Wolves Banter

27 Feb 2026 20:53:21
Why is Jackson even in the squad never mind on the pitch absolute useless. Why when Wolves get in Villas half the ball always goes backwards just no forward passing.

27 Feb 2026 21:33:43
Rhuuud and Dmac, I think we've just seen the answers. Armstrong will have some mates now, and Jackson finally got his act together. All the credit to Gomes though, he started and finished the move, great goal. Now the refs changed his batteries, it's back to the match. Can we hold on? Will we finish with 11 players? Can we fend the vile off?

27 Feb 2026 20:17:48
16 mins in and Jackson has made 3 mistakes already. I hope he doesn't cause us to concede.

27 Feb 2026 20:56:50
We will never score with this selection: no forwards, no height, no hold-up play. Defence looks incapable of passing or creating anything. Armstrong is making runs, but no one can see him or is capable of finding him.

We need height at centre forward: leave Armstrong on, replace Gomes, and move Bellegarde into his position. We will then have height at centre forward. Otherwise we will never score.

27 Feb 2026 20:59:18
Mosquera is going to go unless he calms down. Villa will crap themselves if Jackson actually moved more towards the box. Sa has great hands, but his feet are not so good. He does pass well to the other goalie. Armstrong is out of sync. Lots of running into offside positions, which is just as well, as no one knows he's there or even looks up! I've started to get excited when we reach the halfway mark, but I worry we'll have too many players moving forward and have no one to pass back to! Come on Wolves!!.

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27 Feb 2026 15:53:19
Wolves have already confirmed that the players have a relegation clause in their contracts of a wage cut of between 30% - 50%.

27 Feb 2026 16:20:38
Sounds good in theory, rko. The problem is top Championship players (and I mean top star players); their top end is the 30k a week mark. Now, someone like Jackson, who is on a reported 60 grand a week, will be on between 30 and 40 grand a week depending on his clause. In no one's works, not even the deluded Jeffs, is he worth that, especially in the Championship.

I think we will lose at least 80 percent of the playing squad when we go down; relegation clauses or not, they will all still be on a ridiculous amount for the Championship. Our income is going to be slashed. Parachute payments won't put a dent in the money we owe, which is circa the 300 million mark. Make no mistake, we are deep in the brown stuff financially.

27 Feb 2026 19:40:40
Agreed, De wolf, mate. Most of our squad will be gone, most due to wages; the rest because they're cowards.

26 Feb 2026 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 27 - Quick Round Up

25 Feb 2026 13:03:48
What players, if any, in our current squad are good enough for mid Premier League?
My thoughts are possibly Hugo, Santi, Krejci, Mosquera, Joao, Andre and Mane. I like Rodrigo sometimes however there must be something not correct as managers tend to not play him.
If the list above is fair, our strikers are not good enough, not difficult to assume this looking at goals scored.
Even so, if we have perhaps 7 players good enough for mid table PL it suggests, in my opinion, we are under performing, whether this is due to managers or the club as a whole, I would imagine it is a combination of both.


I think it would be wrong to continue in the same way for the remainder of the season, if we continue to lose games something has to change, we all know it is normally the manager that pays the price. The hangover from this season will drift into the next unless the slide and continual losses stop, my opinion anyway.
If we do change managers who do we get and who can we convince to join the madness?

25 Feb 2026 16:15:34
I think it is due to the negativity of the fan base.

25 Feb 2026 17:04:50
Haha, it's almost March and we have just got to double digits. I think it's an absolute miracle that the fans are as positive as they are! Maybe it's up to the players and manager to give us something to be positive about. 🤣

25 Feb 2026 17:28:58
Very good post, Banksy. Mid-table might be a bit, (very in one or two cases), optimistic for all 7, but I take your point. Add JSL, who, when not a traffic cone, is a top half player, and it is clear that Vitor and then RE, (albeit to a lesser extent and with confidence totally drained from the squad), have hugely under-performed. As a defence of RE, the squad is obviously too small, (in talent terms just 7 or 8 players, you say), and is unbalanced, (absence of creativity and goal scoring) - but we have been saying that on here for the past 4 years! All in all, though, the performance has been beyond pathetic. Sadly, though, although the current side might, if it performed to its ability level (which, as we are saying, it hasn't this season), be competitive in the Champ, probably 5 of that 7 or 6 of the 8 will have gone by the time the new season comes round. This is on top of a number of other squad members who, whilst not good enough for mid table Prem, would have been adequate in the Champ. It is thus difficult to say how the team will do next season, as most of them aren't playing regularly at the club yet.

