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14 Jan 2026 12:31:59
I just read on x that all players will have a reduction in wages 30 to 50 per cent on relegation that's interesting

14 Jan 2026 13:38:32
Absolute tosh on X I’m afraid, you’re telling me that every player at the club has a clause in their contract that says they take a pay cut? Not in a million years, some may but the high earners will be gone anyway so it wouldn’t make that much difference.

{Ed001's Note - yes mate, it is standard. There are very few players in the top flight without that clause, outside of the likes of Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City.}

14 Jan 2026 13:40:00
Yes mate full article - Wolves are ready for relegation financially: every player has an automatic wage drop clause (30% to 50%). And there are no relegation release clauses, so Wolves can set whatever asking price they want.

14 Jan 2026 15:03:33
Rated - if it is only 30 to 50% they are nowhere near sharp enough as the salaries some are on are far more than double a Championship wage

14 Jan 2026 16:31:15
The highly-saleable players will obviously go. We may have a problem with the duds left behind, as their reduced wages in the championship may still be over the top, as Future notes. It could unsettle new players brought in on championship wages, if so and so from this season isn't worth his money. For me, the rot started when we signed Fabio Silva for silly money on silly wages.

Thanks Jeff. Far more talented players were earning far less. Then, the excuse was that the 'generational player' poor Fabio was thrust into action when still too young. Youth hasn't hurt Mane, has it? Didn't hurt the 18-year old Wayne Rooney either.

14 Jan 2026 16:36:42
The key part for me future is gold mate is their are no minimun release fees which means the vultures can't lowball us.

14 Jan 2026 20:57:44
Agreed for the handful of good players that are saleable but for many just getting rid will be difficult especially on the salaries they are on.
Which players are clearly Prem quality
Gomes and Andre are top 6 players.
Krejci looks fine
Emmanuel has the talent but questions will be asked about his poor form at the start of the year
JSL was good last year but huge red flags not only about his poor form this year but also his attitude/competitive edge and professionalism.
Mane in a v v short period is probably viewed as a player with high potential and Gomes R might also attract some interest?
Tolu, Yerson, Arias, (with everything crossed), and Bellegarde might be bottom end players.


After that
Sa and Johnstone are v v ordinary,
Hoever, Jackson and Doherty all sub standard prob not even Championship level - harsh on Doherty but he is not getting younger or quicker!
Wolfe, Bueno H, Santi, Hwang, Munetsi and Toti are Championship players
Fer Lopez is not ready for adult football in England but is in his 20s so sadly not sure he has a future in England!
Not going to be easy to shift any of the 12 I have listed above or even afford to keep most of them even on half their salaries!

14 Jan 2026 23:46:25
I don’t think we will see hoever in the old gold again thank god I’m sure his contract is up at the end of this season

13 Jan 2026 14:39:49
All reports saying Gomes has agreed terms with Napoli but have to agree terms with Wolves. I just hope Wolves get the money they value Gomes at me 45-50mill euros not 35mill that's being mentioned.

13 Jan 2026 23:02:21
Lets hope his transfer isn't until the summer and then only if Wolves are, as expected, relegated.
In my view he is by some distance the best player in the squad and whilst I only expect Wolves to receive the figures mentioned above it will be yet another terrible deal.

If he was playing at Brighton - albeit he would be surrounded by far better players and thus it would be easier for people to see just how good he is - he would be valued far far higher than a mere £45m.

Sadly however I fear that Wolves are forced sellers as despite Deep's recent assertion that Wolves debt is not that much - the average debt in the Championship is £65m and then is largely to owners and on soft terms with little if any intention for it to be repaid Wolves have over £300m mainly to third parties on commercial terms and most certainly to be repaid - Wolves will need every penny it can raise to keep the financial Wolves from the door.


Hence it won't be just J Gomes who goes if the club is relegated but any players that can be moved on - that may due to the lack of quality in the squad and the insane wages many of them are on be a relatively small number and certainly will raise very very little but sadly for those of you labouring under the illusion that he will be around to spearhead a "rebuild/recovery" it will now include Mane.

