27 Jul 2026 07:37:07
Hopefully the Blackburn game will see a team capable of challenging for the top two.

Wolves desperately - DESPERATELY! - need a new goalkeeper. I'll eat my nonexistent hat if Jose Sa starts against Blackburn.

Wolves also need solid backup players. Lima can't play as backup to Tripper. Peixoto might use Mosquera to cover Trippier. Lima is too young and inexperienced to be starting too many games this season.

I can remember the fiasco when Jonny Otto was injured and Ruben Vinagre was his cover. Disastrous.

Unless a serious offer comes in for Krejci, Wolves won't let him go. They paid too much for him, and they definitely won't take a loss on such a useful player.

Toti Gomes is a backup player. He's simply not good enough to be starting games week in week out.

Marshall Munetsi might be the central midfielder who plays alongside Andre.

Tommy Doyle is a solid backup player. He can play a number of games without issue. He's fine for the Championship, though the worrying stat is bcfc started dropping him.

Mane will be a key player for Wolves this season, but he needs remember that he has teammates. He's young and his decision making at times is questionable.

Not sure what's happening with Fer Lopez. Jean-Ricner Bellegarde can play as an attacking midfielder, or Mane can play that role with Hee-chan Hwang on the left. Say to say Hugo Bueno will be happier with Hwang on the left.

Will Sasa Kalajdzic play as backup to Raul Jimenez?

GK:? /Jose Sa

RB: Kieren Trippier (C)
RCB: Yerson Mosquera/Santiago Bueno/Nasser Djiga
LCB: Ladislav Krejci/Yerson Mosquera
LB: David Moller Wolfe/Hugo Bueno

DM: Andre
CM: Marshall Munetsi/Bellegarde/Tommy Doyle

RW: Rodrigo Gomes
AM:? /Fer Lopez/Bellegarde/Mateus Mane
LW: Mateus Mane/Rafiki Said/Hee-chan Hwang

CF: Raul Jimenez

Probably wrong in every area. As a priority Wolves must sign a goalkeeper. Who will provide Rodrigo Gomes will competition? Will Jean-Ricner Bellegarde be the main central midfielder? If Sasa stays will he be Raul's backup?

1.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 08:37:47
Very good post.
However, we seem to be sadly coming round to the acceptance that, frankly, very little will be changed this summer and that the side will be largely the wholly inadequate one that went down last year.
The side listed above will be ok for the Champ, but not much more, and certainly won't be "too good" for it.


The 2 new boys, plus, of course, Krejci and Andre, are Prem quality players who will balance some young bucks - Mane, Lopez (don't think he will be here, but...), and Gomes, and hopefully cover for some weaker players, particularly on the bench.
Heaven help us, though, if there are injuries to the "big 4".

2.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 08:46:18
Goodwhileitlasted1 has noted a potential goalie and midfielder could be in the pipeline. Let's hope they are eager to play and bring much-needed quality.

3.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 11:03:04
Apparently we're after Jordan Holsgrove, a Scot playing in Portugal.
He qualifies as home grown, and, interestingly, is the grandson of our own John Holsgrove from the 70s team.

4.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 12:04:19
Love the interesting fact, Tim. ???

Wolves have to sign him. Would surely mean one player leaving to bring him in. Wolves don't need a shedload of central midfielders.

5.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 12:12:22
Should be good for a few own goals then, Tim! Only those of a certain vintage will remember, but John Holsgrove was a very decent centre half who was unfortunate to be hounded out following a couple of own goals.

6.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 13:03:25
John Holsgrove, slightly before my time, I suspect, and I'm 64.

7.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 14:28:59
Nobody mentioning Santi Bueno? Has he gone? Coz he was really coming on at the end last season.

8.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 14:51:55
Saw him late last week. Abbey was strolling to training in his flip flops, and extremely sun tanned! I imagine he's a little behind the others in fitness, having had a short holiday following Uruguay's excellent World Cup!

9.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 15:22:50
Something went wrong with the punctuation, because I definitely didn't see Abbey strolling to training in his flip flops!

10.) 27 Jul 2026
27 Jul 2026 22:17:08
Arddunby, he played until 1971, when I assume you were 10?
He would have been replaced by Munro and Mcalle?
Abbey, you aren't the only one to comment on the lack of Santi "support", and to note that he had his best ever season for Wolves last year.
We even had a couple of posters on here recently mentioning him in the same sentence as John Terry and Tony Adams!!
My view, however, is that he can only play in a three due to his lack of pace, and although technically sound, his lack of physicality means that even at the lower level he probably can't hack it.


However, in a less physical league, he may be a viable option and so is a player Wolves may be able to/should sell?

11.) 28 Jul 2026
28 Jul 2026 09:44:43
Thanks, TFIOG. Yes, I remember Frank Munro and John Mcalle, but not much before.

12.) 28 Jul 2026
28 Jul 2026 11:41:33
Arrdunby, I am a similar age to you, but guess I was lucky and my dad took me to games from the age of 6, so was a committed fan from an early age!
I was a big fan of Hugh Curran (40 goals in just over 80 games) from that same late 60s/early 70s side!
Despite these figures, though, he wasn't a regular, as Bobby Gould was for some of the time, and Dougan was also available.


Although, other than Dougan, all of them were gone by the early 70s, when I saw the best ever (in my lifetime) Wolves side.
The Bill McGarry team that even surpasses Nuno's side.

13.) 28 Jul 2026
28 Jul 2026 12:25:08
I agree, TfioG, the 72 UEFA Cup side was probably the best side I can recall. Unfortunately, McGarry had difficulty replacing good, aging players like Dougan and Wagstaffe with players who could take us a step further. The start of the long-term issues of the last 50 years, in my view.

14.) 28 Jul 2026
28 Jul 2026 17:16:24
Hi, I completely agree. Santi would be great in the Championship, his nous alone would largely negate his lack of pace - first 2 yards in the head. However, he does have admirers at a higher level, so have always assumed he'd be one to go - although lack of concrete offers so far is encouraging.