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[pavlosmacwolf]

Frankly, some form of ffp is needed simply to stop saudi and american companies buying the prem in totality.
Where the peoblem lies for me is with transfer fees and salaries.
Ffs i saw a report of some player a club wants being offered 500,000 €or £, i don,t remember, A WEEK in salary.
It's obscene, and needs to stop!

 

[sycophantia]

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.

You think we'll spend more money than we raise in transfers? I thought I was the most naive on here.

 

[Tony Towner]

You think we'll spend more money than we raise in transfers? I thought I was the most naive on here.

He keeps saying the £2m thing which is immediately disproven just by looking at the accounts for the 3 years to 2023. If he means for this season we couldn't have been charged for something which has yet to happen

 

[The Bear]

As you say I think he's talking about the reported calculated predictions of us being about £5m or so clear for the period up to May '24, before we then had to pay off £2.3m for Jonny.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

If Johnny was going to cause that big a financial worry you simply wouldn’t pay him off in the period.

 

[lemonjelly]

If Johnny was going to cause that big a financial worry you simply wouldn’t pay him off in the period.

how hard is it to spell jonny correctly?

 

[Tredman]

We all just miss @Johnny75

 

[PuntsWolf]

If Johnny was going to cause that big a financial worry you simply wouldn’t pay him off in the period.

Correct. They wanted him out the building but could have loaned and then terminated in the summer.

 

[The Bear]

Correct. They wanted him out the building but could have loaned and then terminated in the summer.

No-one wanted to loan him though on his wages. We had to pay a lump sum to Jonny so he'd accept what PAOK were offering him wages wise.

 

[PuntsWolf]

No-one wanted to loan him though on his wages. We had to pay a lump sum to Jonny so he'd accept what PAOK were offering him wages wise.

So we cover the difference until the summer. Then pay him the rest.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

precisely. His wages were already in the calculations

 

[Tony Towner]

Paying Jonny off when you didn't need to and using that as the excuse for not signing someone doesn't make sense

Continuing to use your floor as 17th when realistically it was then 15th at absolute worse doesn't make sense

Saying the variance on your losses could be anywhere between 60 and 80m after the season is over in the Summer 23, yet 6 months before this one is over you can identify what they'll be within 100k doesn't make sense

Draw your own conclusions

 

[Alan]

One for the trivia lads if this holds up over the season.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Niche question.

 

[The Dude]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768271624673902886

Perhaps doesn’t get the plaudits/headlines that some of our other players get, but the marked improvement in his performances cannot go understated. Cut out a lot of his sloppy stuff and really is a solid PL keeper at this point. Another player who’s got better under Gaz & his team, so credit where it’s due.

I always felt the criticism aimed at Sa was exaggerated anyway.

Last season he was far from his best but nowhere near our worst player.

There are several areas I'd want to strengthen before worrying about the GK...

His backup though, needs upgrading.

 

[The Dude]

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One for the trivia lads if this holds up over the season.

Not a good year for substitutes then?

 

[Kenny]

I always felt the criticism aimed at Sa was exaggerated anyway.

Last season he was far from his best but nowhere near our worst player.

There are several areas I'd want to strengthen before worrying about the GK...

His backup though, needs upgrading.

Sa was worthy of a lot of his criticism and I say this as someone that likes him. Generally nothing to do with his basic keeping skills it was mainly down to his insanity with the ball at his feet - tons of times passing to the opposition under little or no pressure, looking for a pass when it really needed to be lumped and generally being a bit of a tit with the ball at his feet. With this, when he did let in a soft goal it just adds to the view on him being poor. In reality he doesn't let in anymore soft goals than the average PL keeper.

He has thankfully managed to cut a lot of that out of his game and I think our keeper coach and GO take some credit for that. Can't recall the game but there was one this season where Sa tried 2 or 3 passes out and got them all wrong and GO went nuts at him and rest of the game he played sensibly.

 

[The Dude]

Sa was worthy of a lot of his criticism and I say this as someone that likes him. Generally nothing to do with his basic keeping skills it was mainly down to his insanity with the ball at his feet - tons of times passing to the opposition under little or no pressure, looking for a pass when it really needed to be lumped and generally being a bit of a tit with the ball at his feet. With this, when he did let in a soft goal it just adds to the view on him being poor. In reality he doesn't let in anymore soft goals than the average PL keeper.

He has thankfully managed to cut a lot of that out of his game and I think our keeper coach and GO take some credit for that. Can't recall the game but there was one this season where Sa tried 2 or 3 passes out and got them all wrong and GO went nuts at him and rest of the game he played sensibly.

Of course he deserved criticism. I said that criticism was exaggerated to the point he was public enemy number one.

Last season there were numerous positions we were weaker in than GK, was my point.

 

[Kenny]

Of course he deserved criticism. I said that criticism was exaggerated to the point he was public enemy number one.

Last season there were numerous positions we were weaker in than GK, was my point.

When you he was actively doing things to put himself under pressure I don't think it was (take out @Deutsch Wolf comments as he just hated him and he is better than that really...)

I stuck up for him last season, despite him making efforts to show I do infact know fuck all.

It amazed me that Lopetegui didn't try and stop him being stupid with the ball at his feet. I think his answer was going to be sell him and replace him with a player he trusts rather than working with him.

 

[Kenny]

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