Wolves banter 10

18 Jul 2026 21:10:01
Interesting friendly vs Estoril. Looks like Peixoto likes Nasser Djiga. He also replaced him with Nigel Lonwijk, not Mosquera. Mosquera replaced Toti at LCB, but that doesn't look a permanent thing. More necessity as Toti didn't have a like for like.

What will happen with the CB positions if Wolves have:

RCB:

Yerson Mosquera
Nasser Djiga
Santiago Bueno
Nigel Lonwijk

LCB:

Toti Gomes
Ladislav Krejci

Krejci will likely go, so that will leave Wolves weak on the left but loaded on the right. Wolves clearly feel that Lonwijk can step up to Championship level, and Peixoto rates Djiga (who is very quick and strong) so either Santi Bueno or Mosquera is surely going. Mosquera has recently suggested he's staying, so that leaves Santi.

19 Jul 2026 08:48:55
Sorry if this is the wrong page. Does anyone know if the 4 Wolves friendly games are being televised this season? I've looked on the Wolves website and it is still showing last season's friendlies.

Many thanks in advance.

19 Jul 2026 10:56:15
I think I read somewhere that Wolves wouldn't be broadcasting any of the friendlies. Nevertheless, the final pre-season game at the Molineux, vs Real Sociedad, will be available somewhere. Nudge nudge, wink wink, if you know what I mean.

Or, you could just go to the Molineux. I don't imagine it'll cost a fortune to get in.

19 Jul 2026 11:20:41
Apologies. The final game appears to be August 1st vs Racing Santander. That game will definitely be available somewhere. It might be on Wolves TV, but I've seen conflicting information.

I'll probably go to the Racing Santander game, as it's the final game before the season starts.

Plenty of tickets will be available, and it'll be an opportunity to see Peixoto's team at pretty much full pelt.

The League Cup game vs Port Vale will probably also be a bit of a pre-season game, due to some players coming back from the World Cup, etc.

18 Jul 2026 20:56:28
Morgan Rodgers worth 5 times as much as Joe Gomez. Hhhhhhmmmmm wow o wow.

18 Jul 2026 21:41:45
Closer to 3x, which is still ridiculous, but not nearly as bad, so you make it sound.

18 Jul 2026 21:59:52
Let's hope Boro don't spend their windfall on a top striker. They also still have some of their Hayden Hackney money. Boro were a very impressive side last season, but they lacked in the finishing dept.

19 Jul 2026 00:43:18
I think you'll find it's more like 35 times the value, as Joe Gomez was signed by Liverpool for £3.5m.

However, Morgan Rogers is approx 3 times more expensive than Joao Gomes.

19 Jul 2026 12:07:43
It seems to me that Wolves have a policy of selling quality cheaply. And paying over the top for third raters, i.e. Tolu? Villa can get 117 mill. for Rodgers, buy Joao for 35 mill., and end up getting a first class replacement plus a giant profit of over 80 mill.

Something tells me we are ripped off again. It seems there is nobody running the club with a good football background. Just enthusiastic amateurs.

17 Jul 2026 23:58:03
Johnny Phillips, who is a man you can trust, reckons if we don't go up next season... we will be in very serious financial bother! If we're not already. FWAW.

18 Jul 2026 08:43:48
Apparently the finances at Wolves are in a desperate state. Promotion back to the PL has nothing to do with Wolves belonging there; it has everything to do with the £200 million black hole at the club.

This is why Wolves have signed two freebies and one cheap player.

Jimenez is merely a smokescreen.

The team that has struggled for years in the Premier League is about to struggle in the Championship. Nowhere near enough goals in that team, and it’s been proven that those players can’t defend.

18 Jul 2026 09:39:39
TFIOG understands the finances much better than I do, but I believe the point Johnny Phillips made was: if we don’t get rid of some of our higher earners who didn’t have a wage reduction clause in contract, then, if we haven’t gone back up, we’d be in serious financial difficulty, as the parachute payment is scaled back for each year you are out of the Premier League.

18 Jul 2026 09:59:34
There's no We in Fosun.
We're not in financial trouble. They are.

18 Jul 2026 10:32:58
What a load of BS.......
Journalistic trash

18 Jul 2026 10:40:10
A player is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. I didn't see any bidding war breaking out for Gomes. Man U were credited with an interest months ago, but nothing happened. Villa came along and found themselves the only bidder.

