11 Aug 2026 12:11:39
Why has nobody been in for whang?
I remember somebody on this site saying he was worth 20 million.
Why haven't we got rid & used the money towards getting someone decent?
11 Aug 2026 12:50:42
He's under contract until the summer of 2028 and was on £70k per week but now on £52.5k per week.
My only thinking is that no one is prepared to offer him the same salary that he is currently on, so Hwang is happy to sit out the remainder of his contract.
11 Aug 2026 13:00:05
Are you talking about Hwang? Hee-chan Hwang?
Whang reminds me of Wang Chung, a pretty decent band who enjoyed some success in the 80s.
As for Hwang, Marseille once offered Wolves £20 million for him, but Wolves kept him, possibly for commercial reasons. I doubt it was for footballing reasons. Maybe Wolves were greedy and Marseille told them to get ******.
Hwang will almost certainly leave Wolves in this window. Problem is it's a buyer's market, and the players Wolves want to sell either cost too much to begin with, or they're on big wages, or they're just not very good.
Wolves are pretty good negotiators, but it will take time for them to get the deals they want. Rush and their feet will be held to the fire.
11 Aug 2026 13:12:28
Wolves are terrible negotiators!
11 Aug 2026 13:15:08
Did you seriously just say Wolves are pretty good negotiators?
11 Aug 2026 13:26:18
Really? Give me examples. And I’m not talking about buying rubbish players, because that’s where Wolves are as a club. Same as numerous countless other clubs. All football clubs, depending on their position, fish in different ponds when it comes to player buying. If a club uncovers a gem, they’re simply keeping that player warm for the bigger clubs.
Give me all the examples over the last 60 years where Wolves have been terrible negotiators. The money received for Fabio Silva makes everyone involved master negotiators.
£47 million for Ruben Neves.
"Wolves didn't get enough for Joao Gomes." Really? Where were the clubs beating down Wolves' door for his services?
I also said pretty good negotiators. Please list all the terrible deals where Wolves have been truly screwed over. When you do, remember all the other smaller clubs who will encounter the same problems as Wolves.
Maybe reset your thinking on Wolves and where they are in the grand scheme of things. The Wolves you see doesn't exist, and the Wolves you want won't ever happen.
11 Aug 2026 13:49:03
Ilkley and VB, going by your sarcasm - who needs an argument when you have sarcasm - you think Wolves are dreadful negotiators.
Trippier signing.
Jimenez re-signing.
Ruben Neves signs for a Championship club and departs for £47 million.
Andre signing a new contract.
Fer Lopez.
Joao Moutinho signed.
Max Kilman sold for £40 million.
Pretty much all money clawed back for Fabio Silva - one of the worst signings Wolves have made.
Profit made on Jhon Arias - one of the worst players I have ever seen.
Pretty much all money clawed back for Tolu - one of the worst signings Wolves have made.
Agbadou sold for a high amount.
Low price paid for Jota. Massive profit made.
Big profit made on Joao Gomes.
It goes on and on, to make Wolves pretty good negotiators.
Reset your thinking on Wolves and where they are. Real football does not exist on a PC game.
11 Aug 2026 14:27:17
Fair enough, you make a good point, with good examples. Think it's more the fact it feels as if we don't reinvest the money we do manage to make, because our signings are often poor. For example, last summer, our two major sellings (Cunha and Ait-Nouri) were not replaced adequately, hence the shocking season we have just seen. We also allowed Sarabia and Semedo to leave on frees - not bad negotiating but definitely bad decisions/outcomes.
Other examples of this are Guedes, who we overpaid for, and Adama, who is crap, but we allowed a once 70 million valued player to leave to Fulham for a pittance. So, it is not necessarily always bad negotiating, but we have had some very bad signings, who we have then allowed to leave very cheaply, and not replaced adequately.
11 Aug 2026 15:14:34
We are good negotiators, given our circumstances and our "talent scouting department".
11 Aug 2026 23:09:23
Wolves are entirely average at negotiating, in some cases better than others, and in some cases much worse. It does feel somewhat ironic that you are using the fee received for Tolu and Fabio, whilst entirely ignoring that they also negotiated shockingly poor deals to bring both players to the club. We paid £35m for Fabio Silva when no other club wanted him. Porto must have thought they had won the lottery. We paid £23m for Tolu, when he clearly had a shockingly poor attitude, and again no one wanted him. You are only stating how good the fee was to sell them because we hugely overpaid to buy them.
Those two transfers combined cost us £16m in wasted transfer fees and untold money on wages. Fabio was given one of the biggest contracts at the club for an entirely unproven player, which hardly screams top negotiation, does it? Then, of course, there's Meupyiou, who we paid £4.2m for, then let him go on a free. A free, for what is quickly becoming one of the most sort after young cbs around. Sorry, but we aren't good negotiators. On a good day, we seem to be entirely bang average at best. ?