Wolves banter 6

27 Jul 2026 07:54:36
Any news on the new away top coming out?

27 Jul 2026 07:37:07
Hopefully the Blackburn game will see a team capable of challenging for the top two.

Wolves desperately - DESPERATELY! - need a new goalkeeper. I'll eat my nonexistent hat if Jose Sa starts against Blackburn.

Wolves also need solid backup players. Lima can't play as backup to Tripper. Peixoto might use Mosquera to cover Trippier. Lima is too young and inexperienced to be starting too many games this season.

I can remember the fiasco when Jonny Otto was injured and Ruben Vinagre was his cover. Disastrous.

Unless a serious offer comes in for Krejci, Wolves won't let him go. They paid too much for him, and they definitely won't take a loss on such a useful player.

Toti Gomes is a backup player. He's simply not good enough to be starting games week in week out.

Marshall Munetsi might be the central midfielder who plays alongside Andre.

Tommy Doyle is a solid backup player. He can play a number of games without issue. He's fine for the Championship, though the worrying stat is bcfc started dropping him.

Mane will be a key player for Wolves this season, but he needs remember that he has teammates. He's young and his decision making at times is questionable.

Not sure what's happening with Fer Lopez. Jean-Ricner Bellegarde can play as an attacking midfielder, or Mane can play that role with Hee-chan Hwang on the left. Say to say Hugo Bueno will be happier with Hwang on the left.

Will Sasa Kalajdzic play as backup to Raul Jimenez?

GK:? /Jose Sa

RB: Kieren Trippier (C)
RCB: Yerson Mosquera/Santiago Bueno/Nasser Djiga
LCB: Ladislav Krejci/Yerson Mosquera
LB: David Moller Wolfe/Hugo Bueno

DM: Andre
CM: Marshall Munetsi/Bellegarde/Tommy Doyle

RW: Rodrigo Gomes
AM:? /Fer Lopez/Bellegarde/Mateus Mane
LW: Mateus Mane/Rafiki Said/Hee-chan Hwang

CF: Raul Jimenez

Probably wrong in every area. As a priority Wolves must sign a goalkeeper. Who will provide Rodrigo Gomes will competition? Will Jean-Ricner Bellegarde be the main central midfielder? If Sasa stays will he be Raul's backup?

27 Jul 2026 08:37:47
Very good post.
However, we seem to be sadly coming round to the acceptance that, frankly, very little will be changed this summer and that the side will be largely the wholly inadequate one that went down last year.
The side listed above will be ok for the Champ, but not much more, and certainly won't be "too good" for it.


The 2 new boys, plus, of course, Krejci and Andre, are Prem quality players who will balance some young bucks - Mane, Lopez (don't think he will be here, but...), and Gomes, and hopefully cover for some weaker players, particularly on the bench.
Heaven help us, though, if there are injuries to the "big 4".

27 Jul 2026 08:46:18
Goodwhileitlasted1 has noted a potential goalie and midfielder could be in the pipeline. Let's hope they are eager to play and bring much-needed quality.

27 Jul 2026 11:03:04
Apparently we're after Jordan Holsgrove, a Scot playing in Portugal.
He qualifies as home grown, and, interestingly, is the grandson of our own John Holsgrove from the 70s team.

27 Jul 2026 12:04:19
Love the interesting fact, Tim. 👏👏👏

Wolves have to sign him. Would surely mean one player leaving to bring him in. Wolves don't need a shedload of central midfielders.

27 Jul 2026 12:12:22
Should be good for a few own goals then, Tim! Only those of a certain vintage will remember, but John Holsgrove was a very decent centre half who was unfortunate to be hounded out following a couple of own goals.

27 Jul 2026 13:03:25
John Holsgrove, slightly before my time, I suspect, and I'm 64.

27 Jul 2026 14:28:59
Nobody mentioning Santi Bueno? Has he gone? Coz he was really coming on at the end last season.

27 Jul 2026 14:51:55
Saw him late last week. Abbey was strolling to training in his flip flops, and extremely sun tanned! I imagine he's a little behind the others in fitness, having had a short holiday following Uruguay's excellent World Cup!

27 Jul 2026 15:22:50
Something went wrong with the punctuation, because I definitely didn't see Abbey strolling to training in his flip flops!

27 Jul 2026 22:17:08
Arddunby, he played until 1971, when I assume you were 10?
He would have been replaced by Munro and Mcalle?
Abbey, you aren't the only one to comment on the lack of Santi "support", and to note that he had his best ever season for Wolves last year.
We even had a couple of posters on here recently mentioning him in the same sentence as John Terry and Tony Adams!!
My view, however, is that he can only play in a three due to his lack of pace, and although technically sound, his lack of physicality means that even at the lower level he probably can't hack it.


