We will sign a replacement, I'm not sure even the most worrisome Wolves fan is disputing that. The issues surrounding this transfer for me are:
A) The fee, which I don't believe to be good value - (it's only slightly above what we sold Afobe for!) Given how much we got for Cav, Costa and Afobe I find it really odd the fee is so low, it goes against everything Fosun have done with their cash so far.
B) In doing it this way around whoever we are negotiating with in getting a replacement will know we are desperate to sign their player and if they have any sense will screw more money out of us, rather than us operating from a position of strength where we could just shrug and say "well we have the perfectly adequate Doherty we can continue to play there".
C) I'm not sure who is responsible for our recruitment at the moment? I worry that Shi has taken on too much.
D) We knew with Doherty we had a consistent 7/10 RWB, we don't KNOW that his replacement will be good enough, will settle, will adapt to the football we play etc, and as we have sold Doherty we won't be able to just slot him back in, like how we replaced Jesus with Saiss and Bennett.
E) I think Nuno signing a contract would do a lot to assauge concerns, whilst we know that in reality Manager contracts aren't all that important. From an optic point of view to our fans, our players and prospective players it would be a very positive story.
It seems necessary to caveat this with i only comment with the limited knowledge I have, so what?
I could wait until the end of the window to ever post again, but like all of you I enjoy thinking, reading, and talking about Wolves, this forum wouldn't exist if we all took the advice of just "waiting and see", those that want to wait and see don't need to read or post on this thread do they?
