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04 Sep 2026 19:23:34
Wolves turned down PSV Eindhoven loan offer plus £18m obligation to buy for Ladislav Krejci on Wednesday.

Dutch window now closed and Wolves confirm Krejci will not be leaving the club despite other windows still open.

04 Sep 2026 21:55:36
It just seems crazy that these clubs are offering so much below what we paid for him just a couple of months ago. I realise we paid top end for him, but why on earth would the club want to give away a player for £8m less than the fee we are still paying off for him?! It does make you wonder how hard he was pushing for a move.

Thank goodness we said no. 👍

04 Sep 2026 23:09:04
It also appears we didn't seem interested in selling Mane. According to what I've just read, we could have sold him if we wanted to. Is that a sign the club are trying to keep some of our assets?

I know we didn't get many new faces in, but as someone pointed out, with the likes of Lopez back and looking good, we have got some newish players making the first team. Also, keeping Krejic is positive; if we get the defence right, we could do well this season.

04 Sep 2026 16:04:08
Free agent Bertrand Traore is apparently being considered with rumours that Santi may be off to Saud.

04 Sep 2026 16:31:56
Wolves are in talks to sign free agent winger Bertrand Traore.

The Burkina Faso international spent last season with Sunderland & is set to become Cesar Peixoto's latest new arrival.

With the squad currently at max capacity, an impending exit is likely.

Here you go, mate. I'll just add to your post rather than start a new one.

04 Sep 2026 19:37:44
He's actually a half decent player. Could do well in the Championship.

04 Sep 2026 22:22:07
Agreed Pikey, not sure what his fitness is like, but he's only 30 years old, so could potentially be a master stroke in the Champ. 👍

04 Sep 2026 13:47:53
Has the leopard changed its spots? Wolves would not entertain offers for Lopez and Hugo Bueno and Mane. Athletico Madrid we're after Bueno, Liverpool and MU we're sniffing around Mane, and 3 to 4 clubs after Lopez.

Is this going to continue or is it just till get back in PL, hopefully next season? Then everything goes back to normal, sell your best players to buy shite.

04 Sep 2026 15:43:06
Money talks for virtually every club in the world, so if any club had been serious about any of those three, there's no way they'd still be with Wolves, given Fosun have previous.

04 Sep 2026 17:38:46
Will that change come January or is the manager actually having a say?

04 Sep 2026 23:32:04
It could also be that they expect their values to rise, so they are delaying the exit until these players are worth more?

02 Sep 2026 22:28:02
Did we get the left back?

03 Sep 2026 00:17:41
Yeah, Ghislain Konan.

02 Sep 2026 21:24:44
Radical idea!
The James deal showed what could have been done and several equally good opportunities were lost to rivals - especially Boro, (Lankshear, Vitek, ACD and Phillips), who used their also limited finances, the Hayden and Rogers money, far, far better than Wolves.
With the benefit of hindsight - and many of you may think this is a totally unacceptable idea - should Wolves have targeted/spent the fees and wages on the young HG talents like James that were discussed at length on the Forum rather than Said and Jimenez?
It would have been a gamble not to take Raul when he was available, as the young HG talent may not have been obtainable in any case and Raul would have probably been gone by then.


However, as I say, with the benefit of hindsight and from an albeit very small sample size this looks like it might have been a better idea!
Thoughts?

03 Sep 2026 00:16:07
I genuinely don't think clubs were interested in the players left at the club. Not an excuse, but all our CBs are awful in my opinion.

I think the players need to take responsibility for the view people have of them after last season, and fight and play for the Wolves.

This is the reason the squad overhaul never happened and the reason a more diplomatic and pragmatic coach was brought in. With a tactical shape and style. It's not the finished article by any means, and it's still in its early days. Last night reminded me quite a lot of the Cardiff defeat in Nuno's promotion season. Cesar's Wolves played far better last night, but anti football wasn't the tactic used against us like Warnock's Bluebirds. Last night we were punished for losing our shape, or not controlling the situation when defending. That's something, as a team, they need to take on board and learn quickly. But all 4 goals were avoidable, and two, the Mukasa ones, were very fortunate.

I think we lack pace at CB and wide forwards. But I do think the squad is pretty strong for the Championship. Yes, I wanted a squad that was like Nuno's pioneering Wolves of 2018 that all knew what they were doing.

But maybe the game has changed the last 5 years, from our counter-attack style to possession, to now pressing and being more fluid. While we are struggling to adjust to this style, many other clubs are as well. Pretty much all the bottom half of the prem can't play that style either.

Our issue was we sold pace and experience from our squad the past 18 months, with Cunha, Neto, RAN, Sarabia and Semedo leaving.

I think Raul and Trippier will be useful over the season. But we need to encourage the youngsters to keep their heads up and take players on. They are well thought of, the likes of Mane, R Gomes, Lopez, Chirewa and Neave, so we need to stick by them. There are a few games where our support may be tested before the international break. Plus we signed Said and Adriano; both look like exciting prospects, as well as they want to take players on and be a bit more exciting.

I think the team is more balanced than the last couple of years, without the sparkle of an exciting forward or a completely domineering CB with pace.

It's all about consistency. Can this squad be consistent?

Frustration and passion after a defeat is a good sign after last night.

