Relegated

[visage]

Mendes was an intrinsic part of the original plan and it worked for a time. It then got derailed by Covid and Chinese state controls on the outflow of money. Shi's floundering and flip-flopping back and forth to Mendes showed that they neither have any other plan or had the acumen to bring people in who did. We benefitted at the time from a world class group of players in his stable of the right age, value, willingness to go along with his view. A similar new group of players doesn't appear to exist.

Fosun need to therefore regroup and decide what they want (hopefully already done via Nathan Shi) and put in place a new plan, or cut ties and try and sell the club, or depressingly and more probably Option 3 - mess about for a while, a la Leicester, with inevitable consequences.

Yes. Getting the likes of Neves and Jota to join us when we were in the Championship was down to Mendes, and meant that we didnt have the normal scramble once promoted - we had a team that was almost Prem ready.

But once we'd gone up the goal should have been to build out our capabilities in the academy, scouting and with other agents to reduce the dependency on him. As ever, things going well in the short-term meant that those within the club who should have been looking to cement that sucess in the long term ended up doing no such thing.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

How many away ends haven’t we filled during life in the Premier League and how many times do opponents not fill ours?

Brentford, Bournemouth and Fulham are repeat offenders for bringing tiny away followings (sometimes not even filling the NB quadrant), not many others though

Palace maybe if they play here in midweek

 

[Tony Towner]

Brentford, Bournemouth and Fulham are repeat offenders for bringing tiny away followings (sometimes not even filling the NB quadrant), not many others though

Palace maybe if they play here in midweek

Brighton are fairweather. If they aren't having a good season then they don't travel.

 

[visage]

I was actually optimistic about more London games, but looking at the Championship there arent that many. Especially if Millwall go up. Not that I'd go back to the Den ever again after the riot in 2002....fucking Steve Claridge.

 

[Sniffer]

Packed away ends are less likely to be on the agenda then and swapping Villa Coventry and Forest for West Brom Blues Stoke and Derby is a silver lining to whom?
Recent memory is also far fetched as in 2011 Wolves, Blues, Stoke, Villa and Albion were all in the same division. In 2017/18 Wolves Villa Derby Blues Forest and Burton were all in the championship. I’ve been triggered more by this than the ranking list of yesterday

 

[NicholasG1973]

I love Mendes.

He gave me Neves, Jota, Patricio, Boly, Jonny, Raul, Moutinho and the best football I’ve ever seen from a Wolves side.

He helped me with a trip to Wembley and a trip to Barcelona to see my team play in Europe.

I may never see either of those things again.

I’ve watched Wolves in the 4th division and I’ve seen Bully training in the North Bank car park.

I’ve seen the worst Wolves team I can remember under Tommy Docherty, Molineux when it was half closed, and the disasters of the Bhatti Brothers.

The Mendes years will be the ones I remember the most fondly.

I don’t care if he’s a mercenary either.

 

[BillyDee]

I'm crossing fingers for Stevenage winning the playoffs and going to that away game again (expectations are low)

 

[prawnking]

I’ve watched Wolves in the 4th division and I’ve seen Bully training in the North Bank car park.

I’ve seen the worst Wolves team I can remember under Tommy Docherty, Molineux when it was half closed, and the disasters of the Bhatti Brothers.

 

[basher]

I loved it when Wolves lifted the League Cup in 1980!

I was less happy when we kicked off the 1986/87 season in Division 4... and I didn't wang on about lifting trophies at Wembley when everything had turned to shit.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The E&S spinning the positive that at least we've got a few more "local" away games next season.

"For Wolves supporters, the prospect of multiple local fixtures will be a welcome boost after seasons of lengthy Premier League travel. Derby days, reduced costs, and packed away ends are all firmly back on the agenda."

Silver lining for Wolves fans as Championship travel set to shrink

Wolves fans could be in for some local away days next season now their Championship status has been confirmed

www.expressandstar.com

It is bollocks too, as it will be more than 30 quid at a lot of grounds next season too.

 

[prawnking]

There's fuck all positive about what's happened to the club this season

 

[Indy Wolf]

Pardon my naiveté, but wolves have sold their best players each year, because the best players wanted to leave. They wanted to play European football. Weren't Wolves playing European football 7-8 years ago? Yet they still wanted to go. So, wolves can't afford to keep these players because they want bigger contracts. Recruitment is the key, bringing in a replacement that you KNOW will turn into the next whomever just left. I wasn't a fan last time wolves played in the Championship, so I don't know exactly how all those players, Neves, Raul, Jota, Moutinho, Coady, etc. all ended up at wolves., but I don't see this bunch being able to bring in the right players for a bounce back up either. This could be a couple of years, hopefully not a double relegation like Leicester.

Sorry so positive.