Wolves Banter 4

25 Sep 2026 15:55:18
Oh dear, breaking news: Man City guilty on 114 of the 115 charges.

25 Sep 2026 17:31:06
What was the 115th that they got away with?

26 Sep 2026 12:41:12
Bribing the ref for that Moutinho hand ball!!

25 Sep 2026 09:30:07
Africa Cup of Nations
Zimbabwe come from two down to beat Sierra Leone 3-2
Goal scorers Munetsi with 2 and Chirewa!

25 Sep 2026 07:39:04
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 5 - Quick Round Up

24 Sep 2026 23:06:36
What has toti done? he's on twitter getting slagged off?

25 Sep 2026 03:23:10
This seasons scape goat it seems.

25 Sep 2026 03:24:54
To add, by this seasons scape goat i meant as in some of our fanbase on X seem to need a scape goat every season.
Toti is far from perfect but he played well on Sunday and hopefully he builds on that.

25 Sep 2026 13:53:10
Even if we get promoted this season the fanbase will still be calling out 'scapegoats'.

24 Sep 2026 16:31:59
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 5 - Quick Round Up

23 Sep 2026 03:03:44
RAN couldn't wait to go, he found out the grass isn't always greener.
Let him rot.

23 Sep 2026 13:12:01
Plus he cannot defend, so he'd have no chance in a back 4 - which is why he's dropped down City's pecking order.

23 Sep 2026 16:24:57
RKO : You seem to be under the illusion players still play for the love of the game, most of ‘em are only in the game for the money and would rather sit on the bench at one of the top clubs or go and play in UAE. Sadly Ruben Neves is wasting his career over there.

23 Sep 2026 18:41:43
There's a vital difference between RAN and Neves even though they have Wolves to thank for their emergence as elite players.
RAN was in it purely for the money and couldn't wait to get away. Let him rot on the Citeh bench. Neves admittedly went for the money initially but his heart remains at Wolves.

He was at the West Brom match. Wasting his career? Not so sure, he correctly foresaw rising standards over there, times are changing, it's no longer all about money.

23 Sep 2026 19:12:32
What has happened to RAN, can someone enlighten me plz?

23 Sep 2026 21:30:23
3 points -
1. RAN is highly unlikely to come back to Wolves in the near future due both the wages he is currently on and the range of options he would have between where he sits at City - a top side in Europe - and Wolves - a championship side.
2. Even if RAN as people say couldn't wait to leave - and that is of course pure speculation - firstly who could blame him for wanting to leave Jeff Shi's Wolves for City and a massive pay rise but secondly it is far more obvious that Wolves couldn't wait to push him out of the door to generate funds for whatever it is that Jeff did with the funds Wolves raised. He was sold for both a stupidly low price and in an obscene hurry. Liverpool extracted £10m for a player, TAA, out of contract i.

e. available on a fee to speed up the sale. Wolves sold just as quickly, a player under contract, for tragically little more than TAA was sold for, especially once the fee owed to his former club was taken into account.
3. If by some miracle he came back on loan this Jan it would be an astonishing coup and he would be the best player on the side by a long long way.
I struggle to understand how Wolves fans disrespect a player who along with Cunha - another massively disrespected - carried the side to survival against the odds in their last season at the club.
If Fosun and Jeff in particular had been as talented and committed to Wolves as those 2 the club wouldn't be in the championship and in such a financial strait jacket.

24 Sep 2026 06:51:39
Well said TFIOG3.
Who can blame players wanting to leave if the club or the owners don't show the same ambition as the players & if a top six club comes in & offers to triple your salary why wouldn't they. IMO it's how you leave a club that's important & I can't remember RAN going on strike like that rodent Nunes, or being a complete waste of money like Guedes & Fabio, in fact RAN was one of our better & more creative players during our seasons of decline under Jeff.

Unfortunately I agree that it's very unlikely we'd get RAN back even on loan, but I'd welcome him back. Why not?

24 Sep 2026 09:50:34
It isn't nice losing good players but never held anything against a player if they go about it the right way. Neves was open and honest about his reason and respectful. He will always be a Wolves legend.

I think RAN would have a few club offers that are in a better position than Wolves. Wouldn't surprise me if he ends up going to UTD considering they tried to get him last minute in the summer window.

