The January 2025 Transfer Thread

[Tony Towner]

Can put a decent bet on he is involved in some way in the deal and pocketing a %

Bingo. Another few million slides out the side door because we can't structure our club properly

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880635245558669812

 

[Kenny]

ITK...

 

[The Bear]

I think I read that his previous club Feirense owns 50% of his registration. Could be why Mendes is involved as that sort of negotiation is probably above Hobbs' pay/intelligence grade.

 

[The Bear]

He reminds me a lot of Palhinha in stature and profile.

 

[Tony Towner]

I think I read that his previous club Farense owns 50% of his registration. Could be why Mendes is involved as that sort of negotiation is probably above Hobbs' pay/intelligence grade.

That's just the continental way of saying sell on clause, it doesn't need a negotiation at our end

 

[NicholasG1973]

We wouldn’t have had all our superstars and hardly any of our successes without Jorge Mendes’ involvement.

We would never have met King Ruben Neves.

Don’t understand the hatred for him in the slightest.

Like anything, anywhere in life - if you want quality, of anything, you have to pay for it.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Don’t understand the hatred for him in the slightest.

You end up with £13m+ flowing out of the club in "agent fees" in a year where we hardly signed anyone of note.

Your best players will only ever be here until he says so.

He will send you some awful, awful, awful shite along the way and it's not cheap either. We paid over £60m for Fabio Silva and Gonçalo Guedes who in terms of what they've given Wolves, aren't worth 10% of that.

It's his fault I had to sit through Bruno Lage's football.

He's not the devil incarnate but he causes issues. Ultimately as a Premier League club who've been here since 2018, we shouldn't be reliant on him (again). We are because the man who runs the club is a fucking idiot who knows nothing about football and no-one above him cares.

 

[Tony Towner]

We wouldn’t have had all our superstars and hardly any of our successes without Jorge Mendes’ involvement.

We would never have met King Ruben Neves.

Don’t understand the hatred for him in the slightest.

Like anything, anywhere in life - if you want quality, of anything, you have to pay for it.

Yeah that misses the point. He's Jota, Neves, Patricio etcs agent, he isn't this guys or MGWs or Cunha's we just pay him an extortionate amount because we don't employ competent people to do it internally costing the club (but probably not Fosun) millions.

 

[Kenny]

Yeah that misses the point. He's Jota, Neves, Patricio etcs agent, he isn't this guys or MGWs or Cunha's we just pay him an extortionate amount because we don't employ competent people to do it internally costing the club (but probably not Fosun) millions.

Loads of clubs (mainly in Spain/Portugal) seem to employ him or his company to get deals over the line.
His book of elite players may be shrinking but he knows how to drain money from every angle.

 

[NicholasG1973]

Sorry, yeah, I probably missed the point.

Admittedly, he’s probably a manipulative arsehole who is clearly only in it for his own benefit.
And agreed, he has royally ripped us off on lots of occasions - trust me, literally no one despises Fabio Silva (the person and player) more than I do.

But, in business, most things have a price.

My point, however badly made, was that most of our recent success would not have been possible without his involvement.

The clubs clear incompetence, aside.

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880676000973148330

 

[Del Woppio]

If we're looking at £40m I'd be for it tbh. He doesn't benefit us anywhere near as much as his talent suggests he should.

 

[Tony Towner]

Money is irrelevant though, Fosun will spend it if they choose to and won't if they don't. It won't be get £40m, spend £40m. I agree he's been inconsistent/disappointing this season, but we are still better with him than without him. I'd be waiting until the Summer.

 

[Lupo]

Manu not featuring for Vitoria tonight

 

[Carsy]

Sorry, yeah, I probably missed the point.

Admittedly, he’s probably a manipulative arsehole who is clearly only in it for his own benefit.
And agreed, he has royally ripped us off on lots of occasions - trust me, literally no one despises Fabio Silva (the person and player) more than I do.

But, in business, most things have a price.

My point, however badly made, was that most of our recent success would not have been possible without his involvement.

The clubs clear incompetence, aside.

We would never have got promoted like we did, then had our back to back 7ths without him. However it’s one of those where it had got us as far as we were going to go with it, and hampered us thereafter

 

[Lupo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880698243488915928

 

[Lupo]

V. Guimarães: Manu Silva fora dos convocados e a caminho da Premier League | Abola.pt | Abola.pt

Médio vai deixar Guimarães para ser reforço do Wolverhampton

www.abola.pt

 

[sycophantia]

According to Judah, Manu will play predomitably as a midfielder and we are still looking for another CB. Doesn't mention sources but he usually only posts stuff from the club?

 

[The Bear]

Manu is Lemina's replacement basically.

 

[Templeton Peck]

So 433...

Sa
Semedo Agbadou New RAN
Manu Andre Gomes
Cunha Larsen one of our many shit attackers