Wolves banter 5

21 Oct 2026 14:01:33
We need a Mick McCarthy type manager in no nonsense gets the players to put a shift in.

21 Oct 2026 14:21:36
Correct. Wolves need a manager who is battle-hardened and experienced. Someone who hasn't gone from one club to another. Someone who understands Championship football.

Alex Neil? He got Norwich into the PL. Near 40% win ratio at PNE. Near 50% win ratio at Millwall.

21 Oct 2026 14:46:34
Sean Dyche!!!

21 Oct 2026 14:50:22
One thing Wolves have to stop doing is hiring these suitcase managers. They're living in temporary digs, they don't bring their families with them, and they're buggering off home at every opportunity. They're not invested in Wolves. Half of them are simply waiting for a payoff. They might as well arrive at Wolves with carry-on baggage and a book: 101 things to see while on holiday in England.

Rob Edwards was at least along the right lines, but he was a dreadful appointment.

Gary O'Neil was a wet blanket who spent most of his time fu__ing off to London at every opportunity.

21 Oct 2026 16:25:19
Doesn't matter who we have as manager as there must be something in the Wolverhampton air that requires the whole team to play crab football and just recycle, recycle without doing anything progressive or positive.

Took the biscuit last night when Krejci hit a wonderful diagonal crossfield pass to the right wing only to receive the ball back, in virtually the same position, only 3 passes later! Safety first football at its very worst. Dire!!!!

21 Oct 2026 18:50:04
Good post NWaTS!

23 Oct 2026 16:43:45
Fosun don't employ Managers who want to manage, Nuno tried but they started selling his players, Rob Edwards started by bringing in our best two players and was sacked, CP is no better or worse than his fellow Countrymen who've passed through.

21 Oct 2026 13:28:32
When I posted a month ago that I thought the principal issue was not defence, (even though Wolves were conceding loads), but attack, (even though Wolves were scoring loads), it was met with a fair degree of scepticism and reprobation from the usual suspects - unsurprisingly not seen so regularly now that results have flattened out!
I postulated that Wolves were conceding goals that wouldn't normally be conceded - flukes, horrific errors or unstoppable shots that are not normally made - and that would even out.
It has!
Sadly though, I stated that Wolves were also scoring goals purely from individual brilliance - mainly Lopez and Gomes - rather than any discernible pattern.


A couple of injuries and teams roughing up Lopez and suddenly the goals have dried up!
I know not everyone agrees(d) but for me the squad, the selections made by the manager and the tactics he is applying have made this inevitable.
Whilst there is nothing he can do about who is available - a weak and unbalanced squad with a fair sprinkle of injuries - but his bizarre selections and weird tactics do not help. Simply playing his best players in a formation that suits them rather than shoehorning his favourite players into his predetermined unsuitable formations would significantly improve the clubs chances of success!
If he doesn't learn and learn fast he won't be here much longer!

21 Oct 2026 13:24:31
abysmal
atrocious
horrific


are just a few words that sum up wolves in the last 2 weeks.

CP is done.

id take steve cooper in a heart beat right now.

21 Oct 2026 12:01:42
Can we give the players a sat nav so they can find the goals. we'll another abysmal match. cp not a clue what he's doing. can't pick a 1st team yet out of the players available. I haven't got a clue why he brought on all the subs. players have got no system of play can someone tell me what's going on.

21 Oct 2026 13:27:26
Money : Fosun's what's going on, every Manager they've employed since Nuno has just been put in place to fill the position without rocking the boat, Nuno wanted to improve on what he'd built, Fosun wanted to sell, sell and sell again, they effectively pulled the plug, nothing they do will improve the club in any way, they have nothing to offer.

21 Oct 2026 11:52:12
Number 3 LB
This is unusually a position where - other than selling RAN, (no choice but to sell for both financial and his career reasons) for an abysmally low fee - Wolves have not made major errors recently.
The first choice, Bueno, is another one some on SM love to hate.
He is weaker defensively than ideal - often not closing his man down and thus allowing crosses to come in - but is far far better going forwards than his critics make out.
He was bought for effectively nothing, counts as home grown, is on, (for this squad at least), modest wages and at this level is adequate.
I hoped, albeit wrongly, that he would step up last year and might - if he improves on his obvious weaknesses - be persuaded that it is still possible although unlikely that he could step up next season if Wolves were to be promoted this year. 
If, as seems likely now, they aren't he will be fine/adequate next year in the championship - assuming he isn't sold.


The back up Konan came in as a free agent and you have to believe he is on modest money?
He looks adequate and will do ok next season in the Championship.
Neither is going to set the league alight but Wolves have many more pressing issues both now and next summer than LB.

21 Oct 2026 12:40:58
I think we've enough evidence now from this season and last to appreciate that none of our squad are good enough to play in the Premier league for anyone other than a club that's fighting relegation. That surely isn't what any of us want should miracles happen and we get promoted. In that circumstance both full back areas will need addressing as a priority but, at Championship level, there are indeed more pressing issues.
I'm not sure the Ait-Nouri fee (£35m reported) was ridiculously low given Lewis Hall was apparently sold for around £5m less only a year before and he's a better all round player.

