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15 Aug 2016 21:24:19
I've just translated this from a post I saw on facebook earlier. The news is advanced by CMTV, ensuring this channel that the business is closed with a team from the Premier League .
The target is the club Wolverhampton Championship, and will pay the 25 million that Benfica required to release the Brazilian midfielder .
After nearly a month to deal with your work visa, Talisca for now to England to be able to give a new direction to his career and to play more regularly. Another bit of paper talk but hopefully this deal won't drag on to much longer.

1.) 15 Aug 2016 22:25:35
We ent a team from the premier league.

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20 Aug 2016 23:50:08
I think all us fans would love some high profile signings but certain players we have been linked with are just ridiculous. Talisca 25mil and like has been reported would probably demand wages of 40-60k a week but seems like off to besiktas, Luisoà 2mil transfer fee and 60-100k a week wages. I wouldn't want balotelli in our team.

Would like Chris martin and maybe if we could get him joel campbell but until any of us see anyone holding a shirt when it's been officially confirmed it's just speculation. I know this is a rumour page but I saw someone say yesterday balotelli had landed in a private helicopter at patshull park hotel.

I used to work at this hotel and they have never had a heli pad, so unless someone is going to land a chopper on the 18th green I find that very doubtful.

1.) 21 Aug 2016 04:57:13
Yes they have a helicopter pad it's in front of the 3rd tee numbty.

08 Jul 2016 23:26:39
I can't wait for this takeover to be confirmed. Last time the club was sold, it was 4 years until we ended up with morgan. My one hope as a fan is that if and when we do spend money on players that we buy quality and not just quantity. Good players that will improve our team cost money but we don't have to be chucking 10 mil plus just because people think they are good enough. New manager (hopefully) new owner. Good times are ahead for us as a fan base and a club.

1.) 09 Jul 2016 00:50:10
Looking at this more and re Robin Li. He's co-founder of China's biggest Internet search engine, with another guy who was in the consortium to buy AC Milan. Internet search engines are a key to markets, in terms of the insight they give into them, what a market is thinking and where it's going, how to market to it / drive it's thinking and behaviour and your opportunities. Especially in massive markets like China.

China is a partially closed / hard to access market, us having a co-founder of China's biggest search engine as Wolves owner, with his partner apparently not involved in English football and only AC Milan, could give Wolves incredible access to the Chinese market and a big advantage in becoming really big there. Which would need us being successful here, but then the tide of revenue from support and merchandise in China could be huge.

I checked about Wolf symbolism in Chinese culture, and traditionally it's not necessarily great, means aggressive, savage, dangerous, and greedy. But then apparently since 2004, they've had something called "Wolf Spirit" in Corporate thinking, that's totally changed it's image with a "Wolf chic" culture and loads of books pushing survival of the fittest and winner mentality, but like wolves, by working as a team. It's like the wolf has become Corporate / Modern China's symbol for going from Communism to competing and winning in a market while maintaining community.

And gold is a very positive colour to them, and huge status symbol. I know from a PC game World of Tanks that has a version in China, people there (only there, nowhere else) spend big money to get gold coloured tanks as a status symbol. Again it means winning.

Altogether brand and marketing opportunity wise this makes massive sense and could see us really sorted. We won in the old World, missed out in the present one, maybe the future World is going to be ours a bit, at last :-)

2.) 09 Jul 2016 07:52:54
I think we've all missed you and your social commentary regarding Wolves Ulf.

Does this takeover fit in with your Shropshire/ Staffordshire outlook rather than a gritty urban one.

I particularly enjoyed your mention of World of Tanks. I think it's fair to say nobody else on this forum would have even considered it. That's the kind of insight we've missed in last couple of weeks.

3.) 09 Jul 2016 07:58:01
Well said Ulf. I was waiting for your essay on Robin Li. You're right. In fact he encouraged his employees to think like Wolves. The symbolism is enormous for us. I liken it to the owners who wanted Tom name their teams, Cardif City Dragons and Hull City Tigers, etc. And change colour to red in Cardiff's case.

