General Wolves News

[Lycan]

A wild night in Porto the night before avoiding Standard Liege hooligans. A Police battering waiting to get into the stadium in a soggy field. And a ruined pair of trainers. A trip to remember.

We avoided the Police battering thanks to @Banjo's dodgy directions. Walked straight in!

 

[Alan]

An extra £300 in sponsorship money though

At least it’s a university… I think. Guess I can’t rule out that Farage or some other asshat is running the Trump University play.

Edit: shit I didn’t realize I was quoting from so far back. We love timely humor

 

[Alan]

We avoided the Police battering thanks to @Banjo's dodgy directions. Walked straight in!

As my grandpappy would say, “always listen to the banjo”

 

[Law's Bus]

At least it’s a university… I think. Guess I can’t rule out that Farage or some other asshat is running the Trump University play.

Edit: shit I didn’t realize I was quoting from so far back. We love timely humor

It's not a university - I think the US equivalent would be a "community college"?

 

[Alan]

It's not a university - I think the US equivalent would be a "community college"?

As a product of one (technically a "state college"... we do love our pointless anti-federalisms), I'd say that's still a relative positive!

 

[sycophantia]

Not sure - having seen the likes of Rui, Jonny, Boly, Neves, Moutinho, Raul and Jota skippered by Coads and managed by Nuno makes watching the likes of Johnstone, Tchatchingy, Munetsi and Hwang 'lead' by Toti and Rob Edwards seem even worse than if we had just remained mediocre Championship shit for the past 10 years!

No way Im having this (maybe its tongue in cheek?)
Those years were a delight and keep me going now and make up for all those terrible years from the 80s onwards.

 

[Lupo]

No way Im having this (maybe its tongue in cheek?)
Those years were a delight and keep me going now and make up for all those terrible years from the 80s onwards.

No I wish the Nuno Years had never happened

 

[Aikiwolf]

It was so fucking good seeing Wolves in a European competition. I'm absolutely delighted have travellers abroad to watch Wolves, something I never thought I'd do.

It's fucking depressing seeing the car crash we've witnessed since then. And it's been so slow motion, something that a CEO with an ounce of competence could have stopped at any point leading up to this season.

 

[Mel Evo]

Taking my kids out of school and heading to Barcelona will be one of THE great trips of our family history. We should be aspiring to repeat it, not planning to be competitive at Stevenage.

 

[Lycan]

New academy director is a guy called Jonathan Hunter-Barrett apparently. Or 'Jonno' as he'll be known at Wolves.

 

[Del Woppio]

He's been with the academy years I think

 

[Derby Wolf]

New academy director is a guy called Jonathan Hunter-Barrett apparently. Or 'Jonno' as he'll be known at Wolves.

The lesser known legend.

 

[slink]

He's been with the academy years I think

Yes he has. Nice bloke to be fair but personally don’t think he’s good enough for the role he’s had or this one.

 

[YoungWolf]

He’s been there a long time. We leaving for Rangers but with Thelwell going I guess we’ve convinced him to stay and given him a slightly fancier title.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

He’s been with the academy years I think

Like me, do you only know this as he is part of the Wolves coaching staff on Football Manager?

 

[Jinky]

What a season. What a club.

 

[Lupo]

Banter FC ay we

 

[big mean bunny]

Some context needed here. The clubs mentioned are well run with healthy finances, and not truly sure what relegation is going to do to ours, but this tracks with what a mate of mine was discussing with how owners view value. And how value stays high with relegated teams due to financial turnout from Prem still counting. Regardless of if it looks like they will get back up or now. Which ties in with why I don't think there will be any new buyers or attempts to sell us.

Ipswich valued at Championship record £350m after ownership restructure

The Arizona state pension fund that bought Ipswich in 2021 has sold a large chunk of its shares in the Suffolk-based club.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That valuation is high because they have only just gone down and have parachute payments and a chance of getting back up quickly.

Bar that it is nonsense. Even the biggest PL clubs have a turnover of around £500m and well over a fifth of that is tv rights that are lost bar parachute payments. And barely anybody is making a profit even in the top flight.

So if you take a loss making business and remove well over 20% of turnover, then it isn't attractive. It is also a gamble as if they don't get back within the parachute period then the club valuation will absolutely crash.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That valuation is high because they have only just gone down and have parachute payments and a chance of getting back up quickly.

Bar that it is nonsense. Even the biggest PL clubs have a turnover of around £500m and well over a fifth of that is tv rights that are lost bar parachute payments. And barely anybody is making a profit even in the top flight.

So if you take a loss making business and remove well over 20% of turnover, then it isn't attractive. It is also a gamble as if they don't get back within the parachute period then the club valuation will absolutely crash.

Spot on.

Albion is your object lesson if you don't come straight back. The old owner had to accept about 20% of what he originally wanted, and the new owner seems a decent well-meaning chap, but he doesn't have the money to have them competing.

Haven't had a gate above 25,000 all season.