17 Jan 2026 17:58:04
Full agreement found between Besiktas and Wolverhampton for Emmanuel Agbadou for 11.5 Mil.
Thoughts?
17 Jan 2026 18:54:12
Far too cheap. We need to tell teams if you want him then this is what you need to pay. I would have said 20m personally. We are too nice and cheap when we sell our players.
17 Jan 2026 19:40:42
Well we bought him for a reported £16.6m so for a full year of Prem experience most of which he has been our best CB and we are selling him at a £5.5m loss! Absolutely shocking business which also says just about everything regarding the current state we are in, shameful! I also worry about the message this sends, cause we can keep pubicaly saying that 'we haven't given up' but if your sat in that dressing room and watching the best players be sold off at a loss then I'm afraid to say that as a player you'd be forgiven for thinking that the club has indeed given up and as such it's now every man for himself! As always it's Fosun who are to blame and to think I spent all summer having a handful of posters telling me what a great job they are doing! ?
17 Jan 2026 20:21:34
On last season's form the 3rd best player in the squad.
So the question is was that the anomaly or was the blip at the start of this season, ( when Vitor clearly was to put it mildly not running the show as had done for a brief period the season before and standards were allowed not to slip but plummet!), the anomaly.
If you think he is rubbish and last year was somehow a fluke - not sure how you play that well for that long as a fluke myself - then Wolves have got a fair price albeit still a fair bit less than they paid and will record a loss even after amorts on the trade.
But if you think he was a victim of Vitor's cataclysmically bad management over the summer/early part of the season but is actually capable of reaching the levels he did last season then it is a very bad sale.
It is a disaster for the rest of the season and although he was unlikely ever to play in the Championship a first sad dismantling of the side that should be too good for the Championship but might not, after the remainder of the good players leave, be good enough for it.
It also demonstrates clearly what the squad might raise - after Gomes, Andre and Krejci unless someone is still willing to - unlike it seems with Emmanuel - look beyond this year maybe JSL and with a fair wind Mane, Arias and perhaps Tolu no one else will raise much at all.
Just watched Forest get a point and see that neither WHU or Burnley lost so yet another v bad day for the club!
17 Jan 2026 21:22:33
BB - as usual spot on.
Astonishingly if you look on social media there are still supposedly Wolves fans sticking up for Fosun claiming it is just v hard/impossible to run a club in the Prem any better than they have.
There are even more - in fact I would say most posters - who think that next season somehow everything will flip and Fosun will once again, (they were for 4 years at the start before Covid/ Chinese government pressure/Jeff's hubris/Jeff's incompetence bit post Seville), become great owners after realising that being outside of the Prem is not as financially rewarding as being in it - wow really who would have thought!.
The current side, albeit desperately thin on depth, with just a new RWB and GK is good enough not just to get promoted from the Championship but survive in the Prem . Why then you might ask is it going down so so badly?
Sadly, but given what an idiot he is totally predictably, Jeff didn't learn from his catastrophic mistake with GON and kept Vitor several months too long and then to compound it RE failed to drop JSL or play Mane until it was far too late.
New GK, New RWB, Yerson Emmanuel, Krejci, Bueno ( or Wolfe) Andre, Gomes, Mane, Bellegarde, (or Arias), Tolu would easily get promoted.
But at least 6 of the players named above won't be there - maybe more - and none of the newbies will be anywhere near the quality of those leaving so Wolves won't be walking the league next year or indeed anytime soon!
17 Jan 2026 21:27:49
At 5pm it was reported that agreement had been reached but at 6pm another report says €14m + bonuses turned down.
18 Jan 2026 13:52:19
You don't get anything for 11.5 million these days. who sanctioned that?. 18 million minimum. no matter how it's buttered up he's a premier league player until the end of the season.
19 Jan 2026 01:17:20
My guess with Agbadou is that he sees the writing on the wall and wants out, don’t forget how bad his form was at the start of the season, you don’t go from being an absolute rock to not being able to pass the ball 5 yards.
Maybe he hit bad form, maybe he had a falling out with Vitor but my guess is he was sold a dream by the club and that dream turned into a nightmare, so now he wants to leave, hence the cheap price.