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26 May 2026 09:35:34
Nuno's contract with West Ham has a relegation clause and he can be sacked without compensation.
1.) 27 May 2026 09:50:26
Nuno staying at West ham so guess we are stuck with Edwards.
16 Jul 2025 15:08:10
Former Wolves striker SEB (Sylvan Ebanks-Blake) is suing his surgeon for the loss of his football career at the early age of 27.
1.) 19 Jul 2025 09:48:18
Same surgeon that operated on my achilles and left me with nerve damage.
World's leading expert on feet and ankles allegedly!
17 Aug 2023 14:26:07
We're linked with Josh Brownhill of Burnley.
1.) 17 Aug 2023 15:41:23
God I hope not, bang average player. I'd sooner see Hodge or Jordao play to be honest! ?
2.) 17 Aug 2023 16:29:46
See Paul merson predicts Brighton win he always goes against us plus he says we can't and won't score he talks out his ass h.i never had liked him I go for a wolves win 3-1
3.) 17 Aug 2023 17:15:01
I’d rather us sign Josh Burnley, from Brownhills.
4.) 17 Aug 2023 17:22:50
Paul Merson keeps whistling the same old boring tune. Wolves 'don't score'. Therefore we will never score, right? Wrong! A team that never scores would not have stayed up last season. He may not have noticed that we finished very comfortably in 13th place last season in spite of VAR errors for which we have received several apologies. And he gets paid for writing this drivel? My prediction?
Wolves 2, Brighton 1.
5.) 17 Aug 2023 17:30:08
Deep, I’ve gone for a 2-1 win on me Super6. We can’t both be wrong, surely not
6.) 17 Aug 2023 18:43:13
He isn't a bad player to have for depth tbf but given the source it's come from I think a rumour is all it is mate.
7.) 17 Aug 2023 19:08:46
Who knows we're could run riot.its about time we battered a team
8.) 17 Aug 2023 19:41:59
Let's see guys as wolfy46 says we could run riot but it's still early days.
9.) 17 Aug 2023 20:31:57
We may not score many but we still managed to beat Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs, Brentford and Villa at Molineux last season. Let Merson say what he wants and when we don't lose or get relegated, watch him, Gabby and Chris Sutton all suddenly say that they always felt Wolves were a decent side.
10.) 18 Aug 2023 10:04:47
Liverpool are sniffing around for Lamina, well they can think again and keep their grubby little hands off him, unless they plan to pay £200m for him and in cash not instalments. that's what I think.
11.) 22 Aug 2023 20:43:37
Liverpool so called only paid £5 million out of 45 million in Jota deal.
31 Jan 2022 11:11:26
Apparently we are favourites ahead of Rangers to sign Aaron Ramsey. He is going to take a massive wage cut, and Juve will pay him to leave. As for Rangers, they can sign Gordon Ramsay for all I care! Might improve the half-time pies in Glasgow!
1.) 31 Jan 2022 11:44:19
According to his autobiography, Gordon did play for Rangers.
2.) 31 Jan 2022 11:53:40
According to The Daily Record, a deal between Rangers and Juve for AR has been agreed upon. Would've been a great addition, I'm going to be a negative Nelly and reiterate we will have no incomings today (sadly). Happy to be wrong though!
3.) 31 Jan 2022 12:03:23
I hope you are wrong Debbie else we will be looking at a third Jan in a row when we have ended the month in a similar or more likely worse position to where we started it! Fosun keep telling us there's no deals to be done, let's see shall we cause other teams seem to be managing?! ?
4.) 31 Jan 2022 13:07:38
Do we really want a overpaid injury prone midfielder?
Whether juve subsidised Ramsey's wage he's still not a good addition in my book.
I would like to see a extra striker come in but with hwang to come back I think we should have enough to cement a top ten finish.
5.) 31 Jan 2022 13:16:50
Jas, an update on the illustrious footballing career of Gordon Ramsay:
According to his autobiography Ramsay played "a couple of non-league matches as a trialist for Rangers."
He has since admitted that the exact ins-and-outs of his time at Rangers are "hazy" and according to a Rangers spokesperson he was given a trial during a testimonial match and trained with them for a few months.
6.) 31 Jan 2022 14:09:27
@ Deep Throat and Jas M - The News Of The World debunked Gordon Ramsay's claims about being a Rangers player. HE wasn't released by the club, he had trials for two weeks. This is the only time I can praise NOTW.
