Wolves rumours 3

31 Mar 2025 13:14:39
Just read an interesting piece by sky reporter Johnny Phillips the Wolves are looking to get back with Mendes this summer. Someone from the agency was at Compton trying ground last week for talks interesting to say the least. We've had some very good players from Mendes but also some crap hopefully if it happens Mendes can find the next Jota or Neves for 15 or 16 mill now that would be nice.

01 Apr 2025 11:31:29
Could be just looking at who they can pick from the bones of the club! (could be April Fool! 😂)

25 Mar 2025 15:52:10
Not sure how true it is so time will tell but i'm hearing the £62million release clause for Cunha is only if we get relegated.
We'll see.

24 Mar 2025 18:04:11
So the London press is reporting Spurs to offer £100M for Cunha and Jao Gomes according to Always Wolves Fan TV.

24 Mar 2025 18:57:43
They can offer what they like. It's up to the club to reject it.

£150m for both or no deal.

24 Mar 2025 19:09:09
I think we can get more we know what Cunha is going to go for and Gomes is worth more than £37.5 million.

24 Mar 2025 21:10:16
The £62.5m Cunha price is a offer which will trigger the buying club to negotiate a deal with the player. It doesn't mean that Cunha will be obliged to go.

24 Mar 2025 22:24:53
Don't forget that Wolves have to sell players regularly to avoid PSR and to satisfy Fosun's edict to be self sufficient and other clubs know this.

24 Mar 2025 23:02:14
Depends on which report you read and believe. I've read one report today stating that only 4 clubs are in danger of breaching PSR - Villa, Everton, Leicester and Newcastle. Then another saying Chelsea, Arsenal, Forest Man City and Palace aswell. Crucially, none of the reports listed Wolves as close to a breach, therefore it seems the decision to sell our better players is not to stave off a breach, more a decision by the hierarchy.

25 Mar 2025 06:51:22
Agree Wandering, the PSR situation with Clubs is very muddled.
Shi last public missive included a reference to the fact Wolves have never been at risk of breeching the rules, but like the media, difficult to believe him.
It feels that Mr Guangchang now does not see Wolves pushing to be part of the upper echelons of the football pyramid. Happy just to muddle along, looking to avoid relegation each season.
Not an inspiring goal for us fans!

25 Mar 2025 09:51:26
Personally, although all clubs need to keep an eye on PSR I've felt for some time Wolves or rather Fosun use it as an excuse. I think you sum it up nicely in your final paragraph Rugeley because that's exactly what's happening.

No ambition beyond Premier League survival, 17th? yeah that'll do.

27 Mar 2025 13:53:19
The reason wolves will not breach PSR is due to management action rather than an accident. Wolves have an average operating loss before transfers of about 30 million a year. To break even they need to make a profit on player sales of 30 million each and every year….this position is clearly not sustainable . Until operations can break even without players sales wolves will always be in jeopardy of relegation. Not sure how they can do this without significant owner support which does not appear to be forthcoming.

30 Mar 2025 20:20:57
Maybe they need a bigger stadium.

17 Mar 2025 15:12:59
If Cunha gets sold this summer is a Jota return a possibility or just (Teamtalk) click bait.

Liverpool want more than they paid for him which makes it unlikely, imo.

However, I think Jota may well leave, I just can't see him coming back to Wolves.

17 Mar 2025 15:46:23
Jota might be of interest to a top six PL team, unless Europe or Saudi. No way is he worth the £55mil quoted if Cunha's release clause is just £62mil.

17 Mar 2025 15:56:31
Maybe Forest if they are CL qualifiers.

17 Mar 2025 20:22:05
He's on £150k a week at Liverpool.

18 Mar 2025 07:59:19
He’s too injury prone for anyone to pay that money for him, he’s only completed 90 minutes twice in the league this season.