We can't say we should have got more if no other club wanted to bid. It wasn't even a quick sale, so we can't say other clubs were caught napping. That is the reality.

18 Jul 2026 11:41:36
Don't 99% of players have a relegation wage reduction clause built into their contract?

18 Jul 2026 13:55:45
I'm not sure how this is news. The club has been losing money for years. With lower revenues and the EFL financial rules, it's even more of an issue. The idea that even if Fosun have the money, they can just pump it in without sanctions is nonsense.

It's also why players need to leave before more could arrive.

The wage bill needs to be in line with what can be paid for. We can all rightly point the fingers as to why the club were relegated and why the revenues aren't being maximised.

But, as others have pointed out, the squad is in too bad a shape to be wholesale reset in a single transfer window.

17 Jul 2026 21:14:51
I don't think we will sell half of the player quoted as being available because no one wants them. Simply put, they would of gone by now. Season starts in a few weeks, don't it. I think we will have similar squad with maybe 2 in.

17 Jul 2026 21:59:16
A really good point with just 1 issue. We've already signed 3 players. Other than that, you're bang on.

17 Jul 2026 23:01:30
Not sure they would have gone if those clubs interested knew we were in a position of distressed sales. Look at Gomes, Athletico were reported to be signing him for £40m and £5m add ons. Villa have waited it out, and are now getting him for the bargain basement price of £35m and £3m add ons.

Time is on the buying clubs' side, and not ours. With Krecji having been at the WC, I wouldn't be surprised if Leeds start low balling us some time soon. The problem is that, as we've just seen with Gomes, we are so desperate that it clearly works. 😭

18 Jul 2026 14:10:14
We may be desperate, BBII, but even our saleable assets have deficiencies, which is why clubs aren't falling over themselves to acquire them. This means no bidding war to hike up the price, and is why Krejci may go for a song, because, despite his qualities, he is slow and his distribution is sometimes lacking.

17 Jul 2026 17:12:40
There’s a lot of moaning about Fosun, as always, but just wondering, where do you think we would be now if they had never bought the club. Because, glutamate we are now in a similar place to where we started under them, however have had some great games and a couple of great seasons, in the Europa League, FA Cup semi etc.

I understand that feels a long way away now, but where do you think we’d be now, and what do you think would have happened to the club if Fosun never bought us? (Obviously there is no chance of saying for sure, I’m just making a point that, despite now running us shockingly, Fosun did once provide us with some great memories and experiences.)

17 Jul 2026 19:14:55
Who knows what Wolverhampton Wanderers would look like now had Fosun never strode into town.

It's very possible that Wolves would be in a worse position. It's also possible that Wolves would be in a better position.

Whatever Fosun achieved in the past - helped enormously by Mendes - they're simply not up to the task anymore.

They don't have the skillset to run a successful Premier League football team. Whether they have the finances or not, they don't have the knowledge, desire or inclination to turn Wolves into anything but what they are now.

17 Jul 2026 19:38:46
True, we wouldn't have enjoyed the success we had under Nuno, but the style of play over the last 2 seasons is my main concern, because we were awful to watch.

17 Jul 2026 20:46:53
It's the ssn. They didn't back Nuno when it all started to go wrong. Two 7th places and an FA Cup semi final were the time for major investment to push on. Nuno left, and it was downhill from then on. The reason Nuno left was being refused the money to invest. Relegation was just a matter of time.

18 Jul 2026 14:20:28
Fosun have failed on two accounts, as I see it. Firstly, on poor player trading: buying deadwood and selling on good players cheaply is not a good strategy. Their lack of football knowledge, and eagerness to take poor advice, has been disastrous. In that respect, we compare badly to clubs like Brighton, Bournemouth, Palace, etc. Secondly, they did not improve and expand Molineux early on. This would have improved income, and could have been paid for by Fosun without breaking financial rules of the day.

Now, with such poor player trading and static income, they cannot put cash in for fear of breaking the rules and thus getting points deductions. These may be a simplified view, but they stand out to me as big errors. Fosun are an investment company, and it is shocking that they did not seem to do their homework before purchasing Wolves and thus made simple but costly errors. They also played on fans' aspirations with false promises. If they get this season wrong, there will be a wholesale fire sale of players.

