Wolves Rumours

20 Jan 2025 23:34:36
Wolves have reportedly made a £10million offer for Aston Villa's Diego Carlos with his potential move to Turkish club Fenerbahce stalling.

19 Jan 2025 14:10:27
When the Silva deal gets done, it is believed versatile 'Manu' will play predominantly as a midfielder with the club actively looking for an additional centre-back

19 Jan 2025 15:12:42
3 5 2? Manu, Andre and Gomes J with Cunha and Larsen up front.

19 Jan 2025 19:13:42
I can see Manu playing in the back three and we will bring in an attacking midfielder, just a thought.

19 Jan 2025 21:33:26
Deal done apparantly will be announced this coiming week.

19 Jan 2025 22:49:55
Going to Benfica.

19 Jan 2025 23:04:32
Deal now off Silva did a u turn and has gone to Beneficainstead.

19 Jan 2025 23:11:12
Deal off. He's decided to join Benfica according to Fabrizio and Liam Keen.

20 Jan 2025 06:38:13
Great!

20 Jan 2025 08:29:43
Press the button Wolves.
2 cbs needed Danso and Veiga get them over the line.
Sell a plan for the future.
Far too risky to think our defence is good enough

20 Jan 2025 12:15:53
We certainly need some action PDQ!

20 Jan 2025 14:02:06
Danso turned us down. Worries me how they wanted to get players in early but we have only seen 1 .

20 Jan 2025 17:31:02
Danso didn't turn us down. We never entered negotiations for him. Agbadou was the main target.

17 Jan 2025 22:37:30
Wolves in talks with Manu Silva from Vitoria SC. £12m plus 10% sell on clause.

18 Jan 2025 09:01:39
Watched videos and I can see him being used as a left-sided centre back. Two-footed, good range of passing, good in the air, strong tackle and mobile. Exactly the type of centre back our coach wants.

18 Jan 2025 10:36:51
Agree 100% Wolfthistle. Good in the air, strong in the tackle, good eye for a pass and his first instinct is to get the ball forward rather than back. He'd be a terrific signing if we can get it over the line.

18 Jan 2025 13:54:28
🤞here’s hoping!

18 Jan 2025 16:39:50
I'm excited about this one.

19 Jan 2025 08:47:24
Munu 11 yellow card in the 60 games he has played for Victoria. Combative then! 😁

16 Jan 2025 16:05:21
From what's been said I was right about Doyle Perairae is not impressed and could be sold Lamina wants out. We need at least 1 if not 2 new CHs plus a striker and a MF but we're only looking at maybe 2 signings. Something in my mind is not right Wolves have to sell or loan out the ones who aren't performing and get 3 or 4 new players in.

16 Jan 2025 19:05:22
I like Doyle but he needs a run in the team, and not coming on when the game is lost. Have to agree with Liam Keen too that Bueno is not a Premier defender, too lightweight. New defender looks ok but not too good with heading, which is a big downfall of ours. Surely there is a big C/H in the Championship who can head a ball. The way this transfer window is going we are going to come up short yet again. Figures don't lie, we have the worst defence in the Premier.

16 Jan 2025 20:22:18
Not just his heading ability.his passing was woeful and either gave the ball away or put it out of play.give him time to adjust and settle in.but he needs to be quick about it.another cb is a must and if hwang and jsl continue as they currently are.well.wer in BIG trouble

17 Jan 2025 06:41:51
Apart from a few "flat-earthers", genuine fans are clearly becoming more and more concerned about our future.
We are only a few days away from the TW closing and there appears to be be no concrete sign of the desperately needed reinforcements (the one exception).
Also it is concerning to see Lemina's situation and add Hwang and A-N apparent lack of commitment, things in the camp are not right.
Worrying times.