18 Mar 2025 09:37:17
He didn’t light any fires against Newcastle, which is why he got subbed.
No way is he worth £55M at 28 and with his injury record. £25M maybe but has he lost the passion?
Hope we concentrate on new, fresh talent.

18 Mar 2025 10:27:12
My friends are Liverpool fans and say he is now just average after his strong start. I couldn't disagree after seeing him on Sunday. Must be better out there for less.

18 Mar 2025 12:25:58
Joto was great for us. But now he Seams s to get a slight knock and misses a few weeks at a time we would be able to afford him

21 Mar 2025 20:18:11
Have to agree with CB, truth is that if it wasn't for his awful injury proness Pool wouldn't be looking to off load him! He's still good at finishing but that doesn't mean a lot when you can't play a full game all season. It's a shame cause he's a class player, never quite as good as he could have been cause he's always either injured or just coming back from injury 😏

22 Mar 2025 13:51:25
Jota doesn't look very robust to me. He's never filled out physically like many top players do. Maybe that's the problem.

{Ed001's Note - it is all his hours playing videogames every night that is his problem. He is one of the highest ranked FIFA (EAFC now) players in the world and he maintains that high ranking by playing at least 10 games a night. Not healthy for a professional athlete.}

22 Mar 2025 16:58:48
Jota is playing at least 10 video games a night, Ed? Unbelievable! He should be giving his all to football. No wonder he's slipping from past career highs.

{Ed001's Note - he has his own eSports team as well, which he often jets around to support, even midseason.}

23 Mar 2025 08:10:54
Never go back, it translates to backwards.

23 Mar 2025 12:34:24
No good selling cunha and signing jota if we want to move forward we need to sign jota to play with cunha.

10 Mar 2025 01:04:48
Hey guys this is my first post.

I have just seen Wolves are interested in Tammy Abraham from Roma once his loan at AC Milan Finishes.

Thoughts?

10 Mar 2025 07:07:21
He has been of interest before Fc.
With Cunha going and Larson not performing, we will need someone next season!

10 Mar 2025 09:55:14
Nuno tried to buy Abraham and a price was agreed, about £27mil? Deal fell through on a technicality to do with the number of clubs he would have been registered for that season I think.

10 Mar 2025 11:19:45
Not at 27 million. Until we know what division we are in and is Cunha staying, all I would say is that he is an option, although I suspect the players preference would be a London club or Villa.

10 Mar 2025 14:56:44
I don't think Cunha will leave. I'm hoping that his recent sending off has convinced other teams that he has an attitude problem and £62.5m is too much to pay for a player who will be banned twice a season.

10 Mar 2025 17:09:05
Welcome FcWolves!
I would give him a chance. Experienced striker, British and passionate. May be the ideal time to return home.
If he’s injury free now sign him up!

15 Mar 2025 18:47:47
Won’t happen. West Ham trying to sign him but his preference is Villa.
We are far more likely to look at Yuri Albert. Linked previously and has worked with Perreria.

15 Mar 2025 20:47:50
No thank you. There’s a reason why nobody wants him now. His parent club don’t want to keep him, the club he’s been out on loan at don’t want to sign him.

15 Mar 2025 22:04:00
Performed today didn't he?.we don't play to him.put the ball over into the box more.hes good in the air.he should be able to hold the ball up better.thats his job.but.abraham wudv been a good back then but now.not so sure?

16 Mar 2025 09:15:30
Tammy Abraham? We have as much chance of signing Tammy Wynette.

21 Mar 2025 10:30:54
🤣🤣🤣

07 Mar 2025 12:56:33
Apparently looking to sign DeWinter in the summer from Genoa for about 21m

20 Feb 2025 22:10:35
Rumour on X is that Man Utd will trigger the £62.5m release fee for Cunha this summer. But let's not forget, just because a club agrees to pay the release fee, the player himself can reject the move.

21 Feb 2025 06:40:43
Wandering, I think wherever we are playing next season, he will be gone.
The best we can hope for, is there is a bidding war and we can leverage as much as we can from his transfer. Hopefully help build a decent transfer war chest for us to invest wisely (Fosun allowing).

