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17 Jul 2026 08:46:00
So, the great Raul Jimenez is 'same old rubbish' now? FWAW

17 Jul 2026 10:29:41
Love Raul, and Trippier will hopefully be a great signing. Preston, after a positive start to the summer, I was hoping for more.
Time will tell, I guess. 🤞

17 Jul 2026 10:32:16
I think Raul and Trippier are a very smart bit of business, but signing two 35-year-old players on free transfers doesn't justify selling the family silver for pence on the pound!

17 Jul 2026 11:29:47
I don't think Banksy meant what the club under Nathan Shi is trying to do, Preston, and yes, those signings are certainly crowd pleasers and, hopefully, smart from a football perspective, but against a background of what? Years of decline, with the inevitable consequence, and no evidence, in truth, of any significant change in Fosun's behaviour.
Personally, I like Nathan Shi, and I believe he will genuinely try his best for Wolves, but if he doesn't get the backing, irrespective of who we sign or keep at the club, will he be carrying the can in a year or two?
People were keen to blame Jeff Shi for everything, but I personally believe there were other actors in Shanghai equally culpable. Let's not forget, once the Esports was up and running, he got promoted, not sacked, not even pushed out sideways somewhere.
I believe the phrase 'same old rubbish' is therefore appropriate when considering the part that Fosun will, but probably won't, play in all of this.

17 Jul 2026 12:18:18
What Fosun are doing is simply asset stripping. Anything with a decent value, they move on and pocket the profit. Every time they do it, they weaken the team. Then sign mostly inadequate replacements. Wolves fans should be used to it now, they are business people, and football is just a hobby for them.

16 Jul 2026 18:47:53
I’m starting to become very tired of Fosun. It’s causing me to become very tired of Wolves.

Fosun are deceitful owners. Molineux ain’t ever getting a rebuild. The training facilities won’t ever get an upgrade. It’s literally two pitches and a set of dumbbells. The youth set-up is average at best. No better than half the teams in the Championship.

From the fans forum, where’s the team that’s going to look very different? Where’s the team that fans can really identify with? Wolves fans are being lied to again.

Ron Moore has made me see the light. He’s bloody right. I don’t care about the moaning, he’s spot on. We march into the stadium like hopeful mugs, to slowly trudge out with our shoulders slumped. The good years were seven years ago. It’s been continual decline ever since. Why the chuff did we have to hound Steve Morgan out? Wolves are now back to where they started ten years ago, except the club now has about £200 million of debt. Steve Morgan is a billionaire property developer.

Fosun are Gordon Gecko types who buy up businesses with pretend money.

Look at the attendances towards the end of last season. Fans are becoming fed up. Wolves get promoted to the PL, but what happens then? Fosun don’t have the ability to keep Wolves in the Premier League. Last season saw the real Wolves under Fosun. It had been coming for a while.

Was it Johnny Phillips who said if Wolves don’t get promoted back to the PL at the first attempt the club's finances will be in an atrocious state. That surely also means that in the Premier League there will be very little money for genuine quality players.

Wolves are going into a Championship season with several other teams who are more than capable of sitting above Wolves and staying there. Southampton will be dangerous this season. The same goes for Burnley, West Ham, Middlesbrough, and possibly Wrexham and Blues. Maybe Millwall, too.

Under Fosun, supporting Wolves is becoming a chore.

16 Jul 2026 19:54:14
It's nothing new. Nice One, some preferring not to see it for what it is, even now. I see Mat Jackson is predicting a speeding up in the transfer market as teams return to training, probably knowing they would soon have £38M (on paper) to spend.



It's a total mystery to me why Fosun are doing this. It's a money pit that they can't (or won't) afford to get involved with. They should have sold it 5 years ago unless they just want the brand name.

