25 May 2026 23:25:10
Jiminez has been contacted by several MLS teams.
26 May 2026 12:19:53
Jimenez is a Wolf! Nathan will bring him in. Don't think Edwards is going to have much say on transfers.
26 May 2026 13:52:28
Well, that would be a major problem. If Rob has no say on the incoming players, how can he be held responsible if they don't perform in his formation?
26 May 2026 14:29:26
Much and No. Two very different words. Read things how you choose. You think Rob said get Raul Jimenez back? Rob will have a pool of players to pick from. He has his choice, and it was Angel Gomes.
26 May 2026 14:12:51
Please stop reading things that are not there. 'Much' and you say "No". I honestly think you could start an argument in an empty room. I can promise you Rob will have players suggested to him and he will have to select from that pool. That is "much'. Stop arguing for the sake of arguing.
26 May 2026 17:53:09
You're right that Rob will get a list of names suggested to him. Head Coaches provide some input, but the incoming and outgoing players are usually decided by others higher up the chain.
Managers usually have the final say on who to buy and sell.
26 May 2026 18:05:23
Not trying to argue. Just pointing out facts. So, my final point is this. Liam Rosenior had a 49.1% win ratio at Strasbourg. A certain Gary O'Neil has a similar record, with 48.1%, and reached a Euro Semi Final. Should we consider him for the job too?
22 May 2026 11:29:04
Wolves looking at Alfie Devine. Wouldn't have thought in a million years that Wolves would be sniffing around him. Surely Tottenham would want him back?
Would be a brilliant attacking midfielder to have in the Championship.
22 May 2026 14:01:08
Hwang would go well with Andre, who has just signed a new 4 year deal!
That's a great bonus for us in the Championship. It shows Fosun's intent.
22 May 2026 16:30:54
I take it you haven't seen Hwang play.
He offers absolutely nothing. The sooner we sell him, the better.
22 May 2026 16:48:18
Robbie Keane jacking his job in? I wonder why.
{Ed001's Note - Celtic probably as he was speaking to them.}
22 May 2026 17:09:16
Forget Robbie Keane. Rob Edwards ain't going nowhere. He'll still be the gaffer in 2030. 100%.
22 May 2026 17:52:37
You're having a laugh. Till 2030? Really, watch this space. If we rebuild a team and results don't change, he will be gone definitely.
24 May 2026 21:24:30
Thankfully, that is over.
Nuno will be sacked this week. Time for Edwards to walk as well.
We need pace and technically astute players up front.
Don't write off the academy, though. Next season, Mane, Edozie, Abbey, Okoduwa could all play a part.
25 May 2026 08:13:50
Wouldn't it be nice if Nuno comes back. I know you are all going to moan at me saying it tho.
25 May 2026 10:26:18
Think we're stuck with him. Don't know why, it's been dismal under him. Can't see it changing, I mean, yesterday he played that waste of space Angel Gomes. Why not give Tom Edozie a full 90 minutes? What had he got to lose, nothing, maybe a lot to gain, but that's R E for you.
25 May 2026 10:53:11
Just hope we don't drop a b****** and start the Championship badly, and we spend the season fighting week in week out.
08 May 2026 17:09:01
On transfer feed Ben Jacobs is saying Wolves and Athletico Madrid are close to a deal for Gomes. The fee reported to be 45mill Euros, which I think is cheap. If this is true, what's everybody else going for?
08 May 2026 17:53:15
Personally, I think Joao, Santi and Krejci are the only players to walk away with any shred of decency this season. Joao is worth at least £50m, but this is Fosun we're talking about, and they'll take whatever they can get for him.
Expect Andre to be sold for £25m and Santi for £15m. Fosun simply do not care. None of the money will be reinvested anyway.
08 May 2026 20:31:57
Fabrizio posting that personal terms have been agreed.
Although we all knew that this move was 100% happening, I still feel gutted that he's leaving. One of a very few bright sparks at the club.