21 Feb 2025 07:46:28
Same old record… great player sold for big bucks only for the money to disappear and for Fosun to later allow last minute panic buying of unknown players with no prem experience!

21 Feb 2025 07:53:04
I think he'll end up at Liverpool or abroad. My reasoning being, Man City have Marmoush, Haaland, Doku, Silva, Foden so don't need him. Arsenal have Saka, Trossard and Martinelli and will most likely pursue Sesko oe Sesko. Chelsea have ruined Pedro Neto and this will not have gone unnoticed by Cunha. Man Utd and Spurs cannot offer European football.

Liverpool may need to replace Jota and Salah and would seem the most obvious destination.

21 Feb 2025 08:27:11
Man u do not have the money to buy Cunha they need to sell to buy. I think a deal has been done with Arsenal and the money will cover the signings we made in the last transfer window, and Wolves have changed their accounting end of year to June from May so they avoid PSR issues. Just my opinion.

21 Feb 2025 10:17:09
Intriguing move by Wolves to push the accounting year-end to 30th June. Cunha's buyout clause is disappointingly low. I think several clubs will want to meet it. It would be in Cunha's interests if he is sold as cheaply as possible, so that he could screw his new club for as much salary as possible. If I was in charge I would have set the buyout clause at £100mil but Cunha would't have signed the contract then, for the foregoing reasons!

21 Feb 2025 19:56:45
He's not interested in joining Man Utd or Spurs apparently.

22 Feb 2025 02:40:14
Baza
I had noted that fact but didn't want to mention it as I sadly tend to agree with you and thus I would once again risk being "Thefutureis (very)bleak"
Clearly we will know the outcome of 23-24 in the next few weeks - some clubs have already reported.
But as we know the club passed PSR in 23-24 we can say that we must have broken even at worst.
Profits, (mainly losses), therefore for the last 3 years are
2021-22 -£43m
2022 -23 -£64m
2023-24 must be circa profit of £2m so that we get to a 3 year loss of no more than £105m.
How did we achieve that when pre player sales the previous year we lost well over £100m.
Well firstly we didn't sack a manager that year so perhaps our pre player sales losses did not increase from the previous year and may even have declined slightly
Secondly we sold a bucket load of talent - headlined of course by Neves, but it also included Nunes, Collins, Coady, and Jimenez etc etc.
Profits from these sales were probably in the region of £100m on their own.
However if we have moved our year end date to beyond the opening of the next transfer window we must have done it for a reason.
Perhaps we expected to sell a player in Jan, but didn't because we would be relegated if we sell another of our saleable players, (and to make matters worse actually signed 3 new players increasing both wages and amorts), then we would still need to sell at least one before the year end. This was not possible before as the market doesn't reopen until June, hence the need to move the date to the end of June.
Lets look at the numbers
Over the 3 years to 2024 -25 we need to have losses of less than £105m.
That means that
-£64m + £2m + 2024-25 loss must be below £105m, ie 2024 -25 loss must not exceed £43m.
Is it possible therefore that we are worried that this is not looking likely at the moment
A very scary statement given that we sold Kilman, Podence, Neto amongst others this year surely generating profits of over £100m.
Thus does this say that, including the pay off for GON our pre player losses have increased to more than £143m?
If that is the case not only are our accounts totally out of control but we would almost certainly need to sell further players at a profit of circa £80m in 2025-26 which is probably impossible given what will be left with after the sale (s) made in June 20025.
Surely things can't be this bleak but as Baza says what other explanation is there for doing this?

22 Feb 2025 07:08:21
It is the Premier League who have moved the deadline to 30th June, not the club.

22 Feb 2025 09:10:14
Wandering are you sure?
If so why?
Are you saying it is just Wolves the Premier league has forced to do this or is it all clubs?
As far as I can tell from Companies House Liverpool and Arsenal for example still have 31.5 as their year end?
Eds any info on this matter?

