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13 Jun 2026 18:14:12
Wolves are set to announce Cesar Peixoto on Monday. He’s been in Wolverhampton since Thursday sorting out the final details.

There is a growing belief that Familicao right back Rodrigo Pineiro will be a Wolves player next season.

Face competition from Olympiakos, but that one looks unlikely.

Andre Luiz also looks a growing possibility, as he’s struggling in Greece. RE wanted him in January, but Peixoto reportedly is pushing the deal.

13 Jun 2026 15:38:31
We linked with Olympiacos Andre Luiz winger apparently.

13 Jun 2026 17:08:38
Get him in! Rate this lad.

13 Jun 2026 01:55:24
Rodrigo Pinheiro is in very advanced talks with Wolves, still work to do tho, and Olympiacos are also in talks and trying to convince player to join them instead. Wolves ahead atm, one to watch. Fee will be around €6million euros. Both Lima and Jackson Tchatchoua expected to leave ⌛️

13 Jun 2026 11:12:46
He is a right back, not a Mendes client. 23 years old, presumably will share game time with Trippier, 35, and then hopefully take over the position longer term.

13 Jun 2026 14:46:31
He plays left back also.

12 Jun 2026 23:09:32
Rodrigo Pinheiro is very close to signing for Wolves allegedly.

13 Jun 2026 06:39:37
Who is he?

13 Jun 2026 08:09:28
Isn't he a right-back? The same as Trippier.

13 Jun 2026 14:46:43
Plays left back also.

12 Jun 2026 00:10:23
The rumours of Trippier ripping his contract up are completely false. Player was made aware of the potential of managerial change before singing.

12 Jun 2026 07:05:03
I'm glad we are all on the same hymn sheet. 😉

12 Jun 2026 11:26:00
2ndGen: That's one of the biggest rumours posted recently. The Club's been in decline since the day Nuno's departure was announced. Changing one Shi for another has only fooled STH's, who are struggling to justify why they renewed. It's now out in the open that, from CEO downwards, all positions hold no authority within the Club; they've all become untenable, and in any other business would be followed by resignations. We can only hope the decision maker or makers over in China are fully conversant with the ever changing rules of the EFL, as we've seen what's happened to other Clubs with points deductions and all kinds of different sanctions.

If Fosun are intent on retaining ownership of the Club, their next move really needs to be installing experienced football administrators to run their business, the kind of people Shi number one sacked because he didn't understand what they'd done or why he needed them.

12 Jun 2026 12:12:33
Thats one way of taking my rumour.
Personally as a STH I am not surprised the club have sacked Edwards and nor am I surprised that they signed Trippier and Raul.

We can sit here and say he is a club man and we need to stick by him. But 9 wins in 63 Premier games as a manager is woefully bad.
Do you know his defensive tactics? The defence was the same with the addition of Krejci that finished 20 points clear of relegation under Vitor.

We have also stuck by club men in the past. Sellars, for example, led us down the path of fumbling over Man City academy players.

Also Fosun (the owners you belittle and put down) signed up Raul, Traore, Jota, Moutinho, Neves, Podence, Gomes, Andre and Neto on long term deals that we the fans wanted.

However there is a reality check with the PSR rules that were introduced in Summer 2021. Those rules were to stop clubs like Wolves from continuing to compete with the top teams as Wolves had pre Covid. The sale of these players listed above in either the last year of their contracts or on free shows Wolves and Fosun got the very best, or gave players time like Raul and Traore to regain the levels they reached in 2019-2021.



Look at Leicester, exactly the same club but managed and dealt with very differently to Wolves.
At no point last summer did Fosun say we have no money we aren't signing anyone like Leicester.
We were linked with Pubill, Sanches, Casado, Guessand and Elliott.
Those players chose the path they thought was best. They should have come to Wolves; Pubill and Casado have made the World Cup for Spain.

The trick in football now is to get a manager that has a different style of football that likes to play a back 4. Nuno's style got sussed out, although I love the bloke.

Vitor nor Teti could attract the players needed last summer. We need a coach to attract the players needed.

I think we should go for Cesar and I would like to see some young British players brought in as well.
Arrey-Mbi (Braga-Gestifute player), Alleyne (Man City), Devine (Spurs) and some young attacking players with pace needed.

