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Summer 2022 Transfer Window

Del Woppio said:
It's absurd that we're acting as if we're on the verge of fucking bankruptcy, poncing around looking for £3m kids that are going to turn a profit after a season in Switzerland. We've had a net-spend of 50p for the last three years, we need players desperately, and we're behaving like fucking Norwich. Absolute fucking bollocks
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You’re taking it better than I am
 
So todays the day we will hopefully find out whether our midfield is decimated or still technically competent but still immobile (:-.
 
From a business perspective - and the Club are now run as a business ............why would you give a two year contract at € 100k per week to a player in his mid thirties ?

To be fair - that's a big call .

You can cite Modric and others it must be said - but they are rare .
 
I don’t think we hear anything today. From what I can tell, Moutinho is still away on holiday with his family so I doubt anything happens until next week earliest. He’s a free agent now.

Absolutely ludicrous that we’ve let it get to this point again.
 
You keep saying we are run like a business, we aren't. A business would employ people with a knowledge of the field they are in, a business would have a short, medium and long term plan for success, a business wouldn't ignore it's main revenue stream whilst looking to develop new ones, it would solidify it's base, a business would invest its profits for future growth. Wolves aren't doing any of that.
 
If people had confidence the club could use that £100k p/w in better ways there wouldn't be the clamour to sign moutinho up.

Given what's happened in previous windows there is a legitimate concern that we don't even replace Moutinho
 
1986 said:
From a business perspective - and the Club are now run as a business ............why would you give a two year contract at € 100k per week to a player in his mid thirties ?

To be fair - that's a big call .

You can cite Modric and others it must be said - but they are rare .
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Moutinho is rare, had a good season and is still in the Portugal squad. Where else could we pick up an international player for a combined transfer fee and wages of his second season contract of £5m? It isn't a gamble. Relegation is the biggest risk to the clubs finances and not having an adequate manager or squad to prevent it will be on the owners if it happens.
 
We don't know Moutinho wants £100kpw for 2 years, we just know he wants the extra year and we've offered the £100k for 1.
 
Jinky said:
I don’t think we hear anything today. From what I can tell, Moutinho is still away on holiday with his family so I doubt anything happens until next week earliest. He’s a free agent now.

Absolutely ludicrous that we’ve let it get to this point again.
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If the contract is signed, as we are led to to believe then he's not a free agent.
 
Also, If he’s signed a contract we would have announced it. Literally no reason not to.
 
Tony Towner said:
You keep saying we are run like a business, we aren't. A business would employ people with a knowledge of the field they are in, a business would have a short, medium and long term plan for success, a business wouldn't ignore it's main revenue stream whilst looking to develop new ones, it would solidify it's base, a business would invest its profits for future growth. Wolves aren't doing any of that.
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Businesses are based on the bottom line . Yes - coming 10th rather than pushing for Europe is a blow to the bottom line - there is no denying that .
However I don't want to be either Everton or Chelsea - or any other club that is losing money hand over fist .

You're right in what you say about our owners in their lack of knowledge of football matters - but we also don't know whether this is a long term project on the part of FOSUN or whether they will flip us quite soon . If it is long term then there is no way that they would want us to get relegated and should act accordingly .

At the same time , we are not alone - you would think that Man U would be full of people making good decisions on footballing matters - but look what's happened there in the years since Ferguson left . Mad stuff .

FOSUN might not have all the right people in the right places , but they are still making decisions with regard to present and future players based on a business model - at least that is their intention .

In terms of investing profits for future growth - lets wait till the transfer window is closed before confirming that they are not doing it . I get the disappointment etc.......but people do have to remember that we are not a top 6 club , therefore a lot of top players do not want to come to us for that very reason no matter how much we pay them .
 
Andrea Belotti is leaving Torino . Puig is leaving Barcelona .

Where they both end up God only knows .
 
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