This 5 year self-inflicted destruction of a good Premiership team is, of course, entirely due to Jeff/Fosun's mismanagement of Wolves football team's finances. However, whilst we think the club/team is very important, I doubt Jeff/Fosun consider its success on the pitch to be of any consequence whatsoever. The club/brand is/was a vehicle to drive revenue streams for Fosun. What they don't understand, because they know nothing about football and have been appallingly badly let down by their advisors, in the long term is that the only way to make money in football is to win games. Sadly, once the cold winds of relegation finally hit them they will realise, albeit far too late! Handsome, ironically, one of the reasons why Fosun has been able to do this so easily is because the fans - some still do - believe Fosun have the team's interests at heart and did not react soon enough. I'm not sure if Fosun would have responded any differently, but over the last 5 years the fans have been unbelievably, and sadly, very naively positive!

25 Feb 2026 18:37:03
So the only reason we are where we are is down to fan negativity? Thanks for clearing that up, I was beginning to wonder.

25 Feb 2026 19:01:51
I think Handsome might be being sarcastic, folks (I hope so!), due to what Edwards said about the fans, that they should be more positive. 🤣 I mean, I've been positive we are going down for weeks, if that helps. I'm actually amazed there haven't been riots with the stunts Old Teflon Jeff/Fosun have pulled.

25 Feb 2026 19:50:46
The only players we have who are good enough to remain in the Premier League are: Santi, Hugo, Krejci, Andre, Joao and Mane. Of these, Joao would get into most PL teams. The rest are mid-table cannon fodder. On a good day, maybe Sa and Bellegarde look like they could cut the mustard, but those performances are very few and far between.

Wolfe, Mosquera, Rodrigo, Lima, Jackson, Tolu and Armstrong look Championship level at best. Do is past his best. And Toti and Hwang, no comment.

26 Feb 2026 03:18:04
I think Handsomelad is mocking RE with what he said about the fns.

26 Feb 2026 07:45:28
The vast majority of our players are not good enough on a consistent basis for the Premier League. That's why we are where we are. Many of those mentioned as good enough can produce a high level, but equally can really let themselves down. That particularly applies to every one of our defenders, who have all been guilty of extraordinary lapses, Mosquera perhaps most of all.

Moving on to Joao, his standards have fallen immeasurably and his passing is poor, so I can't see how he'd get in most other Premier League teams and, currently, he seems to have fallen behind Andre in the pecking order. Hopefully it's just a temporary blip; otherwise his value will be impacted.

26 Feb 2026 10:19:32
I've just watched Sheffield United v Coventry and both those sides would beat us as it stands now.

26 Feb 2026 11:29:09
Handsome, apologies if I missed the humour.

26 Feb 2026 12:07:34
Yes, apologies, Handsome, but I'll just redirect my comment to RE and Fosun.

26 Feb 2026 15:34:49
Old Wulf, Joao hasn't fallen behind Andre in the pecking order. He's been out injured/fatigued.

26 Feb 2026 16:51:17
That's no excuse for his poor play when on the pitch, Good. The Palace winner was largely due to not staying with his man.

26 Feb 2026 17:25:08
True, but week after week, he seems to be the only one trying to press forward and make something happen.

26 Feb 2026 18:28:10
Interesting how we all view games differently, because my take is that he mostly slows games down and goes for the easy sideways or backwards pass rather than a progressive one (tackling and breaking up opposition play being his main attributes).

Trouble is that he and Andre are both similar, which is one reason why Angel has joined, but I'm not sure he'll be the answer either.

27 Feb 2026 09:50:00
I obviously see games the same there, Old Wulf, and I dunno about you, and maybe it was because of Angel, but I thought Andre was a lot more forward looking in J Gomes' absence?

27 Feb 2026 12:54:50
Probably going to get slated here, but just an opinion. I don't rate Gomes or Andre. Yes, we have average/below average players around them, but all I see are 2 players who just try to break up play. I have seen Gomes go on a few little runs here and there, but most of the time it is sideways and backwards passing.

They offer zero attacking threat and have poor passing ability. I guess after being spoilt with having the likes of Neves and Moutinho, it was always going to be difficult to fulfil those positions with the same quality.

27 Feb 2026 12:59:38
Maybe he was, Abbey, but too often for comfort, Andre underhits his passes, and that can lead to quick turnovers for the opposition. Basically, nearly all our players have frailties which opponents can, and regularly do, take advantage of at this level. As mentioned before, being consistently good and ironing out the individual blunders is necessary for success at Premier League level.

27 Feb 2026 15:02:51
No slating from me, Alex. They're decent players but nowhere near the likes of those you mention.

27 Feb 2026 16:35:05
Alex, of course, you are perfectly entitled to your opinion and the 2 points - the quality of Neves and Moutinho and the lack of quality around Andre and Gomes - are both valid and, unsurprisingly, reinforce your view. However, I fear you are going to be a very unhappy man for the next few years, as no one even close to their quality - Brazilian internationals, who will be playing at the very top level after leaving Wolves - is likely to play for the club in the foreseeable.

25 Feb 2026 06:06:36
I see that them lot down the road have sacked their manager after 9 games as he was proving to be useless.

