14 Jul 2016 08:26:07
Morning, all just to let you guys know that according to newsnow are first signing of the new era of Wolves will be Shane Duffy from Blackburn for a undisclosed fee.

Apparently both Jacket and the new manger, (Can some one please put how to spell his name) have agreed that this will be a good signing.

1.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 08:34:02
As reported in Daily Mail.

2.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 08:39:14
Duffy, wow exciting. I thought Jackett had gone? ðŸ‘Ž The good news, however, is that the press conference and anouncement of the takeover should be later today with news on the 5 new European players coming in (or 4 now? ) ðŸ‘.

3.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 08:55:07
I can just see the new manager asking kenny for advice Lol on new players.

Bye him then lone him back the club.

4.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 09:08:37
There's no way the new manager would agree with Duffy considering he wants only top class 10 million pound players. What would be the point? Maybe he feels sorry for Jackett and just said yes because 3 million is peanuts to the new regime? 2 Danny Batth's at the back, yeah great!

5.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 09:25:53
Lets be honest. no one has a bloody clue what's going on. its all just speculation. if it happens it does, if not we will have a bad season and will gibe all the moaners something to moan about. even if we win the champions league, they will still moan. cheers up you missrable buggers!

6.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 09:27:51
It's Lopetegui. Pronounced Lo-pet-a-hee.

7.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 09:53:06
I think Duffy would be a good signing when Celtic and Swansea are after him. He would add some real steel at the back. Then if ya new man can add 4 quality flair players from Spain or wherever ahead of them we will do well.
The hardest bit will be getting top draw players to come play in championship. So for me these kind of players are far more realistic no matter how much money we might have in this division.

8.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 09:57:34
Cockney wolf you are so so wrong. people do know what's going on. tomorrow will be the anouncement. and yes I even know which courier service took the documents up to the fa last week.

9.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 10:31:22
Wavidsmith, when exactly did you have that intimate chat with the supposed new manager where he expressly referred to only wanting players who cost at least ten million (pounds or euros by the way? )
While with him, did you also think to get an accurate explanation of the current state of the takeover?
It would be informative for us all if you could also divulge that info, if you did. Cheers.

10.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 12:18:36
Agent Mendes who is brokering all these deals only associates himself with big time Charlie's, that's why more-onWolf. Lopetegui is hardly going to be looking at cheap Championship fodder, is he? (ie, anything less than Â£6 million or Jackett type 'bargains') .

If the takeover doesn't happen, fine, i'm just going on the information given about the new regime which is quite clearly not going to include players of the standard of Danny Batth.

{Ed001's Note - Mendes has a large number of players on the books of his agency, not all are big time. Right now there are a significant number (probably around 20 or more I haven't bothered to count) that are out of contract. Of the 90 or so players on his books, only 20 or so are big time players.}

11.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 12:22:03
I only deal in pounds, not euros.

12.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 14:02:58
I apologise if that is correct editor.

13.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 15:33:12
I would guess that the likes of iorfa and hause are in his radar, and he makes his money when they move, or sign upgraded deals. I imagine if his involvement is closer to the club than normal we can anticipate 'big time charlies' (as you say) coming in and going out on a regular basis. Where this leaves the academy I'm unsure.
This is wavid, people are getting all arrogant about money now. Words like chump and change thrown around, we are richer than you attitude, crapping on our current squad of players etc etc. It is already moving in an unpleasant direction and no one knows for sure if it's happening (so many claim to, yet all have been wrong so far) and soooooo many contradictions, so why someone claims to know something here, you need to walk the walk as well as talk the talk. Menses and lopetigui undoubtedly think. in euros, no matter what you do, so they must be thinking 15 million euros players since brexit, by your calculation.
If he thinks he can have a team of 15 million euro a time players in the championship the wage bill on top is going to have to break all known records and go way beyond previous fines for financial fair Play. But as so many now love to gloat and boat, it's all chump change to Robin Hood, I mean Li, who takes from the rest and gives us more as he rides through the glen with his merry band of business men. I don't think.

14.) 14 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 16:27:57
good points more-onWwolf, but I wonder how the money and exchange rate will really work in practice (I'm not good with numbers or straight logic so I really don't know and can't guess, but can maybe see opportunity) ?

Robin Li's money isn't in Â£Sterling, but Wolves accounts are. I wonder if it's possible that going forward, he might be able to buy players and pay them without going into Sterling.

Or, if it does need to go through Wolves books and therefore be in Â£Sterling, he invests big money in the club as a warchest that is then used to buy and pay players, he'll be buying Â£Sterling at its devalued rate to inject that cash, so when it is in Â£Sterling it will be a bigger volume, and when transferred back to Euro's or whatever is same as his foreign currency investment was.

However it might work, being a foreign investor with foreign currency, I wonder if the devalued Â£pound means he can just keep winning on the exchange rate, and at least be advantaged against other clubs whose money has always only ever been Sterling and is now devalued (like say Newcastle FC with Mike Ashley, or indeed us with Steve Morgan) . If so, makes having a foreign owner who is still to invest their cash (rather than Villa whose new Chinese owner probably did it before Brexit and the Â£ crashed) a big advantage compared to having a Brit owner.