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January Transfer Window, 25/26 Season

The only players I'd be happy to see still here are Gomes and Mane. Gomes probably will go in January, possibly the price might put clubs off? Mane would be daft to say no to a big club but we know that might not turn out to be best for his career. I do wonder if his price tag might put off clubs like Spurs, Utd, Villa etc.
Caveat to all the above is whether Wolves can hold out for the price they'd want.
 
We'd have been better off keeping him under wraps until next season, as he can't actually effect this season in any meaningful way and then use him for the season next season to get us back up.

Perhaps that was VP's plan all along....
 
As with others here I’m sure Mane will be gone. I don’t really pay much attention to the other teams that have been relegated in recent years. Strikes me we are a unique case in having constructed such a lack of plausible continuity in the playing staff though; no solid pros, very few reasonable prospects you’d be excited about, no academy talent, no nothing really. So it’s start from scratch with the recruitment guy we can all listen to and guess how likely he seems to make good decisions. and hope Rob Edwards is a credible leader to get us back up. We’re an utter shambles aren’t we. Pretty much all pundits, professional and amateur (put regional journalists on this spectrum where you want), fail to get this obviously shocking state of affairs.
 
sycophantia said:
The only players I'd be happy to see still here are Gomes and Mane. Gomes probably will go in January, possibly the price might put clubs off? Mane would be daft to say no to a big club but we know that might not turn out to be best for his career. I do wonder if his price tag might put off clubs like Spurs, Utd, Villa etc.
Caveat to all the above is whether Wolves can hold out for the price they'd want.
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Spurs reportedly paid £40m for Archie Gray.
 
Up until a few games ago, Mane looked a bit lightweight and the PL looked a bit much for him in the glimpses we saw of him.

Obviously he’s had a few good games and suddenly he’s Robbie Keane.

The reality is that he’s probably not anywhere near as good as we think he is - remember, he’s playing in a largely shit, lazy, demoralised, team.

I think he’d be advised to stay and it would be the right thing to do for him.
And I doubt that big clubs would be looking to gamble big bucks on a kid that’s, literally, played a handful of PL games.

Not the sort of money we’d probably be asking for, anyway.
 
NicholasG1973 said:
Up until a few games ago, Mane looked a bit lightweight and the PL looked a bit much for him in the glimpses we saw of him.

Obviously he’s had a few good games and suddenly he’s Robbie Keane.

The reality is that he’s probably not anywhere near as good as we think he is - remember, he’s playing in a largely shit, lazy, demoralised, team.

I think he’d be advised to stay and it would be the right thing to do for him.
And I doubt that big clubs would be looking to gamble big bucks on a kid that’s, literally, played a handful of PL games.

Not the sort of money we’d probably be asking for, anyway.
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Mane is the real deal.
 
NicholasG1973 said:
Up until a few games ago, Mane looked a bit lightweight and the PL looked a bit much for him in the glimpses we saw of him.

Obviously he’s had a few good games and suddenly he’s Robbie Keane.

The reality is that he’s probably not anywhere near as good as we think he is - remember, he’s playing in a largely shit, lazy, demoralised, team.

I think he’d be advised to stay and it would be the right thing to do for him.
And I doubt that big clubs would be looking to gamble big bucks on a kid that’s, literally, played a handful of PL games.

Not the sort of money we’d probably be asking for, anyway.
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How good do you think he is?
 
Big clubs regularly gamble what to us is big money and they’ll have seen enough of him by the end of the season to make a judgement. From what I’ve seen he is a PL player in the making but not at Robbie Keane’s level. If he carries on like he’s started there’ll be plenty prepared to pay £25m for him.
 
Wilf Wolf said:
Big clubs regularly gamble what to us is big money and they’ll have seen enough of him by the end of the season to make a judgement. From what I’ve seen he is a PL player in the making but not at Robbie Keane’s level. If he carries on like he’s started there’ll be plenty prepared to pay £25m for him.
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There will be plenty prepared to pay a lot more than 25mill, Dibling moved for 40mill, was slightly older, and as Mane is a forward he's far sexier.

(Dibling had played 44 games when he moved, Mane has played 10 so far.)

www.bbc.co.uk

Tyler Dibling: Everton sign 19-year-old from Southampton for initial £35m plus £5m in add-ons

Everton sign Tyler Dibling from Southampton in a deal worth an initial £35m plus £5m in add-ons.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Pretty sure bigger clubs were sniffing around Mane before we tied him down to a long term deal anyway. I remember reading something about Liverpool (?) looking at him when he was still with the under 21's. There will definitely be suitors for him if he can continue this current form into the second half of the season. Then after that, as YW says, it's down to his own motivations. He's still very, very young - but we know what modern day football is like.
 
Chelsea was one but they just want to sign every footballer (except Hwang) I think
 
Leeds surely don't have that kind of money (and Calvert-Lewin is doing excellently for them anyway).

What I will say with the Mané/Keane comparisons, two full seasons in the Championship really toughened Robbie up. He went from a spindly little 17 year old thing to a proper pro and when he went to Cov he was a long way down the road to being the fully formed package. More fool United and Villa (well, Doug Ellis) for not recognising that.

Sitting on a bench, getting League Cup ties and 10 minutes here and there would not help Mané.
 
We change managers, sporting directors and even exec chairman, we alter our strategy on types of players to sign, we change budgets but the transfer window script is set in stone

On January plans: "We want to be competitive now, and going forward. We're under no pressure to sell. If we don't think it's right for us, we'll keep the group we have here. If it's the right thing and we can improve, then we'll look at it."
 
Speaking of former managers, aren't we overdue a photo of a handwritten list, or is that only summer signings?
 
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