14 Jan 2026 08:49:04
Well said future, I did post something similar not long ago that people don’t seem to realise how much debt we are actually in. I like to think of myself as a fairly positive person on the whole but because we beat west spam and Shrewsbury people are now convinced we are going to stay up, I’m sorry but we won’t, we just won’t it’s that simple. Going on about having a “run” of results is all well and good and would be brilliant, but even if we did we also need West Ham, Burnley, forest and a little bit Leeds to not pick up any points at all during our “run” and that’s just to get out of the bottom three, unfortunately some of those teams are playing each other so it’s a mathematical fact that some of those 4 will pick up points.

We are 14 points behind forest, 14 that’s 5 wins just to get us one point above them, and I’m fairly sure they play West Ham soon, the sooner people get their heads out of the sand and accept we are down the better in my opinion, I actually think we are playing much better under edwards ( with the exception of a couple of games) but the problem we have is probably 70-80 percent of that squad knows they won’t be here next season if not gone in January.

14 Jan 2026 10:06:06
Very true. It's all well and good fighting until it's a mathematical impossibility - and they should. However Forest will pick up points. Realistically to get into 17th place as a minimum will take 35 points unless 2 of Forest, Bournemouth or another team fall off a cliff. That means needing 30 points in the second half of the season. At the half way stage 30 points leaves you just outside the top 4.

To turn around a team with 1 win in 20 to top 4 form in 18 games with a difficult January window really is the making of miracles.

14 Jan 2026 12:08:37
How much debt does the club have?

I read that as of May 2024, it was £103m. The following season our net spend on players was something like £3m as we sold Neto, Kilman and Podence etc and brought in Agbadou, Andre and co.

What was Jeff Shi doing to put an extra £200m debt on the club. Incompetence at its finest. Good riddance to him.

14 Jan 2026 12:57:49
I’ve been saying it for 3 years now good, where has the money been going? There is an interesting stat that not many people realise but fosuns spend per season since they bought us on transfers is around the 21 million pound mark, that’s averaged out over the whole of their tenure, 21 million pound a season, that’s poor for a mid to low level championship side never mind a supposedly established premier league side.

It’s abhorrent, like the season when we “had” to sell neves to avoid a psr breach, that same season Jeff gets a 62% pay rise! Fosun are in it for fosun they do not give a monkeys about the club/city/fans

14 Jan 2026 13:54:54
Good - the figures you are seeing in the May 2024 accounts - the latest available - show the debt to a financial institution of just over £100m.
This is offset by cash at bank of some £30m
So net debt to banks is only circa £70m.
But Wolves are owed £64m for players sold but owe £135m to other clubs for players bought or some £70m+ net.
Making external debt of £140m+.
Add on net debt to Fosun of circa £178m and you can see the club is in debt to well over £300m.
Clearly it is hard to know what the £178m is for owed for - was it cash injected or is a debt for services provided.


Even £140m is however will beyond the means of the club on an ongoing basis outside of the Prem so will have to be reduced - in fact there is no choice as some of it is owed now to other clubs for players bought.
Relegation, despite what Jeff very worryingly said, is a cataclysmic event for the club that will require brutal surgery on every aspect of the club but mainly of course the first team squad!

13 Jan 2026 01:25:03
J.Gomes has agreed terms with Napoli for a move in the Summer, no fee with Wolves agreed yet though.

13 Jan 2026 06:08:09
Well, it was to be expected. Good luck to the lad. I just hope the club use the money wisely.

11 Jan 2026 22:41:03
Besiktas have reportedly made a loan offer to Wolves for Emmanuel Agbadou.

The Turkish side are said to have offered €2M loan fee with an €10M buy option. Wolves want a higher offer. Agbadou has apparently approved the move to Turkey.

12 Jan 2026 10:39:59
Rated mate can't understand why Wolve
Sxw.ant to loan him out without obligation to buy. Plus should be asking for more money he cost Wolves 20mill euros with what there offering losing 8mill doesn't make sense.

