08 May 2026 17:09:01
On transfer feed Ben Jacobs is saying Wolves and Athletico Madrid are close to a deal for Gomes. The fee reported to be 45mill Euros, which I think is cheap. If this is true, what's everybody else going for?
08 May 2026 17:53:15
Personally, I think Joao, Santi and Krejci are the only players to walk away with any shred of decency this season. Joao is worth at least £50m, but this is Fosun we're talking about, and they'll take whatever they can get for him.
Expect Andre to be sold for £25m and Santi for £15m. Fosun simply do not care. None of the money will be reinvested anyway.
08 May 2026 20:31:57
Fabrizio posting that personal terms have been agreed.
Although we all knew that this move was 100% happening, I still feel gutted that he's leaving. One of a very few bright sparks at the club.
09 May 2026 10:59:16
The way Fosun has made me feel, I know there'll be no fair and respectful deals for Wolves, no matter what RE says about the Summer. He's a fool to think otherwise. I wait to be proven wrong.
My only real interest now is hearing the news of Fosun selling the club on and who to? The sooner the better for me.
WWFC Forever. ?⚽️
09 May 2026 11:48:03
As I've said, we need a plan. I don't trust Rob Edwards to sign players this summer.
We need a manager with a style of football that can unite the fans and club again.
I doubt RE can sign players good enough to get us promoted and keep us in the prem.
With the sales of these players:
J Gomes £45m
Andre £40m
Tolu £18m
Hwang £10m
Krejci £25m
Mosquera £10m
That's £148m.
I think a manager with a good scout and director of football could get us promoted on £80m, with a combination of experience and exciting young players, with pace returning up front.
If West Ham sack Nuno after relegation, it would be Nuno or Amorim for me. ODCL.
09 May 2026 12:23:11
Nuno and Amorim will never come to Wolves whilst Fosun are here.
Fosun will give whoever the manager is next to nothing to spend. The manager will have to rely on the returning loan players, youth players, the odd free transfer, and loanees. They may allow the manager about £15m to spend.
09 May 2026 13:28:36
Amorim? Him and his coaches will want about £12 million per year - and they'll all be plotting their exit strategy from day one. Wolves had the chance to get Nuno back - and he wanted to come back - but Wolves didn't want to spend the money.
09 May 2026 14:49:12
Noisy, that's wrong. Nuno was linked the season JLO took over. So, Fosun did spend the money that season on the backroom staff, and with Cunha, J Gomes and Dawson signed that January window.
Nuno wasn't linked this season, as West Ham acted before Wolves.
In no window since Fosun have taken over have they spent low or set limits of £15m.
We spent £100m on dross last summer. Teti and Perreira have to take some of the blame for that.
Fosun never say how much they have to spend, or the targets they want. It may sound opaque and disinterested, but it doesn't do the club any favours to say they are after such and such a player, as the wages and price tag goes up, which is counter intuitive to PSR and making that work for the club as well.
Amorim sounds expensive, but with the right set up he would play an attractive style of football, with players that move box to box, which is something missing at Wolves. Also, his style at Sporting and Man U found that he could compete against the better sides. I think that money would be well spent. It's a clash of 5 different managers styles at Wolves, and the squad lacks a fluid style.
You have to pay for a decent manager.
09 May 2026 15:45:54
Madman, they did pay for a decent manager. Lopetegui was being paid £8m, but after the initial outlay on Cunha, etc., Fosun changed their minds and decided to tighten the purse strings, and stifled Lopetegui's plans, hence why he walked away.
09 May 2026 17:05:11
Disagree again. PSR rules were strengthened in summer 2021. The season Nuno left and was replaced by Bruno. The first season, 21/22, Bruno did well and finished mid table playing a back 3.
The following season, we struggled under Bruno, and he was replaced by JLO.
This was after Fosun supported and funded Bruno's plan to play a back 4.
Wolves, supported by Fosun, brought players for JLO to stay in the prem in January 2023.