It all came about when Ramsay claimed on a TV program that was "released as a 17-year-old and was crushed, that is how I ended up becoming a chef" (I remember watching it) it even had Rangers legend Ally McCoist recalling GR as a young player. Hilarious, egg on both their faces.
7.) 31 Jan 2022 14:59:33
Debbie, amazing how high-achievers still feel the need to cheat! We see it in football all the time with Sterling/Kane etc diving. That tennis player banned from Aussie Open made multiple false statements.
8.) 31 Jan 2022 16:07:56
Deep Throat - I think this boils down to the ruthless "win at all costs mentality" it is drilled into athletes through all disciplines at an early age.
Look at some of the best forwards, they were very crafty. Bergkamp, Shearer, Henry or more recetnly Jota. They didn't cheat but knew /know how to draw a foul and stick in some strong challenges of their own.
9.) 31 Jan 2022 16:19:07
Strange how we’re favourites to sign players but as soon as another Club throws their hat in the ring Wolves pull out, not even willing to compete with Rangers for Ramsay.
10.) 31 Jan 2022 17:54:00
Wolves transfer strategy this window seemed to be younger players. Hoping the gamble pays off.
11.) 31 Jan 2022 18:15:44
Sorry Debs but a 'gamble' would suggest money has been spent, whereas all Fosun seem to be doing it saving pennies where ever they can! Unless of course its lining Gestufutes pocket as they seem very happy to do that (at the expense of our own transfer budget I might add)!
We lose one of our best players and replace him with a player who's only up to being sent to Grasshopper?! People will say that Fosun are being clever and they'd be right, fifth highest average season ticket in the league and replacing our best players with kids! You can call it clever I call it shameless ?
12.) 31 Jan 2022 19:55:06
Well that's it for this window according to Sky News.
25 Apr 2020 13:24:40
Olympiacos about to be banned for match fixing according to a report today. Oh dear, we have unfinished business with them at Molineux. I wonder if a ban would affect this?
1.) 26 Apr 2020 05:56:11
I saw that. Saying they are likely to be relegated to the Greek second league. I imagine they will also be blanket banned from all comps. With us going straight through.
2.) 26 Apr 2020 19:00:34
Funny old world if we went through to quarter finals that way. Not half as funny as Alan Pardew being saved from relegation, miles from safety, and all because the Dutch league has been declared null and void. Pardew claims he is not taking his bonus for avoiding relegation. Would have paid for a few taxis in Barcelona!
3.) 26 Apr 2020 23:58:29
This is probably academic anyway (as it could all be cancelled) but would it come into force this season then? Surely any punative measures they got would happen for the next tournament? Otherwise it wouldn't be fair on those teams they've already knocked out of the tournament? 🤔.
4.) 27 Apr 2020 08:41:35
Got a point there TBF bullys. Man City wouldn't get immediately kicked out of the CL for their mishaps. We will find out I'm sure. The resumption in August for european tournaments has been banded around a lot.
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03 Oct 2026 16:56:35
When West Ham move into the London Stadium, the deal was heavily criticized as a give-away to the club. The Hammers took a 99 year lease, at a fixed rent of £4.6 mil a year in the PL. The freehold owners Greater London Authority are reckoned to be losing £19 mil a year on the deal. A real sweetheart deal for West Ham at the tax payer's expense.
I had a quick look at Citeh's lease deal. It is for 250 years from Manchester City Council at a rent of between £3.5 and £5 mil a year. An even better deal than West Ham's! Poor old tax payer!
1.) 03 Oct 2026 20:56:56
Deep I think the deal is even better for WHU now they have been relegated with the rent dropping to just over £1m
The cost of the build and conversion to a football stadium - not massively different I would imagine from building as a football stadium initially - was huge well over £700m.
The tax payer is thus effectively funding WHU to the tune of some £70m plus pa.
They benefit from a £700m + stadium with a capacity of over 60k which means they earn nearly £40m pa from match days cf the match day income of just over £20m Wolves make.
But if they had built it - they wouldn't because no one would have lent them the £700m to do so - they would be paying interest north of £70m on that debt.
They were paying over 10% + on their debt prior to the latest refinancing and with that amount of debt interest rates would actually have been far far higher!
With that amount of interest they would have been forced to sell off a significant number of their best players each year just to meet that bill and avoid breaching FFP.