03 Sep 2026 15:24:25
Do you think our manager and the team (well, the defence) are oblivious to the fan's thoughts or do they think everything is going swimmingly and nothing needs to change?

03 Sep 2026 16:58:44
Good q, BoS.
I suspect the football manager and players know what is needed, and their views are probably pretty much in line with the fans - the rational ones anyway.
The owner/club management probably don't know/care what the fans on social media are saying - so long as enough people buy tickets and merchandise.
Without advice - which is almost certainly not independent or too honest (I doubt hard truths go down well with many managers of failing businesses, and as a football club, Wolves are failing - it may, of course, not be failing from Fosun's perspective, however, which is probably not aligned with the fans' viewpoint) - they will have no clue about football.


Surely, however, they can understand results and relegation, and so are probably disappointed and maybe even confused with the outcome of their efforts?

04 Sep 2026 07:18:29
Enso Gonzales remains at the club and is getting game time with the U21 side. He apparently starred in their latest game, and is someone, once he builds up match fitness and strength after a torrid time with injuries, who could provide competition for the wide right position.

04 Sep 2026 09:52:09
Fosun - who is this exciting prospect Adriano you said we signed?

02 Sep 2026 13:50:59
Sean Neave, welcome to Wolves.
I am all for giving younger players a chance, but he is, in my opinion, not the build for a striker, but perhaps he will prove me wrong.
He will need to toughen up.
Let's wait & see.
Best of luck.

02 Sep 2026 17:09:32
Was Vardy? He was non league material too.

02 Sep 2026 07:22:57
According to Sky Sports News, Neave deal done and will be reported later today. As for the LB, he's a free agent and can sign any time.

02 Sep 2026 10:12:20
Neave confirmed by club.

02 Sep 2026 06:49:08
Did we sign that Newcastle striker Neve?

02 Sep 2026 06:09:11
So I'm sure Nathan Shi said that the club had 8 months (since November 2025) to prepare for the Championship and that players had been identified and talks were ongoing so that the Head Coach had the best chance to win promotion.



Now I know that Raul and Trippier are excellent players but where are the others that the club had 8 months to identify? If this is the best that the scouting and recruitment team can do - a Comoros international, a loan player and 2 keepers who are unlikely to play, then what the he'll are they doing? Where are the longervterm signings that will take this club forward and be the heartbeat of the squad?

02 Sep 2026 11:10:36
Jorden James.

02 Sep 2026 11:35:54
Jordan James is on a season-long loan with an option to buy, not an obligation to buy. Until that option is taken up, I wouldn't class him as a long-term investment, a bit like the Angel Gomes deal.

02 Sep 2026 13:22:36
imo, JJ will impress and be signed. I expect him to start alongside Fer Lopez in the near future. It seemed he & Fer Lopez had a good connection in the 2nd half once he was subbed in.

02 Sep 2026 14:40:27
Maybe I'm being cynical, but if Wolves do exercise the option to sign Jordan James for the agreed fee, no doubt that Fosun will sell him for a profit within the same or the very next transfer window.

They've proved this summer that any overhaul is to be done on the cheap. Anyone that can be sold for a decent profit will be. We can all see that we needed another striker in case Armstrong or Raul get injured.

So, what do the club do? Loan in an unproven 19 year old who they rate highly, but there is no option to purchase should he impress. So, if he does well, Newcastle are quids in. Surely there were strikers available with a proven track record at this level who we could have signed.

02 Sep 2026 20:19:58
I think it's more because no club wanted to sign the Wolves players from last season, Goodwhileitlasted1.

I've said numerous times we should be aiming for two young cbs and two or three forwards with pace, along with technical ability.

But on paper our squad is very strong:

Sa
Trippier, S Bueno, Krejci, H Bueno
JJ, Andre
R Gomes, Lopez, Mane
Raul

I have my concerns over consistency, but the biggest bleeds on the squad have been moved on in Hwang, Tolu, Wolfe, Hoever and Johnstone.



We have arguably kept the better cbs from last season, and better forwards in Mane and R Gomes.

We have also brought in experience in Raul and Trippier, along with two exciting young players in JJ and Lopes.

We have to get behind them, although there will be big changes if we go up.

03 Sep 2026 15:28:33
All that's very positive, FP2G, but why are we still playing Toti?

01 Sep 2026 23:57:58
Wolves set to sign Ghislain Konan and Sean Neave as their two late additions.

Both players likely to be unveiled tomorrow if all goes well.

Liam Keen.

02 Sep 2026 05:39:18
I thought the loan window closed at the same time as the transfer window.

02 Sep 2026 06:03:40
Konan can be signed as he is a free agent.
Unless the paperwork was signed before the deadline, Neave isn't coming in. The transfer window, including loan moves between clubs, closed at 11pm yesterday.

02 Sep 2026 08:35:16
Sky Sports reporting Neave deal done.

02 Sep 2026 09:29:11
I'll believe it when it's officially announced. No one else seems to be reporting it yet.

02 Sep 2026 15:28:07
You were saying, Goodwhileitlasted?

02 Sep 2026 22:44:12
I stand corrected. But, I still think Fosun are taking us fans for mugs. Just my opinion.

01 Sep 2026 23:54:48
Wolves set to sign Ivory Coast international free agent Ghislain Konan.

Left-back worked with Cesar Peixoto at Gil Vicente last season & will be the replacement for David Moller Wolfe.