Lets remember there are Wolves fans that didn't like Vitinha, Trincao, Goncalves, Silva, Guedes, Semedo among others.

Most are playing at the WC.

12 Jun 2026 13:08:40
Glad to hear it. It would be pushing my limits if Trippier left.

12 Jun 2026 16:59:56
That seems very odd, Exwolves. Trippier was definitely influenced by RE. He said he was the reason he signed. Where did you get that info?

12 Jun 2026 20:30:32
Every new player says the old line, 'I felt a connection with the gaffer.' It's what everyone wants to hear. He was just being professional, in my view. He would also know that if Wolves started off badly, then RE would have been sacked, so I don't buy this rumor.

12 Jun 2026 21:02:46
Didn't realize Trippier was a singer. 😂

12 Jun 2026 21:52:02
I hope so exwolves. I hope so.

13 Jun 2026 11:41:34
2ndGen: It was ten years ago they bought the players you mention, bought their way to the Prem, they sold them all as soon as they forced Nuno out, and, over the next six seasons, bought & sold their way to the Championship. If that's not mismanagement, then what is? In ten years they've achieved absolutely nothing, back where they started, and now with a Head Coach who doesn't know the League, who seems to have been appointed over the head of the Club's CEO.

Other Clubs have had Chinese owners, they all failed, ours are still failing. We all want Wolves where we belong, we deserve better, Fosun won't turn the Club around, they've done too much damage, re-signing Raul might keep the fans happy for a while, but the next crisis will never be far away.

13 Jun 2026 14:26:21
Kieran Trippier is reportedly happy with the situation and all the rumours have been confirmed as fake.

13 Jun 2026 16:38:46
I love these discussions in preseason.
Ron it's your opinion and that's fine.

But what I would caveat is that fans tend to forget the chronology of the signings and sales so here goes:

