Wolves Transfer Rumours

28 Oct 2026 17:05:46
People saying that if Wolves don’t go up this season it’s curtains. That’s a very unlikely scenario.

Tolu: £18 million

Other loan players: £7 million (maybe)

Jose Sa: £2 million

Tchatchoua: £4 million

Mosquera: £5 million

Djiga: £15 million

Krejci: £20 million

Hugo Bueno: £9 million

Andre: £16 million

Boubacar Traore: £5 million

Munetsi: £7 million

Doyle: £4 million

Mane: £18 million

Lopez: £29 million

Other players: £15 million

Total: £174 million


This is all guesswork, but failure to get promoted will bring a mass exodus of players. There are too many high earners and saleable assets. Also too much deadwood that should have been shifted a long time ago.


27/28 might see Fosun build a side of young talented players that have pace. Players that want to be at Wolves. Maybe it’s the best thing that can happen to Wolves. Clear out the utter dross. Imagine seeing pace in a Wolves team. What a dream.


Whether Wolves get promoted or not, if Fosun are serious about keeping the club, there are probably already plans to clear out the vast majority of players at the club. They’ve dropped a league and many of them still look s****.

28 Oct 2026 17:52:34
No don't worry there no plans to drop all the cheap dross we have dream on they are not serious about are club they just want to make money😥😥.

28 Oct 2026 18:23:20
Considering nobody came in for most of those last window what makes you think anyone will next one or next Summer?

28 Oct 2026 18:30:02
Where did it all go wrong.-  Curtains is a strong word and not that defined.
Taking your note though I think you surely have to acknowledge that selling the entire first team squad would lead to relegation.
Not in itself curtains,( if you mean the end of the club?),  but pretty serious nonetheless.

The idea that Wolves will/can discover a new squad full of players with the pace and skill sufficient to survive in the Championship from free transfers and the youth program - all of whom are willing to play for minimal wages etc - is indeed a dream.

It is disconnected to reality. It has never been done in the history of the game by any side so the chances of it happening this summer at Wolves is sufficiently unlikely as to be dismissed.  

But financially you say Wolves can raise circa £175m from selling the squad. 
Would that money be used to cover operating losses - some £130m or so last year - or to pay down the debt owing - over £300m last time it was reported?
Sadly it can't be used for both.

With turnover falling sharply if promotion is not obtained it is possible, no probable, that financial pressures will require the wholesale fire sale of the squad as you suggest but what happens if, as seems highly likely, that the amounts raised - even if as high as £175m - are not enough and certainly not enough to provide for the medium term when losses will surely continue to be incurred if not increase?Curtains is a strong word but failure to achieve promotion this year will indeed surely have very serious ramifications for the club?

28 Oct 2026 21:20:13
Future you seem well versed into the financial situation at the club from what I'm lead to beleive
1) we were amongst the lowest payers in the prem wage wise
2) until last season every home game was a sell out
3) over the last 5 years there is a very healthy profit in transfer dealings

So how can we be some 300 million in debt something clearly doesn't add up.

28 Oct 2026 08:21:31
Tolu going to Ajax for 25mil decent deal for a player who don't want to be here.

28 Oct 2026 13:59:52
Have Ajax got that money to spend because what i've read they wont go over 18mill pounds. So is 25mill euros or pounds because Ajax spent alot of money in the summer window.

28 Oct 2026 14:54:46
Hasn't a price already been agreed for Tolu? Somewhere around £18 million.

As for Tolu's exploits in the Eredivisie, Tomasz Frankowski would have scored about 30 goals per season in that league. Tolu is also playing for his career.

He can do whatever he wants in that league, i'll always remember him as a lazy person with a stinking attitude.

26 Oct 2026 11:30:15
Stats don't have an opinion, so feel free to form your own.

1. Record Player Sales (Reported in 2026 Accounts) £117 million

2. Relegation Squad Sales (Summer 2026) £36.5 million – £38.5 million

3. EFL Championship Parachute Payment (Year 1) £49 million – £55 million

Circa £200 million incoming.

£8 million outgoing on Rafiki, plus loan fees.

6 months and 2 transfer windows to prepare.

26 Oct 2026 19:36:05
My answer is not an opinion but fact. The accounts filed in 2026 are for the year to June 2025. June 2026 accounts will not be filed until next year. Yes, large sums have passed through the accounts, but what is your point? What does that prove? That we had tens of millions to spend on players but didn't? No.

In year to June 2025 the club made a loss of over £11mil. The balance sheet shows a deficit of nearly £186mil. As of June 2025 the accounts show that we were in trouble at that date, and supported by Fosun International Limited until at least June 2026.

27 Oct 2026 14:46:08
Please, Deep Throat, your comments don't suit the narrative of toxic negativity and unrealistic childish dreaming.

