General Wolves News

[The Bear]

With his injury record we probably do

Gonzalez, Lemina, Chiquinho.

We already have young players we should be developing to step up at right wing.

 

[Del Woppio]

With his injury record we probably do

Not given our ambition though. He'll do enough in his 2-3 spells of fitness a season to keep us up, be injured often enough to not demand a massive contract, and be talented enough that there'll always potentially be a big fee for him if he goes a full season on the pitch.

 

[Kenny]

Gonzalez, Lemina, Chiquinho.

We already have young players we should be developing to step up at right wing.

Comment still stands.

None of the above will be suitable to play 20+ PL games next season

 

[Kenny]

I still think we will sell Neto.
Jorge probably has 3 or 4 contracts on the table for him.

It will be down to how flexible we are on terms. Logic on some transfer deals goes out the window.

 

[Mel Evo]

Neto is such a tremendous player and we’re unlikely to find anyone who plays at his level. However, I agree, I think he goes this summer, and it’s best for him and, perhaps, for us so that he’s not here on sufferance. Hopefully this isn’t misread as me wanting him gone or somehow laying the groundwork to pretend I’m happy about it in hindsight.

 

[Tony Towner]

Gonzalez, Lemina, Chiquinho.

We already have young players we should be developing to step up at right wing.

No evidence at all to suggest any of them are viable options. One earlier in the season couldn't make our bench ahead of kids and underwhelmed playing for the u21s. Another is a bench player for a run of the mill Portuguese side and was bombed out by Stoke in the same transfer window for having a shit attitude. The third was a favour to his brother and as it stands isn't our player. No way any of them should be Plan A

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

We could always take the £30m for Max

I’m still fuming that we turned that down.

 

[The Bear]

No evidence at all to suggest any of them are viable options. One earlier in the season couldn't make our bench ahead of kids and underwhelmed playing for the u21s. Another is a bench player for a run of the mill Portuguese side and was bombed out by Stoke in the same transfer window for having a shit attitude. The third was a favour to his brother and as it stands isn't our player. No way any of them should be Plan A

Then what the hell did we buy them for?

We have a small squad with very little bench options and a limited budget, so let's spend money on players for our youth teams or loan prospects.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Why anything.

Why spend £9m+ on Hoever when we're already buying a RB who will obviously be first choice.
Why spend £35m on someone with 1 goal in senior football.
Why loan Adama out for £0 and no obligation.
Why spend £27m on Guedes who didn't want to come and is wank.
Why re-sign Matt Doherty at all, let alone hand him a 3 year deal when he's nearly 32.
Why loan out 2 strikers and sign 0 when we're already slim on numbers.

 

[The Bear]

Agreed with Hoever. We all know why Silva. Adama was a weird one but I assume we were trying to generate some interest.

The rest are all bought for the first team. Whether they are good or bad that's what we should be spending money on even if they don't work out.

I understand gambles on young players but don't buy them if they're miles off even playing for us.

 

[Tony Towner]

Then what the hell did we buy them for?

We have a small squad with very little bench options and a limited budget, so let's spend money on players for our youth teams or loan prospects.

They are relatively low level punts, one around £5m, another £3m, the other we haven't yet signed. If they come off great, if not then little lost really. They aren't players we should be building around at the moment. Chiquinho's injury has impacted his progression, which obviously we couldn't plan for

 

[Derby Wolf]

Not that the idiots running the club would but if we should be doing succession planning for our very best players then I think the replacements ought to be here already, either signed in the summer or January before

Where we are these days means even if we could we aren't getting players at the same level so it buys the club time to review how the player is performing, it gives the player the opportunity to get used to Premier League football, acclimatise to the UK and Wolves way of doing things.

I mean, if you were properly mental you could play the succession player in a midtable clash with little riding on it and rest your best player for a cup quarter final the following weekend, and they'd get plenty of minutes as you manage the minutes of your better players.

As it is, you're only ever a player failing to settle, or failing to deliver from going on a January supermarket dash.

Of course there are exceptions here, but if we've made our bed that we're a selling club we should be anticipating when each player (of value) will likely move on and plan for that well before they do.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1769642249153831116

 

[Tony Towner]

I appreciate he doesn't have much choice, but using 2022/3 to illustrate Wolves is meaningless given 2023/4

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I appreciate he doesn't have much choice, but using 2022/3 to illustrate Wolves is meaningless given 2023/4

It is I agree.

However it does give an indication of how crappy these rules are for the "smaller" clubs again.

 

[Tony Towner]

It is I agree.

However it does give an indication of how crappy these rules are for the "smaller" clubs again.

Any version of FFP whatever the acronym is always going to do, those that benefit are going to ensure that doesn't change. I believe it was originally brought in with good intentions, but is now just manipulated by the powerful.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I assume we (Wolves) voted in favour of these rules too?

 

[Tony Towner]

Premier League clubs did, I haven't seen any reporting as to what the vote was. You need 14 to carry. Given our current ambitions it's in our interests, stops a promoted club trying to do what Forest did.

 

[jd1981]

As @Tony Towner says the intentions of FFP & PSR were mostly very noble and the right intentions. Nevertheless its beginning created a sterilised and even more predictable competition than ever before.
Almost like a class structure, man ways you can look at it yes it prevents a Portsmouth scenario but also prevents a scenario of someone breaking the big six monopoly.
Could look at having far better stringent fit and proper person thresholds to meet and then trusting owners to be responsible.
Reality is clubs in massive debt and entering administration is far worst than docking points for a PSR breach so it’s a case of sticking with what’s best.

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

I have said it before, and it remains to be seen, but I was told by someone that we will have a push next season, that they were genuinely worried about a points deduction.

It's been said by reports that we were only £2m under a Charge, I ain't an accountant, but they were genuinely worried that a points deduction would follow.

Let's see what happens in the summer, I am genuinely hoping we go and spend some money, on top of any that we can raise, I think Fosun, and GON, are well aware that the squad is far to small, and has probably coat us a Cup Final (a full strength Wolves would have beaten UTD, twice they beat us by 1 goal, thanks to being Fucked over by VAR).

A viable replacement for Cunha and we would have beaten Cov, comfortably.

I truly feel sorry for Fraser, his inexperience shone through, he was shoved and pushed every time the ball went up to him, He did not have the requisite experience to back in to the defender, and exaggerated the push to grab the foul, watch Kane for a perfect exploitation of the art of gaining a free kick when the defender is grappling with you.

Fraser was simply to inexperienced.