09 May 2026 10:59:16
The way Fosun has made me feel, I know there'll be no fair and respectful deals for Wolves, no matter what RE says about the Summer. He's a fool to think otherwise. I wait to be proven wrong.
My only real interest now is hearing the news of Fosun selling the club on and who to? The sooner the better for me.
WWFC Forever. 🐺⚽️
09 May 2026 11:48:03
As I've said, we need a plan. I don't trust Rob Edwards to sign players this summer.
We need a manager with a style of football that can unite the fans and club again.
I doubt RE can sign players good enough to get us promoted and keep us in the prem.
With the sales of these players:
J Gomes £45m
Andre £40m
Tolu £18m
Hwang £10m
Krejci £25m
Mosquera £10m
That's £148m.
I think a manager with a good scout and director of football could get us promoted on £80m, with a combination of experience and exciting young players, with pace returning up front.
If West Ham sack Nuno after relegation, it would be Nuno or Amorim for me. ODCL.
09 May 2026 12:23:11
Nuno and Amorim will never come to Wolves whilst Fosun are here.
Fosun will give whoever the manager is next to nothing to spend. The manager will have to rely on the returning loan players, youth players, the odd free transfer, and loanees. They may allow the manager about £15m to spend.
09 May 2026 13:28:36
Amorim? Him and his coaches will want about £12 million per year - and they'll all be plotting their exit strategy from day one. Wolves had the chance to get Nuno back - and he wanted to come back - but Wolves didn't want to spend the money.
09 May 2026 14:49:12
Noisy, that's wrong. Nuno was linked the season JLO took over. So, Fosun did spend the money that season on the backroom staff, and with Cunha, J Gomes and Dawson signed that January window.
Nuno wasn't linked this season, as West Ham acted before Wolves.
In no window since Fosun have taken over have they spent low or set limits of £15m.
We spent £100m on dross last summer. Teti and Perreira have to take some of the blame for that.
Fosun never say how much they have to spend, or the targets they want. It may sound opaque and disinterested, but it doesn't do the club any favours to say they are after such and such a player, as the wages and price tag goes up, which is counter intuitive to PSR and making that work for the club as well.
Amorim sounds expensive, but with the right set up he would play an attractive style of football, with players that move box to box, which is something missing at Wolves. Also, his style at Sporting and Man U found that he could compete against the better sides. I think that money would be well spent. It's a clash of 5 different managers styles at Wolves, and the squad lacks a fluid style.
You have to pay for a decent manager.
09 May 2026 15:45:54
Madman, they did pay for a decent manager. Lopetegui was being paid £8m, but after the initial outlay on Cunha, etc., Fosun changed their minds and decided to tighten the purse strings, and stifled Lopetegui's plans, hence why he walked away.
09 May 2026 17:05:11
Disagree again. PSR rules were strengthened in summer 2021. The season Nuno left and was replaced by Bruno. The first season, 21/22, Bruno did well and finished mid table playing a back 3.
The following season, we struggled under Bruno, and he was replaced by JLO.
This was after Fosun supported and funded Bruno's plan to play a back 4.
Wolves, supported by Fosun, brought players for JLO to stay in the prem in January 2023.
So that was Wolves keeping players that were fan favourites like Raul, Moutinho and Neves at the club. Supplemented by new players that Bruno signed in summer 2022: Hwang, Guedes, Nunes, Sa, Sasa, RAN and Collins.
The club brought Cunha, Dawson, Sarabia and J Gomes in January 2023.
The wage bill was £310m that season, that's staggering for a club the size of Wolves, with revenue around £210m a season at the time.
And we have fans saying Fosun are asset stripping, but the facts suggest otherwise.
Our issue is we haven't paid and backed a decent manager. JLO may not have known the true impact of PSR when he signed, but he still had a very capable squad to compete after the sale of Neves and departure of Raul, Moutinho and Traore.