We got Steve Morgan out, now we need to get Fosun out. Hopefully Wolves will eventually end up in League Two with crooked owners who'll bankrupt the club.

According to many Wolves fans, the club, after getting rid of Jeff Shi less than 12 months ago - who was probably the worst CEO in PL history - should already have built a team of superstars capable of smashing the Championship, in preparation for smashing the Premier League, while releasing plans for a new 50,000 seater stadium, capable of bringing billions into the city of Wolverhampton.

According to these fans every football club other than Wolves has the best owners, the best training facilities, the best youth systems, and they're all building new stadiums — and they're all playing in Europe.

Nathan Shi and Matt Jackson might well end up looking silly for saying that Wolves are going to punch their way out of the Championship, but on the other hand, whinging whining "always need something to moan about” Wolves fans might end up looking silly if Wolves actually do punch their way out of the Championship. The same fans might look even more stupid if Fosun and Wolves are keeping their powder dry, so if they do go up they'll be able to invest in the team without almost instantly falling foul of PSR.

Maybe Wolves have a plan get promoted and spend £30 million on Ruben Neves.

Maybe Nathan Shi has to be given a chance, instead of being vilified before he's had time to fix the horrific mess left by his predecessor.

Wolves fans are moaning about Wolves under Jeff Shi. Nathan Shi has to be given a chance. Of course, the decent Wolves fans now have no chance of knowing what's going on at the club because of the vile poisonous behaviour towards Fosun, Wolves, Matt Jackson, Nathan Shi and everyone else at the club.

28 Oct 2026 01:22:49
I find your distinction between the:
" whinging whining "always need something to moan about” Wolves fans and the decent fans”. Very simplistic. You make some valid points but no one is above criticism and fans have a right to question decisions and have a moan about them.

If you care then you're a true fan.

28 Oct 2026 01:44:31
Matt Jackson didn't do himself any favours by saying if we don't get the transfer window right he'll resign.
Guess what, the transfer window was a disaster and he never resigned so why should we trust him?
Fosun have no interest in the club anymore that's why they no longer invest they are milking it for what they can get.

28 Oct 2026 10:09:40
Rated, the club is loss-making and heavily in debt. How is Fosun milking it? In year 2023/24 a loss of £10.8mil was made, and no dividend was paid to Fosun or anyone. In year 2024/25 a loss of £11.8mil was made, and again no dividends paid. The accounts for 2025/26 (our final PL season) should be filed next March, and I can't see where finances can improve. The 2026/27 accounts will be even worse as turnover will be down as we are in the championship.

The truth is that unless Fosun can find a buyer, they will have to keep us on life support, financially speaking. This is quite common in football these days. Who is responsible in our case? A series of poor decisions made for many years, starting with the fall-out with Nuno. At the height of Nuno's reign we were poised to challenge for regular top six, in a similar way to Villa, Newcastle, Brighton etc but we fell away. And we all know who was responsible, Jeff Shi.

28 Oct 2026 11:18:21
I don't doubt for one second that Fosun wants this club back in the Prem. it was never going to a profit making acquisition.
What they have to gain from it is the publicity of owning a high profile football team and the club value if they want out.

Hopefully they are taking stock and learning from the mistakes. If I was Nathan i would be asking why we get through so many Managers and sign so many players who have not improved the team.

28 Oct 2026 11:34:45
Fosun need the club in the Premier League. Otherwise it's not worth enough. Look at how much the Baggies former owner lost after they got relegated and he sold up. Granted he did buy them when in the Premier League.

The mess of last season (and previous mistakes leading to it) was never getting sorted in the summer.

Personally I don't think Fosun have been as invested in Wolves since the decision was made to stay at Molineux. The lack of investment in all areas away from PSR is where their commitment should be questioned.

The rest such as on and off field recruitment isn't a commitment issue, it's an incompetence one. Rebuilding the team was never going to happen overnight, but unfortunately I still don't have much confidence in the people off the field tasked with doing so.

28 Oct 2026 11:37:02
Sammy, you're right about the indirect benefits of ownership. Fosun can and did benefit from the prestige of ownership of a PL club. Trouble is, Jeff in his wisdom said that the club would have to pay for itself and be self-supporting financially.

That was clearly impossible in our situation and indeed for many clubs. If we somehow go up this season Nathan will have to learn from past mistakes to keep us there and to improve financially. Hopefully we will get sold if promoted.

28 Oct 2026 12:47:00
If we don't get promoted it could be curtains for us that is the harsh reality.

28 Oct 2026 15:49:41
It's scary for relegated PL clubs. Companies House has today issued a compulsory striking-off notice for Burnley's parent company Velocity Capital UK. Reason being, they are two years behind with filing of accounts. If they don't comply and get struck off, all assets pass to the Crown. At least Fosun have filed accounts on time, however crap they may be! These Companies House rules have tightened up and apply to all registered companies, not just football clubs.

