Wolves banter 10

20 Jun 2026 20:18:59
Hope we're keeping Sasa & Tommy, good squad players for Championship. Great figures regarding season ticket sales, almost at cut off point, already!

20 Jun 2026 21:33:18
Season ticket sales are poor, Preston. They have approximately 600 left to go on general sale after renewals and members. What happened to the circa 10,000 waiting list? Or have they now got an ST because half the ground didn't renew? They don't usually have a big amount to put on general sale.

20 Jun 2026 23:53:16
22,500 is the cut-off point, which will be reached soon! How the hell is that poor after last season? 'Half the ground didn't renew' makes no sense either! FWAW.

21 Jun 2026 05:02:07
22,500 season ticket holders last year, plus 10,000 on the waiting list equals over 32,000, correct? This year, with 600 left to go on general sale, it means they've only sold less than 22,000.

It's not rocket science.
And what I meant was, if half haven't renewed, have those gone to the ten thousand on the waiting list, because obviously, if they're on general sale, the waiting list has gone.

21 Jun 2026 12:47:50
It's the fastest the tickets have ever sold... but that doesn't fit your narrative so let's ignore facts and stick to feelings.

Why do some "fans" seem to hate Wolves? It's like we have a section of Roy Keanes. I just wanna know... what made these people like this?

21 Jun 2026 13:35:05
If you're referring to me, WhatALoad, I far from hate the club, buddy. Supported and been a ticket holder for way too long to hate. I got 'numbed' years ago.

22 Jun 2026 09:57:50
Don't understand your 10 k on top of season tickets = 32,500! What, no away support!!!

22 Jun 2026 10:32:09
I give up.

22 Jun 2026 14:57:36
We sold out. Fastest we've sold out.

We've gone down to the Championship, not Vanarama North lol.

22 Jun 2026 17:31:21
Says the bloke who's written above 'I wish I could buy one'.
For your info, I've been a ST holder since early 90s, and travel to at least half our away games.

22 Jun 2026 19:18:55
Sasa Hust lifted his team in Austria to two trophies.

20 Jun 2026 13:46:25
Reports saying Wolves are after Che Adams. Don't understand this. Yes, he's good in the Championship. But if Wolves get promoted he's not PL quality, same as Armstrong, and both will be 30 or more. Then Wolves have Jiminez and he's 35. Surely Wolves should be looking for someone younger.

20 Jun 2026 15:15:27
We've got to get promoted in the first place, the club will have plans in place for that eventuality, I guess, and the players concerned will be made aware of them before signing.

20 Jun 2026 16:34:53
I see both sides of the argument, to be honest. I understand the point that you have to get promoted first, and players like Che Adams and Armstrong will certainly help do that. However, I also agree with Dmac, in so much as we absolutely know that both of those strikers are not even close to the standard needed to play in the Prem.
Personally, I'd sooner we spend the money on someone like Ballard from Leyton Orient.

Ballard is just 21 years old, scored 23 goals last season, and has played for England at every youth level. A player like that might still be able to find another level in the Prem, and the problem with players like Adams and Armstrong is, what's the end game once we are back up?

20 Jun 2026 16:59:12
BullysBoy 11, that is the problem. If Wolves get promoted, who is going to score the goals? M Hatt, saying the players will have been informed of what might happen.

Are you going to sign a 3 year deal to be told, if Wolves get promoted, we will sell you? I don't think that happens. No matter who you are, Wolves will have a problem if promoted.

20 Jun 2026 17:28:16
Remember Leo Bonatini? He was good enough to help us get promoted and almost broke a club record doing so. My point being, if they help Wolves get promoted, they're good enough.

20 Jun 2026 18:03:26
F Jack, he then got sold, didn't score in PL. This is my point.

20 Jun 2026 18:05:37
At this moment in time, the squad - assuming the club does lose its better players (J Gomes, Krejci and maybe Bueno H) - should not give you any worries about "what if they go up" because, as constituted, it is far more likely to go down!
It's not who will score the goals in the Prem, but who will score/stop them in the Champ.
Signing young prospects is obviously important for the long term future of the club, but it is optimistic to expect the current squad, supplemented only by Trippier, Raul and a number of young players - British or overseas - with minimal experience at this level, to carry the club to safety, let alone promotion.
Whilst I completely understand your point about filling the squad with old boys/not good enough for Prem players, adding a further smattering such as Nick Pope, Tyrone Mings/Adam Webster and a couple of others, including maybe Che Adams or Ross Barkley, should, relatively cheaply (in transfer fees if not wages), take away that downside, at least for a year or so, allowing the club to see which of the younger players signed alongside them are up to the job.
The squad has been hopelessly unbalanced for a while now, which partially explains why it is where it is, and failing to address that would be an error.



