Wolves FC Banter

09 Jul 2026 20:17:21
This would be my Wolves team, if I was the manager
Formation = 4-1-4-1
The players being sold are Sasa, Jose Sa, Toti Gomes, Hugo Bueno (Board pressure), Tchatchoua, Mosquera (Board Pressure), Joao Gomes and sadly Krejci (Likely going to Leeds after they sold Struijk).

Starting XI
gk - Radek Vitek (in exchange for Johnstone + some money)
lb - Moller Wolfe
lcb - Max Alleyne (if not then Arrey-Mbi, might be difficult)
rcb- Santiago Bueno
rb- Trippier
cdm - Andre
lm - Gnoto (goes down the pecking order after Harry Wilson's arrival)
cm/cam - Mateus Mane (in case we keep him)
cm - Jordan James
rm - Yeremy Hernandez
St- Raul Jiminiez

Squad = Tolu, Diego Liete (signed on free), Filipo Rannochia, Saba Kharebashvili (backup lb), Rodrigo Gomes, Angel Gomes, Tommy Doyle, Tolu, Adam, Bellegarde, Lima, etc.



Please no hate, this is just my team. Feel free to drop any suggestions.

09 Jul 2026 20:37:30
That's a good team, but not sure Tolu will stay. This might be the team if there was no Fosun.

09 Jul 2026 20:40:19
No hate, Adam, mate. In fact, I agree with a lot of that team. I just hope we keep Krecji, but I also suspect your logic is absolutely bang on (re: Leeds). Would love to see us get Max Alleyne, Vitek and Gnoto in, but worry they are all out of our league. But I very much hope I'm wrong, buddy. 👍

09 Jul 2026 20:52:55
Yet another post with team sheets containing players that have not signed and in truth are nowhere near signing.

09 Jul 2026 21:20:33
Angel Gomes. Hasn't he returned to Marseille? Are you buying him or loaning him again?

10 Jul 2026 06:27:07
Diego Leite is going to Saudi Arabia.

09 Jul 2026 16:40:49
I'm going to ruffle some feathers here and one or two might consider calling the men in white coats for me but I think Hwang will do a ok job for us in the Championship.

09 Jul 2026 16:57:10
Sorry, R KO, I suggest you stay out of the sun.

09 Jul 2026 17:09:53
I get where you're coming from, RKO, but Hwang is too often a passenger in games. Hwang has a good attitude, but as a player, he's a slightly better version of Tolu.

I've watched too many games where Hwang is playing and you forget he's on the pitch.

09 Jul 2026 17:23:53
It depends which Hwang we get. When he's confident he scores goals... Until he gets an injury. He could score 6 in 8 games, get a knock, and then do nothing for the other 38.

Tough to call, but I don't think you're definitely wrong there, Rated.

09 Jul 2026 17:45:05
You need to stay off the drugs Rated, the men in white coats are outside 😂

09 Jul 2026 17:47:45
He has the potential to be decent at this level, but the fact that he's been as useful as a chocolate fireguard for the last 2 seasons cannot be overlooked.

09 Jul 2026 18:25:07
If the focus and desire is there, Rated, then you may well be right. I think there is ability there, and until pre season gets underway we won't know if our new manager can get anything out of him.

Hang on, there's a knock at the door.

09 Jul 2026 18:28:27
What will be, will be, with Hwang. If we can't sell him or give him away, let's give him a chance. The drop down a division might work out for him. He scored some good goals for us in the past.

09 Jul 2026 19:49:00
Acle summed it up perfectly for me, let's not forget here that a) Hwang has scored 10 Prem goals in a season, which is more than Armstrong has done, and b) his home nation calls him the Bull because of how hard he works! So Acle and Rated are absolutely bang on the money here.

Hwang could absolutely light the league up, or he could also spend the first half of the season being a passenger within the team. Personally I'd give him till Jan to see which version turns up this year. 👍

09 Jul 2026 20:37:17
Excellent points made, Bully. I'm starting to warm to the idea of Hwang!

His ineffectiveness has not entirely been his fault. Wolves have stuck with a wretched five-at-the-back system for years, which possibly doesn't suit Hwang. Maybe Peixoto will get the best out of him.

One could look at Hwang as a Steve Bull-type of player who needs an Andy Mutch next to him. When he had Neto and Cunha alongside him, he was, albeit for a short while, very impressive.

Hwang does have a good attitude, and he does love Wolves. RKO could be right.

09 Jul 2026 22:53:22
Too early to start predicting line ups. Need a couple more weeks and to see how things pan out. Jake Gomes looks like he has no place to go at the moment and Leeds wanting Kryci is paper talk.

