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reanswolf
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I can't disagree with any of this TBH, I actually agree with it all, but overall I still give them the benefit of doubt because of the large amount of credit in the bank, but I suspect this summer will be the defining pre-season.Look at the date, that was in 2017. If nothing else I’m consistent in what I say. Pre-Covid the ambition was there and I couldn’t really fault Jeff or Fosun. I didn’t criticism them during the Zenga period, as I appreciated the effort and ambition. Post the 1st lockdown things have changed and the ambition has gone.
Whether Jeff was always an amateur and Dalrymple covered for him I don’t know. What I do know is that he lied to us this summer and put up the ticket prices, which to me showed how much he really thinks of us. It’s all well and good saying how much football missed the fans during the lockdown etc, but to me it looks like the second they could, they fleeced us. The Man Utd prices were an outright disgrace (I was in pool 1 and didn’t go), and then the season ticket prices were the icing on the cake. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, believed the “trust us” but now I’m done with the lies. That act of contempt towards the life and blood of the club (the fans) in my eyes is as good as going to war with us. Perhaps you are happy to pay more, perhaps you can overlook the lies, but he crossed my boundary and there is no coming back from that. Jeff Shi is a complete ****** that merely pretended he gave a **** about the fans.
Despite many telling us we should not be complaining at all about anything, I do think things are deteriorating and 8th place (at present) masks the relative inactivity in the transfer market over a few windows now. I am livid about the ST price increases and the "trust us" message that was misleading IMO but you cannot prove what they meant by that unfortunately, but were happy to utilise the inference.
The last 2 windows were far more important than people admit IMO, Neves is critical to our continued welfare and you have to look ahead. Maybe we would have lost him whatever we did, but Bruno recently told us a very important thing about his mindset - that 'he loves Wolves but needs to be convinced that we our ambitious'. So these past 2 windows have been somewhat reactive rather than proactive at best, and losing Adama is not the clubs fault but the truth is we may even had stepped backwards overall, despite some trying to suggest that nothing is lost. I genuinely think any chance of Europe has probably slipped away now, and it's not about having an agenda, its just my prediction, not what I want. The manager and this group of players are just wonderful, and inadvertently I feel that by performing at absolute 100%, they are protecting the management of the club from much more criticism. To improve, you must continuously progress and not stand still, and I am not talking about huge acquisitions necessarily. But its not my money I get that. But the inactivity will make the summer window boom or bust, I fear.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe I always fear the worst, maybe anxiety grips me generally in life, that is just my outlook on most things, its not that I want to moan or have a downer on Wolves, who like everyone else, I love so madly.