has been the club for quite a while and he's been in their sporting director role for a few years
00:28the transminder's already open it's been a few weeks at the end of the season so you know
00:33what's gone on why now yeah it does seem strange timing um look matt hobbs has been at a club for
00:4010 years um arrived in 2015 through a variety of different scouting roles sort of worked his way up
00:46got into the sporting director role in i think it was november 2022 so he's had just under three years
00:52uh in his role and to be you know to his credit and to be fair to him a fair bit of success in that
00:58time um you know bringing in plenty of south american talent in like josh al gomez and andre and other
01:03players um and sort of his background in scouting i think has been really important to wolves albeit
01:09also working under certain restrictions and how folks want to work the club and um and run the club
01:14and and he's had to sort of deal with some of those issues so um i know uh him uh you know his
01:22love for the club and how much he would have wanted to have stuck around at the club so my instinct uh
01:28is that it's probably not his decision the wolves have moved in this direction however they are a
01:31club that under folks and have moved and made changes um behind the scenes as and when every few
01:37years when they feel it's necessary to to shake things up so for that reason it can't be too much of a
01:42surprise and they're moving in a direction as you mentioned with dominico tetty someone who's been
01:46uh he's worked with vital prayer at um at al shabab someone who's been in he's a he's an italian
01:51national someone who's worked in sabdoria and helis verona and uh other clubs in that sort of technical
01:57director role they're um seemingly and of course we're you know we're waiting to find out more details
02:01once this has been confirmed but seemingly uh folks are moving in the direction of backing
02:06vital prayer and giving him exactly what he what he wants and needs that seems you know we talked off
02:11video um just down the road when une emery went in at aston villa i think after his first season
02:18he kind of structured the backroom team away from the football inside as he wanted they brought in
02:24a president of football operations um a couple of other staff we'd worked with at clubs in spain and
02:31obviously pereira's worked with with this guy before is that a potential direction you could see wolves
02:37going in you know they're going all in on veto prayer and giving him exactly what he wants you
02:42know not just players not just staff but you know technical staff behind the scenes as well yeah i
02:48think the first thing to mention and that's the frustrating thing with uh moves like this and news
02:53like this is that things change very very quickly we're recording this video on uh on thursday
02:58morning um we're expecting things to change and flip around very quickly hence uh hence why there'll be more
03:03videos more updates because dominico tt is in the final stages or as wednesday as of wednesday night
03:09when i when i tweeted out in the final stages of of agreeing his deal with wolves we expect that to
03:13go through today maybe friday um and be announced relatively quickly so first of all we've got to
03:20make it clear that things are going to change uh in in terms of you know the the accuracy of this video
03:25in terms of how things are moving quickly and also with that we need to really understand exactly how
03:30this structure is going to work exactly the roles that someone like matt jackson's going to have
03:33behind the scenes uh veto's role in recruitment uh and there's been mention uh of george mendes
03:38and guest a few which wolves have continued to use even under matt hobbs as well but maybe not has been
03:43uh over reliant on them in previous years and exactly how dominico tetty is going to fit into
03:48that as well so all of these things will be made relatively clear the next few days we'll be working to
03:52to bring the latest on that as well but i think it's it's a it's a fair observation from
03:56yourself to to suggest that wolves have looked elsewhere realized the success other clubs can
04:02have and and started to give the manager specifically what he wants and needs that's how it looks from
04:07the outside before we can we can dive a little bit deeper into it um and i think in the short term
04:13that can be a good thing because you know vital pro has proved already that he can get results that
04:18he can get fans on board that he can harness a sort of um culture and energy around the players and
04:23the group that gets the best out of wolves and the best out of the football club at the same time
04:28long term is vital pro going to be at wolves in 10 years time no so you've got to try and weigh up
04:34the the short term and the long term and exactly uh the kind of success wolves want and need um but
04:40there are opportunities out there with you know palace winning the cup forest doing well villa doing
04:44well other clubs uh surging up the table there are opportunities for clubs of the size of wolves
04:49to go out there and get silverware and finish higher up the table and perhaps wolves have taken
04:54an eye at that and realized that there's an opportunity here