10 Jul 2026 08:00:59
Hwang is paid far too much to risk that he may gain some form. He has only had 1 good goalscoring season with us. He also goes down far too easily, which will get overlooked by refs in the Championship. We need to move on.

09 Jul 2026 11:28:50
I would like to see Nick Pope goalkeeper at Wolves. Reckon he would be okay.

09 Jul 2026 12:57:43
Nick Pope is worse than Sa and Johnstone, plus he's going to be 34 or 35 this year. I live up the North East, and Newcastle fans are over the moon he could be leaving. They call him Calamity Pope.

09 Jul 2026 13:16:46
OK, how about Hugh Johns, 6ft 3.
Massive hands, good in the
air.

09 Jul 2026 14:57:45
Jose Sa is an excellent shot stopper, but has a weakness in playing from the back, therefore his replacement should be better in that department. Leave it to those in the know, eh?

09 Jul 2026 10:35:18
Villa to play Porto in pre-season friendly while Wolves have arranged games with Maidenhead and Doncaster.

09 Jul 2026 16:39:41
Ikr, it's kinda like one team is a Champions League team and the other just got relegated.
Sarcasm aside, tbh we need the Maidenstone and Doncaster matches to hopefully get wins and some belief back into the side.

09 Jul 2026 20:55:38
Slightly agree, but we do have fixtures against two La Liga teams and would have had a game against a team from Eredivisie, were it not for the intervention of local authorities.

09 Jul 2026 09:13:35
Being realistic - removing the Football Manager mentality - how many players do Wolves need to get rid of?

The club has to sell Tchatchoua, Tolu and Johnstone. I know other players are likely to leave, but certain players staying won’t be the end of the world. The club did the right thing in releasing Doherty.

Looking at the team, the only players I can see that definitely need dumping are Tchatchoua, Tolu and Johnstone. Johnstone isn’t a good keeper, and he’s had too many ‘injuries’. It might seem harsh, but Tchatchoua and Tolu were dreadful signings.

Have I missed any players that need dumping as a priority?

09 Jul 2026 10:22:30
Hwang, just for starters, Zephyr.

09 Jul 2026 10:55:09
Jesus, forgot about him. That's quite depressing that I forgot about Hwang: a Wolves player who's been pretty much anonymous from day one.

09 Jul 2026 11:13:55
From a football or financial perspective?
Axiomatically, from a football perspective, most of the players are not good enough for the Prem, but many of those may be adequate in the Champ - assuming they want to stay.
So, it is hard to say how many Wolves need to sell - probably, as you say, only a handful - if survival in the Champ is your aim.
However, it is highly likely that Wolves need to sell to both reduce costs - wages and amort - so as to stay within the new SCR rules, but also to pay down debt and cover the extraordinarily high non football related costs the club seemingly incurs.
This is before any expenditure on developing the squad.
In this case, of course, it depends on who you sell and for how much.


Selling low earners who are home grown or with modest amortisations will make very little impact on SCR, but if you sell anyone for serious money, this will help with the other matters.
For me, the club should attempt to get promoted this year, so probably needs to lose about a dozen inadequate players and add 5 or 6 better quality ones.
The squad is probably too large anyway and needs culling and thinning.
I have detailed names of those to leave and ideas for those to join previously - all of which could be done in a financially sensible way.
PS Calum Wilslon on a free would have been great, but with a club like Brentford, who Wolves astonishingly are now miles below in the pecking order, interested, unrealistic sadly.

09 Jul 2026 14:16:43
Bellegarde, Fer Lopez, in addition to those mentioned above.

09 Jul 2026 14:31:39
Bellegarde and Lopez don't need to be sold as a matter of urgency. Both players will be useful in the Championship. Tchatchoua and Tolu have no future at Wolves. Same for Hwang. Hwang is less of an issue, but Wolves signed him purely for commercial reasons, and he's on about 90k per week.

08 Jul 2026 10:46:10
West Ham have opened talks with Forest over James McAtee. We missed out by the sound of it but 30mil quoted. Soni think out our price range.

08 Jul 2026 13:06:59
He's not worth £30m as Forest have found out the hard way. West Ham can have him at that price.

07 Jul 2026 18:38:47
Haissem Hassan anyone? 24 years old, plays for Real Oviedo in Spanish second tier. Display against Argentina is unreal.

08 Jul 2026 10:07:06
So was the officiating, Wolfthistle. You can well understand the Egyptians claiming bias after that game. Just another in an increasingly long line of controversies whenever FIFA are involved.