17 Jan 2025 09:21:55
The transfer window closes on 3rd Feb, so not quite the 'few days' you state.

17 Jan 2025 09:25:50
There are quite a few players that are not good enough or past it now. Sarabia, Bellegarde, Dawson, Hwang, Doyle, Lemina, Johnstone. I don't think Doyle is premier League quality and never understood the hype about him. I would have added Doc into that list but I believe he still does bring something to the table. If you compare our team now to the days of Nuno it is scary how much talent we had and let go. It is like we have done things the wrong way around.

17 Jan 2025 09:53:06
Alex241's list of players no longer offering us what we need is spot on. I would add Guedes, as I don't think he can cope with the Physicality of the premier league. Also agree with the positions we need to strengthen. Would love Veiga to come in as left sided centre back. Think we need a central midfielder who can run with the ball. In last two games Tonali and Gibbs-White did this for our opponents and caused us problems. We don't have anyone who can do that role. Not sure if Brazilians we are tracking have that in their game.

17 Jan 2025 10:12:42
Its not that bad we are 8th top scorers in the league.
Buy Danso and Veiga and we stay up

17 Jan 2025 12:55:20
Wolfthistle before we played Newcastle I was saying to people we need more in that midfield area as they will dominate it and they did to be honest. Cunha is probably the only player who will come deep to get the ball and carry it up. You need that in the middle who can drive with it which then creates space. Gomes I have seen him do it a few times but can't carry the ball like Cunha does.

We are either dragging our feet with signing or I think they might be struggling to convince certain players to come to wolves. Danso has turned us down and since signing our new defender I haven't heard of any more concrete rumours.

17 Jan 2025 13:19:49
Madman - v valid point. But the worry is that it appears obvious!
Indeed virtually every poster on here and all other social media sites acknowledges the need to sign a new CB or two - many even the same ones as you suggest. (In fact they have been saying we need to sign a new CB since August when we sold Kilman!).

So either Hobbs still believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the 4CBs we started the year with are adequate and Emmanuel merely replaces the injured Yerson or more likely that we simply don't have the financial resources to make those purchases!

Either way that means we are in real trouble!
One (or both) of Hobbs and/or Jeff is totally incompetent and that is handicap that Vitor (and indeed all our managers since Nuno) will have to wrestle against.
It is going to be very close!

17 Jan 2025 16:35:40
I don't think Danso is an option anymore. If we do get a defender in, it'll most likely be a loan to buy situation. Maybe Veiga from Chelsea under these conditions. Lemina will need replacing and a new striker will provide alternative options. I think a midfielder will be bought and a forward loaned. Who these will be, I have no idea.

17 Jan 2025 16:52:26
Well the issue is attracting players to Wolves its been the issue since promotion.
Missing out on Zinchenko, Botman etc etc shows our struggles.
If Lille wanted a further £10m that seems like a lot with the squad we had at the time with Botman for example.
Its a constant balancing act between keeping within the transfer budget and the wage budget with PSR.
I think we should gamble on these two though look good for the prem bring some much needed height to our defence and set pieces.
Can't see the wages been too high.

17 Jan 2025 22:32:34
Absolutely Madman we do now struggle to balance transfers and football wages with PSR issues.
This is despite the fact that:
a) We spend virtually nothing net on transfers, as discussed only a couple of days ago!
I think it was something like Euro 55m over the last 4 years.
b) Our football wage bill according to numerous sites is one of the lowest in the league!

This sadly, as I have stated many, many times, is, inter alia, due to our modest turnover and very, (indeed inexplicably), high non football related wage bill.
Sadly therefore it is hard to argue that as well as incompetence with squad building - lots of very bad purchases and even worse badly balanced purchases, no CBs for example! - we are also grossly incompetently run financially!
Given that the whole football world knows this it is of course making it even harder to recruit the players we want as who in their right mind would join this circus, (several players have apparently declined to join us even when we have seemingly met the transfer fee required etc), if you genuinely have other options.
Hence ironically we will be overpaying in both wages and fees to offset Jeff's reputation!

