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03 Jan 2025 20:46:10
Whispers coming out of Turkey that Wolves have been offered Ziyech since falling out of favour at Galatasaray.
1.) 04 Jan 2025 18:47:24
He's well past his best so hope we stay well clear.
10 Dec 2024 15:12:42
Apparently Uncle Jorge has been tasked with getting Jose to come for a £5M pay off going to Fenerbahce. I'd take this in a heartbeat!
1.) 10 Dec 2024 16:58:49
Really, not sure I believe that to be honest?! To what end though as well? If we don't have the ambition to keep Lope do we really have the ambition to keep Jose?!
2.) 10 Dec 2024 17:03:59
Just reporting what's all over Irish media over here Bullys. It is a rumour site after all.
3.) 10 Dec 2024 17:16:17
Haha, OK Pikey then I'll start a rumour Stan Cullis to be cloned and bought back to the club! I for one can't wait to get him back in the dugout! In Cullis we trust, it is a rumour site after all ??
4.) 10 Dec 2024 18:29:40
Yep, but that's not reported in the media anywhere is it Bully. There's at least two sites over here that are reporting what I posted. [c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1254894395?-300:786] ?
5.) 10 Dec 2024 22:00:39
Newsnow is not the media, it is merely an aggregate site for click bait! They basically come up with outlandish stories (usually that peeps want to be true) so as to drag them in to look at their cheap pop ups! To be frank if that's your media 'source' then I suspect the Cullis option is about as likely! Like ya say though it is a rumour site so let just pretend/hope it's true eh ??
26 Nov 2024 15:26:52
If we actually sell Ait Nouri for the reported fee of £30M to Man U or Liverpool I will be disgusted with Fosun's business acumen and it will prove my thoughts that they're cashing in before they sell. He's undoubtedly worth at least £50M in today's market.
1.) 26 Nov 2024 16:34:30
It's all media bullsh*t.
We sold Nunes for £50m+, Kilman for £40m+ so I'm sure Fosun will get the right price for AIT
2.) 26 Nov 2024 18:50:08
Sorry Pikey Wolf, but RAN isn't worth £50m. He's OK going forward has the occasional deft touch and knows where the oppositions goal is, but out weighing this is his inadequacy in defence. He loses the ball with over-playing/poor passes around the half way line 2 or 3 times a game. In my opinion he's been pretty much responsible for at least 7 of the goals against so far this season.
3.) 26 Nov 2024 19:53:46
Yeh but if we sell to liverpool or suchlike they will use him correctly and turn him into a 60mil.player.going fwd there aren't many better.same as t.a.a.ready made replacement for lpool.so hold out for 50mil.easy
{Ed001's Note - TAA plays on the right, hardly a ready made replacement.}
4.) 26 Nov 2024 22:18:30
Sorry but I'm with East here, £50m is a LOT of money for a defender that can't defend! Without a massive change in his defensive attributes I genuinely don't believe a big club will even be in for him! He's great at going past people by that alone is not enough for modern full backs ?
5.) 27 Nov 2024 15:23:57
Well whatever we sell him for, we've got to pay Angers 50% of the profit. So if we sold him for £30m we'd have to take off the £10m we paid for him and give £10m to his former club.
Hardly seems worth it.
6.) 27 Nov 2024 17:10:59
v good thread with lots of excellent contributions!
I agree with lots of bits and disagree with quite a few as well
It's interesting to see posters's views though and great that this contentious/multi faceted issue has created some unusual alliances/agreements.
Firstly undeniably RAN is not a strong defensive full back - but is that ability, ( don't think so - see Salah game last year), attitude, (is he careless and casual in possession or simply too ambitious or optimistic/out of kilter re his colleagues) or tactics, (like Doherty before him RAN is often out of position but as with Doherty is that because the manager wants him to bomb on?).
However I think it is a little harsh to underplay his offensive capabilities. He isn't just good he is amazingly good.
In a better team that could give him a freer role - like TAA at Liverpool albeit RAN is left sided not right - and who could cover his defensive weakness he would be extremely valuable.
Breaking teams down is incredibly hard even for the top sides and RAN is as good as any (except perhaps TAA) defender at doing so. Even at a weak club who don't score many he has more goals and assists (5) so far this season than any other defender in the league.
Consequently I would hope we would get significantly more than £30m.