It's easy to say Fosun lost interest; the PSR rules changed, and we were left with managing the consequences. We didn't have a Grealish sale of £100m to balance the books.
10 May 2026 09:16:32
Madman, it's true that Fosun have splashed the cash, so to speak. It's ten years next month since Fosun took over. They signed some unbelievable players, especially in the early days. To me it isn't so much that they lost interest, it's more that they lost competence.
But the elephant in the room is their complete lack of grounding and connection to Wolves and Wolverhampton, which left them as fish out of water when the going got tough.
10 May 2026 13:53:46
Fosun made investments on key players that they made profits from - for their investors, not the club.
10 May 2026 15:27:34
Biswolf, that's wrong as well, though they were in the red for PSR of £67.5m in 2023. They made £140m from sales, and with that remaining £72.5m, they brought Nunes, Collins and Guedes.
So, financially, they were well run to avoid a points deduction. But they gave the money to Bruno, who couldn't attract the players we needed.
By the way, I think we should have taken the points deduction, and brought the players we needed, like Forest and Everton did.
I agree, Deep Throat, they lost direction, although it was strange under Zenga and Lambert. Maybe this summer they come up with a plan to replicate Nuno and the exciting squad we had then. ODCL.
10 May 2026 15:45:22
Thanks, Mudman.
10 May 2026 16:05:16
😂 Typo, my apologies.
12 May 2026 11:57:29
Hi, Madman, interesting thread, but I think you have missed a few off your sell list:
Tchatchoua
Santiago Bueno
Mane (his head's been turned by R Martinez, Portugal manager).
R Gomez?
The first 2 will go. Mane, as I said, has had his head turned, and R Gomez I am not too sure about.
We need THAT QUESTION answered by each player - do you want to stay or go?
The list above could add another £75 million to your war chest.
I agree, £80M would do it on experienced Championship players, plus a few loanees.
See if tonight's WM Forum clears the air or not.
12 May 2026 13:07:17
Transfer money spent means absolutely nothing. For a true view on how the club is investing, you need to look at net spend. In the last five years, Wolves have a collective net spend of £1.63m. For context, there is only one team below us in the entire league, and that is Brighton. And they are only there because they managed to sign Caicedo for £4m and sell him for an (incredible) £115m. The point is that when you run a club that close to the margins, it allows absolutely no room for error in the transfer market. It is also why Brighton are the only team to have managed it and improved (mostly thanks to Tony Bloom's remarkable, algorithm-based transfer policy). I suppose my point is that there is a misconception that Fosun have continued to invest in the last five years when they absolutely have not. If I buy your car off you, let's say it's an excellent Audi A4 that runs like a dream, just 30k on the clock, for £15k, and you take that money and buy three clapped out Audi A4s with 100k+ miles on the clock for £5k each, then you technically have got more cars than me.
But when it comes to the time that we both need to actually use those cars, mine's flying down the motorway and you're still waiting for the AA. This has basically been our transfer policy for the last five plus years. Sell Jota and buy Fabio, sell MGW and buy Goncalo Guedes, sell Mathues Cunha and buy JSL. The reality is, very few clubs get away with it for long, and those that do have an impeccable back room (e.g. Brighton). Sadly we had Jeff, so to say the current state of affairs was inevitable would, quite frankly, be the greatest of understatements. 😔
12 May 2026 18:52:29
The car analogy works when looking just at the players' value when bought and then sold.
But the issue is the PSR rules changed in 2021, and Fosun could not, and still can't, throw an extra £100m at the team, like they did in 2016-2018. In fact, they paid this debt off.
The commercial revenue causes issues for the car analogy, as each club has different commercial revenue. In 2020, the commercial revenue was £270m at Wolves; now it's around £210m, so each year not in European football has cost Wolves £60m a season over 5 years. That has a big impact on signings and salaries we can offer.