Consequently they would almost certainly have been relegated, (and goodness what would have happened to them after that), almost immediately they took over the stadium.
Looking at it at it different way they get an extra £20m of revenue and all the other benefits of playing in front of 60k + for free.
A totally unfair advantage over the rest of the teams in the country that somehow they have managed to completely mess up!
Deep I know it is bash man City week but to be fair to them the cost of the initial build was modest - just north of £100m - and City paid for the conversion and expansion program of well over £300m themselves.
Thus the rental is probably only a few million less than a true reflection of the situation and de minimis in comparison with the insane deal WHU got.
Note to be fair to the government what else could they do with the stadium so WHU were negotiating with a party they knew had no other options!!
2.) 04 Oct 2026 13:36:16
TFIOG3,
WHU are the darlings of the Media and another one of the favoured London clubs as they won the world cup single handedly?
I don't think anyone should be fair to the Government either & not just this completely useless lot. These poor decisions are the reasons why councils go bust (B'ham as an example) Manchester 1.3Billion in debt. They keep raising council tax annually even though this lot said they wouldn't.
Gov'ts, local councils etc don't think too far ahead & certainly don't budget effectively as in quite simple terms it's not there money. I get quite upset at the corruption in Gov't & how councils operate. They just keep coming back for more! Most wouldn't last 5 minutes in the private sector where business operates to make a profit.
3.) 04 Oct 2026 14:17:47
Black - the people that I was partially defending were the post 2012 Government that had a white elephant - the Olympic stadium - to deal with and only WHU as possible tenants.
The people to blame were the Government in the early 2000s.
They not only built a stadium with zero thought as to what was going to happen after the games but astonishingly also did so in full knowledge that at almost exactly the same time, another £0.75bn stadium - the national football Stadium, New Wembley- was being built.
How and why they failed to see that a coordinated approach was the answer is hard to fathom. Perhaps if they had worked together a single truly magnificent Olympic/National Football stadium could have been built at a fraction of the price that would now be viable!
Instead we have 2 relatively modest stadiums one of which is a financial black hole!
4.) 04 Oct 2026 20:32:55
Interesting comments Future. Boris Johnson when London mayor arranged the sweetheart deal for West Ham at the tax payers's expense. Remember, the Hammers sold Upton Park for redevelopment and banked £38 million in 2016 and were then gifted a shiny new stadium to rent at a pittance. No doubt that saved them from relegation. Leyton Orient also wanted the London Stadium but were blocked. Spurs even had an interest. West Ham were definitely not the only bidders in town. Who wouldn't be interested, sell one, get one free, bank the cash?
By the same token, Citeh sold their former stadium, Maine Road. I don't know how much it sold for but I do remember they even auctioned off square feet of turf. Whatever the details, they were in effect gifted a new stadium at a cheap rent and could bank the Maine Road proceeds. I just read that the Citeh owners were also given first refusal on all the major Manchester property developments for many years. Another gift.
I would love it if we could sell Molineux for tens of millions and then rent a brand new state of the art stadium on the cheap. Now that would transform Wolves!
5.) 04 Oct 2026 21:19:09
Deep I certainly do recall WHU selling Upton Park and banking the cash.
I was advising a firm that was owed a very substantial sum of money by WHU and was one of a team that was charged with deciding how the firm should deal with the problem of how to get the money back!
The proposed and then eventual sale of Upton park was the answer to the problem.
I didn't know it was Boris not the Central Government who did the deal but again trying to be fair I am not sure if Orient were ever a serious tenant as they were a lower league side - possibly even non league at that time.
Spurs on the other hand could have been an option but their "home" is some 3 to 4 times further away from Stratford than WHU's "home".
Consequently whilst I don't know, I strongly suspect, that Spurs'interest was minimal and sadly WHU almost certainly knew that they were the obvious and only real candidate for the stadium.
Consequently they were able to extract a truly awful deal from the Government from the Government's perspective.
However this was a deal that was made some 20 years prior when the Government failed to plan properly and went ahead and built a white elephant.
Again of course you are correct re City but I was only pointing out that the scale of the "awfulness" pales into almost insignificance compared to the truly amazing deal WHU got.
It is therefore also truly astonishing how WHU have managed to so completely mess it up!
Agreed a free £20m pa ad infinitum plus as you say the one off proceeds from the sale of your own ground would be pretty helpful for most clubs!
