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05 Dec 2025 11:24:21
Gdawg - sadly unless there are relegation clauses Johnstone, Agbadou, Munetsi, Tolu and Bellegarde will all have to go as their wages will be well beyond the club.
Doyle will surely not want to come back and Shi will be keen to extract a fee from the blues even if it is not the £10m hoped for.
So I suspect there will be far fewer left than you would imagine.
02 Dec 2025 17:13:08
3G You are assuming the Birmingham don't sign him?
If Jeff Shi can get £10m, (or frankly even vaguely close to that), for him next summer that won't be turned down! So I highly doubt you will see him again.
Abbey you are correct. So sad as it doesn't have to be like this. Indeed even now a win tonight, a few scraped points before Jan and then on the 1st show some ambition and sign 3 or 4 decent players and maybe it might still be possible.
However I have no faith that Fosun care or to be fair to them are willing to take the risk that this will involve - over paying for players in January and still going down!
02 Dec 2025 10:18:19
Abbey it is hard to tell how the club will get on if they are relegated as it is unlikely that the squad will bear much resemblance to the current one
Obviously all the good layers will leave - that is Krejci, (very much doubt he will be signed and if their is a clause in his contract if he plays so many games this season he has to be signed we may not see too much more of him this year anyway ), J Gomes and Andre. (You might add JSL if he can be bothered to turn up for the next few months).
Then the prospects and saleable ones will go and the high earners will be paid off or loaned out.
What will be left - v little Toti, Bueno H, Mane, Bennett maybe Wolfe, Djiga and Bueno S .Anyone else obvious?
The squad will be made up of free transfers, old boys and kids from lower league sides. To be honest survival in the Championship may well be difficult even if the club doesn't incur a 12 point penalty for entering admin.
Re Mr Shi one can only assume Fosun will thank him for what he has achieved and acknowledge it was an impossible task and, once the have taken out the bits they want - not the football team, close the file!
27 Nov 2025 11:22:32
Banksy51
I fear that the answer to the two points made in your first three paragraphs is : "yes!".
26 Nov 2025 14:40:45
As pointed out Fosun should not want to put Wolves into admin as it would mean a 12 point deduction with obvious consequences for the football team. (Although if taken this season an irrelevancy). However if the club is unable to pay its obligations as they fall due they legally have no other choice.
Relegation will almost certainly trigger the loan and absorb the parachute payment so even if Fosun waives their own debt, (and why would they), it will be impossible to meet a £250m, (of which £180m is in cash) cost base and service the obligations to other clubs for past transfers from the remaining circa what £30- 40m of income?
Selling the squad will reduce the cost base, (although not by as much as you would hope), and sadly only raise modest sums - many players will either have to be virtually given away or even in the worst cases paid to go - so it is unlikely that after paying debts, (the parachute payment will only cover a portion of the debt), there will be much left over and certainly not enough to run a club for a year.
Admin will allow Fosun to walk away from the remaining debts, purchase "esports" and any other bits they want from the administrator and leave the pesky football team to be picked up by a new investor.
Of course Fosun may back the club and offer short term liquidity to allow it to survive until the following season and the next parachute payment but in which division they will be playing in by then is anyone's guess!