In my business, unbelievably, our trade association (the largest in the country) got struck off last month, and bank accounts frozen. Comply or die.

28 Oct 2026 17:43:18
Deep - you don't have to take dividends - which would have been illegal in any case - to take money out of a company.

Obviously only Wolves and Fosun - effectively the same thing - know what has happened but as you say Wolves have been heavily loss making and cash flow negative, leading to rapidly increasing debt, for years now.

The question is then why are Wolves performing so much worse than other clubs - I have compared them to many other clubs over the years on this site but for example Brentford, excluding player trading, have made £100's of millions more than Wolves over the past few years!

There would appear to be only 2 reasons for this, gross incompetence - hardly plausible - or there are major cash costs impacting Wolves that don't impact other clubs?

What could these be?
Clearly Wolves don't spend excessive money on players - the net transfer spend is minimal to nil over the past few years,- they don't spend excessive money on player wages - the wage bill was widely reported to amongst the lowest in the prem - and they don't spend excessive money on physical assets, the ground etc so what are these huge costs?

I cannot claim to know in this case but there are numerous examples of conglomerates who use intercompany trading to move cash/profits from one area of their business to another often for tax reasons.


Simple examples are HO charging subsidiaries for management services, consultancy fees etc.

What I do believe though is that Rated is correct and failure to get promoted this year will require substantial changes to the financial running of the club as revenues will fall further and far faster than football costs can be reduced without cataclysmic ramifications on the pitch.

24 Oct 2026 19:09:47
4 points from top and 4th after the way weve played is crazy.

munetsi would make a good striker i reckon.

krejci could be really nice in the centre of a back three in the coady role.

24 Oct 2026 23:34:59
Peixoto is out of his depth. An unconvincing win against a very poor side fools no one.

25 Oct 2026 00:43:23
That Watford shower should have been sent packing before half time by 4 or 5 goals. I can honestly say that not getting a striker in will deffinately cost us promotion. The 2 guys that boro got in will take them up. Bueno. Mosquera. Bellaguard. Plus many others are not good enough. Cannot keep having 20 odd shots but only 2 on target.

Cannot keep having 25 attempted crosses with only 3 getting there. Cannot keep totally dominating teams then hanging on. West ham & boro away we're points dropped imo we just self destructed. Bolton & pompey at home were comical.those games will cost us & there's plenty more to come. i will never forgive or forget what fosun have done to us.

26 Oct 2026 08:09:32
I agree with playing Menetsi as a striker is worth a try and playinfg krejci alongside Andre could work as well.

23 Oct 2026 08:50:48
Don't know who 'Football Insider' are but they are saying that the Wolves hierarchy are considering Vitor Pereira for the job. If true (and I doubt it is) what the hell is going on?

23 Oct 2026 09:29:55
They are an outlet that publishes any old sh*t in the hope that some poor unsuspecting soul believes their tripe and clicks onto their pages.

23 Oct 2026 10:48:13
Yea its about 1.5years old probably just clickbait.

23 Oct 2026 11:16:02
OK thanks (phew) they don't call me Mr Gullible for nothing (I charge for it).

23 Oct 2026 15:43:50
Football insider are as about as truthful as fosun.

23 Oct 2026 18:26:55
Better call 'em Football Outsider.

21 Oct 2026 18:34:12
if CP can recall Tolu and reintegrate him in the next 3 days that would be ideal.


he could be the missing piece.

21 Oct 2026 18:52:41
How's that going to happen, ordinary? Loaned for a season, with no recall option, and a £17m option to buy.

21 Oct 2026 20:19:23
IF is the key word there, ifs rarely work around wolves.

21 Oct 2026 21:32:43
He's done with wolves. Would've been a handful in this division.

22 Oct 2026 11:17:47
Isn't it funny how opinions change. I recall that most fans (me included) were calling on him to be moved on the minute he caused the issues on the training pitch. The club duly did the right thing but now thise same fans who wanted him out are calling for him to come back.

22 Oct 2026 15:20:49
Nice to see Sasa scoring and doing well for Lask in the champions league, good of wolves to get him fit and let him leave for free when we are so desperate for a striker, well done recruitment staff.

22 Oct 2026 19:53:58
Had Sasa been a rip roaring success at Wolves and we let him go than your comments make sense but the fact is he was injured for virtually all of his time here and we needed someone who wasn't going to get injured. He was too much of a risk.

22 Oct 2026 20:57:13
Yea, but my point is we get him fit for someone else to benefit, how desperate are we now for a fit striker?