But Fosun continue to back Edwards whose stats are worse.

25 Feb 2026 07:06:01
RE, like it or not, wasn't brought in to save us from relegation this season, unlike the Tesco bags recruitment. He's been recruited to try & get us promoted next season, to rebuild a squad after what remains after we lose our better assets. I don't think it would matter who we had as manager; we don't have enough quality to compete at this level.

25 Feb 2026 08:45:42
So, I'm assuming you'd prefer us to be run like West Brom GWL, good to know what some fans hope for.

25 Feb 2026 10:07:37
Mick McCarthy or Dave Jones did not have enough quality to compete in the Prem, but they both gave it a better crack than RE is currently delivering. Do we honestly think this current crop is worse than the hand Mick was dealt? No chance. Mick would have given a right arm for a midfield like Andre and Gomes. I understand and agree that RE has been dealt a poor hand to play; however, one win all season is simply not good enough. It's all well and good saying he's been bought in for next year, but good performances, like poor performances, become habitual, and anyone watching our current showings must see that it is not suddenly going to click with us miraculously starting to win the moment we arrive in the Champ.?! At this stage I'd give him till the end of the season, as it's not worth the cost of replacing him when we are already down.

That does not, and absolutely should not, mean though that he's untouchable. If we don't win another game before the end of the season, personally I think his position becomes a little untenable. It's fine to say we never expected to stay up; it's not OK to say we never expected to see us fight, because right now I'm only seeing that for, at best, 45 mins a game. It doesn't help that he is consistently getting the starting lineup/system wrong, and we only improve after changes, because you don't get away with that in any league, I'm afraid, gents. 😔

25 Feb 2026 11:19:14
If it means sacking a manager who is completely out of his depth, then, yes, I would prefer Fosun to do what the Baggies have done and get rid. We've had 1 win since RE came in, and there has been no clear change in style of play.

25 Feb 2026 12:45:12
Just to reiterate. Rob Edwards has had 17 League games in charge of Wolves and has picked up 8 points. This equates to 0.47 points per game or 17.86 points over the entire season. Yes, I know the squad is poor and weak, but earlier in the season, Everton, Leeds, Burnley, Palace and Forest all came to Molineux and played us off the park. You would expect that, under a new manager with his fresh ideas, we could do to them at their place what they did to us at our place.

Did we? No. Granted, we haven't played Burnley and Leeds away yet, but we have played Everton, Palace and Forest. We drew with Everton thanks in part to a sending off. Forest was a boring draw, and we handed Palace the win. The other question is, did Fosun really decide that, with 81 points still to play for this season, to give up and prepare for next season? If they did, then that really is a sad indictment of just how far our club has fallen and the ambition of Fosun.

25 Feb 2026 12:51:30
Do any of you out there believe that Rob Edwards is going to get us back at the first attempt? Other Championship clubs are not going to shake in their boots and shout, "Rob Edwards and Wolves are coming." He is not the new Messiah.

You know what happens to them when things start going wrong. Personally, I think he was a poor appointment in the first place.

25 Feb 2026 14:20:48
I think we were already down before RE was appointed, because of how long VP was given at the start of the season. However, every game should be a cup final. It might not produce enough points, but at least there should be a few wins.

Next season will not be easy at all, whoever is manager, but I'm not convinced it should be RE. I also don't know who would want the job, who is the steady pair of hands needed.

25 Feb 2026 14:27:33
For what it's worth, I always thought Rob Edwards was a typical Jeff Shi budget appointment, which would achieve nothing more than cementing our relegation, and so it will transpire at this rate.

Do I believe that even with the right players he will achieve promotion? No, I don't. As long as Fosun maintain their current approach to owning a football club, when we go down we'll stay down.

25 Feb 2026 14:33:55
AcleWolf, already down before RE was appointed? Surely you are not serious. There were 27 games and 81 points to play for. But if Fosun, and indeed RE, thought that, then, frankly, they deserve everything they get, and we, poor fans, will be the ones to suffer.

26 Feb 2026 11:21:34
Yes, Good, I'm serious. And, you make a good point about the amount of games and points left - I don't disagree with you there at all. It's the fans that suffer, but also the staff who may need to be made redundant at the end of the season, and who aren't millionaire footballers. Losing to Burnley was the big moment for me. This was followed by keeping VP a bit longer, and then by going for GoN to come back. We were down as soon as that happened, because it seemed the owners had given up hope at that point.

It's all ifs, buts and maybes, but had we brought in more top flight experience in the summer, not given VP the stupid contract extension, got rid a couple of weeks earlier, and found a manager with the steadiness to keep us in touching distance in January, there may have been a chance. The problem with a relegation fight is this: every week that goes by without a win, the more wins in a row you need to stay up, and there comes a point, quite quickly, when it isn't realistic.