18 Jul 2026 15:00:23
Yes, there was promise and action from Fosun early on, but since the Chinese government changed their minds regarding investing in football, it's all gone to s***.
And, there are no guarantees we're going to get a reset and do it all again. Fosun are an investment company, just not in us!

17 Jul 2026 16:25:44
Looks as though Mosquera and Munetsi are staying, so a team “that fans can really identify with” is going to be the same team as before, with a few additions. The Fosun cheapskates are pulling the fans' knickers down - again. Now the season tickets have been sold, they can bring in as much revenue as possible from player sales and spend as little as possible.

The Fosun model continues.

GK: ?

RB: Kieran Tripper
RCB: Yerson Mosquera
LCB: Toti Gomes
LB: David Moller Wolfe

DM: Andre
CM: Marshall Munetsi

RW: Rodrigo Gomes
AM: Fer Lopez or Mateus Mane
LW: Rafiki Said

CF: Raul Jimenez

That team won’t finish in the top two. Not enough goals.

17 Jul 2026 21:45:12
Personally, I like Mosquera. Yes, he's a bit of a hot head, but still young, so if he manages to control himself he seems like a solid defender. Hopefully those that stay can put up a fight and return us to the Prem, make up for last season's fiasco.

It's all a bit contradictory in here at the moment. Some are complaining we are selling all our assets, but others are complaining that players are staying.

So far only Gomes has gone, and by all accounts he was sold last Christmas to Man Utd, which goes to show no one knows what's going to happen, and isn't that half the fun. Let's see who else we bring in. Three signings already, and pre season hasn't started yet. Definitely different from usual, so maybe Fosun have learnt, maybe.

17 Jul 2026 23:48:40
I'm almost with you, Franco, but where's Hugo and Armstrong? FWAW.

18 Jul 2026 09:47:11
At Championship level, Raul and Armstrong will score more than enough to be top two, as long as we can stay solid and provide them with the chances to score. Plus, I suspect we will still be looking to strengthen further, as well as selling a few more, like Tolu and, unfortunately, both Buenos.

17 Jul 2026 16:11:48
You got to laugh. People calling for Argentina to be kicked out of the World Cup because of flag at end of match.
No way this will happen. Football today is so corrupt. Too much money being made.

Bit like at Wolves, sell everything you have of value.
Still expect fans to turn up for 2nd rate football. Because we are all loyal fans we do because we love Wolves.

18 Jul 2026 08:40:24
I believe that the 'good old USA' are behind the Argy players because of the 'good old USA' with their 'freedom of speech' (NOT).

17 Jul 2026 15:27:06
It seems that Gomes is gone so that is one player with Prem experience out of the door. Clubs seem to have an interest in Hugo Bueno so if he does go that's another experienced player we won't have if we do gain promotion.


Factor into that the strong suggestions that Sa, Kreji, Toti and possibly others may depart and it does make you wonder how we would cope if we do go up with what would be, quite probably an inexperienced squad.

17 Jul 2026 16:03:12
No team copes with the same squad. You have to get up first (a big if) and then assemble a squad for the higher league.

17 Jul 2026 12:05:42
Like every person in life you always won't more & better who doesn't.
That's life.
You're not going to get it at Wolves.
So best of luck to Gomes.

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.

17 Jul 2026 15:50:29
I think Wolves fans, myself included, have to accept that life under Fosun is not going to improve. They'll possibly throw the fans a bone and give us a good season in the Championship, but the Premier League is a step too far for Fosun and Wolves.

17 Jul 2026 19:04:04
So who would you let go or be glad to see the back of?
??????????
Johnstone
Arokadare
Hwang
Armstrong
Hoever
Angel Homes
Tatchouka
Doyle, maybe I've listed someone who's gone already, soz.
Any one else, good riddance too.

17 Jul 2026 19:55:56
All except Doyle and Armstrong. Who would believe Hwang is one of the top paid?

18 Jul 2026 09:52:20
We can't sell Angel Gomes, greyleg, he's not ours to get rid of as he went back after his loan finished - we didn't invoke the option to buy.