13 Jan 2026 14:39:49
All reports saying Gomes has agreed terms with Napoli but have to agree terms with Wolves. I just hope Wolves get the money they value Gomes at me 45-50mill euros not 35mill that's being mentioned.
13 Jan 2026 23:02:21
Lets hope his transfer isn't until the summer and then only if Wolves are, as expected, relegated.
In my view he is by some distance the best player in the squad and whilst I only expect Wolves to receive the figures mentioned above it will be yet another terrible deal.
If he was playing at Brighton - albeit he would be surrounded by far better players and thus it would be easier for people to see just how good he is - he would be valued far far higher than a mere £45m.
Sadly however I fear that Wolves are forced sellers as despite Deep's recent assertion that Wolves debt is not that much - the average debt in the Championship is £65m and then is largely to owners and on soft terms with little if any intention for it to be repaid Wolves have over £300m mainly to third parties on commercial terms and most certainly to be repaid - Wolves will need every penny it can raise to keep the financial Wolves from the door.
Hence it won't be just J Gomes who goes if the club is relegated but any players that can be moved on - that may due to the lack of quality in the squad and the insane wages many of them are on be a relatively small number and certainly will raise very very little but sadly for those of you labouring under the illusion that he will be around to spearhead a "rebuild/recovery" it will now include Mane.
14 Jan 2026 08:49:04
Well said future, I did post something similar not long ago that people don’t seem to realise how much debt we are actually in. I like to think of myself as a fairly positive person on the whole but because we beat west spam and Shrewsbury people are now convinced we are going to stay up, I’m sorry but we won’t, we just won’t it’s that simple. Going on about having a “run” of results is all well and good and would be brilliant, but even if we did we also need West Ham, Burnley, forest and a little bit Leeds to not pick up any points at all during our “run” and that’s just to get out of the bottom three, unfortunately some of those teams are playing each other so it’s a mathematical fact that some of those 4 will pick up points.
We are 14 points behind forest, 14 that’s 5 wins just to get us one point above them, and I’m fairly sure they play West Ham soon, the sooner people get their heads out of the sand and accept we are down the better in my opinion, I actually think we are playing much better under edwards ( with the exception of a couple of games) but the problem we have is probably 70-80 percent of that squad knows they won’t be here next season if not gone in January.
14 Jan 2026 10:06:06
Very true. It's all well and good fighting until it's a mathematical impossibility - and they should. However Forest will pick up points. Realistically to get into 17th place as a minimum will take 35 points unless 2 of Forest, Bournemouth or another team fall off a cliff. That means needing 30 points in the second half of the season. At the half way stage 30 points leaves you just outside the top 4.
To turn around a team with 1 win in 20 to top 4 form in 18 games with a difficult January window really is the making of miracles.
14 Jan 2026 12:08:37
How much debt does the club have?
I read that as of May 2024, it was £103m. The following season our net spend on players was something like £3m as we sold Neto, Kilman and Podence etc and brought in Agbadou, Andre and co.
What was Jeff Shi doing to put an extra £200m debt on the club. Incompetence at its finest. Good riddance to him.
14 Jan 2026 12:57:49
I’ve been saying it for 3 years now good, where has the money been going? There is an interesting stat that not many people realise but fosuns spend per season since they bought us on transfers is around the 21 million pound mark, that’s averaged out over the whole of their tenure, 21 million pound a season, that’s poor for a mid to low level championship side never mind a supposedly established premier league side.
It’s abhorrent, like the season when we “had” to sell neves to avoid a psr breach, that same season Jeff gets a 62% pay rise! Fosun are in it for fosun they do not give a monkeys about the club/city/fans
14 Jan 2026 13:54:54
Good - the figures you are seeing in the May 2024 accounts - the latest available - show the debt to a financial institution of just over £100m.
This is offset by cash at bank of some £30m
So net debt to banks is only circa £70m.
But Wolves are owed £64m for players sold but owe £135m to other clubs for players bought or some £70m+ net.
Making external debt of £140m+.
Add on net debt to Fosun of circa £178m and you can see the club is in debt to well over £300m.
Clearly it is hard to know what the £178m is for owed for - was it cash injected or is a debt for services provided.
Even £140m is however will beyond the means of the club on an ongoing basis outside of the Prem so will have to be reduced - in fact there is no choice as some of it is owed now to other clubs for players bought.
Relegation, despite what Jeff very worryingly said, is a cataclysmic event for the club that will require brutal surgery on every aspect of the club but mainly of course the first team squad!