{Ed001's Note - I think he is getting mixed up between the dates of accounts being released and PRS calculations being done.}

22 Feb 2025 09:47:54
Ed - do you know therefore if clubs that report at the end of May 2025 can include transactions done at the start of June 2025 in the 2025 PSR calculations.
If the answer to the q is yes then why have Wolves moved the date?
If the answer is no - which seems more consistent with accounting concepts - it does suggest does it not that perhaps Wolves do have PSR issues?

Regardless though all in all I tend to agree with Wandering that it would be sensible for all clubs to align the PSR date with their Financial year end.

{Ed001's Note - the reported accounts are separate, so it makes no real difference. It is just sensible and easier to produce the full accounts at the same time as you are producing the PSR documentation for the Premier League.}

22 Feb 2025 10:15:23
Tks
So it may be a totally innocent piece of admin, simply doing as you say "making it simpler and easier to tie up the 2 reporting requirements"
Guess I am so sceptical I am seeing "issues" where none may exist.
Shame the club hasn't put out a statement explaining what it is doing and why - assuming they haven't and I haven't just missed it.

{Ed001's Note - you could well be right, but as they are changing the way it is calculated, it seems more likely to be just about making it easier to deal with. The 85% threshold has held a lot of clubs back from transfer business though, so who knows until the accounts are released? It is all guesswork until then, as no one knows what terms finance has been taken out on or payment terms of players coming in and leaving.}

14 Feb 2025 09:17:49
Liam Keen reporting that Nelson Semedo will most likely leave the club in the summer as his wages are deemed too high.

Who replaces him? Is Pedro Lima ready to step up? Is Doc up to the job?

14 Feb 2025 13:01:28
His wages, (£80k pw), have always been too high as he is not a superstar, (nor is/was he worth the £30m we paid for him!).
BUT
He, at 31, so with perhaps 3 or 4 years at the top level left, is a rock solid mid-table Premier league right (wing) back.
To buy one of those this summer, (assuming no one believes Doc, (33 years old and not as obviously fit), is the answer anymore and Lima may or may not be ready), we would surely be looking at significantly more than the £12.5m we would be paying Semedo over a say 3 year extension - unless of course he is asking for an increase in his current wage?.
If he resigns for us or signs with another club there will be no transfer fee paid to his former club - i.e. us!
It is this feature alone that means he can attract wages far in excess of his ability from over clubs.
Consequently we - who are surely in the driving seat - can pay him say the £12.5m over 3 years or pay at least £12.5m to another club for his replacement, (who may or may not be up to the job), and then pay that replacement say a conservative £60k pw or just under £9.5m on top!
It therefore would appear to be a no brainer to resign Semedo even for the "outrageous" £80k pw he is currently on both from a football and financial point of view.
I hope Jeff agrees.

14 Feb 2025 14:42:46
There are others who are on similar wages who could go so we free up money to better quality.

Hwang £70k pw
Sarabia £90k pw
Dawson £45k pw
Guedes £90k pw

All likely to leave in the summer.

Add to this Cunha.

So I think Liam Keen is speculating at this stage.

14 Feb 2025 14:43:14
I would let Semedo go he is a very good defender but does not give us much going forward. I think the manger wants a more attacking player in this position and Lima could fit the bill but we need to try him out to see how good he is or not.

