01 Feb 2026 13:50:51
JSL to Palace £43 million.
Wolves make a low ball offer to Soton for Adam Armstrong.
01 Feb 2026 15:13:08
Adam Armstrong, (same as Che Adam), looks on the face of it like he would be a very sensible signing.
From his record it looks like he is not quite good enough for Prem but is very good in the Championship.
If the fee is £7m it is a good price.
However he is allegedly on £60k per week. - hence I imagine Southampton's willingness to let him go for what seems a modest sum as their parachute payments tail off.
But what sort of contract will Wolves be able to offer?
If he as a 28 year old and in his prime years, not unnaturally, wants to retain if not improve his £60k a week that would seem far more than the club can afford especially if it is over a 3+ year period when the parachute payments will be long gone.
Note ironically if you believe Wolves will be promoted then as shown Armstrong would have to be sold as he is not good enough for Prem.
Thus regardless of if Wolves go up or not Wolves will want to sell him in a year or so and like Southampton will have to take a cut price deal to move him on to someone willing to take on what is basically a non Championship level contract i.e.
£60k + per week.
Who does that - well today obviously a team that is desperate to win the Champ and has short term money i.e. a team with parachute payments?
Sadly though in two years time he will be 30 and may not be too easy to shift.
In conclusion a good signing but Wolves need to be careful to structure any contract offered.
Maybe offer him the money he wants and on a long term contract, 5 years, but with wages linked after the first year to the club's status i.e. unless they go up the wages drop to match the reality of the clubs status.?
or more - perhaps another side with a v shoet term view believing they can be promoted - probably another side with parachute patments?
01 Feb 2026 15:36:10
So who exactly is signing the players on behalf of Palace?
Matt Hobbs?
Why would JSL move to a club where the manager is leaving at the end of the season?
What if JSL doesn't fit into the next managers plans like Kobbie Mainoo didn't fit Amorim plan.
Strange decision, but based on his performances for us this season, good riddance.
01 Feb 2026 15:37:02
Apologies clearly the last sentence was part of a draft that should have been deleted.
01 Feb 2026 15:56:52
I'm sure we put a bid in for him when Southampton got relegated a few seasons ago and he turned us down. That was at the start of our decline. I wonder why he's changed his mind. Probably as TFIOG says, he knows he isn't good enough for the Premier League but one of the better Championship players, plus the rumoured high wages don't harm things.
Fosun have turned us into a laughing stock.
If Angel Gomes does join us, no doubt he'll make the move permanent in the summer and be sold the next day or so for a profit.
01 Feb 2026 16:07:36
The answer to your question, Good is £££.
01 Feb 2026 16:31:11
Angel Gomes would also appear to be an excellent signing although once again wages are very high .
Could this however actually be a plan?
Seems hard to envisage with Fosun, (i, e, any plan!), but sign players who are more than capable for the Champ using the excess cash from the disposal program that I detailed a week or so ago to fund the fees and "high" wages in a genuinely serious attempt to gain promotion?
It is clearly logical and rational!
01 Feb 2026 17:06:55
Adam Armstrong certainly fits that category Future, but Gomes is a recent England international with eyes on a place at the World Cup this summer and then future squads. He will sign, play well until the end of the season and put himself in the shop window. However there is no chance that he starts next season with us as Fosun will sell him for a handsome profit.
If they do as you suggest, then happy days, but given their recent shenanigans, I don't see it.
01 Feb 2026 17:46:52
Armstrong. Would be a good signing but will require our midfield to change their ways. He was fastest player in Prem when he last played there and likes ball played early and over the back line for him to run onto.
Age is a bit of an issue as he is 29 in mid February.
01 Feb 2026 18:56:48
Hopefully the JSL saga will conclude as we want with £43m+ coming in.
Armstrong and/or Che Adams, both tried and failed strikers and yet to light up their respective teams, if (and it’s a big if) we muster a strong enough squad to be challenging next year, both will be jettisoned because simply not good enough for the premier league!
Elijah Adebayo known to Rob Edwards would be a far better shout. Yes he’s had a bad knee injury and been out for 12 months, but would be ready for the new season. Younger than Armstrong and Adams, quick with an eye for goal, did extremely well in the final run in Luton’s relegation. Forward line of Fer Lopez - Adebayo - Mateus Mane, should see us close to the top of Championship League
01 Feb 2026 20:52:46
What's wrong with selling players for a handsome profit, Good? The scenario we are much more used to is offloading players for a big loss. Fabio, Guedes being recent examples which eclipse the odd decent profit made such as for Cunha and hopefully Larsen.
01 Feb 2026 22:57:24
What's wrong with selling players for a handsome profit you ask? Nothing if said profit is used to maintain or strengthen the squad like Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton do. But our recent history suggests we waste the money.
In recent years we've made huge profits on: Jota, Neves, Nunes, Kilman, Ait Nouri, Neto and Cunha. Have the club used that money wisely? One look at the table and the current squad gives us a very clear answer.
02 Feb 2026 04:18:22
Indeed Good but that's a different point to the one you seemed to be making. We all know our recruitment ability has taken an absolute nosedive in recent seasons.
02 Feb 2026 08:38:14
Old Wulf. The point I'm making is this. Wolves have over the last 3 seasons have sold on players for huge profits without reinvesting the money back into the playing squad to bring in players of either the same quality of players sold or potential. The Angel Gomes deal will be no different.
The club will buy him for the reported £7m and sell him almost immediately for double that. They will then purchase 1 inferior player for a fraction of the price and pocket the change.
Let's look at the last transfer window.
We sold Cunha and Ait Nouri for a total of approx £100m and replaced them with Moller Wolfe, Tchatchoua, Arias, Lopez and Tolu for £80m.
Now some might say that bringing in 5 players to replace 2 makes the squad better and stronger but does having 5 mediocre players adequately replace 2 proven performers?