01 Sep 2025 20:03:24
Wolves are reportedly an option for Dele Alli. Recently released by Como, thoughts?

1.) 01 Sep 2025
01 Sep 2025 21:12:31
Desperation personified!

2.) 01 Sep 2025
01 Sep 2025 21:37:43
Keep on trying

3.) 01 Sep 2025
01 Sep 2025 22:08:58
I'd put my dog at no 10.

4.) 01 Sep 2025
01 Sep 2025 22:45:33
Very disappointed fully back the team and club but this must be the worst window under Fosun.
Jeff do you have any reasons and answers for this?
The penny has dropped into the championship.

5.) 01 Sep 2025
01 Sep 2025 23:08:24
So Pedro Lima has gone to Porto on loan as well. Now I get that he's young but that now means between Lima and Dijiga we've spent £20m on players to play for other teams! I have no problem investing in the future I'm just not convinced that as a club we have the squad numbers or the transfer budget to do it?! Can anyone honestly tell me that £20m wouldn't have been better spent on a AMC or even high end loan (e.g. Grealish etc)?
I really just don't understand our approach at times, let's just hope that VP does eh! ?

6.) 02 Sep 2025
01 Sep 2025 23:44:27
i think you’re all missing the point, krecji was bought to play in midfield and a back up to toti . if he really is that good infront of a back four, this solves the problem in itself . you know that’s how they were thinking .

7.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 01:10:57
I think your missing the point, he hasn't played in midfield for over three seasons! He was bought in to play cb and if he wasn't then we might be in bigger trouble because our defence is truly woeful!

8.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 01:33:31
you don’t really think anything when the aliens get ya, it’s just a time thing

9.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 10:50:04
BB - I am not certain but I think that if Lima had stayed at Wolves or anywhere else in England/Wales he would have qualified as home grown - 3 seasons in England before 21 - but now he won't!

Given the importance of that classification and the obvious shortage of homegrown players in the squad either Wolves have given up on him and don't expect him to be around post 21 or they have made a monumental error!

10.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 11:05:34
So much for uncle mendes being involved, what did he do?
Couldn’t he supply us with an attacking midfielder
It’s going to be a cold long winter

11.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 11:11:01
Dele Alli from Como? Didn't Perry Como have a big hit with Catch a Falling Star? Maybe Dele has fallen too far.

12.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 12:07:54
Haha, great minds TFG (please see my post re:Lima on the Banter page). As you say it does seem like an odd decision and a missed chance. But also as I said (in the other post) I suspect the choice of Porto may well reflect that Lima is struggling in this country? ?

13.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 13:31:37
the biggest problem, as someone stated, is Mendes lack of involvement with each passing year . if it’s because of his relationship with jeff shi then I suggest they replace him ‘coz we can’t stay in the premier league without mendes .

14.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 14:41:57
Not sure that's in anyway true to be honest (re:Mendes). Other teams manage just fine without relying on just one agent to run their transfers. This is the same Mendes that made us sign Guedes, Fabio and Podence on HUGE wages despite not a single one of them wanting to be at the club?! In fact when we signed Podence the club had previously agreed a deal for Dani Olmo (now one of the best in the world) and between Nuno and Mendes they cancelled it to go with Mendes client (Podence)! The same Mendes that has recently been blamed for crashing a number of decent deals because he wanted a bigger cut?!
We don't need Mendes, we need an independent DoF who's established enough to stand up to and when needed work with Mendes!

15.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 20:10:42
Not sure of our official squad total, but we are very close to the maximum number of overseas players. I’m sure if we were able to attract an out of contract player (Josh Brownhill would still be my choice), we would find a way of creating space in the 25. I know many were unhappy that he was allegedly asking for a huge signing on fee, but that is the name of the game and something all four of contract players do. It basically equates to a transfer fee and as such £10 million, is not a bad price for an experienced player like him.
Is Hoever considered a home grown player. He came through the youth ranks at Liverpool but I don’t know if he did three years before he was 21.
If we are going to continue with a back three, one of them and almost certainly Krejci, is going to have to carry the ball into midfield in order to break the lines. Our inability to do so was painfully obvious against Everton. They, in contrast, did so with consummate ease. Additionally we had nobody capable of switching the point of attack until the introduction of Fer Lopes. Or running past players until Bellegarde came on.
I haven’t seen the stats but I am pretty sure over 50% of our possession was happening with all even Everton players behind the ball. I, for one, really struggled to see what it was we were trying to do.

16.) 02 Sep 2025
02 Sep 2025 21:16:51
Wolfthistle I think we've already got a decision to make, pretty sure we're at 18 overseas but only 17 can be registered. No problem with homegrown, we've only got 5.

I've watched Krejci a lot and bringing the ball out from defence is a big part of his game, I suspect Toti and Agba will play either side of him.