08 Jul 2026 12:09:43
FIFA, VAR, Financial Fair Play. It feels like football is becoming scripted. I've been falling out of love with the game for a while, but certain club competitions, and this World Cup, feel like the path to the final is being operated like a WWE fight, where the winners and losers are known in advance by the money people.

This World Cup feels like the one where FIFA have finally truly revealed that sporting integrity has completely gone from football.

08 Jul 2026 12:11:45
I thought the Egyptians played well, and the decisions were not fair; the disallowed goal surely was scored too long after the very slight foul.
You have to wonder if it had been for Argentina, if the goal would have been given.


Hassan looked a fantastic player. Will we be making more signings though? Gone very quiet. Hope the positive start to the summer has not been a flash in the pan. 🤞👍

08 Jul 2026 12:56:37
Not just the shirt pull before the disallowed 'goal', Banksy, I thought from the off that the ref was showing a level of 'bias'. Little things like nudges, backing in, obstruction, and a blatant throw-in given the wrong way.
Egypt's given goals couldn't be questioned; superb breaks and finishing. Shame it went the way it did.

08 Jul 2026 13:06:56
FIFA is disgraceful. The suspension of the red card was allegedly the decision of an 'independent body', according to FIFA. Nothing to do with pressure from the American president! Ridiculous. A farce.

There is a sting in this tale now.

If there is such an independent body, England can appeal to that body for the suspension of the red card against us. The precedent has been established. Get the lawyers on it, Tuchel.

08 Jul 2026 13:14:14
FIFA have made it pretty clear that they really don't care how corrupt things look to us average fans. The France v Morocco game is a huge one for the World Cup, which will have an impact on Argentina's chances to win the tourney. So what does FIFA do? They give it an entirely Argentinian refereeing team. What a bizarre choice to make.

I don't think it is a conspiracy, but it seems like a very odd decision to make for the integrity of the comp, to have just one game where all the officials come from the same country. It just screams of an organisation (FIFA) that's given up caring about the competition looking like it has any genuine integrity! 😭

08 Jul 2026 16:23:54
An entirely Argentinian refereeing team might (even subconsciously) favour Morocco over the favourites, France, to eliminate the chance of France playing Argentina in the final. Many decisions so far have not been merely subconsciously biased but have been blatantly biased, in my opinion.

09 Jul 2026 22:05:02
How are people surprised at the level of corruption when Infantino and Trump are involved?

07 Jul 2026 15:22:40.
Our biggest crowds last season.
Tottenham 31.253
Man City 30.807
Leeds 30.807
Man Utd 30.338. When we where in the 1st division in 1969 1970 we had
Attendances of 31.164
So nothing much as changed.

08 Jul 2026 10:01:41
Plenty has changed, Moby. As, back in the 60's/70's, I've been in crowds in excess of 40K at the Molineux, and on the 'big' match occasions, over 50k. The point being, you won't see the likes of that today, because you can't.
Yes, the more run of the mill games would be 30kish, but local derbies and Man U games would be much higher.

Jack Hayward did a marvellous job rebuilding the Mol, but it was a bit too small for a one-club city. Let's not forget the old South Bank alone could hold 10k plus.

08 Jul 2026 10:08:58
If Nathan is really serious about automatic promotion, then a plan for rebuilding the Mol would be a shot in the arm for the club.

08 Jul 2026 11:17:35
According to Nathan Shi and Fosun, the Molineux is being looked at for a rebuild. The problem is they're saying 3-5 years. The Steve Bull Stand is an abomination. It was refurbished more than 30 years ago, and it was already a cramped, cheap stand. Wolves wouldn't need a huge ground unless Fosun has huge plans for Wolves, and that is very unlikely.

08 Jul 2026 12:14:22
If Wolves, long term, want to be able to compete with and be seen amongst the top 30 or 40 clubs, then the ground needs to be redeveloped to around 55,000 capacity, with proper corporate hospitality and the options to use the venue for non football related things as well.

After having the facilities, they then also need to be used wisely, of course.

We should all know money alone guarantees nothing in football, but it does make things easier if you have it.

Otherwise the club will fall further behind in generating revenue, including to local competitor clubs like Smallheath. You then move from not competing in the Premier League to potentially barely competing in the Championship.

09 Jul 2026 00:04:47
I used to sit in the John Ireland Stand with my dad in 1980 when I was 12. It was finished the year before. It was bad then. Worse today. It is 47 years old and showing every year!

07 Jul 2026 13:00:07
One thing I have got to say Birmingham City's new ground will make ours look like a tin shed. I think we should get Manders paint as sponsors. We could probably get some free paint. It's the only way Wolves ground will be painted.