Clearly at a better side his weaknesses would diminish in importance, ( top teams are forced to defend far less anyway and RAN's shortcomings could be covered), but his strength would become more obvious as his team would have more of the ball and the opposition would not be able to devote as much time and energy to defend him.
He might therefore be even more successful going forwards.
On the next point however sadly whilst we got great prices for Kilman and Nunes we got terrible ones for Neves, Neto and Traore. Consequently I can't be certain that we will extract more than £30m regardless of what I feel about his ability, cf for example Kilman.
Finally Wandering if we get above £20m we would simply buy out the 50% option, (Liam Keen confirmed recently that it is not on profits but sales price and we still have the option at £9.5m.)
So if we sell at £30m we buy out the option for £9.5m and keep £20.5m.
7.) 27 Nov 2024 20:47:48
Is it really worth it then?
We paid £9.5m for him so if we sell him for £30m without buying out the 50% clause, we make £10.25m profit.
If we do pay the £9.5m buy out clause and sell him for £30m then we would make £11m profit.
8.) 27 Nov 2024 21:04:38
Wandering - NO!
Firstly you are confusing cash and profits
Secondly you are ignoring/don't understand amortisation.
Please find a friend who can explain football finances to you as I don't have the time or energy to keep this up!
9.) 27 Nov 2024 22:12:45
I do understand maths. We pay £9.5m We sell for £30m = £20.5m profit.
But as you say we leave the clause in place so that means we give £10.25m to Angers.
Or we pay Angers the £9.5m buy out fee so we have paid £9.5m for the player plus £9.5 to Angers so £19m in total. We sell for £30m so that means £11m profit.
Please explain what Amortisation is as I understand it to be the action or process of reducing or paying off a debt with regular payments.
So although we may be paying any transfer fee/buyout fee over a period of time, the bottom line is that we will still pay the asking/agreed price.
And before you try and insult me again by saying I should ask someone who understands, I have whereas you clearly haven't hence you thinking we lost £107m last year.
10.) 28 Nov 2024 07:19:11
Amortisation is a form of depreciation. The cost value of the asset is reduced for every year of a assets economic life. In the case of football players his contract. So if a player costs £10m and he initially signs a 4 year contract, his value on the books is reduced every year bt £2.5m and the reduced value is used against the sale value to calculate the profit. Also in the case of RAN, from what future appears to be saying, we would have to pay back 50% of the sales value, not the profit made. So if we sold for £30m we have to pay over £15m not £10m
26 Jul 2024 13:43:51
Congratulations to Mario for having the armband handed to him. The perfect choice for captain in my opinion.
1.) 27 Jul 2024 08:36:45
In the latest training video believe one of the coaches was Mark Robson from West Ham who GON wanted last season.
Seen no news on this can anyone confirm.
2.) 27 Jul 2024 13:10:02
Current staff mate
SPORTING DIRECTOR Mathew Hobbs
HEAD COACH Gary O'Neil
ASSISTANT Shaun Derry
FIRST-TEAM COACH Tim Jenkins
FIRST-TEAM COACH Ian Burchnall
GOALKEEPER COACH Neil Cutler
SET PIECE COACH Jack Wilson
HEAD OF HIGH PERFORMANCE Phil Hayward
SPORTS SCIENTIST Tom Male
PSYCHOLOGIST Dr Martin Littlewood
CHEF MELISSA FORDE
NUTRITIONIST Matthew North
DOCTOR Dr Kai Win
HEAD PHYSIO Ben Macdonald
PHYSIO Ollie Leaper
PHYSIO Rui Fuste
PHYSIO Matt Butterfield
OSTEOPATH Jon Murray
HEAD OF PERFORMANCE and RESEARCH Mathew Pearson
COACH-ANALYST Woody Dewar
ASSISTANT ANALYST John Boston
ASSISTANT PERFORMANCE ANALYST Tom Hocking
RESEARCH and SUPPORT ANALYST Ed Ames
KIT CO-ORDINATOR Sam Perrin
3.) 27 Jul 2024 17:04:56
Rated you left out
HEAD OF REALISM The Realist?♀️??
4.) 27 Jul 2024 19:10:33
Realist. You forgot Mystic Jeff the fantasist.
5.) 27 Jul 2024 20:06:02
I put you as head of something Realist but my word doc warned me it was swearing lol.