2016/17 — Championship (Fosun's first season)
Arrivals
Helder Costa – £13m
Ivan Cavaleiro – £7m
Prince Oniangue – £2m
Romain Saïss – £3m
Paul Gladon – £1m
Cameron Borthwick‑Jackson – loan
Andreas Weimann – loan
Nouha Dicko – free return
João Teixeira – loan
Silvio – free
Total Spent: £30m
Departures
Kevin McDonald – £1.25m
Jed Wallace – £0.5m
Tommy Rowe – free
Bjorn Sigurdarson – £0.5m
Various loans out
Total Received: £2.5m
Net Spend: –£27.5m
2017/18 — Championship (Promotion season)
Arrivals
Rúben Neves – £15.8m
Diogo Jota – loan
Willy Boly – loan
Leo Bonatini – loan
John Ruddy – free
Ryan Bennett – free
Barry Douglas – £1m
Roderick Miranda – £2.5m
Rafa Mir – £1.5m
Total Spent: £21m
Departures
Nouha Dicko – £3m
Joe Mason – loan
Prince Oniangue – loan
George Saville – £1m
Total Received: £4m
Net Spend: –£17m
2018/19 — Premier League (7th place)
Arrivals
Diogo Jota – £12.6m (loan → permanent)
Willy Boly – £10m
Rui Patrício – £16m
Adama Traoré – £18m
Leander Dendoncker – loan
João Moutinho – £5m
Jonny Otto – loan
Total Spent: £61m
Departures
Barry Douglas – £3m
Benik Afobe – £12m
Roderick Miranda – loan
Prince Oniangue – £1m
Total Received: £16m
Net Spend: –£45m
2019/20 — Premier League (Europa League run)
Arrivals
Raúl Jiménez – £30m
Pedro Neto – £16m
Bruno Jordão – £8m
Patrick Cutrone – £16m
Leander Dendoncker – £12m (loan → permanent)
Jesús Vallejo – loan
Daniel Podence – £17m (Jan)
Total Spent: £99m
Departures
Ivan Cavaleiro – £10m
Hélder Costa – £16m
Patrick Cutrone – loan fee
Roderick Miranda – free
Total Received: £27m
Net Spend: –£72m
2020/21 — Premier League (Nuno's final season)
Arrivals
Fábio Silva – £35m
Nelson Semedo – £28m
Ki‑Jana however – £10m
Vitinha – loan
Rayan Aït‑Nouri – loan
Willian José – loan
Total Spent: £73m
Departures
Diogo Jota – £41m
Matt Doherty – £15m
Helder Costa – £1m add‑on
Ryan Bennett – free
Total Received: £57m
Net Spend: –£16m
2021/22 — Premier League (Bruno Lage)
Arrivals
José Sá – £6.8m
Rayan Aït‑Nouri – £9.5m (loan → permanent)
Hee‑chan Hwang – loan
Yerson Mosquera – £4.5m
Francisco Trincão – loan
Total Spent: £21m
Departures
Rui Patrício – £10m
Rafa Mir – £12m
Ruben Vinagre – £17m (loan + sale)
Patrick Cutrone – £4m
Total Received: £43m
Net Spend: +£22m
2022/23 — Premier League (Lage → Lopetegui)
Arrivals
Matheus Nunes – £38m
Gonçalo Guedes – £27m
Nathan Collins – £20.5m
Sasa Kalajdzic – £15m
Diego Costa – free
Mario Lemina – £10m (Jan)
Pablo Sarabia – £4.5m (Jan)
Craig Dawson – £3.3m (Jan)
Total Spent: £118m
Departures
Morgan Gibbs‑White – £42.5m
Leander Dendoncker – £13m
Romain Saïss – free
Marçal – free
Total Received: £55m
Net Spend: –£63m
2023/24 — Premier League (Financial reset)
Arrivals
Matheus Cunha – £44m (loan → permanent)
Jean‑Ricner Bellegarde – £12.8m
Tommy Doyle – loan
Santiago Bueno – £8.5m
Boubacar Traoré – £9m (loan → permanent)
Total Spent: £74m
Departures
Rúben Neves – £47m
Nathan Collins – £23m
Conor Coady – £7.5m
Raúl Jiménez – £5.5m
Gonçalo Guedes – loan fee
Total Received: £83m
Net Spend: +£9m
2024/25 — Premier League (O'Neil's rebuild)
Arrivals
Jørgen Strand Larsen – £25m
Rodrigo Gomes – £12m
Noha Lemina – £4m
Tawanda Chirewa – £2m
Loans + small fees
Total Spent: £45m
Departures
Matheus Nunes – £53m
Max Kilman – £40m
Daniel Podence – £7m
Jonny Otto – free
Various loans
Total Received: £100m
Net Spend: +£55m
2025/26 — Premier League (up to June 2026)
Arrivals
(Real transfers only — as of June 2026)
Jørgen Strand Larsen – £23m
Loan recalls
Total Spent: £23m
Departures
Pedro Neto – £52m
Sasa Kalajdzic – £2m loan fee
Loan fees
Total Received: £54m
Net Spend: +£31m

***These are approximate values from TransferMarket. They would have been slightly more with agent fees etc.***

Also the players fee may have been paid the following summer from when they joined due to us signing them on loan with obligation to sign.

This is leaving out Jackson Tchatoua, Wolfe, Tolu, Arias, Fer Lopes and Krejci signed for £100m.

The total of each season are:

Season Spent Received Net Spend
2016/17 £30m £2.5m –£27.5m
2017/18 £21m £4m –£17m
2018/19 £61m £16m –£45m
2019/20 £99m £27m –£72m
2020/21 £73m £57m –£16m
2021/22 £21m £43m +£22m
2022/23 £118m £55m –£63m
2023/24 £74m £83m +£9m
2024/25 £45m £100m +£55m
2025/26 £23m £54m +£31m
TOTAL £565m £441.5m –£43.5m

That total is really important to watch on the right hand side. As under the PSR rules from August 2021 you could make a net loss of £105m over three years. To fall under the new rules Fosun had to pay a £100m loan they had made to Wolves as the club could no longer have that debt.

Also you can see due to the PSR rules in 2021 the total net spend is well within the new PSR rules. As you say the players were signed over the 10 years. But also our wages went up astronomically especially in 2020-2021 as we tried to keep fan favourites Neves, Raul, Moutinho, Traore at the the club. The wage bill in 2022/2023 was £310m a season!! Alarm bells that's why the club sold Neves that summer and let Moutinho leave.