Also, the purchase value is spread over 5-10 years (if you are Chelsea), but the value, after a certain point, starts to depreciate after 28 years old, as the next generation have already moved in and moved some of our players down the pecking order.
Like Neves not being wanted by Barca, or Man U not paying the proper fee for Cunha.
So the players can all be worth £100m to us as fans, but their actual value in the football transfer system means they aren't worth what we think they are worth. Man U, if they were offered Haaland, would have signed him last summer. For an extra £60m, it would have made sense, due to Haaland being a higher-value asset in the future.
12 May 2026 19:25:02
Yes, Madman, I am aware of PSR and how it works, but the reality is that every other team in the league is playing by the exact same set of rules, yet they don't seem to be as hamstrung financially as we are (including those with a smaller ground/support), so why is that exactly?! On that list of net transfer spend over the last 5 years we are 19th, Everton are the next team with a net spend of around £13m, but they've built a whole new stadium and managed to pull well clear of the relegation zone! Leeds are 16th with a £75m spend.
So, here in lies the problem when peeps say 'ah well it's not Fosun it's PSR that's the problem', because it would/should only be a problem if the rules only apply to us, but they don't, do they? Also, with this, Madman, if you think it's bad now, then just wait till next season, because I fear we have a lot of poorly fed finances which will soon be coming home to roost. Thanks Jeff. 🤮
12 May 2026 19:27:05
Ps- Pretty sure that they didn't actually pay the debt off either, I believe they have simply transferred it into a Chairman's loan, which is payable on sale of the club. So, again, just putting us further into the realms of spending on the never never! Thanks again, Jeff. 🤣
12 May 2026 19:49:20
Worst part is, Bully, we used the Cunha money on Arokodare, Tchatchoua, Wolfe and Lopez.
Lucky to recoup the Arias money (no idea how we made a profit), but that profit was spent on Armstrong.
We spent EUR156m this season (not including X we spent on Angel Gomes).
We've sold EUR240m worth (this doesn't include any loan fees). How have we been allowed to sell so much proven talent in the past without replacing it?
12 May 2026 21:21:01
Hey BullysBoy, Everton and Forest broke the rules and paid the 'price'. I don't think it was done right, and it wasn't fair for the rest of the league.
The original loan of £126.5m was repaid in 2020-2021, as this would have left them vulnerable to the new PSR rules in summer 2021.
They refinance the TV revenue so the money is liquid, so signings can be made and it stays on Wolves books. This is common across every team in the Prem. Even the big clubs do it, with Australian bank MacQuarie being used in the past.
There is a divide between the teams in European football and everyone else. I think the difference is we brought ready-made players and paid an excess amount, as they weren't homegrown. Whilst Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth have spent less in the past on unknowns, they have proved really successful. Also, with Bournemouth they had a top-class coach to attract interesting players. If you were a top talent, would you be tempted by Lage, Gon, Vitor or Re?
Lage had a rather limited amount of players in his network from his days at Benfica, chalk and cheese compared to Nuno.
The issue is Fosun have backed 4 different managers over 4 years.
We should have spent money on a decent coach to keep the club midtable and pushing for Europe, not trying to deliver a tactical revolution. We didn't have the pace in defence, or the players to change to a back 4.
I will say Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford didn't rush managerial or tactical changes either. They made small, methodical changes to shift to different styles of play.
Lage was like a bull in a China shop with his shift to a back 4.
Genuinely, I don't share your fears of Fosun. The club is separate from Fosun's other enterprises. They are protected by a lot of groups here.
The issue is having a project and manager to deliver the targets for the new season.
I think a good pedigree manager that we can support, one who has a style of play that takes us to the Prem and is competitive once we get there, is paramount. Also, a manager that can work with Mane, Okoduwa and Edozie and others to develop an exciting Wolves team once again. I wouldn't splash £80m on proven Championship players like Re wants to. More of a methodical plan, like Nuno, where he spent on excellent prospects but also got shrewd signings like Douglas, Bennett and Ruddy.