PS. On a totally different subject, I read recently on this very site an extremely long post that detailed, although not very accurately, the transfer activity of the club in the Prem. What it failed to say, presumably because it didn't fit with their very odd agenda, was that it reflected one of, if not the lowest, net spends in the Prem over that period.
It also claimed that it was directly correlated to/impacted upon FFP/PSR.
Sadly, this merely shows how important financial literacy is.
One, net transfer spend, is a cashflow item, and the other is a measure/test of P and L levels. The link between the two, in the short term particularly, is modest.
You can be cash flow negative but highly profitable in a period, and of course vice versa.
If you are writing or reading an article/post that discusses Wolves financial performance, it would probably be better if you asked someone who can read accounts to look at it before drawing/posting too many conclusions.

20 Jun 2026 21:36:31
DMAC123, I think we're making the same point, but looking at it through different lenses.

20 Jun 2026 23:50:30
I don't want to be a pedant, Ford, (cue being a pendant:), but what records did Bonatini get close to breaking? Genuine question here, cause the only thing I can think of is the only player to score all of his goals before Xmas?!. 👍

21 Jun 2026 09:18:43
Think we just need to take one step at a time. Let's not count our chickens too early.
The Championship is a different beast to the Prem. Where we were used to Premiership professionalism, respect and sportsmanship we will now be faced with Mad Max and the Thunder Dome! 😳😂🐺 FWAW.

21 Jun 2026 12:30:12
I don't want to be a pedant, Wolf, but how did Costa, Cav, Douglas, Goldy, Mac, etc cope in the Prem... oh wait, we got rid of them. What about Dicko or Afobe? We replaced them. Douglas is the prime example. We got Vinagre and him. He did bits and we sold him. When we got to the Prem, we brought in new players such as Raul, Mout and co. You do know that, right? Like, how we also got Castro?

But yeah, why aren't we signing Mbappe and Arda Guler? Same old Wolves showing no ambition...

I see Real Madrid, PSG and Man City are moving with transfers for big names... After all, we are the best team in the world and not a team that finished bottom of the Prem. Haha.


We need to buy players with Championship experience. After a season with a lack of that, you'd think you guys would want something different.

I hope Nathan learns quickly that you can't satisfy our fanbase, because a section of our fans will never ever be happy, and will always look for something to moan about.

20 Jun 2026 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - EHL2020 has posted a new article entitled, Why Rangers Pre-Season Matters This Year

19 Jun 2026 10:51:51
Did anyone see that we are linked with the striker Pablo of West Ham? Would be a reunion with our new head coach Peixoto. Exciting if true. Imagine Pablo and Raul together.

19 Jun 2026 14:45:34
Is he actually any good though, Deep? I haven't seen him much, in truth, but I see he hasn't scored a single goal for WHU and has struggled for game time at a club that desperately needed a striker last season, is all.

19 Jun 2026 16:53:52
Yeah, I don't rate him, BullysBoy. He hasn't looked that good when I've watched him this season. I also think Jimenez and Armstrong will complement each other well, although we will probably only start with 1 striker.

19 Jun 2026 17:07:19
Valid points above, but West Ham signed him for a reason. They were almost as rubbish as us last season and even Harry Kane might not have scored in that team. If Peixoto rates him, let's keep our options open.

19 Jun 2026 18:16:14
Che Adams considering joining.

19 Jun 2026 21:04:15
Hope it's just the usual paper talk hype. Think we can do better than him.

20 Jun 2026 11:24:16
Che Adams could do a job in the Championship for us. Not good enough for the Premier League now. In fact, the same applies to Trippier, Raul, and Armstrong, if truth be told. They can all help us get promotion, but beyond that, we need other players able to make the transition.

Genius signings under Nuno, such as Jota and Neves, are examples of who we should be looking for.

19 Jun 2026 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - OptimumShots has posted a new article entitled, Everton Need One Clear Squad Plan

18 Jun 2026 23:53:47
Nice to see JLo getting smashed by Canada. Walking out on us saying the players were terrible. We could beat Qatar!

19 Jun 2026 06:08:09
I think you'll find that he didn't 'walk out' on us after all. He gave Jeff Shi about 6 weeks notice so that a replacement could be found.

Have we learnt nothing from the last week in that we shouldn't believe everything that's written down.

19 Jun 2026 08:11:04
Lop walked as he knew he wouldn't get backed in the transfer window.

19 Jun 2026 08:34:07
He left because he thought, after spending £100m in January, he could do the same in the summer and didn't seem to understand PSR. He stayed on because he had nowhere else to go, and was still being paid.

