Wolves Banter 2

03 Sep 2026 12:09:27
Konan, from what I have seen on videos as a good left foot. Attacking player, bulky fella, good build. Looks OK
Just needs to get match fit.
Konan the Barbarian. That's what I remember best.

03 Sep 2026 14:21:57
He is a pretty decent signing. Will be great in this division and as a backup to Hugo.

03 Sep 2026 10:22:16
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new video entitled entitled, C U Next Time - Transfer Window Edition}

03 Sep 2026 07:39:03
{Ed's Note - thefutureisoldgold3 has posted a new article entitled, Wolves Ratings at West Ham: Defence Below Standard

03 Sep 2026 12:45:00
Thanks for the hard work Future. I agree that Munetsi did ok and got in some important blocks as well as his well taken goal. Championship is seemingly his level. Not sure how you can give 7's to James and Andre. The former wasn't really on long enough, and it was definitely an own goal to my eyes, whilst Andre was reckless in giving away the penalty. He's generally neat and tidy, but needs to become more expansive.

Hopefully, Raul is just getting over the World Cup blues. Mane had Walker Peters on toast for much of the game before fading, and although his decision making is questionable at times, it was great to see him beating men through trickery, as he's not blessed with lots of pace. Defence is definitely the main issue currently, and we're in for a rocky ride without those issues being resolved.

03 Sep 2026 13:51:46
I agree with your ratings, Future. I remember thinking Andre was a class above everyone else and unfortunate to give the pen away. His break up play was excellent for most of the game. I also think James did well and looks like he can be a real asset. Doyle ran his socks off, but that was about it. Can't fault his effort.

04 Sep 2026 12:03:30
Goatmark: I agree Andre was a bit unfortunate with the penalty on two counts. For one thing, it looked to me as if the actual contact was made just outside the box, and the WH attacker fell just inside as a bit of an afterthought. For another, there were two other Wolves defenders on hand who bought the dummy and ran past the scorer, each presumably leaving the tackle to the other.

Having said that, it wasn't a great challenge by Andre who, for all his work rate, is prone to giving away pointless free kicks and losing possession in dangerous areas by dwelling too long on the ball. Still a definite starter for me but at some point I'd like to see James drafted in somehow as a starting midfield player. He always looks as if he has a goal in him.

02 Sep 2026 22:50:09
Ghislain Konan signed. Not currently match fit as he hasn't trained with a team this summer but will be given minutes to build up his match fitness. I don't know too much about him but he knows CP well.

03 Sep 2026 06:39:55
Who's he? Good, while I've not seen it.

03 Sep 2026 06:44:44
Ah, seen it now, 30yr old has quite a lot of experience in Portugal, played for CP before, and is internationally capped.
Maybe a surprise, but offers us the LB cover we'll no doubt need at some point.

03 Sep 2026 06:46:51
Just a silly thought, we'll have Konan Doyle on the team sheet.

03 Sep 2026 07:09:14
Don't give up the day job, Abbey!

03 Sep 2026 08:57:29
It's not having a day job anymore that's causing it, Old Wulf!

03 Sep 2026 09:03:06
Konan the barbarian.

03 Sep 2026 10:49:29
Konan the Wulfrunian.

02 Sep 2026 22:32:48
So new LB in. We need year deal. Strange? Why such a small time frame for a free?

02 Sep 2026 23:49:34
Only a one year deal, I meant.

02 Sep 2026 21:38:44
Bare facts are us fans have been let down and Fosun need to hear this. 6-7 months to prepare transfers, which they said they were sorting and had money to spend. Where is it? Awful transfer window. The silence from Matt and Shi is so disrespectful to us paying fans. It was those guys who promised the earth.

That defence was Sunday league standard and it has been for months. Crying out for a Costa or Cav on the wing, a decent centre forward to help. Is the problem Matt and Shi or is CP to blame too? Even Arteta doesn’t tell his board, don’t spend because I don’t need to strengthen, I’ll use what I have.

02 Sep 2026 23:52:38
Until the crowd gets very, very angry, nothing will change. They've taken the piss out of all of us. Something needs to be done very quickly, or we will sail this ship alone.

03 Sep 2026 07:30:12
Lose Sunday, & the fans will start to turn, which, unfortunately for CP & the team, will have a negative impact. If we're not careful, it'll be another manager sacked by Xmas, players wanting to leave & unrest in the dressing
room, which obviously affects the on field performance. You do have to feel sorry for any manager appointed by Fosun.

02 Sep 2026 21:13:18
Transfer window

How does it rate playing wise and financially?

Bought
Trippier - free - should be v good but 35 one year punt on his fitness and attitude
Raul - see above
James - loan with option - looks like a genuinely good player with real potential!
Viginia - £1.3m - inexperienced but HG and presumably cheap in terms of wages bench cover.
Ruddy - free as above but v experienced. Don't expect either to have been bought with the intention of playing.
Said - £7m V strange signing for what in Wolves terms is a large fee. No pedigree, not HG nor particularly young. Presumably the manager's pick?
Neave loan no option. - v odd signing. Unless he is far better than his progress to date indicates unlikely to play despite screaming need for a cf back up to Raul
Konan - free. I know nothing about him and his career to date offers little to indicate that he is likely to be a first choice at this level.