Not sure however in Wolves case that Fosun wouldn't have found some more imaginative use, both for the £20m pa and the proceeds of the sale of Molineux, than building a successful football club!
01 Oct 2026 14:00:50
A report today says that ex-Citeh manager Mancini was paid nearly £9mil to his offshore companies, in addition to his declared salary in the UK. This £9mil is now potentially liable for UK PAYE and NI, plus penalties and interest. A penalty could easily be 100% of the taxes evaded. Tip of the iceberg?
1.) 01 Oct 2026 15:13:33
What people forget Deep is that other agencies beyond the Premier League like the HMRC could be looking at this as well. As you imply breaches of the law are something else altogether.
Even people commenting in the media haven't thought it through or don't understand how these things work. As Simon Jordan put it some are so far behind in the race they think they're in the lead.
Will there even be any political pressure to soften things to protect investment from the UAE and so on?
2.) 01 Oct 2026 17:30:17
LMW, whatever are you suggesting a former Mayor of Manchester & all that regeneration allowed around Moss side Manchester. Hope your not suggesting they might be calling in a favour?.
3.) 01 Oct 2026 18:11:41
As you say, Long, other agencies beyond the Premier League could be looking at this as well. I'd like to throw another name in the ring: The Old Bill. Yes, some of this stuff might tick enough boxes for a criminal investigation.
4.) 01 Oct 2026 18:20:28
Tax evasion wasn't high up the list foe people.
The amount paid to managers isn't even included in FFP, is it? Nor are arena expenses or building.
5.) 01 Oct 2026 18:29:50
Blackfords the thought never crossed my mind ? but I must admit he was unwise to even comment, now he's put himself in the firing line if that did happen.
Incidentally, because of his work for the Abu Dhabi government the chairman of City has diplomatic immunity so cannot be prosecuted.
Interesting times no doubt Deep, there might yet be a queue. What a mess.
6.) 01 Oct 2026 21:55:54
Further to that I see that Downing Street has issued a further statement, damage limitation I think it's called, pretty much reversing his earlier comments.
And they accuse others of lacking political experience.
25 Sep 2026 15:55:18
Oh dear, breaking news: Man City guilty on 114 of the 115 charges.
1.) 25 Sep 2026 17:31:06
What was the 115th that they got away with?
2.) 26 Sep 2026 12:41:12
Bribing the ref for that Moutinho hand ball!!
07 Aug 2026 10:19:21
Things not going well for some. Liverpool 2 up at half time against Leeds, only to concede 4 in the second half, losing 2-4. Arsenal lost 1-3 against Real Betis. Chelsea desperate to sell or loan out players.
They have 41 senior players with the squad limited to 25 by the rules. This will have a knock on effect and create a lot of movement before the transfer window closes. Hopefully Wolves will benefit along the line.
30 Jul 2026 10:54:09
With Eddie Howe about to leave Newcastle, all the money in the world behind the club hasn't helped. There's been a exodus of their best players at top money and they can't replace like for like. Looks like their 12th place finish last season is about the best they can hope for moving forward.
1.) 30 Jul 2026 12:21:15
Under FFP or PSR, what is the point? Not saying Wolves would have, but teams like us, Newcastle and Villa get a decent team around us, then suddenly have to sell our best assets because of the rules, flounder and have to start again. Unfortunately for us, bad recruitment has led to relegation. Newcastle could be the next Wolves.
2.) 30 Jul 2026 12:55:38
With Wolves crashing and burning after such high hopes, I'm not surprised, due to Fosun being in charge. A couple of seasons ago, I really thought Newcastle had cracked through that glass ceiling, but even with Saudi money and a shrewd head coach in Eddie Howe, they fell back. Top talent does not want to move to Newcastle these days.
I always thought there was a certain symmetry with our respective clubs: sleeping giants from the 1950s, one club cities, etc. I know for a fact that Fosun, ironically, wanted to buy Newcastle before they brought us. Let's see if Villa can keep up their momentum.
3.) 30 Jul 2026 13:18:55
Why is it that only the 2 Manchester clubs and Chelsea and Arsenal can get away with all this spending and never seem to be affected.
4.) 30 Jul 2026 13:59:05
Let's remember that exactly 12 months ago Newcastle were tapping Strand-Larsen. Maybe a coincidence, but his form fell away alarmingly once his transfer was denied. Let's just say what goes round comes round.