But the crux of it is even though they made the money they made on the sales of Neves, Cunha, Morgan Gibbs White and Neto they couldn't just spend the same money again as they still couldn't exceed the loss of £105m net spend over three seasons.

The net spend over 2023-2026 is exactly £105m that shows how tight it was. Also the links with other players like Ramos, Vitinha, Trincao, Andre Silva were shelved due to these restrictions. The ambition is at the club but our commercial revenue of circa £210m can't compete with teams in European football. Man City by comparison is around £700m.

So as much as fans point the finger at Fosun. Look at how the league and Var have held Wolves back since we are back in the Prem.
VAR cost us 18 points in 19/20 which stopped Wolves getting champions league football we missed out by 5 points. It's funny how the new PSR rules were pushed forward by City, United and Arsenal to stop us competing with them.

Our swift success has ultimately held us back as the powers of the Premier League grouped up and stopped us in our tracks.

We need a manager that has a style of play that can press something that has changed in the Prem over the past 3 years. We need to move to a back 4 as we are being overloaded in midfield. Whilst also replacing the pace and technical ability lost up front.

I also disagree they just sold players and didn't replace them you could argue J Gomes and Andre replaced Neves and Moutinho. You could argue S Bueno replaced Kilman. You could argue Semedo replaced Jonny. Whilst Sarabia replaced Podence.

Last summer was a farce and I blame Teti and Vitor mainly because I think they aimed for targets that were just too big for a club like Wolves in some respects. And they didn't have a plan B or c. So once Semedo had decided he wasn't signing we should have signed a replacement straight away. They had from Easter 2025 till September to get everything sorted and knew RAN and Cunha were leaving.

13 Jun 2026 17:52:17
I don't want to piss on your parade, Fosun Project, but you've listed JSL as £25m in the 24/25 season and again as £23m in 25/26. Would this not affect your calculations?

11 Jun 2026 21:48:04
Kieran Trippier considering cancelling his contract with (Vodafone and) Wolves. Feels he's been misled. Maybe Peixoto can turn Tchatchoua into a world beater. Good times.

11 Jun 2026 22:31:05
Liam Keen has said it's fake news.

The longer this saga goes on, the more info is coming out.

Apparently Edwards was told after the Burnley game that he was going but this wouldn't be announced until Wolves had secured his replacement.

I've listened to a few different podcasts today and it's amazing just how varied the information is. What to believe is anyone's guess.

11 Jun 2026 19:08:35
Can't wait to see Raul play tonight.

11 Jun 2026 20:36:29
It's beautiful. I forgot what a striker looked like running forwards having shots.

11 Jun 2026 21:36:02
And scoring goals!

11 Jun 2026 17:56:33
According to Harry Mansell on YouTube, it was Guo who stepped in and sacked RE, overriding everyone at the Club.
Interesting comments from TalkSport panel, with Simon Jordan unsympathetic, and Brad Friedel saying that in football at this level, when a new manager signs a contract he's just one day closer to the sack.

11 Jun 2026 18:24:56
Interesting. Longmynd just reiterates what everyone is thinking, in that Nathan Shi has no authority, really, and it's still the same old Fosun epidemic. In reality, nothing changes there. Whatever Guo says, goes.
Simon Jordan is irrelevance personified, so who cares what he thinks.
Brad Friedel is spot on. Piexoto (Zenga 2), take note!

11 Jun 2026 18:30:53
My typo earlier, Kenny Jackett, not Kenny Hackett. Thanks Doog947 for correcting my mistake.

11 Jun 2026 18:43:49
Just asking, but which journalists or 'sources' do folks find most reliable? And, by contrast, which ones are not trustworthy at all?

11 Jun 2026 19:54:19
The best is David Ornstein and John Percy followed by Fabrizio.

Alex Crook and anything posted by Sport Witness I tend to ignore, as it's usually incorrect or 2 days old.

11 Jun 2026 20:39:03
Think it depends on where the player comes from, to be honest.
Fabrizio is pretty good on European targets, but slower on South American targets in the past.
Wolves are notoriously quiet on doing dealings, as they don't want to jeopardise the deal.
I would imagine someone at Gil Vicente or in Portugal took an easy pay day.

11 Jun 2026 15:06:53
Rob Edwards was originally told that information about his future being in doubt on Wednesday was inaccurate.