Dragons, Tigers and Wolves are great names for football teams in world markets and the beauty is that we don't have to enforce a name change at Wolves.

I'm sure WBA will also be sold to Asian investors soon. What now name will they come up with? I can't think Baggies will be marketable!

Finally, Robin Li should drop Money Shop shirt sponsorship. I'd be happy with Baidu on our shirts, although he may wait till success is more assured on the pitch.

4.) 09 Jul 2016 14:32:52
It's just so brilliant, in marketing you have a thing, then have to pretend lots of things about it to make it saleable. Not here, everything is naturally right and fits all on it's own, it's a work of art!

Apparently wolf is the one impressive animal in Chinese culture that never got a mystical meaning because it was associated with Genghis Khan, who the Chinese named the wolf and didn't like very much. So the animal / word got avoided. So it was empty of mystical meaning, which allowed the corporate World to adopt it and it now has modern 'mystical' meaning, ultra cool and the future rather than the past. And best of all, it symbolises enterprise (but as a team, in a positive healthy way for communities) . Our town and regions heritage is enterprise and grass roots community (rather than an imposed class system with by divides like they had in Liverpool or South Wales etc) .

It really couldn't be a more perfect fit. And yes about Moneyshop, I think it will undermine what Li wants to push our identity as and he'll bin it. But also if we are going to be a big name in China (and every reason to think we will be with Li co-founder of their main search engine) our shirt sponsor is a much bigger deal, with access to / needing relevance in a much bigger (Chinese) market, and worth much more money than Moneyshop have paid or would pay. So rather than Moneyshop binned just because they are ugly, we need our shirt sponsor upgrading for the bigger more sophisticated World we're entering and to optimise our opportunities in it. Business sense dictates Moneyshop should go, maybe not this season (as too much hassle replacing shirts) but I reckon before the 3yrs is up.

It's ace, the Baggies want to get into China so Peace had a Chinese betting sponsor on their shirt. At Wolves, we don't need to try to get into China on the coat-tails of a bookie, China will likely be getting into us as a mainstream thing :-)

5.) 09 Jul 2016 14:55:54
lol clivewolves. Yes this takeover fits the bill perfectly as his identity is so big / high-up and removed from normality it's totally inclusive. In fact with the IT connection it's exactly what I was hoping for, IT revolution links to Industrial Revolution, but as the clean modern next step, as the future, for town and countryside without it distorting / degrading either, just modernising and enriching them both. Even the fact he's Chinese and not Anglo doesn't matter, because he did lots of education in the USA so understands Western.

And apparently he was appointed by Ban Ki Moon to be co-chair of a UN commission investigating and reporting on future data opportunities for the UN. Just imagine what this guy, considered to be in top ten IT business people in the World, considered to be one of the Worlds greatest business leaders, could do for the town and region. Wolves could become an IT leader and centre of excellence, which would be awesome for it's young people, giving them a really decent future. Best thing ever, million times better than Morgan and his houses for wealthy people or Moxey's grubby view of us like an even smaller-time urban Everton.

Hurray for Wolves, we deserve this. And I reckon Robin Li deserves us, we could do great things together and for one another :-)

07 Jul 2016 22:09:12
I've seen loads of rumours, theories regarding this potential takeover and I like everyone else am wishing and willing it to happen. I'm sure that great times will return to our club once everything is confirmed but I think know is the time for patience. As the good saying goes "great things come to those who wait" and I'm sure we as fans won't have to wait long. Any negative comments like most people have said are BS. IT WILL HAPPEN AND I FOR ONE CAN'T WAIT.

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05 Aug 2016 22:50:05
I really want this deal to be done now. Seems like its been going on far to long. I know the main stumbling block was the work permit but I've seen so many rumours about it. I'm excited about what this season has to bring for us fans.

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15 Aug 2016 19:23:26
Officially announced ppl. Pic of him stood next to zenga and someone else. Undisclosed fee on a four year dear.