So that was Wolves keeping players that were fan favourites like Raul, Moutinho and Neves at the club. Supplemented by new players that Bruno signed in summer 2022: Hwang, Guedes, Nunes, Sa, Sasa, RAN and Collins.
The club brought Cunha, Dawson, Sarabia and J Gomes in January 2023.
The wage bill was £310m that season, that's staggering for a club the size of Wolves, with revenue around £210m a season at the time.
And we have fans saying Fosun are asset stripping, but the facts suggest otherwise.
Our issue is we haven't paid and backed a decent manager. JLO may not have known the true impact of PSR when he signed, but he still had a very capable squad to compete after the sale of Neves and departure of Raul, Moutinho and Traore.
It's easy to say Fosun lost interest; the PSR rules changed, and we were left with managing the consequences. We didn't have a Grealish sale of £100m to balance the books.
10 May 2026 09:16:32
Madman, it's true that Fosun have splashed the cash, so to speak. It's ten years next month since Fosun took over. They signed some unbelievable players, especially in the early days. To me it isn't so much that they lost interest, it's more that they lost competence.
But the elephant in the room is their complete lack of grounding and connection to Wolves and Wolverhampton, which left them as fish out of water when the going got tough.
10 May 2026 13:53:46
Fosun made investments on key players that they made profits from - for their investors, not the club.
10 May 2026 15:27:34
Biswolf, that's wrong as well, though they were in the red for PSR of £67.5m in 2023. They made £140m from sales, and with that remaining £72.5m, they brought Nunes, Collins and Guedes.
So, financially, they were well run to avoid a points deduction. But they gave the money to Bruno, who couldn't attract the players we needed.
By the way, I think we should have taken the points deduction, and brought the players we needed, like Forest and Everton did.
I agree, Deep Throat, they lost direction, although it was strange under Zenga and Lambert. Maybe this summer they come up with a plan to replicate Nuno and the exciting squad we had then. ODCL.
10 May 2026 15:45:22
Thanks, Mudman.
10 May 2026 16:05:16
? Typo, my apologies.
12 May 2026 11:57:29
Hi, Madman, interesting thread, but I think you have missed a few off your sell list:
Tchatchoua
Santiago Bueno
Mane (his head's been turned by R Martinez, Portugal manager).
R Gomez?
The first 2 will go. Mane, as I said, has had his head turned, and R Gomez I am not too sure about.
We need THAT QUESTION answered by each player - do you want to stay or go?
The list above could add another £75 million to your war chest.
I agree, £80M would do it on experienced Championship players, plus a few loanees.
See if tonight's WM Forum clears the air or not.
12 May 2026 13:07:17
Transfer money spent means absolutely nothing. For a true view on how the club is investing, you need to look at net spend. In the last five years, Wolves have a collective net spend of £1.63m. For context, there is only one team below us in the entire league, and that is Brighton. And they are only there because they managed to sign Caicedo for £4m and sell him for an (incredible) £115m. The point is that when you run a club that close to the margins, it allows absolutely no room for error in the transfer market. It is also why Brighton are the only team to have managed it and improved (mostly thanks to Tony Bloom's remarkable, algorithm-based transfer policy). I suppose my point is that there is a misconception that Fosun have continued to invest in the last five years when they absolutely have not. If I buy your car off you, let's say it's an excellent Audi A4 that runs like a dream, just 30k on the clock, for £15k, and you take that money and buy three clapped out Audi A4s with 100k+ miles on the clock for £5k each, then you technically have got more cars than me.
But when it comes to the time that we both need to actually use those cars, mine's flying down the motorway and you're still waiting for the AA. This has basically been our transfer policy for the last five plus years. Sell Jota and buy Fabio, sell MGW and buy Goncalo Guedes, sell Mathues Cunha and buy JSL. The reality is, very few clubs get away with it for long, and those that do have an impeccable back room (e.g. Brighton). Sadly we had Jeff, so to say the current state of affairs was inevitable would, quite frankly, be the greatest of understatements. ?