06 Feb 2025 11:53:04
If PSG came in for Cuhna in the summer transfer window would anybody take Ramos as part exchange or go for Ramos as a separate deal. I think he would be a good fit at Wolves has some of Cuhnas attributes skillful fast can dribble plus scores goals.

1.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 12:31:16
I suppose I would take him, but the scenario if we go down is more likely to be Cunha leaves and we have to scrape around for a striker who is prepared to play in the Championship.

2.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 12:42:15
If Wolves sell Cunha it's because they need the profit Shada, that's how they are financing transfers these days.

He'll be replaced by a low cost option, they'll only buy in established players if/when we're heading for relegation, again.

3.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 13:16:40
Thought after this scare if we avoid relegation they might change there tune but only time will tell LMW.

4.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 14:01:34
Financial position is best served through teams securing good fees for academy products. Gibbs-White is probably the only example we managed over the recent past. Others appear to have a better record in this respect, with a number basing their entire financial footing on developing their own youngsters or low-cost incomings into profitable assets. Not a model wE have exploited.

5.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 14:13:28
Shada - it is not a choice to sell our best players each year and replace them with cheap young players deemed to have upside, we have to avoid breaching PSR rules.
The club for reasons only Jeff can explain is run at a huge loss and this loss has to be covered by profitable player sales.
The tune that needs changing is to stop the haemorrhaging of losses, (can anyone explain how we have a wage bill of over £140m yet have one of the lowest playing wage bills in the Prem), presumably by replacing Jeff with a competent CEO?

6.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 14:54:48
The problem is PSR and the owners needing the club to be self sufficient. The club isn't generating enough money for wages and transfer fees. This is ultimately the failure from the owners to significantly grow the commercial side of the club over the last few years. Realistically expanding the ground and increasing the corporate package offerings goes a long way to this, which they haven't done. There are also other things they have explored and failed with.

It doesn't matter who owns the club PSR still restricts what is spent and the only answer is to grow revenue. Otherwise buy cheap and hope to sell high is going to be the model for the foreseeable. If your recruitment model is good it can work, unfortunately ours is still paying for Scott Sellars mistakes.

7.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 15:57:49
You may be right Shada but I wouldn't bank on it, I really wouldn't. They could have avoided all this drama in the summer by getting in a CH or two, but they didn't.

8.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 17:11:05
Hi LMW,
Sorry but once again your being so negative about this club and the owners. Nobody could have predicted the injury to Yerson. If GON wanted another CH in the summer instead of a winger (Forbes) a Goalkeeper we aren't using and a set piece specialist who did absolutely nothing, then he should should have demanded it instead of securing a nice lifestyle for the next 4 years. That's what I call wasting money and of course having to pay him and his staff off for abject failure. I know both you and TFIOG blame Shi and you may be proven correct but the poor player recruitment from previous managers has not helped our current situation. Let's hope VP is the right man. It's not all about buying £50-60M players as we aren't in a position a) to do that and b) it doesn't always work out. We were lucky to off load Nunes otherwise things would be a lot worse. We're still suffering from the Fabio saga, which hopefully will get sorted if we offload him in the summer. I notice WHU didn't sign anyone in this transfer window (loan only). Was that because our other previous manager who sulked and walked because he couldn't keep on spending. Well how did that work out for him?
Unfortunately poor recruitment affects us much more than the so called big six, who seem able to bench/drop £100M players.

9.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 17:26:23
I'm more confident now that we won't go down.
Plus these new players will get better as they go on
So. Maybe the future is looking a bit brighter,
A couple astute signings, for next season, and who knows
Plus we may go on a good cup run and stay up

10.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 21:27:06
Acle you are of course correct in that Wolves have spectacularly failed to drive revenues. However Wolves also have a very specific issue, a Non Football wage bill that is totally out of control. Despite one of the lowest football wage bills in the league we have an enormous non football wage bill perhaps £10, 20 or even 30m pa more than it should be cf Brighton plus the 3 London based sides Blackford asked me to compare Wolves to.
This is despite, not wanting to be rude, being based in an area where most wages will be much lower than in the south and other major cities. Until that is brought back under control we will have PSR issues whilst other clubs don't.
Blackford of course everything you say is correct, particularly about Fabio, whose transfer has not only hamstrung us financially since Seville but may well have been a major factor in the demise of the fabled "pack" spirit Nuno created.
However it assumes that it is the manager (s) - who to a man since Seville have complained that they didn't get what they wanted in the transfer market - who are making those decisions.
But you are correct I blame Jeff for everything because he is the CEO and it is his job, (which he is paid handsomely to do!), to ensure that everything is done correctly!
Forgive me for this rather socialist attitude but for me credit flows down. If a worker does a good job it was to the worker's credit.
However blame flows up - if a worker does a bad job he either: 1) wasn't the right worker to do the job so shouldn't have been doing the job, 2) was doing the wrong thing so should have been told what to do correctly or 3) was doing the right thing but badly so should have told how to do it correctly.
Ps I don't think I have said it but the transfer window that has just closed was better than adequate and so is one of the better ones from the last few years, (not quite on a par with Jan 23), was the visit to England of Fosun's chairman, who also visited in Jan 23, relevant I wonder?

11.) 06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025 22:04:56
Let's get some positivity on this forum. Fosun have spent big this window (2nd highest spenders in the biggest league in the world). We have 3 new big powerful players and we have retained our best player.
Oh and on Danso's debut they concede 4 without scoring.ouch. He looks OK but no better than the 2 defenders we've bought and ours were a little cheaper.
UTW

12.) 07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025 00:32:47
Blackfords I think you've said it yourself some of the decision making within the club has been more than a bit suspect and lot's of money has been wasted that's for sure. Will they learn from this season and change their thinking? as the Club seemingly isn't developing commercially it's hard to see how they can. That buck does stop with Shi/Fosun.

They offered GON a 4 year contract at a time when he was being touted as a potential England Manager, would you have refused it?

I've already said in earlier posts that I don't think we will be relegated and that the Club would spend in January if required. It was and they have, so hopefully we will survive this season.


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