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Wolves supervisor, Gary O’Neil, has spoken publicly for the primary time on his hyperlinks to a training position at Previous Trafford.
As a part of a widespread restructuring of the membership, INEOS have appointed Omar Berrada as CEO and try to rent Newcastle’s Dan Ashworth as sporting director, nonetheless, they’re at present refusing to compromise with the Magpies over the compensation payment.
The Purple Devils have additionally been linked to bringing in Jason Wilcox and Dougie Freedman for different roles associated to participant recruitment.
Nevertheless, a shock identify was churned up within the hearsay mill this week when Wolves coach, O’Neil, was linked to a change to Previous Trafford.
Nevertheless, curiously the Premier League supervisor was linked to a training position, to not take over the recent seat from Erik ten Hag.
Naturally, information broke that the English supervisor can be unlikely to entertain such a proposal as regardless of being an enormous improve in membership, the position can be a demotion for a person who has 62 Premier League matches as a supervisor below his belt.
Due to this fact, earlier than Wolves’ conflict in opposition to Aston Villa this night, O’Neil used his pre-match press convention (through The Manchester Night Information) to set the report straight.
Commenting on the latest rumours he said, “No, no reality [to the report], I don’t know the place it got here from. Clearly I’ve heard about it, however I feel firstly, rising up Liverpool and Manchester United all the time felt particular”.
“They’re actual particular golf equipment, so it’s an honour to be linked, though there isn’t any reality in it, however as you may think about, all my focus is on Wolves.”
The previous Bournemouth coach went on to say that regardless of the honour of being linked to a facet like United, his goal was very a lot to be a supervisor.
“In fact, when your identify is talked about with one of many largest golf equipment in world soccer it’s all the time an honour, however as I’ve stated, I like it right here, I’m a head coach and I’ll all the time be a head coach. I’ve actually loved my time at Wolves.”
When requested to make clear whether or not he’d been contacted by United, O’Neil replied “No, nothing in any respect, actually no concept the place it got here from, so no, I used to be solely made conscious of it by our media workforce to arrange me to reply your questions, so I wasn’t conscious of it in any respect”.
While the 40 12 months outdated would evidently leap on the probability to take the hotseat at Previous Trafford, he clearly has little interest in an assistant position at any membership as he seeks to proceed to construct is ever-growing popularity as a supervisor in England and past.
Final season he took the Cherries to a really respectable fifteenth place and at present has Wolves in ninth, solely six factors behind United, with European qualification nonetheless a sensible goal for the Molineux facet.
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