He did a good job keeping Wolves up.

But beyond that, his career is patchy at best. He's at Qatar for the money. West Ham was a disaster, but the writing was on the wall there when they replaced Moyes for him, thinking the style of football would be better.

19 Jun 2026 11:18:06
Also worth noting on Lopetegui that he left because he felt the club's transfer policy would see them relegated, was he wrong?!

19 Jun 2026 11:27:22
Good, maybe don't be so aggressive towards people when replying. If VB has said something that isn't correct, it's easy to say what you need to without coming across as such an angry know it all.

19 Jun 2026 13:06:56
No aggression on my part. I was just pointing out that not everything printed is true.

The Kieran Trippier ripping up his contract story is a very recent example. Likewise, the post I put up yesterday about Hakimisports and people reacting.

19 Jun 2026 14:48:28
All good. Hard to read tone in written text. Lop, for me, is all about the money. Spending 100m and then thinking we could keep doing the same with no restrictions. The only thing I didn't like is walking away from a team with 3 days to go before the season starts. He could have stayed until Jan to see how things went.

19 Jun 2026 16:54:53
I think Lop was sold an idea by Jeff that simply wasn't true. At the time, I was so angry with Lops, and how he walked away on the eve of the season, but then, a few months later, it transpired that he told Jeff on the pre-season tour that he wanted out.

He gave the club 6 weeks to find a new manager, but again, it was handled very badly.

19 Jun 2026 18:22:03
If Lop gave 6 weeks notice, then why did he get paid compensation? Was the contract set up that if he chose to leave he gets paid anyway? Can't get my head round that.

19 Jun 2026 18:53:30
If he was sacked, he would have been paid the remainder of his contract. As it was a mutual agreement, he was paid a %.

18 Jun 2026 23:12:42
Lopetegui is the coach of Qatar.

18 Jun 2026 16:30:18
Kieran Trippier has re-iterated his commitment to Wolves, despite Rob Edwards' sacking.

The right back has exchanged messages already with new WWFC boss Cesar Peixoto with the head coach making it clear that Trippier is crucial for his plans.

18 Jun 2026 17:28:01
Which seems to imply that the naughty keyboard warriors and Daily Fails of the media cesspit were wrong from the start. Can't help it, but I really do despise sloppy reporting and Internet bs. I have long thought that the social media ban they are talking about should be extended to these idiots who tell fibs for clickbait.

18 Jun 2026 17:58:03
Exactly what I was thinking, Malcwulf. Spot on!

18 Jun 2026 19:51:48
Pablo from West Ham linked to us.

18 Jun 2026 20:19:06
Football Insider print nothing but lies, but the worst has to be Hakimisports. Today they printed that Cesar Peixoto had ruthlessly axed 5 players from his squad and told them that they do not form part of his plans.



The 5 are: Jose Sa, Boubacar Traore, Sasa, Jonny Castro Otto and Pablo Sarabia. Even worse is the fact that some have commented and called Otto and Sarabia a disgrace. It seems anyone can write any old s*** and print it.

17 Jun 2026 15:20:25
Sasa Kalajdzic coming back to Wolves? Yes, please. Superb hold up skills, ideal player to battle Jimenez for the 9 position. He’s contracted to Wolves until 2027, with the option of another year. However, if a decent bid comes in, he’ll likely go.



When Wolves played in the Championship under Nuno, there was a whole heap of rubbish in the squad. Thankfully this time it’s not as bad. Not that much work to do to slim the squad down for fresh players coming in.

17 Jun 2026 10:26:45
Just seen a report that Coventry are interested in Angel Gomes. I would have thought they had higher ambitions than that he was absolute rubbish for us.

17 Jun 2026 11:37:40
Quite a few who were rubbish for us have done alright for themselves, loads of 'em are at the World Cup, perhaps Fosun's ninth managerial appointment might do better with what he's given to work with. You'd really think they'd have worked out where the problem lies by now.

17 Jun 2026 13:05:11
Harry Kane would probably have been rubbish for us last season as well. Strikers need service. Thankfully, last season's nightmare of Jeff's misfits is firmly in the rear-view mirror, and we have a forward-looking new head coach in place now.

17 Jun 2026 16:27:58
It's something that I just can't get my head around; surely, if they were that crap, they wouldn't be playing at the World Cup. For whatever reason, it just didn't click, and it always looked disjointed.

18 Jun 2026 09:00:28
Poor organiation and motivation, thats all I can put it down to, Mrv.