18 Jan 2025 12:03:38
The futureisoldgold1 I don't dispute the numbers.
But as stated there are a few factors in the reason why its so low (without mentioning covid :))
The one is that those tranches of excellent players were signed on to high wages to keep them at Wolves but also so the club could benefit from sales in the future (this is what most fans wanted at the time) but these wages added to the issue with PSR.
I don't think we can blame Fosun or Jeff for the performances of Traore for example or the injury to Raul.
They were major set backs for the club both on the pitch and making money for PSR.
Absolutely I'm a football purist and would love to have seen the team that started the 2020/21 season push on and Jeff did sanction some big moves in that window like Silva (who was highly regarded at the time).
The Raul injury was massive he was one of the best strikers in europe at the time probably in the top 10 with goals and assists.
Fans forget this when saying we need another striker.
Theres not many that come along like that and I feel Silva for such a young player was being compared to that.
Coupled with close seasons nearly getting european football under Bruno in his first season Wolves have tried to stay competetive. Fans also forget even last season with injuries the club was close to Europe in February 2024 after a win against Fulham.
Are the injuries to Neto, Hwang, Semedo etc last season Jeff's fault?
Seems really harsh to be honest to think this way as a fan base.
But the other factors after keeping players on higher wages that didn't perform for one reason or another was the PSR rules were scrutinised even more so some clubs look amazing at the moment like Villa and Brighton (not comparing) but they have made massive sales which clears the accounting books for PSR for 3 seasons with the sale of Grealish for example as it was £100m transfer.
But clubs can make £105m loss over 3 years.
Shows how big a deal Raul and Traore not working out for Wolves cost us overall for Fosun supporting the club and keeping the players.
But Jeff can't come out and say that each summer. He just has to spread the risk.for the benefit of Wolves overall and for medium and long term.
So this summer is the first without Raul, Traore, Moutinho etc wages on the book I believe.

15 Jan 2025 21:44:47
It's getting worse why are we not trying to get another CH in Doherty is not a CH and a winger plus a striker or relegation here we come.Wolves are sleep walking into the championship why are we playing whang he's been chronic for the last 3 matches yet gets to play. If we don't get at least another 2 or 3 players in can't see us avoiding relegation.

15 Jan 2025 22:59:29
Tbf Cunha wasn't fit enough to play full 90. Hwang should be supported as he can be a very clever player for us if we can help him regain form. He had the rascist stuff going on in the summer and its been over him and the club as its not right. Think a few clubs came in for him in the summer and it turned his head and has left him unfocussed. Not saying that's right but question GON man management of it.

Regarding Doc we don't have many fit CB's Dawson (its game over for me I can't see him playing like 18 months ago). We need another two cb's this month to stay up. I would sign Danso and Veiga they need to get the deals done. All 3 cb's would still be less than sales of Neto and Kilman take the deduction next year like Forest.

16 Jan 2025 10:16:16
It baffles me that hwang plays. He's clearly out of form. Regardless of the past he needs to pull his socks up and work hard. Sarabia, bellegarde just not good enough.
We need another cb for sure, and dare I say it a striker.

It's sad that the effort isn't there with probably 50% of the team.
They should all be running themselves into the ground for us fans.

16 Jan 2025 14:48:12
Hwang hasn't had a sustained period in the team this season.
That is pretty woeful when he was our 3rd top scorer last season. Due mainly to injuries and probably has played not at 100% as GON fell out with everyone.
I don't disagree with the passion but don't create a divide where there shouldn't be one.
More has gone on behind the scenes but we should back Vitor and the players that want to fight for us to find the formulae.

16 Jan 2025 20:30:53
Dawson is finished.bellegarde is useless.sarabia has no interest in playing for us.its obvious.doyle is going to be quality but hit and miss currently.hwang doherty should never play for us again bueno improving but not prem quality.dont know why they ever bought him.toti is a liability anyway when fit.the 2gomes guedes andre ran semedo cunha are obviously quality.even tho unha tries to do everything himself probably due to the players around him not being good enuf.a full overhaul is needed just hope we have the time this ssn to turn it round and move on next ssn.time will tell.but 2 3-0defeats doesn't bode well with the fixtutes coming up