07 Jul 2026 17:06:26
I think we did have Manders as a sponsor at one point.

07 Jul 2026 18:02:46
They painted some of the billy, took em all season tho.

07 Jul 2026 18:10:40
Unfortunately for us, Birmingham's owner(s) is/are very ambitious & forward thinking. Also, unlike us, they are in direct discussions with the local council to build a new road network to & from the ground. Also, I believe the HS2 train will stop at their ground.

It's not instant, but it's a project & exciting for the blue noses. As a club, they are certainly no bigger than us & have nowhere near our club's rich history, but it just shows what can be achieved with owners who really want to take the club forward.

07 Jul 2026 18:35:41
I'm loathe to say it, Black, but making it a stop for HS2 is an absolute masterstroke. London clubs make an absolute fortune by hovering up travelling tourists. They buy the excess tickets, they spend a fortune in the club shop, and on top of all that you now have new international fans.

With HS2, they can probs go to the game in about an hour each way, which isn't really much different for some London stadiums once you've got multiple tubes. I hadn't actually seen that, but I have to admit it is very clever business. Jez, I wish we had owners that could think like that. 😭

07 Jul 2026 18:48:02
Blues with their grand ideas, Villa, with their ideas of increasing Villa Park, hell, even the Baggies have a train station and tram stop situated very conveniently nearby. Come on Wolves, wake up and smell the coffee or we'll get left behind.

07 Jul 2026 18:44:33
HS2 won't be finished for years. Literally years. The Curzon Street station will be near to St Andrews, but that's about it. Will HS2 be putting a stop in Small Heath?

Curzon Street's current progress in the equivalent of one huge stone that'll be part of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

I was speaking to a HS2 engineer, in his 50s, who he told me by the time it's all finished he'll be retired.

People shouldn't underestimate the Chinese. They take their time, but they eventually overtake everyone.

08 Jul 2026 13:22:33
A bit contradictory there Whataload, you claim others are demeaning to the club but then imply were are only small fry compared to our neighbours. What's the daily Mail reference all about?

08 Jul 2026 13:26:01
Lordy lord we have some very precious flowers here! 😂 What about admiring what other clubs are doing means we aren't getting behind our team exactly? And yes Ice I understand the nature of large inferstructure but planning a head is precisely how clubs grow in the long term, I can understand why your confused by that as Fosun don't seem to do it at all!
It's hilarious to me Load that you get all self righteous with others fans discussing what other clubs in the area are doing and then finish it by saying 'we are little old Wolves' so stop having aspirations and get back in your boxes!
How dare you say fans on here are dragging our club down, I like many others on here have put thousands of pounds and hours into this club through season tickets, merchandise and support so to be frank you can jog on! Is that honestly all you can bring to the table, acting like a petulant child rather than engaging with the actual subject matter? Keep ya Daily Mail and try growing up a bit! 🙄

08 Jul 2026 15:02:21
Nb- This was aimed at a comment from Whataload that has since been removed. Just wanted to clarify, Ice, buddy, as this isn't aimed at you. 👍

07 Jul 2026 12:09:22
Let's get this sorted.
Fosun said this Fosun said that.
Never believe everything your told.
Think of all the lies you have told.
When Fosun said we would be as big as city they ment Birmingham City. Yow gorra laugh hay ya.

07 Jul 2026 14:30:28
You a Baggie in disguise?!

Wolves will always be a bigger club than the Brummies. I know the Blues have big plans for their stadium, but until the McAlpine lads turn up with their shovels I won't believe any of it. Envious fans should also realise that Small Heath is a massive toilet, and until BCC start improving the transport links and pedestrian routes to the ground, nothing will be getting built.



If Fosun are sticking around then they'll have to eventually do something with the stadium. The Molineux doesn't need to be a huge stadium. Look at the Raiffeisen Arena: 19,000 seater stadium that is utterly beautiful.

07 Jul 2026 14:49:58
Wolves fan since the age of 6, mate, now 70yrs old. Just stating a point. I have seen this club run into the ground by the Bhatti brothers. Fosun are no different. Only one player at Wolves who kept us from old 4th division, Steve Bull.
You need fans to fill a ground & at the moment ours is half empty at some games.

07 Jul 2026 15:57:09
You having a laugh Moby when was the last time the Mol was half empty been on the loopy juice again?

07 Jul 2026 16:44:29
Half time when they went for a pie & a pint.

07 Jul 2026 17:27:46
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Don't drag me into it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣

07 Jul 2026 17:46:24
Well, fun over for today, going for & pie & a pint.