12 Jan 2026 10:52:05
If he was the player he was last season rko I would be fuming but since Vitor got the boot he’s been absolutely gash, he’s going to be on a fair whack as well so let him go and get his wages off the books

12 Jan 2026 12:46:43
De Wolf I understand your point but Wolves have got very very few players who have shown his level of talent - basically 2 Andre and Gomes!
Consequently whilst I totally accept your point about his level of performance under Vitor I would perhaps suggest that he wasn't the only victim of that chaotic regime.
If he could be salvaged under the new regime the club would be selling one of its best players for pennies.


Surely it is a very low risk gamble - as I say it is pennies you are selling him for - with a very high potential reward?
If Wolves are to rebuild - either in the Prem after a great escape, (which the club desperately needs quality players to achieve) or in the Championship then it can't afford to sell its best players especially for pennies.

12 Jan 2026 13:48:36
I get where you are coming from gold but even the most optimistic of fans must accept we will be in the championship next season, to that end the players you mentioned ie Andre, Gomes and the like will be going anyway as there is no way they will want to play in the championship, and as a club we would not be able to finance the wages that a lot of them are on.

Personally if we can keep a core of young and hungry players and maybe pick up a few older heads we might bounce straight back up, but look at Leicester, Southampton who are the most comparable to us with the whole sell to buy, develop players to sell which if done correctly works a treat aka Bournemouth, Brighton but if done wrong it’s a disaster aka Leicester, Southampton, us
I think it’s only now Teflon Jeff has gone that fosun have realised just how bad the financial implications will be when and yes it’s when not if we go down

12 Jan 2026 15:26:21
De Wolf - Obviously you are correct re relegation and players leaving and you can only sell to people who will buy but the price does appear to be a distressed sale price.
Over the last few weeks he had started to recover and on his form of last year he is a top 6 quality player so selling him at a bottom 6 price is a financial disaster.
If he plays well, as he had been doing, for the next few months his value will be much higher in the summer.

Why then sell today at the very very bottom.
Plus the option means they have all the cards - if he gets injured or form actually drops off further - they can send him back but if he returns to top form they get him at the bargain bottom price and laugh at Wolves for yet another stupid transfer dealing!
I see no upside in loaning him out with such a modest option fee and lots and lots of downside!

12 Jan 2026 15:34:41
I was hoping someone came in for Toti Gomes. Agbadou looks a much better when he isn't trying to rectify Totis mistakes. Surely its no coincidence that our defence has looked better since Toti got injured.

12 Jan 2026 16:35:17
Agbadou is by far our best cental defender and the only one with pace. His problems lay in risky passes in dangerous areas and in the last few games before venturing off to Africa he seemed to have that resolved. No way would I sell for anything like the figures being muted.

12 Jan 2026 17:30:47
I can't believe we're even discussing an offer that low! Personally I think he's our best defender and should easily displace Mosquera or Doherty from the starting line up.
The principle of selling now whilst we can still get Premier prices only works if that's the price we're getting.

And although we're odds on for relegation whilst there's still an outside chance surely we should 'play to the whistle',
Every league place is worth £3mil approx, offloading our better players now just condemns us.

12 Jan 2026 18:57:17
Good - Toti is simply not a very good player as, despite reasonable physical attributes, his ability on the ball is far from the level required to play in the Prem.
However he was/is v cheap and will be adequate in the Championship,
Re the putative price for Emmanuel it is as if the club never learns - with the exception of the sales of Max Kilman and maybe Nunes - the club always seems to perform poorly in the market.
They have an unenviable record for massively under-pricing the players they sell, RAN, Cunha, Neto and Neves scream out.
However other departures such as Doherty, Semedo, Boly, Saiss, Coady, Lemina, Podence, Jimenez and Traore were terribly managed processes that meant Wolves ended up on the wrong side of the deals.