Sold
Gomes J - £35m Wolves best player last year. In a summer of insanely high fees Wolves manage to sell for an insanely low fee!
Hoever - £1m A good sale bringing to an end a disastrous Wolves career.
Moller Wolfe - loan with option. This is merely a financial move to try and minimise costs. Wolfe will be still be a drain on Wolves finances this year!
Sasa - free - As above a poor deal that provides minimal financial relief.
Doherty - free. As above
Bentley - free As above
Tolu - loan with option See Moller Wolfe
Hwang - loan with option. As above
Johnstone - loan with option As above

From a football perspective the transfer window minimally at most improves the first 11 and markedly weakens the squad. However the emergence of Djiga, the re emergence of Munetsi and the revelation of Lopez means the side is clearly stronger than last year and the squad is probably no weaker as the players who left were largely modest squad players.

Financially
In reality the window was sadly always going to be driven by finances - boring I know but that is reality.
The comments by the club about its intentions were always nonsense or as many are saying just brazen lies to get people to buy season tickets.
Wolves are now bound by SCR and everyone - in the game - knows that this is a serious constraint for Wolves. Wolves are also truly abysmal at transfers - regularly over paying both on fees and wages and incredibly underselling in many cases!

The window was therefore all about trying to shore up the mess that Wolves finances are in!
Sadly the window, due to the 2 problems - the market knows Wolves are in trouble and secondly Wolves are quite capable of being hopeless all by themselves without other clubs pressurising them! - was from a financial perspective pretty unsuccessful.

Sales raised far less than would have been hoped for/expected and in the end Wolves were effectively forced to give away players on frees/loans to get whatever relief from wages/amort they could.

Overall the transfer window was very poor but not as bad as some of the previous ones.
The club did not do anything particularly stupid like massively overpaying for poor players or apart from J Gomes selling players at pennies in the pound.
But it totally failed in its two aims - shoring up the finances and restructuring and improving the squad.

A badly missed opportunity, especially poor as the club had months and months to prepare as it knew it was going to be playing Champ football this season from virtually the first few weeks of the last season.

03 Sep 2026 04:13:20
Some interesting points, Future, and I'm in general agreement, apart from your view on Gomes. In my opinion, both 'our' Brazilians have been overhyped, possibly because of the Brazilian tag, whereas they are both similar players and have limited abilities. They can both break up play and get a tackle in, but their passing prowess is suspect and non-progressive; neither offers a goal threat, and whilst Gomes is a slightly more progressive runner, he does go up blind alleys and get caught in possession.

His debut for Villa against Brighton was much worse than Andre's performance against West Ham, which verged on dire, and it'll be interesting to see how his career develops and whether that £35m really was too low.

03 Sep 2026 13:01:38
Gomes apart, there are not many of the players who have left that you could make a full argument for wanting to keep based on ability and attitude.

02 Sep 2026 21:00:04


thefutureisoldgold3 has written an article entitled, Wolves Ratings at West Ham: Defence Below Standard

02 Sep 2026 20:23:32
Has the left back signed now or am I just wishing?

02 Sep 2026 19:20:22
Ordinarywordtree
You must go to same pub as me mate. You been on the scotch.
As for bubbles.
West Ham did know where to put the ball on the night.
Our defence awful.
Sa didn't seem bothered either.
Time for a change.

02 Sep 2026 22:18:30
So after last night.. league's top scorers. Wow. Makes a change. But also 1 of the worst defence.... That back line didn't have a clue... The standard up to now is terrible. Even us &WHU look rubbish. We've been garbage but got big wins. A lucky draw and a heavy defeat in a game we controlled...

Gonna be a bumpy ride this ssn... But if we were to go back up... maybe 3 or 4 players would be ok in the Prem, so looking to buy at least 7/8 players at what cost that Fosun will never pay... 150mil 🤣... They won't want us to get promoted.

02 Sep 2026 15:11:23
Imagine your whole club's personality being blowing bubbles out of a bubble machine and singing a song about blowing bubbles.

Those bubbles are net negative on the environment and they should be banned. Along with fireworks.

In other news Im extrememly positive about the Sean Neave signing.

He looks like a relly good player. Very similar style to Raul Jimenez and actually a very smart transfer.

In addition, our performance last night was excellent. Tchatchoua was brilliant. Just wish he would drive into the box and shoot. He has that electric pace that gets everyone off thier seat, Hes the best defender Ive ever seen, just sometimes slows down and isnt sure what to do.

Just run and shoot lad.


With RAFIKI,JRB and Neave on the bench we will have enough depth.

I do wonder if CP should be starting Fer Lopez on the wing and having Rodrigo Gomes coming off the bench as or main impact sub. Slot James into midfield and we still have Bouba and Doyle on the bench.

Id even look at playing Krejci in CDM next to Andre as he plays better there IMO.


Next season we'll be Premier League with the following line up;
-VIRGINIA-
-TCHATCHOUA--BUENO--OLAGUNJU--BUENO-
-ANDRE--KREJCI-
-LOPEZ--JAMES--MANE-
-NEAVE-

02 Sep 2026 16:26:25
Whatever you're on, I want some.

02 Sep 2026 15:45:20
Ordinary, have you been on the happy baccy with that team back in championship. Plus Neave only on loan no buy option Tatchoua not good enough plus most of the others.They got wolves relegated now there going to keep zwolves in the PL no chance.

02 Sep 2026 21:02:11
Something I noticed from last night's game, and it seems Bb touched on it in the thread below. Our set pieces are terrible. I can't remember how many corners we had, but it was a few, and it seemed every time West Ham got to the ball first.

Same with their corners, they seemed to beat us to every ball. This is something we really need to work on, and, again, a good reason Krejci or Santi should be playing. Both seem to score from corners every now and again.