Wolves banter 7

23 Jul 2026 00:16:17
Seeing all these teams linked with Bastien Meupiyou. Do we have a buy back clause?

24 Jul 2026 10:35:15
I remember seeing something somewhere about it. If we do, I doubt we will activate it. From what I have seen from him (YouTube highlights), he does nothing to convince me we need him desperately.

25 Jul 2026 00:38:27
Fair enough, mate. Just waiting for him to be another Pedro Goncalves, Vitinha and Trincao.

22 Jul 2026 23:07:12
The fiasco continues.
Tolu himself has posted this.

I was very surprised and disappointed to see the media reports today, many of which are inaccurate.

Throughout my career, I have always taken great pride in conducting myself professionally and maintaining the highest training standards.
My commitment has always been to prepare myself as well as possible so that I can contribute to my teammates and the club whenever I am called upon.
I remain under contract with Wolves, and my only intention is to fulfil my responsibilities professionally by training, doing my job, and contributing to the team in accordance with that contract.

23 Jul 2026 04:23:17.
Looks like something prepared by his lawyer to refute any suggestion he is in breach of his contract. Need to offload this player asap.

23 Jul 2026 15:21:01
So he sat in the centre circle refusing to move, dunno what he thought any of the coaching staff were going to do about his contract/transfer etc.
He's a puerile sort for a big man, and all he's achieved is a poor reputation.


Now he's less likely to get his move. Who'd want him? We could be lumbered with paying him off unless disciplinary action can get him out.

22 Jul 2026 21:53:12
1.0 against Maidenhead. Come on, is this a joke or what.

22 Jul 2026 22:32:21
Like watching the U20s.

22 Jul 2026 23:46:06
Had to break that losing mentality, so although 1-0 isn't a good result, it breaks that no-win streak and hopefully we build from it. But Fosun need to pull their finger out, a gk is a priority and a box to box cm.

23 Jul 2026 06:03:13
Tripper stood so far above the others, I felt sorry for him.
Good to see Tommy Doyle back, but I'm sorry to say, and I know it was only a friendly and things were being tried out, we're going to need some experienced players or the Championship may just be a struggle, as Handsome said, like watching U20, in many cases tho they were just over20, or just over30s!
Best enjoyment for me? Watching Trips trying to get to the Maidstone captain and give him the pennant he'd forgotten to do at the toss.


Hey, it was a friendly match, a trial and error workout and two sides each half, bar Mane, who'd come on early when our new winger went off injured, and it was Mane's fine strike that found the net.

22 Jul 2026 21:24:49
I thank Edozie will be a good player.

22 Jul 2026 20:31:13
First half musings:

Trippier is a cut above, though it's concerning how much play is going through him. Wolves need to remember that there are players on the left.

Chirewa looked good.

Can't be too critical as the pitch is giving the players problems.

22 Jul 2026 19:42:27
Anyone watching the game on Wolves TV? I can’t seem to get mine working. Just wanted to check if anyone else is having problems?

22 Jul 2026 19:07:00
Wolves go after players they know they won't get or can't afford.
Fans think great.
They leave it until the last weeks.
To get fans excited.
It doesn't take a genious to realise we are being taken for mugs.
Every season.

22 Jul 2026 20:26:02
Well, just watching our first friendly. Hardly a team of superstars out there today, so they'd better crack on with getting a few in. Btw, if anyone else had a problem with Wolves TV, you can watch it on Maidenhead's YouTube live stream.

22 Jul 2026 22:04:46
Thanks Long.

24 Jul 2026 07:47:48
Just read all the comments. As Marvin the Paranoid Android used to say, "I'm depressed now."

22 Jul 2026 14:56:18
I see James Collins left the U21s.

22 Jul 2026 14:13:11
Tolu surely wasn’t isolated as the training session was cancelled (can’t be isolated from something that never happened).
Maybe this was done to avoid breach of FIFA player protection/isolation rules, let's hope so.
The sooner this ego maniac bully is got rid of the better.

