Wolves banter 5

03 Jan 2026 16:23:15
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 19 - Quick Round Up

03 Jan 2026 15:54:47
Can’t believe it 3-0 what is going on, always liked Hwang 👍.
Excellent goal from Mane.

03 Jan 2026 16:06:32
Confidence player. Assist and a goal so far. Wolves playing well. A pleasant change for once.

03 Jan 2026 16:08:16
Well 45+ to go, we got to keep the concentration and keep looking for goals, I hope RE dosnt try to defend it now.
So pleased for Mane, proving some on here wrong.
Now if Tolu could add a couple! COYW

03 Jan 2026 16:54:10
What's happening? A win on the cards, doubling our points.pleased for Tolo and Mane, find out how it feels to win!

03 Jan 2026 17:48:57
I was hwangs biggest critic. But rightly so.
About time he did something.
Bit late tho.
But let's go out fighting to the end
Coyw
Great escape music?

03 Jan 2026 15:46:44
Bloody hell have I been transported into a different reality.

03 Jan 2026 17:07:51
I honestly didn't think I would see that this season.

03 Jan 2026 15:40:36
Who else baulked at Hwang taking the penalty? 🤔

03 Jan 2026 16:05:19
No your not Belfast, he's playing for his position, a new year a new wolves and Hwang showing some worth. COYW

03 Jan 2026 14:59:40
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Terry Wharton excellent winger to watch when I started going to molineux back in 1963

03 Jan 2026 15:45:40
Very sad KHwolf, one of my favourites back then as well.

03 Jan 2026 17:37:57
Yes, I remember him in 1965.

03 Jan 2026 14:15:14
Hwang starts again, not a surprise any longer.
Would have thought Enzo or anyone would be better, maybe Johnstone.
Maybe he will come good today, we keep waiting, think he is on 4 assists so far, obviously for the opposition.

03 Jan 2026 09:26:36
Unfortunately not surprising that Rob has come out and said we have to sell before we buy new players. If this was the first time this had happened then, with the prospect of relegation, it would probably be fair enough. However with their history, just more of the same rubbish whichever Shi is in charge.


If they have to sell before they buy new players why don’t they just get on with it now. Get best price we can for Hwang, JSL in particular now and re-invest.
Realise price may not be as high as it could be but that has not stopped them in the past, RAN for one comes to mind.

03 Jan 2026 11:26:25
True. Sell JSL, Hwang and Andre as soon as possible and bring in Kalvin Phillips, Axel Disasi on loan and a decent striker on a permanent deal.

03 Jan 2026 11:54:47
Just so we are clear I’m not sticking up for fosun and I’m not a happy clapper, I know how some here like to misinterpret what people say.

What Rob actually said is that we might have to generate some of the funds. The words might and some seemed to have been lost to a few people. Let be honest who really thought fosun would fork out all the money, that wouldn't sit well with there sustainable ideal. We don’t know what Rob was promised and as far as I can see no lies or betrayal so far. By the end of the window it might be different let just see how much money is put in from fosun before we start throwing accusations around.

03 Jan 2026 12:05:06
Whoever may come in have to be proud and have a desire for our club to improve and succeed next year, no use importing unknown hopefuls or money hunting has beens.
Who they could be I don't know, but one things for sure, neither fit the Fosun money making ideals.

03 Jan 2026 12:27:09
Banksy I think we all know how it will go. Sell off those we plan to early in the window, then fail to sign anyone capable early on, panic on the last day of the window and pick up more 'bargains.'

A bit like going to the market late on to buy up what's left cheaply, then congratulate yourself for saving money. Having said that Matt Jackson seems highly rated in football circles so we'll have wait and see, but I don't expect Fosun to step up.

03 Jan 2026 13:43:43
Great to see you back Long.
I am expecting them to not sell anyone for around 3 weeks, then sell a few for not enough money, and then run out of time for replacements.
Just shows what we have become accustomed to, unfortunately. One day, I hope, they will prove us all wrong 🤞.
A win today would make the world a better place 👍

03 Jan 2026 17:44:26
You can buy players and sell them in the summer window.

03 Jan 2026 07:39:06
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02 Jan 2026 22:25:30
If the current squad is, as it appears, miles short of the standard of the three sides that came up last season i.e. the top end of the Championship then once you sell the best 3 or 4 players, (and remember there is a very unhealthy gap between the better players in the side and the others), it is likely that the squad as currently formed not only does not come straight back up but struggles to survive in that league.Therefore be careful about who you want to leave this January.Clearly the club can only sell the players other teams want but as the club allegedly has no financial pressures, (not that anything the club says should be taken other than with a very very large pinch of salt!), it should only undertake business for football reasons.
Sell those not good enough - plenty of choice there - retain the handful of those who are good enough and if possible add one or two more who fit that category.Maybe if this had been the strategy, (instead of selling diamonds for a fraction of their value and buying lumps of coal - being polite- for a king's ransom ), then the club wouldn't be in such a mess! 
Thus although it seems highly unlikely, it would be in the club's best interest - which of course may well not be the same as Fosun's - for certain players to be retained if at all possible.
I completely understand that some players may well be highly motivated to leave a sinking ship for better conditions and of course Fosun may well have been encouraging others - the more valuable ones, i.e.

Andre and J Gomes - to get out so that they, Fosun, can pocket the cash but hopefully if the club is properly run, (ok no chance of that then!), it might be able to retain the tiny amount of Premier League quality talent it has this January. 
If the 2nd half of the season - as a result of a competent January window and better coaching/ tactics etc - can be at least less embarrassing maybe even once relegation is confirmed then maybe the diamonds can be retained - whilst the remaining coal is sold off  - for the following season.
This would then mean that the club would indeed have a chance of returning to the Prem - the diamonds in the squad would outshine anything any Championship side would have!  
This January is therefore really very very important for the club.
Another hopeless window - selling Andre, Emmanuel and Gomes for a fraction of their true value and allowing Krejci to return to Girona whilst buying league 1 at best standard players for inflated prices - could mean the club is fated to a very very long period in the wilderness of the lower leagues. Sadly however I have little hope that the basic level of competence that a change in the current insane policy requires isn't still beyond the club even after Jeff's change of role!  

03 Jan 2026 07:04:40
Anticipating how Fosun will be managing the Club going forward, I sadly see a long time back in the wilderness.
There is no sign on a new CEO and much needed appropriate experience.
Plenty of bluster about transfer market, but nothing concrete as yet.
Who exactly is in charge? Interim Shi I assume will not be making any decisions.

02 Jan 2026 20:57:55
From what I've heard, we were looking at an MLS striker, but that's now a no-go. We're gunna struggle to be fair. No-one wants to jump onto a sinking ship.