5.) 30 Jul 2026 16:00:41
That's not the point I'm making 47Vintage, it's just that it doesn't matter how rich a club is unless you're in Manchester or London. FFP and PSR are killing clubs they were supposed to protect, while letting the big clubs I mentioned get away with seemingly no restrictions.
6.) 30 Jul 2026 17:29:29
Sorry, Wolvo1963, I should have started a new thread. I wasn't commenting on your post.
7.) 30 Jul 2026 18:33:00
Completely agree with the observation regarding Manchester and London. It is not just football where those two cities are favoured in terms of economy, culture, sport, etc - and unjustifiably so.
Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs maybe seem unaccountable and are never, or rarely, brought to task or close scrutiny.
As for that lot in Erdington - I have no comment to make.
8.) 30 Jul 2026 18:34:59
No worries, 47vintage.
9.) 31 Jul 2026 12:59:39
People are truly dense.
30 Oct 2026 15:34:50
The board have no intention of sacking CP. Just silly rumours.
29 Oct 2026 10:17:56
Rubbish rumours. And as for Eddie Howe, he has bigger fish to fry! Even Sean Dyce would be in the running for a PL team in distress. No way are we sacking CP; in fact he is doing a good job with the resources at his disposal.
28 Oct 2026 15:49:41
It's scary for relegated PL clubs. Companies House has today issued a compulsory striking-off notice for Burnley's parent company Velocity Capital UK. Reason being, they are two years behind with filing of accounts. If they don't comply and get struck off, all assets pass to the Crown. At least Fosun have filed accounts on time, however crap they may be! These Companies House rules have tightened up and apply to all registered companies, not just football clubs.
In my business, unbelievably, our trade association (the largest in the country) got struck off last month, and bank accounts frozen. Comply or die.
28 Oct 2026 11:37:02
Sammy, you're right about the indirect benefits of ownership. Fosun can and did benefit from the prestige of ownership of a PL club. Trouble is, Jeff in his wisdom said that the club would have to pay for itself and be self-supporting financially.
That was clearly impossible in our situation and indeed for many clubs. If we somehow go up this season Nathan will have to learn from past mistakes to keep us there and to improve financially. Hopefully we will get sold if promoted.
28 Oct 2026 10:09:40
Rated, the club is loss-making and heavily in debt. How is Fosun milking it? In year 2023/24 a loss of £10.8mil was made, and no dividend was paid to Fosun or anyone. In year 2024/25 a loss of £11.8mil was made, and again no dividends paid. The accounts for 2025/26 (our final PL season) should be filed next March, and I can't see where finances can improve. The 2026/27 accounts will be even worse as turnover will be down as we are in the championship.
The truth is that unless Fosun can find a buyer, they will have to keep us on life support, financially speaking. This is quite common in football these days. Who is responsible in our case? A series of poor decisions made for many years, starting with the fall-out with Nuno. At the height of Nuno's reign we were poised to challenge for regular top six, in a similar way to Villa, Newcastle, Brighton etc but we fell away. And we all know who was responsible, Jeff Shi.
27 Oct 2026 14:08:09
Abuse is not just a Wolves characteristic. Citeh and Arsenal are currently top two in the PL. Happy bunnies, right? No. A losing streak by either team would bring out the abuse and the bully boys. Unfortunately it is human nature. So, be careful what you wish for.
Rob Edwards had past success in the championship but didn't have a clue in the PL. CP was brought in with an eye on the PL, but first he has to get us there and I think he will do as good a job as Edwards might have done this season.
24 Oct 2026 15:09:58
2-0 Wolves for me. Hammers now a goal down.
22 Oct 2026 19:21:44
If CP is on the way out, and I don't think for one moment he is,
I would look at replacing him with Robbie Keane. Robbie obviously knows us and English football. Robbie has won titles abroad as a manager already, and is on record as loving his job.
17 Oct 2026 14:02:50
I'm guessing a lack of confidence with Tchatchoua unless he's not fully fit. His speed could be a great asset for us when utilised.
It was well worth waiting for Said to be fit. Fans might have thought we had signed a dud but he looked awesome at times last night. Armstrong and Doyle missed sitters from him.
10 Oct 2026 10:07:20
Well, some obvious good news: we are only two points behind second-placed highly-fancied West Ham and we have two games in hand.