29 Jun 2025 12:52:16
Dominc Calvert Lewin is available on a free.
But injury record and, even allowing for injuries, declining output over last 2 or 3 years combined with the high wages he was formerly on and presumably will target at his new club cast shadows for me.
Thoughts?
He is home grown so doesn't take one of the 17 spots.
He, at his best, would rival JSL and at his "ordinary" level if fit would be a good back up which, unless Sassa recovers miraculously, we don't have now.
Given our financial constraints and the 17 overseas limitations not sure why we haven't moved faster to sign one or more, ( or even all), of KWP, Tariq Lamptey and for me Tanganga at Millwall available on a release fee of just over £1m.
I'd add Veiga at Chelsea - versatility and Renan at Zenit - loan leaving all our serious money for Jota and Guessand as the 2 number 10s.
Ramsdale in for Johnstone, all of which is affordable, and I'm happy!
1.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 13:14:22
Interesting possibilities Future, Ramsdale definitely controversial. Would love us to sign both Jota and Guessy fella, how much would they ask for Jota though. People seem to think we will be busy from Tuesday, hope this is the case, will be watching with interest. Also hoping we can achieve reasonable fees for Guedes, Fabio, Johnstone, etc, which will help for purchases, City think they robbed us for RAN so must be playing well in the Club World Cup jollop.
2.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 13:20:06
Tfsg1 kWP wants to go back to Spurs Tanganga wants to go abroad he's had offers from what I've read Veiga yes as a back up O'NEIL wanted him on loan Renan don't know much about jota from Liverpool no injured to much and they want 30 to 40 mill Guessand yes pay the 30 mill plus 5 in add ons good buy Ramsdale not sure no1 or back up if no1 would you be happy with Bennet as back up.
3.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 14:03:44
Major sales: Cunha 62.5, RAN 31.5 Johnstone 5 Bueno S 4, Doyle, 7.5 net Guedes, 12.5 Fabio, 15 Hwang 12 Raises circa £150
Purchases JSL £22 Lopez £20, Tanganga £1, Veiga £20, Ramsdale £18, Jota, £39, Guessand £30. KWP 0 Lamptey 0, DCL 0 circa £150
Loans out Lima, Djiga
Loans in Renan
Squad
Gk
Ramsdale and Sa
RWB
KWP, Lamptey and Tanganga
CB
Yerson, Emmanuel, Toti, (Tanganga), Doc, Renan, (Veiga)
LWB
Veiga, Bueno H, Gomes R
DM
Andre, Gomes, (Veiga) Traore,
Front 3
Jota, JSL, Guessand, Bellegarde, DCL, Munestsi, Lopez
23 players and 17 overseas players!
4.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 14:27:25
Shada my fear is that if Jota wasn't injury prone he would neither come back to Wolves or be affordable. I believe he is valued at mid to high 30s as damaged goods?
But if he plays 25 games and we win 10 and draw 5 we stay up - like Neto used to do for us and he was sold at 50p in the pound as well!.
Jota is a top class player who can replace Cunha.
As Madman says all transfers have risk. Jota's is his injury record.
However pick up a fit player who is not as good for the same money - lots out there - and the real risk is that you simply go down!
Ramsdale is much younger than Sa and homegrown. Is he better? I hope so? But I would hope we would keep Sa and have competition. Yes it didn't work with Johnstone but was that GON or Sa that was the problem?
If KWP is wanted by Spurs hard for us to compete but Tanganga is surely one we should be able to compete for - unless he is far better than I thought he is no more than a home grown, versatile back up?
5.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 15:49:18
I don’t believe there’s talk of Ramsdale again. Aiming for a 4th relegation from the Premier League? He’s no better than what we’ve got and, Oh yes, he hates Wolves and many fans hate him after his antics against us with Arsenal. Give it a break!
6.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 16:42:50
Ramsdale, not for me, he’s no better than what we have,
7.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 16:44:24
Ramsdale won’t come as he wants to play every week to get back in the England squad for the World Cup, which is why he also doesn’t want to be in the championship next season.
Calvert-Lewis and Jota re both too injury prone, would cost too much in wages for those two for what we’d get from them
8.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 16:44:47
Johnny Phillips wrote an article the other day which suggested that the club will be waiting until 1st July so that any purchases fall into the 2025/2026 accounting period.
The Cunha and AIT sales will be listed in the 24/25 accounts. This allows for more movement financially.
9.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 21:03:42
Shows how its a game of opinions then
Ramsdale is either not good enough or too good for us.
If you are saying no because of his past relationship with Wolves/the fans you really need to look past it. He is a professional and Wolves would be his employer. It is, as Slinger says in his interests to make it work.
But if you don't think he is a major upgrade on Johnstone/Bennet/King fair enough
Injuries are probably the only reason we have a shot at players of the quality of Jota and to some extent even DCL.
We perhaps need to remember that we have very limited financial resources, our team last season was a lower mid at best side and has just lost its captain and 2 best players, we have massive holes throughout the side and squad and sadly Wolverhampton is not either a major city or a beautiful seaside resort.
You can play safe and buy lower quality and less experienced players, take punt on unknowns from secondary/tertiary leagues on simply buy or far fewer fit players.
However all of those routes are also fraught with risk and have less obvious upside
Sadly Wolves are in the position where they need to be clever and imaginative/ risk taking in the transfer market.