14 Feb 2025 14:44:53
Craig Dawson removed from the 25 man squad for the remainder of the season.

14 Feb 2025 15:53:35
Guedes is likely to stay he is in Vitors plans and has settled now.

15 Feb 2025 08:43:07
Absolutely TFIG!
I think some folk don't take those figures into account.
Just as you say if Samedo (a known quantity) goes, we would be in for saving only half or a bit less of his wages if we buy in a replacement plus in top a significant amount for buying a replacement. Unless of course Lima really is ready to step up to that full time fir the season.
That approach of course can't go on forever as players get too old, or are doubtful in the job. Eg where some. might say guides or sarabia, and perhaps Hwang too.
.our £35m boy wonder is another matter entirely of course 😭

15 Feb 2025 11:20:29
Indeed Rollo but as you say Wolves hopefully already have Semedo's eventual replacement in Lima.
By resigning Semedo for free we can, perhaps in 6-12 months time, buy Lima's replacement for a modest fee, (the fee you pay for a youngster not yet ready rather than the multi million pound fee you need to pay for a rock solid mid table prem league player).
Then in 18-24 months time as Semedo is edged out of the side by Lima we are still "covered" with Lima's replacement bedded in and presumably measured/tested to ensure they will be ready if and when Lima in turn needs replacing.
Planning in advance not only saves money but improves the team/squad.
All it requires is good management!
Shame we have Jeff!

16 Feb 2025 19:55:42
TFIOG are you talking about planning a competitive team for the future in an organised way? Are you some sort of trouble maker? 😂

17 Feb 2025 08:46:14
Fifth column near the turnstiles methinks. Far too radical all the thought of forward planning is giving me the vapours and Jeff will be panic stricken.

28 Feb 2025 18:39:09
Guedes will be gone if he is not injured.

07 Feb 2025 19:04:17
How true don't known but Wolves have canceled Dawsons contract

08 Feb 2025 03:27:03
Yes mate Judah tweeted Dawson has played his last game for Wolves.

08 Feb 2025 06:51:55
Another curious situation. The mystery that is Wolves.

08 Feb 2025 09:38:25
Just squad numbers by the look of it, west ham are interested but apparently he can't sign for a prem team until the next window as he was registered with wolves at the close of the january window, his options are likely abroad according to hammers news website.

09 Feb 2025 19:41:12
Danso looks class think we may have dodged a bullet

09 Feb 2025 21:32:03
Dodged a bullet but you say he's class? i'm confused

03 Feb 2025 19:26:09
Marshall Munetsi and Nasser Djiga Medicals done will be wrapped up soon no further incomings likely was looking for a forward but told that's looking extremely unlikely

03 Feb 2025 21:49:30
Good news Ex they've done more than I expected plus having wrapped Cunha up, for the time being at least. Looking at the dreaded player highlights Djiga looks useful but I haven't seen enough on Munetsi to judge.

Let's hope they can both bring something.

03 Feb 2025 22:41:22
I have a feeling they have a forward sorted as well Rafa Silva would be good to replace Forbs.

04 Feb 2025 11:14:16
Interesting moment on TalkSport. Simon Jordan mentioned he had a chat recently with Gary O'Neil. He hinted at a tricky dressing room with poor discipline and time keeping in the same sentence as Cunha and named Lemina as a bad egg, but hinted that Cunha isn't quite what he seems and we won't be too sad to see him go in the summer.

04 Feb 2025 12:14:40
Sounds like sour grapes from O'neil tbh if that was the case then it was his job to sort it.

04 Feb 2025 15:27:59
I think the problem Gary had was he couldn't manage properly. I think it turned to friendly between him and a lot of players. Not saying you can't be friendly as that is important but there is a fine line. They didn't see him as the "boss" and took the piss. I don't think he came down on them hard enough and again that is why they took the piss. we saw awful performances which then resulted in players having tantrums.

04 Feb 2025 18:47:40
I think Gary's main problem was inexperience in coaching at PL level. An experienced top flight coach would never let the players take the proverbial. Gary's inexperience floored him after that defeat to Coventry last season and it was downhill after that. If Cunha was lacking discipline, a top coach would have sorted him out, for he is a proven match winner and too valuable to be left to his own devices.

28 Feb 2025 18:43:14
Gary wanted to be a high school gym teacher.
Chum around with the kids. Have a little run out at gym time. "Gee, Mr. O'Niel, you sure are cool."