6.) 27 Jul 2024 20:58:58
Mrs Realist often refers me as a doc head too Rated
7.) 28 Jul 2024 01:57:25
At least you know how to have banter Realist mate.
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05 Jun 2025 20:38:30
I know this will probably upset some on this page, however, I seem to be one of few that doesn't seem to mind Cunha and Ait Nouri leaving? I used to get frustrated with Cunha's work rate when we weren't in possession (Premier stats show he was one of the laziest players without the ball in the league). His discipline was abhorrent at times and I'm afraid I couldn't forgive him for his actions at Ipswich or Bournmouth. As for RAN, yes going forward he was a very good player, but he did have his downfalls, he would take one too many touches on regular occasions, run into players rather than attempt to go past them and try skills/tricks when they weren't justified. Defensively he is poor, I lost count this season how many times he missed a tackle, fell over trying to buy a foul or was caught out of position. I agree the fee for him is probably €10M too short simply because we should be inflating all sales to clubs like City and Utd. I'm going to stick my neck out guys and predict VP gets in who he wants and we will be absolutely fine next season. I think we will be more solid defensively and rely on team work rather than individual brilliance to win games. COYW
1.) 05 Jun 2025 21:13:58
Spot on Pikey!
2.) 05 Jun 2025 21:34:15
Well said.
3.) 06 Jun 2025 09:17:15
Totally agree Pikey, you are sticking your neck out. ??
4.) 06 Jun 2025 10:04:58
As I've said before Cunha and RAN played a hand in over half all of the Prem goals we scored last season, and that's not easy to replace with a pathetic £95m combined! Then there's Club captain Semedo to replace as well so let's see what magic they have lined up.
I do find it funny that people are so quick to jump on the 'they weren't that good anyway' bang wagon, Jeff must love these pages cause they are full of his propaganda! ? They weren't that good but ones a steal at £62m and the others headed to one of the best clubs in the world, but yeah your right for a team that spent most the season in the relegation zone they were both bang average, OK then! ?
5.) 06 Jun 2025 10:22:46
I concur Pikey consistency was missing at times sometimes missing for 2/3 games on the bounce. Regarding price nouri has gone for. Wow. I honestly thought we would end up mcatee and 20/25 mil.
6.) 07 Jun 2025 16:17:42
Was RAN the reason why we couldn't play 4 at the back?
25 Feb 2025 21:35:30
So Djiga must be an absolutely awful defender if Bueno keeps getting in the team ahead of him. Semedo had a shocking game, Munetsi doesn't know where he's supposed to be, Cunha out on the left touchline for the second half and Sarabia wimping out of tackles. Back to the the GON way of playing back to the defence everytime possession is gained. I hope they watch that game back tomorrow and are ashamed of that second half performance.
21 Jan 2025 09:38:51
Unfortunately I can only see one outcome at the moment. Cunha and Ait Nouri will be sold before the window closes with very little time to reinvest. A couple of late loans will come in to try and keep the fans happy and it will go down to the remaining head to head games with Sou, Leic, Ipsw who will stay up.
1.) 21 Jan 2025 10:37:29
Some idiot has upset him big style
Let's face it. When they go.
We won't be replacing them
VP. Won't hang around,
Seems inevitable our fate
Can't believe it
We need to try and keep our best till this run of fixtures has passed .fingers crossed
2.) 21 Jan 2025 11:01:15
Some of the comments below about player attitudes are worrying. If they do not respond positively to VP and are ready for this fight, then it smacks of Mad Mick's last days and what followed that.
3.) 21 Jan 2025 11:35:40
Walter Zenga mark two.
4.) 21 Jan 2025 11:58:12
Out of the light cometh Darkness
5.) 21 Jan 2025 12:12:20
Maybe VP's game philosophy dosnt sit with these players he's inherited Wimborne, cunha appeared to have different ideas with him on the touchline. RAN was all over and looked like he'd given up before half time when he got switched to the right. Gomez and Andre gave it their all, but the space they're expected to cover seemed too much. Why Sarabia started, and stayed on so long puzzled me. Whatever VP is a demanding type, also in public a forgiving type, but the confidence confidence that he professed has long gone from the squad by the look last night.
6.) 21 Jan 2025 12:17:38
Knew we were in trouble when we got Walter mkII as manager.Another cheap option for Fosun. What do they do now?
