28 Aug 2025 13:41:59
Now the question is this:

Strand Larsen signed a contract to play for 4 years at Wolves. The club had agreed to his terms and conditions and the contract was signed.

JSL has now asked to leave as he can earn 10 times his current salary.

Who is to blame?

Shi for agreeing to the players demands just 6 weeks ago?

JSL for wanting out of his contract to earn more money than we can offer him?

1.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 14:20:57
I've got another question, had we just said from the very beginning that the very notion of selling our best striker within the VERY window we signed him was ridicolous and wouldn't even be entertained do you think we'd be were we are now?! Like I said before we have VERY clearly encouraged Newc with the wording/approach and now we are surprised that the players head been turned?!
Honestly this whole thing has been SO transparent! In fairness to the club/Jeff mind it CLEARLY works! As the very fact that the question is being asked as to where to assign blame shows that the smoke and mirrors clearly still fools fans! ?

2.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 14:34:23
Newcastle for unsettling him and being hypocrites after how they complained afteer Liverpool approached Isak.

3.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 15:07:53
Bullysboy, how do you the club haven't.

Ornstein has suggested that the club have come out and said that he will not be sold THIS window which would suggest that Shi is not willing to sell but now put yourself in the shoes of the player. You have agreed a very good salary for the next 4 years and you were happy to do so at the time but less than 2 months later a rival is offering you 10 times your salary to do the exact same thing. I get paid £60k per year doing my job, but if someone offered me £600k per year to do the same thing elsewhere, I'd be off.

4.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 15:41:57
I'm guessing JSL's £15K per week may have been pre agreed when the intial loan was itself agreed before anyone knew his true worth in this league. By keeping him to that even after realising his full potential was just leaving the back door open, especially after a 14 goal inaugural season.

I certainly don't blame JSL for wanting 10x what he's on now. Maybe if they'd have paid him more this may not have become such an issue.

5.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 15:42:52
Straight back at you fella, how are you so certain that they have said that?! In fact I'd go even further how do you know that the club haven't said to Larsen 'we are going to need ya to be a little more outspoken on this front else it's going to be a hard sell to the fans'?!
And yet again buddy you seem to be (intentionally) ignoring the fact that it's not up to Larsen it's the clubs decision! Like you say he's just signed a brand new contract! There should have been a clear message from the very start that this ain't happening this window and when you look at the rhetoric from the club that simply hasn't been the approach.
So let's wait and see then, cause if you are indeed correct (and I hope you are) that the club doesn't want to sell then he will still be a Wolves player at the end of the window, right?! ?

6.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 16:21:49
bull. Totally agree with you. It Wolves had been more emphatic at the start of this farce both Newcastle and JSL would know that it ain't happening full stop! The whole thing has turned into a circus. What I would say is that so far JSL would appear to have shown a fair degree of respect and not thrown his toys out of the pram unlike certain players are and have done in the past. Players being tapped up by other clubs is pretty disgusting though I imagine most of them do it. Pretty unsavoury but life seems to be like that these days. Maybe I'm just old and see things differently!

7.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 16:34:47
Haven’t the club offered to improve his contract I’m sure I read somewhere that they had £60k a week?

8.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 16:45:17
I don't Bullysboy and that's the truth.

I hope Shi sticks to his word but there is no doubt that JSLs head has been turned. I hope the club tell him to give them this season and they'll negotiate a move next summer. But if Ornstein and John Percy are reporting it, there is some substance to the story.

If JSLs heart is no longer in it, then I would reluctantly let him go but only once a replacement is found. At no point do we need this to turn into an Isak situation.

9.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 17:32:12
Fatcrispio, they've offered £80k per week allegedly. But if the player wants to leave, then I personally would withdraw the offer as there is no point paying him £60k per week for 1 season in the knowledge that he's leaving if £65m is offered. You may as well keep him on his current wage.

10.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 19:04:30
Astonished to find that he agreed to a £15k a week salary when he was a more than adequate Prem player last season.
You can argue that getting him to sign for as low a salary as possible is good business saving the club money but it also arguably bad business as it doesn't take long for the player to realise he is massively underpaid and both become vulnerable to the blandishments of other clubs and unhappy in the dressing room especially when seeing players who are massively below him in the pecking order earning far far more.
I accept that normally salaries are agreed before an employee starts working for an employer and thus with hindsight can be massively wrong both ways but in this case it is even more bizarre as he and the club knew he was a Prem quality player and thus worth much more when the contract was signed.
Frightening though that Newcastle, (and many other clubs it seems - Everton happily paying Grealish salary when Wolves would/surely did baulk at the prospect), are able and willing to offer salaries so far ahead of even the highest salary Wolves will offer.
Why can that be?
Why can't Wolves compete financially?
Sadly failing to attract/retain good players only leads to the club dropping down the league with the commensurate drop in income and attractiveness as a destination - the vicious spiral Wolves are currently riding to goodness knows where!

Ps looks like Wolves have another all Prem draw in the Carabao cup - is it the only one - again?

11.) 28 Aug 2025
28 Aug 2025 20:10:49
A simple rule surely would be that a player signed in a current window can't be sold within the same window.so any talk of selling jsl would be a non starter.as with any other player signed by any team.im suprised there isn't already such a ruling