The Incoming Transfers Everywhere Thread: Summer 2023

[Dire Wolf]

I thought that. They're not for sale until they're sold.

Basically they are for sale but only if you give us more than they're worth.

 

[Mel Evo]

Basically they are for sale but only if you give us more than they're worth.

The players or The Wolves?

 

[prawnking]

If they had any intention to sign anyone 'not-brilliant-but-OK' (plan B?) then you'd imagine Lopetegui would probably still be here (albeit grudgingly).

They have no reason to try and appease GON. He's literally been brought in based on his brief experience keeping a team in the PL, that'll be his brief and this is the best job he'll ever get, so he'll be happy with what he's given.

 

[nimrod]

even if you accepted what the club said before Lop left, wouldn’t swapping Lop’s team for GON’s save enough over the season to comfortably cover Elvedi, assuming we were realistically interested.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

even if you accepted what the club said before Lop left, wouldn’t swapping Lop’s team for GON’s save enough over the season to comfortably cover Elvedi, assuming we were realistically interested.

Depends how much we paid them off.

 

[nimrod]

Depends how much we paid them off.

Yeah, as accounts are to May guess we save 9 months of Lop’s team less GON’s team less payoff. too many unknowns as usual.

 

[Tony Towner]

Keen says Podence is back with the 21s after acting the dick once given a chance with the first team. Should make him train on his own

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't listen to the podcasts so is it on there? Nowt on his Twitter.

 

[Tony Towner]

Bottom of this, he used the word nuisance

Liam Keen analysis: Wolves must follow the Brighton blueprint

The gulf in class was evident from the outset – Wolves are not yet at Brighton’s level.

www.expressandstar.com

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Cheers man.

Now I wish I hadn't read it.

In Bruno Lage’s first season in charge, the 2021/22 campaign, the opening three games saw Wolves lose 1-0 in each after impressive and entertaining performances, where Lage boasted of the number of shots on goal.
After that, Lage tightened the side up and they almost made it into Europe.

NO WE FUCKING DIDN'T

perhaps O’Neil could follow the same path to some extent

 

[Tony Towner]

Cheers man.

Now I wish I hadn't read it.



NO WE FUCKING DIDN'T

Its why if he says anything of interest either on his pod or in an article I just relay that piece of info. I'm providing a public service

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't mind him in general, he is actually better than any of Spiers*, Nash, Edwards, Freelance Rosie or Marshall (think they are all the post-Instone ones) and he isn't Judah.

But that's some hot nonsense right there. Like saying we nearly stayed up in 2004. And no-one who watched Lage's football wants to watch it again.



*Timothy actually could have been ok but got sucked into his own micro-local hype and talked utter shit as a result

 

[Johnny75]

Keen says Podence is back with the 21s after acting the dick once given a chance with the first team. Should make him train on his own

I think we have to be careful with LL, he's just a sock puppet for the club and they are trying to push Podence out.

 

[Kenny]

they are trying to push Podence out.

Taking ages as every time they try he falls over and rolls back to where he started?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Think Podence himself did tweet a little while back that he was training with the kids then deleted it. So seems we gave him another go, he was a dick, back off to lads of your own size you pop.

 

[jd1981]

When did Ryan Leister get such an audience on social media? Talks drivel

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't mind him, but he's very much what on Mol Mix 15/20 years ago would have been described as a 'happy clapper'

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

Putting aside the reality that our owners are systematically doing the reverse of anything needed to make us better on the pitch, and will likely continue…

The bare minimum and most important fixes are actually relatively simple:
1. Sign Elvedi - without improving at CB we’re down so this seems like a reasonable use of £10m tops. You probably need another one of these too, but obviously you’re not getting it.
2. Replace the GK for near break even. We simply can’t afford the fragility that carrying the incumbent delivers. GON may have no say whatsoever in what’s needed but, FWIW, imagine being a professional manager at any level and having the last two games as the first you’ve really focused on in the flesh and not concluding an immediate improvement between the sticks is necessary and easy.
3. Get a striker with any kind of goal record and reliable fitness record. We’re not finding the next Raul but the only currently functioning number 9 has just shown you he can’t do the job, despite optimistic Wolves fans delighted to see him back for a reason that seems to be ‘he looks older’.

Making Kilman the linchpin of the club is a harder one to reverse engineer. It’s a proper clanger, but hardly the only one we’ve made.

Of course, I doubt we’ll do any of the above because, well, ‘because’.

Silva can't do the job based on 60 minutes?

 

[Tony Towner]

Like most players who have been here a fair time you see what you want to see with him. As per your post on the matchday thread you saw a player who'd had a very good first half, I saw one who constantly gave the ball away and missed a very good chance. Confirmation bias both ways

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

Like most players who have been here a fair time you see what you want to see with him. As per your post on the matchday thread you saw a player who'd had a very good first half, I saw one who constantly gave the ball away and missed a very good chance. Confirmation bias both ways

I also said he failed to hold it up, missed a great chance, he at least hit the target.

He also chased back several times
dispossessing the Brighton player once leaving him for dead.

He had a decent half.