16 Jul 2026 20:06:05
Realistically, that's life being a football fan, unless, of course, you follow the so called big 6. Do you honestly think Spurs fans are happy? West Ham? They're all moaning. Chelsea, Liverpool. How many managers have some of these clubs gone through!
We're all Wolves supporters on here & always will be. Some, like me, don't go as often these days, but it's the first result I look for, and it still ruins my evening or weekend when we lose. I don't like or trust Fosun any more than other contributors on here, & it makes me sick to see how The Vile are doing & even the ambition of the blue noses, but all we can do is support the team & show our dissatisfaction to Fosun by protest if Nathan Shi, etc., don't come up with the goods.

They've created this mess & it's up to them to get us out of it. They've said time & time again that they don't intend to sell us, so let's pray they want a Premier League club where the money is. We all knew J Gomes was going, but let's see who we bring through the door. If I'm very optimistic, I'm hoping Shi has sold Trippier & Raul a very ambitious plan to attract both to our club. Here's hoping to a very good summer transfer window.

16 Jul 2026 20:26:02
You're right, Long. Football is a money pit, and Fosun don't have the money. That's the reality. They don't have the money. Everything they purchase is on the never never. It's all debt on debt on debt. They're Klarna boys.

Steve Morgan had wealth. His wealth is real. He had the money and contacts to rebuild the Molineux and training facilities. Guy was hounded out from the minute we lost 5-1 to the Boggies, and he went into the dressing room.



Who has more money - a guy on £120,000 per year with massive overheads and loads of debt, or some dude who earns £35,000 per year, has low overheads and no debt?

Fosun is the first guy.

That's why Chelsea were so successful under Abramovich. Yes it was pre PSR, but the guy was stinking cash rich.

16 Jul 2026 21:40:52
Nice One Franco. Guo has a personal wealth of $2.4b. Fosun have assets worth $24.05b

The issue is that PSR does not allow for an owner's personal wealth to be used for everyday capital at the club that they own. Guo could easily build the stadium using his own money, and that would not count towards the PSR, and any future extra revenue would go towards the club's finances. I fear that Guo simply isn't interested in expanding the stadium anymore.



This current mess is all down to Jeff Shi and his incompetence. He was the CEO who signed off on the players and everything, draining the club of finances. He is the reason why, despite us all knowing the true value of Joao Gomes, we have become financially insecure and are having to sell him on the cheap. We are a sinking ship, and the better players are the rats, trying to leave to ensure that their career doesn't nosedive into oblivion.

16 Jul 2026 14:22:16
Every club buys and sells players and every player has their price, but our owners really don’t understand or gaf about their own supporters and don’t appear to gaf who we sell to or improve and progress other teams.

16 Jul 2026 15:02:37
Spread the word!! Fans who keep renewing in hope have no expectation. Any of them born in the last forty have never seen us win anything apart from the play-off final in Cardiff, and that was well before Fosun. The Molineux area of town should be thriving by now, with a state-of-the-art stadium, bars, restaurants and venues; we have a supermarket and burger vans.

The investment never came and isn't coming. A glance at the tables, the clubs who've passed us and those who are about to is almost beyond belief. Wolves fans didn't deserve this, but it's not easy to sympathise with the 'masses' lining Fosun's coffers while they oversee the ruination of our once nearly great club.

16 Jul 2026 15:21:55
Agree totally, Ron.

16 Jul 2026 15:45:18
Unless Fosun invest heavily in Wolves' stadium, the club won't ever be anything but a decent Championship side and cannon fodder in the PL.

The people who run the club don't have the brains to turn Wolves into a Brighton/Brentford/Bournemouth.

Their transfer dealings in the PL have been appalling for a number of years. If there is a trash signing to be made, you'll generally find Wolves pushing their way to the front of the queue.

16 Jul 2026 16:28:41
You hit the nail fully on the head, Ron. Not only has the investment that you describe not been forthcoming, it most likely never will. Under Fosun, Wolves will continue to be a selling club, and everyone knows it, which is why they sell so cheap.
Any work undertaken at the Mol will also have to be self funded, so where does that leave the Club? A redevelopment, added to promotion, would add, along with some improvement of its income streams, considerable value.