However, in a less physical league, he may be a viable option and so is a player Wolves may be able to/should sell?

28 Jul 2026 09:44:43
Thanks, TFIOG. Yes, I remember Frank Munro and John Mcalle, but not much before.

28 Jul 2026 11:41:33
Arrdunby, I am a similar age to you, but guess I was lucky and my dad took me to games from the age of 6, so was a committed fan from an early age!
I was a big fan of Hugh Curran (40 goals in just over 80 games) from that same late 60s/early 70s side!
Despite these figures, though, he wasn't a regular, as Bobby Gould was for some of the time, and Dougan was also available.


Although, other than Dougan, all of them were gone by the early 70s, when I saw the best ever (in my lifetime) Wolves side.
The Bill McGarry team that even surpasses Nuno's side.

28 Jul 2026 12:25:08
I agree, TfioG, the 72 UEFA Cup side was probably the best side I can recall. Unfortunately, McGarry had difficulty replacing good, aging players like Dougan and Wagstaffe with players who could take us a step further. The start of the long-term issues of the last 50 years, in my view.

28 Jul 2026 17:16:24
Hi, I completely agree. Santi would be great in the Championship, his nous alone would largely negate his lack of pace - first 2 yards in the head. However, he does have admirers at a higher level, so have always assumed he'd be one to go - although lack of concrete offers so far is encouraging.

26 Jul 2026 14:58:19
Hi,
Well I just found out, through research, what I had suspected all along.
'Molineux News', the site owned by GRV Media, is no more. They were reported to Google on multiple occasions and 'punished' because of their 'consistent use of spam' and other related aspects. They cut their workforce by a third and this has forced them to change 'priorities'.

So, the lie that was told about having "exclusive Wolves supporting journalists"(usually pictured at Old Trafford or Elland Road (where students of journalism can be based), was that all along. Obviously, there has been nothing from them for months and an article in "The Press Gazette" in December, forecasted this.


It has been a pet peeve of mine because I never believed their schtick all along, yet they were often quoted as being 'relevant' and 'reliable'. Even on this site people quoted them and I think this raises a broader question. While there are Wolves fans who do a great job on youtube etc, the danger is that unless the source is reliable and the messenger is genuine, then we can all be fooled, especially where big conglomerates claim to be 'supporters'!

27 Jul 2026 03:04:00
This is why I cross reference things with other sources before I post them, mate.

26 Jul 2026 14:03:53
Thought of a brilliant idea to raise money for the Wolves. sell raffle tickets.
The winner becomes Wolves' next manager.
This job is available to anybody who believes what crap you're told by the Wolves.
Don't worry if you're useless as a manager; they will give you a good payout when they sack you. Easy money.
From a new moaner member.

27 Jul 2026 08:49:10
How much are the tickets? And do you accept Green Shield Stamps?

27 Jul 2026 11:13:52
So many posters taking the p**s. Are they the real supporters?

26 Jul 2026 13:03:31
Relax everyone. These are friendlies and results mean nothing. People complain about passing back or sideways, but those that watched Spain win World Cup saw a Lot of that same thing! There is strategy that is involved. The concern with that type of passing is the pace...slow is wasteful and allows defenses to cover, fast is better and opens up holes for more forward passes. I think Peixoto will stress the importance of quickness.

In the first two games I see the younger players, and those that may be here, attacking more so I'm encouraged by that. Once we know, and Peixoto too, the players that we have for the season and get the first meaningful games complete, then we can stress or relax.
For everyone's health, try to keep your anxiety in check now... I'm sure it will ramp up during the season!

26 Jul 2026 20:11:08
Yes, relax everyone. Man U just lost 0-1 at home to Wrexham. That doesn't mean Man U are going down. Even if we had won, what would it prove? It's a pre-season friendly, but I thought we played well. As for signings, CP needs to assess every single player before we crank up selling and buying.

We have clearly made mistakes, especially in the recent past, and we need to be a lot meaner in decision making. As for a prediction where we might finish this season, quite frankly, we have very little information to judge at the moment.

26 Jul 2026 11:18:39
It beggars belief that here we are three weeks out from the season and we don't know who will be our goalkeeper. Bentley couldn't hold down the number one at Bristol and should have saved the first goal yesterday. We need better.

26 Jul 2026 14:39:16
Agree with you, Innocent, unfortunately it seems very much like recent summers, apart from Trippier and Raul signing.
Some people seem to think we will be fine and be at the top in the Championship. Hope I am wrong, but can't see it.
The shambles seems to continue whichever Shi is in charge.