22 Jul 2026 16:16:24
It was cancelled due to him refusing to leave.

22 Jul 2026 16:47:33
Oxleymoorewolf, Wolves have to be careful with FIFA's new rules. According to all reports, he would not leave the training ground. Look at my comments below, and see what Edoo1's said. I'm right, that's why I've said Wolves need to be careful.

22 Jul 2026 19:02:51
Starting a fight last season. Refusing to leave training this week when ordered to. That's gross misconduct in my book. FIFA will side with us. If he wasn't worth anything to sell on, I would rip his contract up, but that would make him a free agent, unfortunately. Sell him for what we can get, and good riddance.

22 Jul 2026 11:43:14
Flea - creating a new post rather than reply to a thread that is at the very bottom of the page so doubt if many will read it.

We were discussing non-football wages from the latest accounts which are somewhere in the region of £60m+, (excluding NI), when scaled back to 12 months. This assumes £71m, again excluding NI, for the 12 months for the squad which is probably at the higher end for most public estimates.

You correctly identified that Nathan will earn more than the average non football wage which works out at roughly 172k pa excluding NI but his circa 625k pa, excluding NI - the highest paid director according to the accounts barely moves the dial.
Even if you assume the manager and his assistants pull in £10m pa excluding NI, which is highly unlikely to put it mildly, this only moves the dial slightly and you are still talking about somewhere in the region of £143k excluding employers NI.


Maybe an accountant or two and doctor might get there but in reality the vast vast majority of the rest - groundsmen, cleaners, catering and retail staff, ticket desk, office staff etc will earn nothing like that or even a third of that.

Maybe it is payoff to previous managers or agents fees although again these would have to be enormous to make any of this make sense.
Also if they are included in wages what makes up the 40m of other costs - excluding interest - the club incurs. A high utilities bill, rates, postage stamps and policing etc etc?

I did see a poster on another site claiming that the apprentices were all on monster salaries, multiples of the money City and Chelsea were paying, but I don't believe the moon is made of cheese or that the earth is flat either.

22 Jul 2026 14:18:44
Apologies, Nathan earns nearer 680k - still a non issue of course.

22 Jul 2026 19:03:24
TFOG, I love your posts, you are very good at probing the numbers. I personally have not researched the accounts, which I have wanted to do, but other events have delayed me.
Can I understand from what you have said that you feel money has been taken out of the club? If so, may I pose a question: would this show in dividends to the holding company, i.e.

Fosun? Or have I missed the point. Happy to be put right.

22 Jul 2026 21:06:35
Wimborne, many, many thanks for that v kind comment.
In answer:
No dividends have been taken out of the club.
That would be illegal, as Wolves do not have distributable reserves.
However, Wolves can, as many companies do, pay their parent/sister company/(ies) for a variety of things such as management services or marketing, etc. etc.
Would this normally be reported via the "wages" item? Well, no, but as stated above, very little makes sense in the accounts, which are obviously deliberately opaque or limited in information.
The accounts do show, however, that Wolves have had substantial dealings with other parts of the Fosun group - being owed (£67m in 2025), and owing (£248m in 2025), massive sums by/to companies within the Fosun empire.
What were these activities - was it simply lending and borrowing between different parts of the group?
If so, why would Wolves be lending to Fosun? The amount owed is mind-blowingly high, and certainly contradicts the idea that Wolves were allegedly standing alone without financial support from Fosun.

(Note, Wolves' net debt in total, including to Fosun, banks and other clubs, is roughly £300m).
Regardless of what they are, though, why are Wolves carrying on such massive interactions with sister companies within the Fosun empire?

PS I wrote a piece on the ten-year net transfer balance that, hopefully, you would appreciate.
I compared it to both house restoration and car depreciation!
Sadly, as it is at the end of a thread that will have moved down the page, I doubt many will have read it.
Whilst, boringly about numbers again, I thought it explained the issue - and the massive problems associated with it - fairly simply so that people who don't understand accounts/numbers could get an idea of the shortcomings in the transfer dealings in number terms over the last 10 years.
Do have a look and let me know what you think?