Kerkez went for around £10m more but at least he plays regularly for Liverpool (41 league games) whereas Ait-Nouri has only been a bit part player for Man City (17 league games with a fair few as sub) and is currently well out of favour. Hindsight suggests that maybe we didn't do too badly despite our thoughts at the time.

21 Oct 2026 10:37:33
Where do you start with Wolverhampton Wanderers?

Terrible clueless owners who - Nuno excluded - keep hiring one atrocious head coach after another. Peixoto was a truly dreadful appointment. His stats don't lie. Pre Wolves, Peixoto has gone from one job to another and achieved absolutely nothing - other than picking up a poor win ratio and pretty much every club he's been at.

He's managed to get one of the most talented squads in the Championship sitting three points above John Mousinho's Portsmouth. Wolves also sit three points above Steve Wilder's Sheffield United. Two utterly dire Championship teams. Beating Burnley has papered over the cracks because Wolves were crap in that game. Burnley should have been two or three nil up after 30 minutes.

These cheap poorly thought out appointments have to stop, and Wolves have to stop hiring Portuguese head coaches. They have to tell Mendes to stick his suggestions where the sun doesn't shine. Prime Mendes ended years ago.

Quality players at Wolves are regressing and providing nothing in the way of goals or assists. Without Fer Lopez Wolves would be in a relegation battle. The football being served up is dross. If Wolves played Blues or Albion tomorrow they would get a hiding. Luckily Wolves caught them early on.

Fosun have to take the blame for the mess Wolves find themselves in. Sadly it looks they're here to stay. If they're serious about Wolves being promoted they have to sort out the coaching set up and stop hiring garbage.

Peixoto leaving is already an inevitability. It looks like some of the players don't want to play for him. There is no point in dragging it out. Wolves are playing some of the worst football since Glen Hoddle and Stale Solbakken. They're playing some of the most clueless football since Walter Zenga and Dean Saunders.

Being a Wolves fan is embarrassing. Seeing so many empty seats at the Molineux is heartbreaking.

21 Oct 2026 11:25:34
Totally agree.
Truth is we just aren't good enough to many has beens and never will be's. When we are bringing on centre half's to play as a striker we are in trouble. No creativity in midfield and no pace in the team (sorry one with pace but frightened to death to use it).

Only thing we can hope for is to keep in touch with the top eight and hope there's some money to spend in January. If they are going to get rid of the manager do it before Xmas so the new guy can have some input.

21 Oct 2026 12:08:39
The Wolves hierarchy have to get shot of Peixoto. When the rumour came through about Peixoto replacing Edwards, I was the one on here who laughed it off as a ridiculous rumour. The guy was nowhere near good enough to replace even someone as dreadful as Edwards, and Peixoto is now showing that's he a poor appointment and nowhere near good enough to get Wolves promoted.

Take away Lopez, who is head and shoulders above every other player in the Championship, and Wolves would be in the bottom three, four or five.

Mouthing off at Mousinho shows that he's arrogant. Blaming Portsmouth for time wasting! Ridiculous.

Fosun keep getting things wrong.

There is now no way that Wolves can finish in the top two. If things stay as they are for too long they won't even manage to qualify for the play offs.

21 Oct 2026 12:51:33
Fosun got lucky to a certain degree with Nuno and Lopetegui but it looks like we've exhausted the Iberian peninsula supply of managers. They haven't got the money now to attract top players or the ability to appoint a manager who can find and get improved results and performance from players whose career has stalled. Let's get 50 points to survive as a first priority.

23 Oct 2026 21:46:57
What confidence do you have that makes you think 50 points is doable with the current state of affairs what if Fosun sall Lopez and Andre and bring some More low rank staff ? Division 1 looks like a possibility the way things stand at the moment.

21 Oct 2026 10:33:35
Well, after standing watching that embarrassment last night,
I've come to the conclusion that Peixoto is the Santa Claus of Molineux.he'll get the sack for Christmas.

21 Oct 2026 10:16:42
Must admit I turned it off at HT, criminal behaviour I realise.
Frustrating to see us repeat the same each year. I had hoped CP and this year would be better. Think he is under pressure now, has to win at weekend in my opinion.
Our players aren't the best and you have to have a little sympathy that we have no striker, however I do believe they are better than what we are seeing now.


Does everyone think he has already lost the players, how long does he have?
Shambles again, what a mess which has to be from the top, Shi 2 same old, ridiculous.

21 Oct 2026 10:31:31
We've got to show some real purpose and effort on Saturday or CP and Shi will have some answering to do Banksy
Trouble is they never have a genuine response to make.
I wanna see those guys bust a gut for us, earn their money for the club, and give us a display we've paid to see.


Will they tho ? I honestly can't see it being any different approach than last night.
But, and it is a big big but, if raul had stayed fit or if we'd had a proven striker as back up, maybe we'd be in a better position with goals actually having been scored ?
Dunno, just despairing this morning.