We can only assume that Fosun can't afford to chip in, so what's the point of owning it? Perversely, you make a valid point: the better the support, the less chance there is of things changing.

16 Jul 2026 11:03:14
Well never mind there's always next time. England did well. I can't understand why we went all defensive. Lads should be proud of what they achieved.
Personally I would like to see David Beckham as manager, true English man who's loyal & as the experience of playing for England.

16 Jul 2026 12:15:00
No thank you. He's probably the most overrated player ever. He doesn't have any managerial qualifications, and he went to two tournaments whilst injured, but because of his ego he wouldn't admit his injury would hamper him.

16 Jul 2026 12:23:24
These so-called qualified managers aren't much better, mate.
Just look at the so-called qualified managers Wolves have had.
Says it all.

16 Jul 2026 12:33:04
David Beckham as manager?! You having a laugh? Is this in between him running Inter Miami and the 100 adverts he films every week? You must be on a wind up.

16 Jul 2026 13:47:57
In the round, this is the most sustained sequence of runs that we have had in my lifetime: the last 5 World Cup and Euro tournaments, SF, RU, QF, RU, SF. I would have said 30 years ago I would never see it. Disappointing all the same. First half, we were 11 v 12, which didn't help.

Not sure that we really had the strength in depth for midfield when we started getting overrun in the middle of the park after going one up, and the opposition decided to start playing football. Rice was a critical player, but was never likely to last 90 minutes after being ill most of the week.

16 Jul 2026 15:14:07
Could've probably got Klopp, maybe could get Pep. As Bellingham's gonna be our #10 for the foreseeable future, I can only hope he learned something by watching the Goat. I know some Wolves fans aren't MGW's biggest fans, but there had to be a place in that squad for him and Cole Palmer.

Tuchel took wingers he didn't play, and ended by trying to score against the holders with defenders and defensive midfielders, sort of like he was auditioning to be our next manager.

16 Jul 2026 15:23:11
I suspect Klopp will end up managing Germany.

16 Jul 2026 15:26:46
Palmer no. MGW yes. Kane not as good as everyone thinks & that defence is woeful. Call me what you want, but Maguire steadies the ship, but he probably wouldn't have steadied the one last night, as Tuchel dropped a massive clanger when all it needed was Dan Burn to cut out crosses & Sako replacing Roger's...

16 Jul 2026 10:03:03
Joao Gomes to Aston Villa.
40 million Euros plus 5 million Euros in add'ons.

16 Jul 2026 10:47:18
Didn't expect him to go to them. I'm disgusted to be honest.

16 Jul 2026 11:03:24
Yeah, it's gutting that one. If he goes there, it will hurt. Expected him to leave, but can't imagine him playing for Villa. He is a great signing for them. I don't believe we should be letting him go for less than 45 mill, especially not to Villa.

16 Jul 2026 11:27:27
38 million is way too cheap. I've always believed that he was 60,000,000+, when you see all these other midfield players being sold for ridiculous prices, especially the English ones, which have a premium added on top.

16 Jul 2026 12:16:27
Nothing has changed, rinse and repeat.

15 Jul 2026 22:56:46
Why try and deffend for half an hour at 1 nil up! Sad but we our!

16 Jul 2026 02:24:13
Tuchel must have taken a page out of the Wolves handbook, going defensive when winning a game.

16 Jul 2026 08:47:43
How many times does this have to happen before these 'professional coaches' get it?
To try and go defensive, to the point of replacing your midfield with defenders and retreating to your own penalty area, just invites shots in.

To attempt that for 25 minutes is just ridiculous, especially when England were more than holding their own and putting Argentina under pressure for a lot of that game.

16 Jul 2026 09:43:59
England conceded, or rather surrendered, possession. Where was the counter-attack? I can't remember Harry Kane ever being so anonymous. After Tuchel criticised the team when beating Norway, he is looking foolish now. Little Switzerland took Argentina to extra time with 10 men in the quarter-final. I expected better from England. Tuchel out.