General Wolves News

[Kenny]

and you all moaned Fraser needed to go out on loan to get game time...

 

[Tony Towner]

Absolutely shit news. Pretty much season over, actually.

Makes the decision of not buying anyone in January even more comical.

We still aren't going down. This injury doesn't change anything in terms of why nobody was signed. Even if it had been foreseen nothing would have been different.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Pretty much season over, actually.

The league season was anyway in any meaningful sense. We were never finishing top 7 and we were never going down after we beat Brentford and Everton over Christmas.

Again, doesn't excuse it.

 

[SSB]

Absolutely shit news. Pretty much season over, actually.

Makes the decision of not buying anyone in January even more comical.

Knowing Fosun, they'll accept an offer for him in the Summer and that might have been the last time we’ve seen him play in a Wolves shirt.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Knowing Fosun, they'll accept an offer for him in the Summer and that might have been the last time we’ve seen him play in a Wolves shirt.

The massive price we paid for him probably means that won't happen. We have to get back at least what we paid or it screws us on FFP/PSR, and no-one is doing that.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Fingers crossed Hwang/Sarabia/Neto can play a lot of games between now and the end of the season.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Fingers crossed Hwang/Sarabia/Neto can play a lot of games between now and the end of the season.

Yep.

Assuming/hoping that they don't get tired/injured/lose form.

It's genuinely appalling management from Shi/Hobbs that we're now in this position.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The league season was anyway in any meaningful sense. We were never finishing top 7 and we were never going down after we beat Brentford and Everton over Christmas.

Again, doesn't excuse it.

A positive attacking signing in early January may well have made that difference though.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It wouldn't, we aren't anywhere near that good.

 

[Jinky]

We still aren't going down. This injury doesn't change anything in terms of why nobody was signed. Even if it had been foreseen nothing would have been different.

Yep. Not getting any higher in the table/not going down = season over.

The fact we didn’t sign anyone to cover the scenario we now find ourselves in tells you everything you need to know about Fosun’s ambition.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It wouldn't, we aren't anywhere near that good.

Don't need to be **that** good to come 7th.

 

[Lupo]

Fingers crossed Hwang/Sarabia/Neto can play a lot of games between now and the end of the season.

Thank god Hwang and Neto have excellent injury records...

Oh shit

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Don't need to be **that** good to come 7th.

Well we've finished 7th twice in the last 40 years, and we're nowhere near as good as those teams.

 

[jd1981]

That’s ruined my afternoon, i think if you want any serious progression in the cup you need the likes of Cunha fit.
It’s like the fun police payed us a visit on Saturday afternoon.

 

[big mean bunny]

I didn't want to necro the thread but I had put this in the transfer thread after the statement when the guys were loaned out. This isn't a particularly clever or inspired take either. Given the team it's taken several players to settle before breaking into the team then it's even more annoying they trotted out the difficulty of shopping in January stuff.


From the transfer thread:
"The not replacing minutes is dangerously close to having learned nothing from too small a squad under Nuno, once we stopped getting injury luck and moved back closer to the normal amount of missed game time due to injuries for a team in this division.

Sasa and Silva weren't getting minutes because they either didn't fit tactically for a new manager or aren't good enough. However looking at our fixtures and minutes played of the starters there are key moments when a change should have happened."

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Well we've finished 7th twice in the last 40 years, and we're nowhere near as good as those teams.

We're not, but we'd only need to be good enough to be 7th this season.

Anyway it's moot, we'll never know. It's the lack of ambition that fucks me off.

 

[jd1981]

Don't need to be **that** good to come 7th.

You’re absolutely right and weren’t that good either.
Traffic between us and 7th is Chelsea, West Ham, Brighton and Newcastle. 3/4 of them would argue with good evidence they’re better than us even with a fit Cunha fit.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's the lack of ambition that fucks me off.

I do agree, the strategy since 2020 has been such a mess (I mean we're better off now than when we were appointing Lage and signing Guedes, but I'm not giving any praise for that, it's having Frey Bentos pie for tea instead of dogshit pie, it still isn't very nice or good for you).

Particularly given what we charge, and they'll ask for even more money off me in three months or so.

 

[Alan]

Yep. Not getting any higher in the table/not going down = season over.

The fact we didn’t sign anyone to cover the scenario we now find ourselves in tells you everything you need to know about Fosun’s ambition.

I still don’t know about this.

This season has always been about staying up. We don’t need to get out over our skis trying to do too much too soon.

We’ll see in the summer how stupid of me the above is.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I still don’t know about this.

This season has always been about staying up. We don’t need to get out over our skis trying to do too much too soon.

We’ll see in the summer how stupid of me the above is.

I'm not sure how much more evidence you need.