7.) 21 Jan 2025 12:59:58
Information has come forth Cunha did clap the fans and Keen was stirring the pot, i've posted a video hopefully one of eds will sort when they can, but Keen needs to be pulled infront of his boss and questioned.
8.) 21 Jan 2025 19:37:09
I take your point Abbey.there is certainly something wrong. VP is a credible manager and some of these players have given a good account of themselves on occasions. Maybe I am naive about whatever the circumstances a professional would always give their all for the team. To not care or try is insulting to the whole club and fans. I can forgive a lot.but not that. I really hope this is not the case.
9.) 21 Jan 2025 21:49:32
Yeah have to agree with Wim here VP is about as credible as we can realistically hope for considering our position! In fact I'll (begrudgingly) admit that he was better than I'd expected us to get in terms of background. Yes it's fair to say that he still needs to prove himself at this level but to call him Zenga or a cheap option seems WELL wide of the mark!
Like managers before he needs the appropriate tools to do the job, until that actually happens we will just keep rinse and repeating with each new manager! ?
31 Dec 2024 10:17:13
So just the Forest game and FA Cup game for Cunha's ban.probably the best we could have hoped for!
15 Dec 2024 15:53:16
Be prepared for Meupiyou to go straight into the team when Pereira takes over (Mendes Client). Then January we get a few players in from Saudi and Portugal (all Mendes Clients). Shi will be hoping that Uncle Jorge has helped him in the past and will rely on him again.
1.) 15 Dec 2024 16:39:18
Whoever it is can guarantee they will be the cheapest option
2.) 15 Dec 2024 16:44:55
Neves wouldn't go amiss from Saudi?
3.) 16 Dec 2024 07:05:41
Looks like you're very much wrong there Bux.First time for everything. ??Let's hope he made lots of demands on spending big in January.
19 Jun 2025 13:17:42
Made of glass. No thanks.
15 Jun 2025 21:21:36
Hope so Rated, how this guy has gone under the radar for so long is a mystery. He’s an absolute beast of a player.
08 Jun 2025 10:00:35
Once again BullysBoy you are missing the point entirely! The player has to agree to the move or the contract, clubs cannot just sell players or force players to sign contracts if the player doesn’t want to, it’s that simple. I really can’t be bothered to list the dozens of players that have left every “well run club” over the last 10 years but look on Transfer Market and you will see many players released for nothing that Wolves were actually trying to sign before they went to these clubs (so we actually dodged many bullets). One first team player that I would take though is Lamptey from Brighton, yes he’s had his injury issues but when fit he’s an excellent little player.
07 Jun 2025 09:15:56
Just sell them! ? I’m sure that crossed the minds of every club but someone not only needs to want to pay for them the player has to want to go there as well, has to sign a contract extension before a year left (which no player will ever be forced to do) and has the freedom to put their feelers out for better deals with a year to go. I think people better look at some other clubs released list, Everton for example have a list of players which demanded £200+M together in their last transfer fees combined. The bottom line is, if a player wants to run down their contract they have all the power and there really isn’t a damn thing the club they play for can do about it. Phil Jones in the reserves for four years on £100K a week with multiple offers to go to other clubs springs to mind.
06 Jun 2025 14:32:01
Even the world’s best run clubs have players that run down their contracts, Liverpool and Arsenal spring to mind in recent times. If the player wants to, there’s absolutely nothing the club can do.
12 Jun 2025 08:17:50
Kepa, who had an amazing season and is a Spain international has a £5M release clause.
07 Jun 2025 12:49:02
Well said Nando. ?? As far as I can tell (and I don’t want to put words in your mouth), “start again with Vitor” is the key here. If Vitor is given more power over transfers etc and he wants to get rid of the whole team; that’s his decision and I will support him until his players/team warrants criticism.
01 Jun 2025 17:04:48
E&S reporting that we are in for two number 10's, two fullbacks, a midfielder and a striker. If we're looking at decent players in the €20-€30M ballpark then I can only guess we will be selling RAN because I can't see Fosun providing the Cunha cash plus another €50M, considering the cash provided in January was more than most of us would have thought.
17 Apr 2025 22:14:56
They should be looking at Cherki from Lyon, that boy can play! Perfect replacement for Cunha.
11 Mar 2025 19:57:51
I’m going to predict that they get away with every charge and with their “best in the world” legal team actually end up making the Premier League look like a bunch of fools.