24 Sep 2026 03:13:50
Ron Moore no illusion at all unlike those pining for old players back (Neves being the exception).

22 Sep 2026 23:28:02
I have left it a couple of days for the dust to settle and won't give ratings to the individual players as that doesn't seem to engender any response.
So I have put down, what I hope you will agree is, a balanced view of the game both pros and cons.
Pros
A win, a clean sheet, a very good performance especially in the first half, several players - step forward and take a bow Mr Toti - having their best performances for a long time!
Cons
Firstly more a mea culpa from me - again sorry Mr Lopez! I was highly sceptical when numerous posters on here and elsewhere said the Championship was extremely weak.
From what I have seen they were correct and there is a chasm between the bottom of the Prem and the middle of the Champ with about a dozen sides in the Champ who are oceans away from challenging the better sides at the top of the Champ.
As an aside despite their good start to the season it would appear Albion, who were genuinely awful, are one of those bottom half teams
More seriously Wolves created as many as double digit "moments" - "could haves" and "should haves" - in the first half alone but went in at half time at 0-0.
Whilst I accept that not all "could haves" become "should haves" - poor decision making, poor passing from the creator, poor movement and/or touch from the putative finisher and naturally defenders interventions - and not all "should haves" become goals - poor decision making and poor finishing plus as we saw this week intervention by goalkeepers and other defenders- 0 from as many as a 8, 9 or even 10 is simply not satisfactory or sustainable.
Wolves can not expect to beat even weak sides like Albion 1- 0 on a regular basis as, as seen earlier on this year, luck and or quality - WHU showed both - will inevitably mean that Wolves will concede occasionally and unless Wolves score from their numerous opportunities points will be dropped.


Although widely lauded for his work rate, Armstrong was only minimally involved in just one of the multiple "moments" Wolves created. For the main striker this is worrying but not surprising. If Raul is not able to get up to speed this shortcoming may become a concern.
Ironically Munetsi was involved in 3 "moments" in the first half alone but of course did not finish any of them - albeit their goalie made an excellent save for at least one of them.
However, although so far this season he has been involved in far more "moments" than would be expected from a midfield player and has scored 2 goals, given the paucity of his other activities - offensively he is barely involved on the ball at all although to be fair he works hard defensively - unless he is scoring very regularly like some modern day Gerd Muller, ( when he could bring a stool on to the pitch and sit for 89 minutes reading a book for all I care!), he is a passenger in the side.
Given there are 3 better options : Doyle providing control and progressive passing, slow Traore providing defensive impact and physicality and James with his all-court game - plus seemingly just as much goal threat as Munetsi - it is bizarre that he continues to be selected.
Net net though it's been a better start to the season than I thought it would and the emergence of Djiga and Lopez has been an incredible boost to the side.
Thoughts?

23 Sep 2026 07:13:49
Agree with what you write there Tfig3, scoring is our obvious flaw, (their keeper was outstanding on this occassion), Armstrong gets alot of flack and questioning, as you have, but watching his runs I wonders onetime if it's not being seen by our players, or used continuously as a ploy? We're balls played for him at the time he's beginning to move then things may be different, (although we all know the chence(s) he's spurned.
Toti, for all my moaning og him before, turned in an almost flawless performance, maybe the hype and expectancy of the Derby match drilled it into him ?
As for Fer, I thought he had a very quiet 1st, and was willing him to go further forward, that aspect resulted in the goal.


Agree re Munetsi, can't criticise his commitment or energy, but slightly as with mosquiro, it can mislead. Surely Doyler James or Traore can give us more.
One final point wrapping it all up, Tripper.
Having trips back in the the team seems to 'polish' off some rough edges, his experience was so evident to me when he put his hand on morgans shoulders and had 'a word' in his ear.
That letting the opposition know where they stand, I'm sure he gets our lads into line as well. Why his ge not the permanent on field skipper?

23 Sep 2026 10:54:04
Hopefully the club will now be looking to sign a 15 to20 goal per seazon striker in the January window.

23 Sep 2026 12:50:24
I'd welcome the signing of a 15-20 goal striker, but who should make away given that we have a full squad?

23 Sep 2026 13:10:14
Tbh I'm not sure I can agree with much you've said there future, other than that Toti had one of his better performances. It seems he performs better in the bigger games, I remember a few games in the prem against top sides where he was much better than against lesser teams.

As for the comments about the quality of teams in the champ I'd argue that Hull who were a mid table team for much of last season are proving the transition can be made in to the prem and equally most of the recently promoted teams have done quite well in the prem albeit with some money spent for most of them.
It seems to me the championship is a very competitive league where anyone can be beaten. Another example is Blackburn turning over both Millwall and Middlesbrough arguable one of the teams who are oceans away beating the upper sides in the champ.