Wow reading that back you realise just how incompetent Jeff and his team was and it is clear why the club is in such a mess!
ps The club was no better on the buy side with too many bad signings to list
However to give you just one example of their inability to learn not only was Fabio the poster boy of bad deals but astonishingly Trincao, Guedes and Fer Lopez were almost paper patterns - young Iberians totally unready/suitable for adult football in England! but bought /loaned for huge fees on huge wages!

12 Jan 2026 21:23:51
That's harsh TFIOG some of the players listed did play well for us depending on the system they were played in.
Toti is a LCB or a LB. Yes he isn't the quickest player but I'd argue he is actually a useful option in a back three as he likes to drive forward and take his team mates with him.
Trincao is a difficult one I wouldn't put him with Guedes, Nunes and Cutrone.
He actually didn't look out of place technically but the physical and pace of the prem was a difference. I do think he would have been a good option for £25m though and he did play a role in creating opportunities for players to create assists. I'd argue we missed out on him. Its the same with Podence and Sarabia some fans loathe them but we miss those types of player this season. Although Arias and Hwang look like they want to fight which is encouraging.
The issue at Wolves has been under Nuno and now we have never replaced a cb with a fast CB (Man City have 5!?!). Surely it can't be hard to scout players for all positions with pace?
Mane is the perfect blend of pace and technical ability like Jota.
I make this point as we lost 3 forwards in the summer Sarabia, Silva and Cunha. Yes all different types of players but
we have had to drop to our U-17's for a player to make a difference in the Prem.
Which I find madness to be honest credit to Mane though.

The other departures sentence is wrong in my opinion Fosun kept those players as the club, manager and fans we all wanted them to stay after the success of the 2019-2020 season. That season was a success for Wolves we finished 7th for a second consecutive season and missed out on Europe because Arsenal (a poor Arsenal) won their only trophy under Arteta.
The whole point of a football contract is that both the player and club can play it to suit what they want. A 5 year deal is a third of most players careers. I think the injuries to Boly and Jimenez played a major part in those decisions. And to be fair Boly hasn't put a season together since he has left and we did give Raul 2 seasons to prove himself (and he didn't). Semedo and Traore both chose to leave so how do you manage that? Both were offered extraordinary contracts as well. I think Lemina was the fall guy but he wasn't doing himself or the club any favours.
As fans I think we all respected Coady, Doc and Saiss but Lage wanted to go to a back 4. I agree it was a disaster, but what if it had come off its easy to look at decisions and say in hindsight why didn't they do that?

By the way this is not me picking on TFIOG. I respect his opinion enormously. But when you read some posts its easy to forget the timing of some decisions over the past 5 years. Put all the major decisions and what was happening style wise in the prem during those years in a chronological order. Its scary the league has gone from 3/5 at the back to high press, target man to now playing it long and direct. Its easy to see how clubs falter. You can't chase the style or tactic you have to set it in the prem. Brighton have been very good at it maybe because they keep replacing young players with more young players. But keep very good experienced Prem players in the squad like Dunk and Welbeck.

It's all interesting I think a major factor we have lost quality players and not been able to attract them is because Nuno and JLO were very well known managers that players wanted to play under. Is that still the case with Gary O'neill and Rob (no offence I agree he is doing well in the circumstances)?
Would a Cunhaesque player want to play for Rob Edwards this is the transfer window to see it.
We needed two fast but technically good forwards in September we are now on day 12 of January and we aren't even close. We need a RWB for balance as Jackson isn't good enough attacking wise or defensively. Genuinely a RWB that can defend ugly and put 2-3 crosses in a game would be exciting at the minute.
I know some fans want to make wholesale changes to the squad I would say be careful what you wish for. This team isn't miles off putting a few results together they have lost most their games by a goal. ODCL

11 Jan 2026 11:31:25
I’m. Hearing from brummie mates that villa player coming and we all know who it is from edwards luton days 😉

11 Jan 2026 12:55:42
Injured for at least another month or so mate so hope not.

11 Jan 2026 15:44:52
I doubt it he’s got an injury at the minute and it’s touch and go when he will be back