Matt Jackson then informed Rob Edwards on Thursday morning that he was sacked.

It's said that Edwards' sudden departure has caused 'outrage' in the Wolves dressing room.

11 Jun 2026 16:27:46
Sky reporting that RE is away abroad on holiday ATM.
This makes the methodology of sacking him even more deplorable, even though he wasn't the man to take us forward.

11 Jun 2026 17:18:37
When Fosun first took over and Kenny Hackett was given the 'ok', then 4 days later Jeff Shi sacked him because "not the person to take the club forward." Difference being that Kenny had been quite successful and for us had a win ratio of 46%. They were after Lopetegui at the time, but he took the Spain job and we ended up with Zenga, then Paul Lambert, before Nuno came along and made us into a good side. This new manager had a decent season, so I guess the idea of a "winning" manager appealed to our club management more. If I see the byline 'Crook' on a story, I tend to ignore it, especially regarding him 'knowing' what players are thinking or saying.

Most players are on holiday or at the World Cup, so at this moment there is no "dressing room" to be "outraged", but cheap news outlets use cheap 'reporters'.
The timing seems bad, I agree, but it does give the new guy time to put his own plan into action. Does anyone know about Rui Pedro Silva's situation? I would think he would stay, but who knows.
If there is a major fault here then to my mind it is with Fabrizio Romano for announcing stuff before RE had been told. He is rarely wrong, but I think he is the main reason this has gone poorly. That's just my opinion.

11 Jun 2026 17:49:26
Kenny Jackett was certainly No 'Hackett'.

11 Jun 2026 17:57:25
Reports suggest that the new coach was approached a month ago. Sounds like before the home match against Fulham. Did Raul know and approve when spoken to by Nathan? Maybe that made the difference. It annoys me when people say that Rob was recruited for the Championship.

He was actually recruited to keep us in the Premier League. 2/3 results aside, he failed miserably in that brief. Harsh to sack him now, maybe he should have been warned that his job wasn't safe. That's football, and he will get a handsome payoff for failure, happens all the time!

11 Jun 2026 20:41:06
Someone with sense. Well said, Deep Throat.

11 Jun 2026 22:35:56
Been a while, but today's news dragged me
Back in, it's all seems out of the blue at the moment, but I'd say this has been in pipeline for a few a bit, it's a huge gamble if not. I liked Rob, but footballs a results game, and in the 7 months I didn't see any improvement apart from the odd game, we had a side that should have been competing with the bottom 6 or 7 sides on paper, but we failed badly, no shape or structure as with VP at the start, a good tradesmen cant keep blaming his tools for a bad job, you have to take ownership, and at times Rob blamed the tools towards the end too often.

I likeable lad, who possibly could have done a job in the championship, but Fosun seem to have other ideas on how they want to move forward from here, the proof will
Be in the pudding, it's a big gamble either way.

11 Jun 2026 13:38:40
No matter what you think of Rob, love him or hate him. Whether he's won or lost games, played attractive or boring football. If the reports are true, that he heard of his dismissal via his family on social media, it still an utterly disgusting way to treat a human being.

11 Jun 2026 15:27:29
Bag to agree, that is shameful behaviour. Regardless of whatever you think of RE, it's a bad way to treat anyone. Hope he takes them to a tribunal and takes them to the cleaners.

11 Jun 2026 17:05:46
A tribunal for what?
How many managers take their ex-clubs to a tribunal?

11 Jun 2026 20:27:59
I'm no lawyer, but I would be surprised if any pay off doesn't include a confidentiality clause.

11 Jun 2026 10:39:48
There was a report out yesterday saying Re had nothing to do with getting Jiminez to sign. It was all to do with Nathan Shi who spoke to Jiminez straight after the Fulham game. Talked about rejoining Wolves. Also spoke to Jiminez familly. He also had a hand in getting Andre to stay.

11 Jun 2026 11:30:27
What experience has Nathan Shi had with any of the new signings, and does he pick the team and the playing style? He is just a mouthpiece for Fosun. Mendes is behind this for sure.

11 Jun 2026 12:19:05
So Mendes picks the team and style of play.

11 Jun 2026 15:46:54
Mendes is lining his pockets again. He just cares about himself and money.