21 Oct 2026 10:40:55
I could go through this team and criticise every player but I have come to the conclusion that these players are better than they look and it is the tactics of the manager to not to attack, to play at walking pace to only play square or backwards balls, hold the ball too long and pass to the opposition at every opportunity.

Yes we have a very poor team but surely the manager can see what we can see but does not know what to do about it. We have a team who plays with fear and no confidence so over to you Mr Manager do your job.

21 Oct 2026 10:04:45
Sorry but its time to start the protests again, these owners, players and manager are a waste of space.

21 Oct 2026 07:45:44
Half term report
Sa - poor distribution give new chap a go
Djiga - class
Krejčí- best game last night
Hugo- must do better
Jackson- best game last night,if he stands out we are in trouble
Trips- must do more
Yerson - play football not fight everyone,you wasted out time last night
Doyle- shooting is absolutely shocking 20 min player
Lopez-class act,if drops we are flat
Mane- loosing the faithful do more work,lazy kid
Armstrong- never a 9
James- good strike,drifts out of game
Andre - does his job
Munetsi- when no movement he's pointless
Raul- class act,but is body failing him
Neave- never a 9
Chirewa- wants it
Bellegarde- reinvented football,pass back and don't move instead of pass and move,once he passes back he stands /walks to opposition's player giving no options,no pace to take anyone on as he just falls over,at this level he is still not good enough
Said- best player last week average last night,welcome to the championship
Rodrigo- always tries
Cesar -well after last week's celebration I fear you were getting concerned,perhaps you should as finding solutions as you keep saying is what you are paid for another uncle jorge man I fear will let us down.


So in all honesty it's a bad bunch,a sad time,a poor owner who does not communicate,this manager will be gone after January when we fail to recruit again and the recycling of another manger and the use of these average players will see us achieve nothing.
Time to watch another team/ sport I think as I put in more effort walking to game from my car.
Just a note J9 upper Steve bull,last week 2 policemen and 2 staff stood in stairwell while we we trying to escape,,what a terrible decision and to see elderly men wobble done the terrace stairs cause of this funnelling is a health and safety worry,this week a 6'6 steward stood on the top of stairs and blocked my view of the corner of the pitch,,,well done sir your effort confirmed it will be my last ever season ticket as the team as Rob said are just not good enough,the mangers can't get anymore from them,the owners are a joke and as one of my relatives was actually a wolves player I have traveled and supported the team through all the up and downs,but enough is enough,wolves offer me nothing but pain,surely there is a Steve bull out there to save us a player who tries,,please.

21 Oct 2026 08:19:10
Given the current situation I would welcome Hwang back.
Does show how desperate we are.

21 Oct 2026 09:41:47
As long as we fans keep going to the game
Fosun think it's hunky dory
All the season ticket holders have to attend,, as they have spent their hard earned cash on them,
Maybe a home game where no home fans attend might get the message over to them
Where do we go from here,
Lazily do enough to stay in the championship?, is not good enough
Drastic measures needed
For a drastic situation we are in
Dark days maybe ahead.

21 Oct 2026 11:02:33
Bang purely on last night
Sa - Didn't have a shot to save - other than the one he didn't. Portsmouth were very very ordinary. But he swept up fine and not sure what more he could have done - given he had no chance with a free shot from 15 yards that was well hit into a corner.
Jackson - agree he was fine which given Trippier's potential absences is a relief. Low bar though!
Hugo did well
Djiga - agreed. A class act.
Krejci - not sure why people believe he is not trying. He was fine last night albeit against a very limited opposition.
Andre - excellent as expected.
Munetsi - did ok but no better. How he is selected ahead of James is a mystery
Said - not sure he was that good last week but anonymous this week. Why take off Mane, who is playing well, and leave him on, again baffling?
Lopez - struggled with all the man handling the ref allowed ( Ref was v poor and inconsistent - raft of cards in 2nd half but in first half he couldn't find them?).

Still a ray of hope in a dark sky!
Mane - for me one of his better games. Involved and creative. Good work rate too.
Neave - unsurprisingly looks like a young lad totally out of his depth and not ready for this level of football.
James - good and should be playing for 90 mins now!
Chirewa - lightweight but miles better than Neave. Sadly not really a 9 either - What a mess!
JRB - not good enough.
Doyle - two v bad games in a row hasn't helped his cause! Stupid foul and very poor finishing/composure
Yerson - n/a
Manager - rapidly losing faith although hard to make a silk purse etc etc
Grey - failure to go up this year will be a financial disaster and will have very severe consequences. Even the sales of Lopez, Djiga, Mane etc will only paper over deep and wide cracks. A bleak future awaits under Fosun!

21 Oct 2026 12:07:09
Totally agree with you "thefuture".
The first half was a complete non event against a very poor pompey side.
No energy;no desire: no fight.
Second half was slightly better and what was Doyle doing conceding that free kick that led to the equalizer also his shooting is atrocious.


Moving on I think James has to start next game and play munetsi up top because neave is clearly not good enough for this level.