23 Oct 2026 10:57:10
i thought we could recall an on loan player at any point. i was mistaken. my apologies.

18 Oct 2026 16:33:55
Got a horrible feeling that we might be in the Championship for a while. If we don't go up then the likes of Fer, Andre, Kryci James and Mane will be gone.
So we end up only Toti Munetsi Armstrong and a few lads. This doesn't work anymore. To get out and stay out you have to invest in quality and all we seem to do is sell our quality y.

Ever since the last Nuno season we had just gone straight down hill.
Imagine our team with Neto Jota ( rip) Ruben Neves just to name a few.
We need to invest for the return to the prem. I don't mind if it's CP in charge just invest in the players.

20 Oct 2026 03:05:13
Krejic has gone anyway in his head so he'll be no loss, but i echo your feeling tbh.

21 Oct 2026 16:30:22
Those you mention Nando may be our better players but let's face facts in that none are currently good enough for the Premier league apart from a club that'll be relegation fodder.

18 Oct 2026 13:28:36
Free agents available
Zinchenko
Jadon sancho
Icardi
Martial
Renato sanches
Pogba
Eriksen
Saiss?
Olivier Ntcham.

18 Oct 2026 13:50:54
Zinchenko sustained a serious ACL injury in Feb and is nowhere near match fit.

Sancho has proved that he isn't that good but will demand at least £80 per week.

Icardi brings too much drama and is a liability. Just look at the reasons why Galatasary let him go.

Martial is constantly injured hence why Monterray let him go a year early.


The rest just ain't as good as they were and are either too old (Saiss and Eriksen).

Some are already complaining about Trippier and Raul being too old but understand that they can bring vital experience but how would you feel if we brought in more older players who we know simply wont be able to play 2 games a week. Not to mention the wages they would demand.

18 Oct 2026 13:51:31
Zaha and Sterling too?

18 Oct 2026 14:39:04
Wolves cant sign any free agents without cancelling someones contract - so not going to happen.

Neave (although a loan signing & U21) has to be registered as a normal squad place as per the rules for loan players.

19 Oct 2026 14:49:00
They're free agents for a reason. Sterling's head is gone as well. He's on bail after crashing his Lamborghini on a motorway while suspected of being drugged up. And, we have no vacancies in the squad. Give CP time to get the squad firing on all cylinders, we are only 5 points off automatic promotion, with a game in hand.

26 Oct 2026 10:04:24
To me,all the while that Fosun are running our club we could well be a yoyo team until. the cows come home.
The fans deserve better but I doubt that anything will change except the revolving door of head coaches
Wolves fan of 68 years.

18 Oct 2026 09:46:09
Come on steve cooper being considered as Wolves' next manager.
Is that the best we can do. we will soon be in the Guinness Book of Records for having the most managers ever. We need a good quality manager who will kick some arses knows how to pick a side.

Perhaps like everyone else I am just flabbergasted what's happening with our once great club. A club we were proud to support.

18 Oct 2026 10:42:28
The fact that the article was written by Football Insider gives it zero credence. All they do is throw so much stuff in the hope that some of it sticks.

I think Cesar has the basis of a decent team. He needs to tweak the defence so they don't look so vulnerable but he definitely needs a goal scorer. If we can get through to January in and around the top 8, I think a striker and defender will push us on.

18 Oct 2026 13:09:34
The trouble with saying we need a striker in January will fall on deaf ears fosun will say we have Armstrong fit an Raul will soon be fit fosun an Jackson need to go afraid Friday night only papered over the cracks all be it a better 2nd half.

18 Oct 2026 13:54:32
Well if that the case then it's Jackson and Shi who need to be moved on and not Cesar.

17 Oct 2026 19:52:08
Just read somewhere wolves are considering steve cooper to replace peixeto lord help us please.

17 Oct 2026 21:32:00
Good job Tommy Cooper is not available, mind you be would be too expensive for Fosun.

15 Oct 2026 12:06:35
Hi all new to site London area fan we could of got Jordan sancho instead of said used money for wages on short term contract to get us back up has proven experience, but would he come to Wolves? really in need of new cb gk and st or start playing new gk if any good as sa performance so poor.

15 Oct 2026 15:37:58
Isn't he on £250k a week? Would you really want the club to pay him that amount when he really isn't that good.

16 Oct 2026 12:34:28
I can't motivate myself to discuss this football shower so will just say Welcome aboard Chris 👍.

16 Oct 2026 19:51:43
Zaha sterling vardy.all without a contract too.any of em would be better than we have. on a pay as you play deal.Armstrong injured leaves us with Neave 18yr old loanee.pathetic position to be in for our club.hwang sasa tolu would all have bagged goals in this division.shocking.
Expect another defeat tonight.3 in a row.and the rot sets in🫣.

16 Oct 2026 22:16:36
Vardy🤣.id still take him over what we have.didnt know he was at Burnley.