As for some of the comments about players, for me it's not coincidence that Munetsi is scoring and being in the right place for quite a few chances. I think credit needs to go to CP for utilising him in a way that can have an impact and possible Armstrong for his runs that create space for other players. James possibly is the better option which in time I think we will see as he becomes a regular first teamer. The jury is out on slow traore for me, his energy is great and is good a breaking up play but always seems to be chasing the ball instead of being in control. And again I feel like credit needs to go to CP for the organisation and the fact we made West Brom look terrible, the pressing and break up play from Andre in particular was outstanding and often gets ignored or just put down as the oppo being poor.

23 Sep 2026 14:49:23
Armstrong Boubacar Traore Munetsi there's three for starter's.

23 Sep 2026 15:27:31
The same Munetsi who is joint top scorer?

23 Sep 2026 16:20:33
Let's see if he's still joint top scorer in afew weeks time?

23 Sep 2026 16:22:03
Deep this has been discussed before and obviously it would be Neave.
If a striker came in to replace or compete with Raul in Jan that would push Neave down to 3rd choice for the
2nd half of the season. (I don't count Armstrong as a cf but instead rate him highly as a 10.)
3rd choices rarely play and he leaves in the summer anyway so it is highly probable he would never play again so why keep him?

Rated and Goat
You can't dispute Munetsi's "moments" and indeed goals. He is much much more heavily involved than a midfield player has any right to be.
However Munetsi has 2 goals and no assists this season - given he does virtually nothing else, (he barely even touches the ball and often those touches are unsuccessful), that is not enough.
Hence my comparison with Gerd Muller.
I'm pretty sure James will have similar goal output but will also contribute to the overall game far far more than Munetsi.

23 Sep 2026 16:58:23
Goat as i said I thought the league would be of a higher standard and closer to the bottom end of the Prem but from what I have seen so far this season it does not appear to be.
But lets not look at opinions and views but analyse a few facts.
Whilst Hull have started this season well the stats clearly show, in contrast to what you say and I thought, that historically at least we were badly wrong.
Even the best sides in the Champ i. e. the ones promoted, struggle to survive more than a year or two in the Prem.
In the last 12 years more than 60% of the sides promoted have returned to the Champ within 2 years and the vast majority of them are returning in the first season.


So in reality even the top end of the champ has been well below the lower end of the Prem.
With respect to your comments about the competitiveness of the champ sadly these are also contradicted by the stats.
These show the points gap between say the top few sides - i. e. the promoted ones and those who came very close - and even upper mid table teams over the last 7 or 8 years has been massive - high teens to well over 20 points on several occasions.
Consequently it is certainly fair to say that historically the teams at the top of the champ are indeed an ocean away from the upper mid table sides let alone as i said the lower mid and below sides in the Champ.

22 Sep 2026 18:48:25
Fan advisory board meeting.
Next one November.
Are you allowed to mention at this meeting & get a sensible answer.
When or what if ever is going to be done to ground improvements.

23 Sep 2026 10:50:24
Suppose that depends if it is a sensible question?

22 Sep 2026 18:34:05
Whatd's happening with kritji?

22 Sep 2026 20:33:07
I think the club have accepted the fact that he won't be around long term.

22 Sep 2026 20:56:24
Krechi simply does not want to be here, u can clearly see that from his attitude, put country before club,

22 Sep 2026 22:42:25
Or maybe he just picked up a knock, it happens. He's not trained with his country on the first few days (gym work only) cause he wasn't up to it. I'm not saying that he won't jump at the first chance to leave but I think he's in for a reality check cause we paid top price for him which is precisely why other clubs won't pay it.

He needs to get his head down cause the only way to justify said price is to start putting a decent run of games together.

22 Sep 2026 23:44:01
Should have got rid and kept Santi maybe?

22 Sep 2026 23:58:56
Not that simple though is it, we bought him for £26m and we were offered £18m two months later! Fosun might be stupid be even they realised that was a terrible deal! Oh and it was on loan, so no guarantee of a sale and little money up front.

So essentially it would have been letting one of our best players just leave for almost two thirds of what were still paying off for him, business like that is precisely what has got us to where we are.

23 Sep 2026 16:01:43
Fair comment Bully.

22 Sep 2026 14:11:47
Jerome Abbey signs professional contract at Wolves good news. Lets hope he kicks on and becomes the player everyone thinks he is.

22 Sep 2026 13:46:56
Eddie Howe steps down at Newcastle
So does that mean he's going to man utd? Very convenient.

22 Sep 2026 17:24:08
He went before the season started!