Frees, loans and players who have for some reason become available at Wolves level but are capable of playing far higher i.e. Jota!
I listed a fully funded plan - sound like a politician - how would you realistically adapt it, i.e. no selling Hwang for £50m or signing players that are attracting the attention of teams further up the food chain - to give Wolves a hope of a successful season?
10.) 29 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 21:20:28
Wandering
When Wolves announced the change of its year end to June it worried me and that does nothing to reassure me.
Why do Wolves need to put the Cunha and RAN sales into 24/25 accounts - meaning they only benefit from the perspective of PSR from the sales for the next 2 years rather than 3 if they put them into 25/26 - unless Wolves need them in 24/25?
If Wolves need them in the 24/25 accounts after selling Kilman and Neto earlier on in the same year then things must be far far worse than even I had thought?
Also why delay signings?
The fee is amortised over the life of the contract so a £15m purchase costs £250k a month.
Again if we are deferring to save £250k then again worrying?
11.) 30 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 22:48:37
I don't know the answer but a few clubs chose to move their accounting deadline from 31st May to June 30th.
This is what Stefan Boroson wrote and he is widely regarded as a football finance expert:
The move to 30 June increasingly appears closely related to a potential PSR challenge but also to the fix - the Summer disposal of Matheus Cunha. On 1 June 2025, the player signed for Manchester United with his £62.5m release clause triggering a meaningful trading profit of, perhaps, £30m-35m after costs. And with that, Wolves will not be burning the midnight oil on 30 June.
12.) 30 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 22:53:32
PSR Compliance:
The Premier League has Profitability and Sustainability Regulations (PSR) that limit how much clubs can lose over a rolling three-year period.
May vs. June Year-End:
Wolves previously had a May 31st year-end. Moving it to June 30th effectively creates a 13-month accounting period, giving them an extra month to potentially sell players and have those sales impact the current year's financial results for PSR purposes.
Strategic Player Sales:
By including player sales in the same year they occur, Wolves can potentially offset losses and stay within the PSR limits.
Example:
If Wolves were close to the PSR limit and needed to sell a player, like Cunha, for a significant fee, moving the accounting deadline to June 30th would allow them to include that sale in the current financial year's accounts, helping them manage their PSR situation.
13.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 01:53:12
Wandering - exactly!
But if Wolves were close to a PSR breach before the Cunha sale, despite having sold Neto and Kilman already this year, what does that say about the finances?
It appears you are telling me that this chap Boroson completely agrees with what I have been saying for a while. Indeed it appears that the situation is considerably worse.
I can only hope that he is wrong because it is very hard to see how things can become this bad.
Sadly we won't know the truth till next spring when the accounts come out - although the clubs actions this summer may give hints.
Are you still a fan of Jeff now?
14.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 06:05:53
As I said, I don't the answer but looking at reports, it seems the only team close to breaching PSR is Aston Villa as they are within £15m of the permitted losses.
Wolves were at £56m but with the Cunha and AIT money, are nowhere near of danger. I think its just a way of manipulating the accounts so that our financial position going forward is stronger.
15.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 08:25:05
Interesting points Tfiog and Wandering and that may alleviate the pressure for now, but it will return, what then? Until Fosun take the much discussed steps to increase the clubs income, its just kicking the can down the road.
16.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 13:26:44
Here's some information folks from the last 2 years' published accounts which may go some way to explaining the current predicament.
22/23 overall loss of 67.2m despite a player trading profit of 43.9m ( amortisation turned this into a trading loss of 38.6m). Gross revenue 168.6m.
23/24 overall loss of 14.3m. Trading profit 64.6 but amortisation turned this into a trading loss of 2.6m).Gross revenue 177.7m.
If the 105m max loss over a 3 year cycle this means 25/25 can't exceed 23.5m
Make of all that what you will.
17.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 14:09:23
That's 24/25 can't exceed 23.5m! Assuming it doesn't then Wolves loss in 25/6 can be at least 67.2m before falling foul of PSR. We fans may think this gives room for a decent spending spree this summer but Jeff may have other ideas!
18.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 18:18:39
Old, I suppose it's only decent if it's spent well and we don't have to go on another spree in January.
19.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 19:40:54
Old if we were even close to £23.5m after selling Kilman and Neto then that means the underlying losses were vast.
If we were indeed so close we needed to sell Cunha then you can work it out for yourself
But it is not good!
20.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 20:16:42
No point speculating about the finances. The club could have nothing to spend but unearth some real gems on a free transfer or they could have vast amounts of money and buy duds. All that matters is that they spend whatever funds they have wisely whilst not jeopardising the long term future of the club.
21.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 21:00:00
Wandering - good post.
Sadly it is probably easier to find quality if you are shopping in Harrods than if you are shopping in Poundland.
ps it is also too late to worry about the long term future of the club.
We have an annual cost base of over £250m but if we get relegated, including parachute payments, we would have income of well under £100m. We also have a net debt of circa £300m.
It is pretty hard to see how, even if we fire sale the entire squad, the directors, unless Fosun chuck in a couple of hundred million, can legally carry on trading! The future, thanks to Jeff, is now truly in jeopardy!
22.) 30 Jun 2025
30 Jun 2025 21:40:12
Not sure we'd get too much for a fire sale of the directors, Future. Probably have to pay a reverse premium. ??