09 Nov 2026 18:14:20
Before I drop my rating review for the Wrexham game - albeit from a mere TV viewing - so apologies to those heroes who followed the team to North Wales, a little statistical analysis of the summer transfer window.
In the 2026 transfer window Wolves signed 8 players
Virginia, Trippier, Konan, James, Bertrand, Said, Raul and Neave.
On Saturday those 8 contributed just over 30 mins (Said 26 and Neave 5) out of the 990 the team played - 90*11.
Over the season they have contributed some 2,066 mins out of the 14,850 mins the first 11 have played (or since there are only 8 of them the 10,800 mins they could have played )
This is under 20% of the time they could have played.
Obviously this is an uneven out put with Trippier contributing a, (sarcastic), massive 627 minutes or just under 47% of his possible time dropping all the way down to Virginia and Bertrand who are yet to register a single minute.
I think it is fair to say that this is extremely disappointing but in reality not that surprising
Bertrand was not fit when signed, Virginia, Konan and Neave were never going to be, or to be fair were advertised to be, more than back ups, Trippier and Raul, were never going to be able to play 90mins a week, week in week out, Said unluckily got injured but is at best a "hit or miss" type of player and James the obvious diamond in this pretty modest group is seemingly not rated by the manager who for reasons, that surely only he understands, prefers Munetsi.
This of course was the window when Wolves were going to punch their way out of the league!
09 Nov 2026 20:47:22
Clever post mate i like it. makes complete sense. i think said might come good. Virginia i think should be given a game over sa.
10 Nov 2026 09:41:02
I could be wrong tfiog but didn't you say/think we would struggle this season? Or was that if we had sold a lot more than we actually did to deal with the finances? I'm fairly sure we didn't have a team that would romp the division when we went down and as you say the signings haven't exactly been playing a lot so far this season.
Don't get me wrong I think we should have been doing better with some of the results we have had but not having a goal scorer is costing us at the moment. And obviously the defence can be a bit hit and miss, mainly when Toti is playing.
10 Nov 2026 11:30:19
Goat - you are correct I thought there was a real chance the club could struggle unless it had a good window and it had a pretty modest one!
However, Wolves unexpectedly retained Krejci and "found" Lopez and Djiga.
If you take those 3 out of the side then the "potential romp" could easily become a "struggle".
Indeed if you add those 3 to pretty much any other side in the division, they would also rise up the table spectacularly that is what the best players in the league do for you.
Wolves had 2 of them (including Andre), in the existing squad and found the other 2 in plain sight - well done to Cesar/the club.
Think though what could have been done with a good window especially if that included as you identify - and surely we all could have identified - a forward who could do all the things Raul used to be able to do.
Sadly not enough was done in the window to address the shortcomings in the squad in terms of talent, depth or balance especially in the attack.
This will need to be addressed this Jan if the club is serious about promotion and more importantly survival after promotion. However, this will almost certainly be more costly in Jan 27/Summer 27 than it would have been in the summer of 26 when unusually (PSR pressure?), several obviously talented players were sold at surprisingly modest fees. This is unlikely to happen again.
It is sadly possible that the cost will be beyond the pockets/ambition of Fosun, but that is for another today. Today lets enjoy the fact that Wolves currently sit in the centre of the battle for automatic promotion, which Burnley and now seemingly WHU do not despite presumably having better squads before the start of the summer. (Note they didn't find a Lopez or a Djiga either via the market or in their reserves / loanees).
10 Nov 2026 12:40:25
Yes, fair point regarding those three, I was very pleased we kept Krejci even with all the drama/potential wanting to leave and had hoped Djiga would step up after his time at Rangers although limited. And if not Djiga I always rated Mosquera if he can control himself a little more. It has to be said Lopez has definitely benefited from his loan and the time given to him to develop.
I didn't expect him to be such an asset. But yes, I definitely agree more could have been done in the summer but who really knows what went on, the fact our squad if so full may have negatively affected any transfers lined up but if that's the case it's a little amateurish from the club to say the least.