Desperately need a new GK, as well as attacking players, as well as a new CM, the list goes on. Seems that there is little interest in any of our players, not really that surprising after last season's efforts.

26 Jul 2026 15:13:36
Can't see a new GK coming in until either Sa has gone or Bentley, no one exactly queuing up for either, so until this happens can't see any movement yet.

26 Jul 2026 20:28:41
We have three very poor goalkeepers on the books. A far cry from when we had Murray, Hennessy and Ikeme.

26 Jul 2026 23:12:17
All three goalkeepers fighting for the No1 spot are not good enough. Jose Sa is clearly the better goalkeeper, but he was the beginning of Fosun replacing quality with cheap downgrades. Amazing to think Wolves once had Rui Patricio as their No.1.

Dan Bentley's stats are close to appalling. His save ratio is barely good enough for a Championship team fighting relegation. Arsenal had him right, he's a no.3.

26 Jul 2026 09:32:31
What's the point of playing players who are being sold or don't want to be here. Play the players you have left build a team out of them. Then we may actually get a team that knows how to play together. I just am flabbergasted by what's going on at the Wolves.

26 Jul 2026 11:12:55
Totally agree, Moby, but we'll be classed as moaners if we have a different opinion.

26 Jul 2026 11:24:07
I think I've joined the members' club by now.
I can understand the frustration.
I have been going to Wolves nearly all my life, & will never understand why we were never as big as Man Utd, City, Liverpool etc.
There seems to be too many people at Wolves sat on their arses doing nothing.


Get out there; get us some investment.
Somebody out there surely would put money into Wolves. Besides, the fans deserve better than what we are getting at the moment.

26 Jul 2026 12:08:59
We have to be self sustainable, and Nathan is already looking into how to spend all of the £5's raised from the fans for streaming the Real Sociedad game.
We have more friendlies coming up, and more £5's to go into the coffers, so let's just wait and see how this money is invested.


The stadium tours, advertised on the club website at £25 for adults, could help to swell the revenue further.
The sky's the limit with Nathan at the wheel.

26 Jul 2026 12:14:15
Moaners or not, let's face it, the club is a shambles. We sign a very experienced defender who is a ready-made captain and then give the armband to our worst C/B. Raul is a hero coming back, but he will have his work cut out with the lack of service he can expect.

Desperate for wingers to provide crosses, but apart from the new signing, nothing to be optimistic about. If Sa is not staying, then we definitely need a decent keeper.

26 Jul 2026 13:19:05
Well, the question we need to ask then is:

a) Do we want to win promotion next year under Fosun & have more of the same. I.e. just trying to survive in the PL. No additional income streams, etc. Constantly selling our better players. No real interest, it seems, in either expanding the ground or bringing areas of it up to date. The Graham Hughes Stand is an embarrassment.

Or:

b) Struggle in this league to the point where the criticism of the fans is such that it forces Fosun to sell up. We get new owners for better or for worse.
It's a hard choice, but will Fosun change. Surely they've sold Trippier & Raul some sort of ambitious project, else why would they come?

25 Jul 2026 22:55:16
Ok, first 2 pre season games done. What are your predictions for Wolves place in the league this season? I predict 4th place and win at Wembley to go up.

26 Jul 2026 00:11:51
No chance. We're a shambles at the moment, with a few weeks before we start. Defence is awful, and no midfield. Doyle is simply not good enough. Krejki. Bueno & Wolfe will be leaving, & take your gold tinted glasses off, Wolves fans, cus this is gonna be cruel. If we finish halfway, I'll be happy. Unless this club actually gets their act together.

26 Jul 2026 08:39:57
From what I have seen so far, not a lot has changed from last season. We would rather go backwards than pass forward when we have the chance, and the back up players are not good enough. Let us hope we get some new players, or we are going to struggle again this season.

26 Jul 2026 08:45:28
Lexluna, the only time you will be happy is if we get relegated again, then you can say I told you so.

26 Jul 2026 09:09:44
Guessing bottom half.
By Xmas, sack the manager, then bring another one in.
Same as normal.
Hopefully totally wrong.

26 Jul 2026 09:23:49
Hope all you moaners and groaners get to eat a very large slice of humble pie at the end of the season, onwards and upwards. FWAW.

26 Jul 2026 09:34:59
Glady eat two large slices of humble pie.
If we manage to get promoted.
As it stands, it looks unlikely that's all.
Fingers crossed.

26 Jul 2026 09:35:56
B Hill, I've followed Wolves for nearly 60 years, home and away, & if you think that's what I want, then you have not got a clue about my loyalties. You seem to think anyone who posts an opinion that doesn't suit your narrative is a doom merchant.

