Summer 2026 Transfer Window Thread

[North Shropshire Lad]

5'8" winger Peszko too short, says 5'8" former striker Saunders

 

[Lupo]

5'8" winger Peszko too short, says 5'8" former striker Saunders

Yeah but Saunders was 6'6" in his mind

(He didn't say that buts its the sort of shit he might come out with)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

God, was that the reason??

We've employed some shitheels since 12/13 but fuck me if Saunders isn't still the worst of them.

There's no doubt about it, he's still the worst manager I have ever seen at any professional level of British football.

It stung with Kightly but if you don't want to lose good players, don't get relegated then. I wouldn't say he owed us anything either.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Fuck them all. I don’t care where any of them end up.

I do. I want them anywhere but Wolves. I wouldn’t miss one of them.

 

[Alan]

All fell apart when Peszko got injured.

I don’t think we would have gone down under Solbakken, but it’s clear his man management (or how he dealt with that squad) wasn’t great

Can't believe I didn't point out that it all fell apart when "Better than Sako" Boukari got injured

 

[YoungWolf]

My claim to fame is I saw him play live. I didn’t get the impression he was better than Sako but tbf the team he played in away at Chelsea was sensationally bad.

 

[Alan]

My claim to fame is I saw him play live. I didn’t get the impression he was better than Sako but tbf the team he played in away at Chelsea was sensationally bad.

I maintain that Razak looked at least as good at Rennes as Bakary did at Saint-Etienne. I was dumber back then (hold your jokes, assholes), though, even if it was weirdly easier to watch Ligue Un. *sigh* To go back to the days of pining for Benjamin Moukandjo to sign here... Alas.

Man, I was stoked on Yannick fucking Sagbo signing here. I don't know shit (I swear to God he was good at Evian with Saber Khlifa and Daniel Wass).

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

My claim to fame is I saw him play live. I didn’t get the impression he was better than Sako but tbf the team he played in away at Chelsea was sensationally bad.

I saw him too but only once. His final ever game for us vs Sheff Wed where he went down with what seemed like an innocuous knock about 10 minutes in, went off and never came back.

The Wednesday team contained both Ross Barkley and Michail Antonio, as well as our old pal Jay Bothroyd

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I maintain that Razak looked at least as good at Rennes as Bakary did at Saint-Etienne. I was dumber back then (hold your jokes, assholes), though, even if it was weirdly easier to watch Ligue Un. *sigh* To go back to the days of pining for Benjamin Moukandjo to sign here... Alas.

Man, I was stoked on Yannick fucking Sagbo signing here. I don't know shit (I swear to God he was good at Evian with Saber Khlifa and Daniel Wass).

Looking back, he was flaky as fuck at Rennes even before the serious injuries. 20 league games in his final season there.

Sagbo looked quite good for Hull! But was obvious on his debut for us vs Huddersfield (when Coady scored a belter against us) that whatever he'd once had, he'd lost. Was so bad.

 

[sycophantia]

I saw him too but only once. His final ever game for us vs Sheff Wed where he went down with what seemed like an innocuous knock about 10 minutes in, went off and never came back.

The Wednesday team contained both Ross Barkley and Michail Antonio, as well as our old pal Jay Bothroyd

That was the time I saw him.

 

[Alan]

Looking back, he was flaky as fuck at Rennes even before the serious injuries. 20 league games in his final season there.

Sagbo looked quite good for Hull! But was obvious on his debut for us vs Huddersfield (when Coady scored a belter against us) that whatever he'd once had, he'd lost. Was so bad.

KJ playing Yannick as a 10 was fucking weird.

 

[YoungWolf]

KJ playing Yannick as a 10 was fucking weird.

Obviously had some weird plan in his head as he did it with Leon Clarke too. And Afobe at one point (though that seemed more driven by Benik, weirdly)

 

[Jack Regan]

Kenny's time with us will always be let down by his latter obsession with "power" and then signing Joe Mason to go completely against thay particular obsession.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

To be fair Morgan pulled the rug financially. Fair enough, we couldn't do a lot about Sako's contract running down and him wanting to play in the Premier League but I think we could have signed a better replacement than Sheyi Ojo!

And while Richard Stearman had his many, many flaws (and was never in a million years our Player of the Season in 2014/15), selling him on more or less deadline day (a week or so after he'd captained the team), signing no-one, and asking Ethan Ebanks-Landell to fill the void was never going to work.

 

[Tony Towner]

Kenny's time with us will always be let down by his latter obsession with "power" and then signing Joe Mason to go completely against thay particular obsession.

Jackett didn't sign him and didn't want him, that's why he didn't play him. He was a Thelwell signing over his head, same as Byrne.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

All fell apart when Peszko got injured.

I don’t think we would have gone down under Solbakken, but it’s clear his man management (or how he dealt with that squad) wasn’t great

I liked Peszko.

 

[Alan]

Obviously had some weird plan in his head as he did it with Leon Clarke too. And Afobe at one point (though that seemed more driven by Benik, weirdly)

I can see the logic, sort of. You have the #10 as a sort of focal point a la the traditional #9, create a physical mismatch with the CMs that would naturally cover that area of the pitch and force a CB out to help, creating a gap for the actual #9 to exploit.

Problem, of course, is that you're then asking a career #9 to look at the pitch in a completely different way, and it makes the spacing between the holders in midfield and the #10 absolutely critical; you can't build out at all if they drift too far apart as the #10 is just going to get dominated by the numbers in that area if the layoff can't be played back toward his/her own goal. And then you're asking for a very particular deep-lying playmaker type in one of those areas...

Benik, bless him, thought he was Kylian Mbappe or some shit. Weirdo. Give me Nouha over Benik 10 times out of 10.

 

[Alan]

I liked Peszko.

He was one of the few in that season that at least felt like he might do something positive.

 

[Lycan]

Jackett didn't sign him and didn't want him, that's why he didn't play him. He was a Thelwell signing over his head, same as Byrne.

Jackett raved about him at length, unprompted, and played him quite a lot.