10 Oct 2023 18:57:01
Early days I know but the media's obsession that we don't score goals is looking more and more redundant now. After eight PL games we have scored nine goals. After the first eight games last season we had only scored three goals! So, it's a 300% improvement on last season.

1.) 11 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 07:04:13
Agree Deep Throat.baby steps, but it feels more promising after the 3 seasons of wasteful nonsense.
Hobbs and O'Neil seem to be steadying the ship, after all the efforts of Shi and Sellers to capsize it!

2.) 11 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 09:22:11
The negative goal difference is down to the Brighton and Liverpool matches. Keeping the back tight like we did in the last 2 matches is the first priority. At the moment we look like we'll be ok but it's still early days.

3.) 11 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 10:04:54
We have scored same number of goals as Man U and more than Palace in 9th place. Peter Crouch was a typical lazy pundit, saying Villa would beat us as Wolves 'don't score goals'. We're even scoring more goals than we get Howard Webb apologies. Things are looking up!

4.) 12 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 12:22:59
We always beat Villa at Molineux and only scraped a draw, a good win against City and the first team to beat them won’t define our season, January will, Shi and Fosun are content to have a mediocre mid - table Club, thirteenth place or thereabouts is all we can expect for the foreseeable future, a lot of fans seem to have accepted mediocrity and are happy making up the numbers in the Premier League. As a Club we’re standing still, league position isn’t improving, stadium improvements are hardly mentioned or expected and Fosun are not delivering what they promised and aren’t likely to. The next Club on the long list of those outperforming us looks likely to be Birmingham City who seem to be getting their act together and Clubs with no ambition are the ones that get left by the wayside or the Championship as we like to refer to it.

5.) 12 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 14:31:50
I don't agree Everan Aday.

Fosus spent big last Jan and if it wasn't for FFP we may have spent big in the summer but January 2024 is another year and we may lose a couple of players but we will be in a strong position to sign some good players too

With Newcastle turning the top 6 into a top 7 it's going to be hard to get into Europe the important thing is to stay in the PL and that means getting points off the bottom teams which I think we can do

6.) 12 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 17:29:11
Sorry but I didn't agree either. We spent a lot under BL and JL. You can say we had some poor purchases of late Guedes, Nunes, Fabio, Maybe Podence and maybe paid over the odds for some others, but I believe Fosun has supported the Managers where possible. Unfortunately we are restricted by ffp regulations to just keep on spending. We've also gone through a huge transition with many of the old NES players moving on and younger players coming through. Based on what we acrued through sales of players in the summer I'm optimistic we'll get a striker in January. It's very difficult to break into the top 7 especially a club our size. I think we have to be realistic in that the club is progressing but can't be done overnight. Mid table mediocrity? I prefer established premier League team. There's probably many that wouldn't have thought that a few years ago.

7.) 12 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 17:59:22
Everan. I disagree with your comments too.
First off, I think the Villa match was fairly equal and NOT "only scraped a draw" since we had opportunities to win.
Secondly, we may be mid-table, but we are in a transition from the team we had that brought us up from Championship to PL. Most of those guys are no longer with us.
Lastly regarding Birmingham, they may seem to be getting things together and on the up, but they aren't in PL yet. Once they arrive, then let's see how well they manage it. Burley, Luton and Sheffield are having a difficult time so far this year.

8.) 12 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 18:54:06
Interesting thread albeit nothing to do with the first post in the thread.
Lots of sensible points.
Standing still does mean going backwards as - as Everan points out - others are straining every sinew to move forwards.
But the reality is we were and still are constrained by FFP.
We have had a number of years where we have spent big - surprised fans actually moan at Fosun for not spending as we have and in spades! - but under Jeff it has been spent catastrophically badly.
Today therefore it is sadly steady as you go and after the debacle of Ipswich and early season results not looking good I would have bitten your hand off to be where we are today - congrats GON and the team!
In fact I actually don't think we are going backwards from where we were this time last year at all - note JL simply performed the kind of miracle that managers of that quality will to mask the reality of the situation last spring. He, however, was never going to work long term under the regime we currently sit under - i.e. no money and Jeff as the boss!
But I don't think the road back to "next cab off the rank", where we were under Nuno, is going to be a quick one!
If you cut down a tree it takes years to grow back and Shi took a mighty big axe to this club's fortunes due to his lack of football knowledge and presumably humility - all he had to do was listen to the 3 geniuses he was employing!
I don't see us spending big this January - unless results mean we have to as relegation is looming (don't think it will be as several teams look far worse than us!).
However we might be able to add a player or two in the summer of 2024 to start us back on the road to respectability - one of the things I have hated about these last few years is that other fans no longer talk about us as the good guys challenging the establishment - that is now Brighton. Instead in most pundits and other fans view we are just an unfashionable team that moans a lot, plays awful football and has a terrible disciplinary record.
What we do in summer 2024 however will depend on a number of factors including if we can hang on to our good players - Neto being the obvious one - and just as importantly we can jettison the chaff - Guedes probably being the most pressing need.
Given Dawson's age we need a new CB (or 2 if we are playing 3 at the back regularly) and then it depends on your view.
Sa is pretty unpopular with many but I don't see him raising much cash and replacing for cheaper won't be easy?
Semedo discussed above. Kilman hated by many, but still might raise a decent fee etc etc .
Note if you sell first team players not chaff or squad players then you merely add to the need to buy players with all the costs and risks that entails.
An interesting thread but - as I said when the fixtures first came out this year - this was never going to be an easy start to the season and we probably have to have patience and faith that the club can turnaround both the season (already ahead of par for me!) and our longer term prospects under Hobbs and GON.

9.) 12 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 19:17:45
I understand/agree that Fosuns original grand plan hasn't quite come to fruition but I think like most things in life its not that simple. Firstly there a VERY few owners that truly get to deliver what they originally plan/say, in fact the only ones that do are the stupidly wealthy owners and saddly they are a rare find! Not only rare but also very unlikely for a club in our current position (eg the stadium and a relatively saturated market in the midlands)! Have Fosun done what they intended yet I suspect not does that mean they haven't been successful absolutely not! We are well established in this league, more so than any other point in my life time in fact. Not sure how you've decided Brum are over taking us?! They've just signed Rooney from the MLS when we were in that position Fosun got Nuno from the Champs League for goodness sake! I actually hope Brum and Rooney do OK but they are still years behind us (WBA are about a decade:)!
I'm afraid it's not Fosuns fault just the reality/inequalities of Prem football these days, not sure what they are supposed to do about that exactly?! The top 7 places in this league is very much becoming a billions playground! Could Fosun have done better to adapt to the times probably but then every clubs fans will feel that way. It's also worth noting they could have done a whole LOT worse! Whilst I agree that mid table mediocrity is dull it's still a damn sight better than fighting for a promo place in the Champ! Just ask Brum ?

10.) 13 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 16:08:02
I'm sorry Everan Aday, but your statement that we "always beat Villa at Molineux" destroys your credibility. We don't always, and we won't always. Your statement is a classic false premise, leading inevitably to an unsound conclusion. It's also an unfair criticism of a great Wolves performance in holding a dangerous team that had just put six goals past Brighton. Oh, and a 'good win' against Man City? Talk about damned by faint praise! We beat what is reckoned to be the best team in the world, and you call it just a good win? Incredible!