How about we struggle badly, & then you post "oh dear me", who'd have thought it. If Wolves don't sort this out very quickly, we'll be closer to the bottom than the top, & I'll wait for your posts to inspire us if better things to come.

26 Jul 2026 10:02:49
Tbf, Lex, the question was where do you think we will finish, and all you did was shoot down the original poster, telling them no chance and taking your tinted glasses off, while pointing out everything wrong with the team. Is it any surprise people find this doom and gloom? Why not just give your prediction instead of shooting other opinions down? This can be said for a lot of posters on here; they are happy to shoot anything remotely positive down.



I'm not sure on my prediction yet, as I haven't had a chance to follow the games.

26 Jul 2026 10:23:36
Not confident enough to predict a finishing position, but I fully expect the season to be full of highs and lows. Early-season results may give us a boost of confidence if results go our way, but the opposite would also be true.
The more interesting question might be which other teams are going to be challenging.

26 Jul 2026 10:24:54
Thanks, Goatmark, I'm glad to see someone gets the point. There is too much despondency about how we're going to do. He is not the only one who has supported Wolves for 60 years.

We all live in hope that this is the season, but we must not get too dispirited. Get behind the manager and team. Move on, not worry about the past. Those days have gone. F WAW

26 Jul 2026 10:32:58
No chance of going up, certainly not automatically. From what I'm hearing, nothing has changed in the style of play, which is beyond belief. We can't score goals, and the defence is rubbish.

26 Jul 2026 10:46:43
Didn't I say closer to the bottom than the top? At the moment, that's my prediction. I would love a couple of weeks activity in the transfer market, but it seems we've got to offload first & then we go for what's left. Tell me I'm wrong.

26 Jul 2026 11:20:48
Don't make it personal, B Hill, please. Fair play to doing 60 years. Think it gives us the right to have an opinion in my eyes. We'll see.

26 Jul 2026 11:26:20
This site is all about opinions. Everyone has his or her opinion and debates.

26 Jul 2026 16:49:12
imo it's quite obvious, QS, that CP is trying to change the style of play. Yes, in two friendly games we have seen some back play and sideways, but we've also seen the gaps that can be created by this, and the playing positions that need to come into them, freeing areas for runners.
Of course we havnt got a finalised team sheet yet, but just two players I've noted are: 1) Mosquiro restraining himself (this could be Trips' words of advice on the pitch influencing him, though), and 2) Munetsi, used to chase all over, now he's held his position.
A more disciplined approach seems evident, and other little things, like 'winning' free kicks, are notable.


Their style of play is transforming, the opportunity to attack developing. The only thing lacking at this stage is the lack of new recruits and knowledge of who will be performing.
The youngsters havnt got the nous or speed to actually perform CP's way yet, and that's where we may come a cropper. It's Fosun's way to some extent, but it's lack of sales that's holding us back.
If we end up keeping the bulk of last year's team, we're not going to get them gelled in time for the real ko, and we could drift into midtable non-competition.
I really hope there's some strong player activity this week out and in, so we can see something resembling a team come Saturday evening.

25 Jul 2026 19:00:10
Well, good job it's a friendly.
1st one lost. Good start.

25 Jul 2026 22:13:10
Not involved today; Raul, Hwang, Sa, Belle Garde, Krejki, Lopez, Wolfe, Sasa, Said, Johnstone, Santi. v a top 10 La Liga side! Given up already? Not all of us. Fwaw.

26 Jul 2026 00:15:15
Preston, this club are fast forwarding downwards. We'll not see any noteworthy signings & half of those you mentioned are gonna be gone. We're in a mess.

26 Jul 2026 08:00:00
😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴.

25 Jul 2026 18:57:04
I watched the game. Think we were the better side 1st half then we dropped off it. Not sure y we started Edozie up top. He's a forward player but no way cf Doyle for me is poor. We need a cam and a bloke who runs at defenders. Maybe Saiid is that man. Fingers crossed.

25 Jul 2026 21:27:25
I think we were again trying new things out and finding our way.
A lot of that team won't be there come Blackburn, but you can see the patterns and style of play Cp is looking for, now whether that style will hold up in the Championship when we're being hustled and hounded, we'll see, but there are many options and approaches developing.


If we can't show extra attacking flair (agree Simonandlaura re Edioze), and if Mane can be quicker in his distribution against Donny, I'll be surprised.
Not convinced by Bently, I'm sad to say, but the defence are showing far more unity and discipline (Mosquiro).
2-1, well-taken goals from our slip-ups and Rodrigo pouncing on one of theirs.