Summer 2023 Transfer Window Thread

[Will Wolf]

Very interesting to see who we bring as striker in January hobbs and the recruitment team working very hard to find the right profile who suits the team and they want to sign the striker early not in the last days there are 3-4 strikers who are being watched closely by the recruitment team

Would be interested if they looked at Chuba Akpom.
Gone to Ajax for £10m, seems like a great player for that price

 

[Yduti]

Dia looks likely in my opinion the players wants the move we just need to put a serious offer to salentiarna

 

[DanishWolf]

Scary reading in The Atletic
Had we been succesful in signing Reed, we wouldn't moved for Bellegarde..
That priority seems completely off to me.

 

[Northampton_wolf]

Scary reading in The Atletic
Had we been succesful in signing Reed, we wouldn't moved for Bellegarde..
That priority seems completely off to me.

Gaffers input as reed would have been for him.

Bellegarde a scout/hobbs signing

 

[Plovdiv Wolf]

Lingard would be a risky move, not sure myself

 

[YouGottaRaulWithIt]

Yep.

https://x.com/jacobsben/status/1699095187757183211?s=61&t=oHKGj12hVBcK2ZfER6KcNA

Well, if Salah is going for £215m what will we get for Sarabia?

 

[YouGottaRaulWithIt]

Well run clubs don't sign today's version of lingard

Exactly. I mean, how could he oossibly force his way into our free-scoring side?

 

[Golden_Wolf]

Scary reading in The Atletic
Had we been succesful in signing Reed, we wouldn't moved for Bellegarde..
That priority seems completely off to me.

Makes no sense to me. Two different type of players.

 

[Northampton_wolf]

sarabia going would be interesting in truth, itwould definitely be for money as he is currently a starter

We dont know yet

how we fit bellegarde and doyle in, let alone santi bueno

 

[Bacon Sandwich]

Scary reading in The Atletic
Had we been succesful in signing Reed, we wouldn't moved for Bellegarde..
That priority seems completely off to me.

Thanks for that. Good to get the now-customary daily dose of idiocy from the Wolves hierarchy out of the way early on...

 

[TF2Wolf]

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Makes no sense to me. Two different type of players.

Agree. Player acquisitions seem to be a bit of a scattergun strategy.

Personally think this emphasises our lack of playing identity and style, which I think is just going to lead to more confusion amongst the players.

Would be nice to find some reassuring news for a change

 

[StaffordWolf]

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Agree. Player acquisitions seem to be a bit of a scattergun strategy.

Personally think this emphasises our lack of playing identity and style, which I think is just going to lead to more confusion amongst the players.

Would be nice to find some reassuring news for a change

How nice would if be to have a clear, distinctive pattern to the way we play again.

 

[tonto]

They'd have thought that you were high on crack if you said that!

Sometimes I wish I was, especially match days

 

[tonto]

I just feel that we Wolves fans have gone, or are going, through the five stages of grief over this summer window. Some of the arguments we’ve had on this forum have, I think, been caused by posters in different stages eg those in denial or anger getting angry with those in depression or acceptance. I think I’m in the acceptance phase now, which is manifesting itself in gallows humour and simply laughing at some of the recent developments. I also remember from change mgt training at work, that people can move backwards through the phases too when confronted with new events or new evidence. Anyway, just an observation as this summer slowly draws to a close.

• denial
• anger
• bargaining
• depression
• acceptance

Stages of grief | Are the five stages of grief true?

An explanation of the stages of grief theory and of the five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. And why we now know there are no set stages of grief.

www.mariecurie.org.uk

Understanding the five stages of grief

What are the five stages of grief? And are they still a good way of understanding how we feel after a death?

www.cruse.org.uk

Still in denial, reaches for the vodka bottle

 

[WolfLing]

Rather stick with what we have than sign Lingard.

If our Social Media team got hold of him, I'd be forced to blind and deafen myself to make sure I never saw or heard any of that content.

 

[Northampton_wolf]

Rather stick with what we have than sign Lingard.

If our Social Media team got hold of him, I'd be forced to blind and deafen myself to make sure I never saw or heard any of that content.

Agreed but if we somehow had the player who played for west ham and tore us a new one, running through us wonderful

(not going to happen)

 

[Oldgold Wolfcub]

Still in denial, reaches for the vodka bottle

.....drops it and immediately is signed up as our new goalie.

 

[wolfgar]

Still in denial, reaches for the vodka bottle

I've gotta admit I didn't move much from anger tbh, laced with a bit of depression. The last few days of the window were obviously better, but pure madness to leave all of our incomings until 48-72 hours before the window closed. The recruitment team should have been backed with a modest spend months ago, but you know, Fosun?

 

[Skrilla]

I know after Costa, the club are probably reluctant to go for another expensive free agent centre forward, but Moussa Marega has to be tempting. Didn’t we have interest in him years ago? Averaged a goal every other game at Porto.

He’s 32 now, but as insurance to Sasa’s knees and knowing Silva/Cunha are useless playing with their back to goal, it has to be a consideration so we aren’t relying on 18 year old Nathan Fraser.

Heck I’d take a 35 year old Anthony Modeste who’s just left Dortmund, scored 20 goals in the Bundesliga in 2022.

Waiting until January to sign a centre forward could be a very costly mistake, we don’t have a Julen or a World Cup break to fix us this season.

 

[Sussex Wolf]

Looks like Sarabia won’t be off to Saudi now as Gray deal done. I assume that means any interest from us in Lingard is also off.

https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1699371435968331921?s=61&t=oHKGj12hVBcK2ZfER6KcNA

 

[Hawkguy]

Looks like Sarabia won’t be off to Saudi now as Gray deal done. I assume that means any interest from us in Lingard is also off.

https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1699371435968331921?s=61&t=oHKGj12hVBcK2ZfER6KcNA

Good news!

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Good news!

Lingard to Everton? Lol

 

[MickHolmesFanClub]

Looks like Sarabia won’t be off to Saudi now as Gray deal done. I assume that means any interest from us in Lingard is also off.

https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1699371435968331921?s=61&t=oHKGj12hVBcK2ZfER6KcNA

Good!

 

[wolfslair]

Well, we've just completed the coaching set-up with another non-entity and today we're close to completing the playing set-up with Lingard. Surely someone is trying to wind us up and if they are reading this - it's working!!!

Do we think fosun are actually baggies fans?

Set us up with the long con of building up for the cruel and sick ending of relegation……

Haha

 

[Sussex Wolf]

The Athletics take on this summers business. Some snippets on some of the targets and our hunt for a striker. Reads a little more balanced than the Percy article, which was more a Wolves press release under his name.

Wolves' transfer window assessed: A slow burner but did Gary O'Neil get what he needs?

It took a while to get going, but was Wolves' late business enough to keep them afloat?

theathletic.com

 

[wolfslair]

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Agree. Player acquisitions seem to be a bit of a scattergun strategy.

Personally think this emphasises our lack of playing identity and style, which I think is just going to lead to more confusion amongst the players.

Would be nice to find some reassuring news for a change

I actually think the deal for Doyle was set up to protect us in the event of relegation……

As we will lose gomes and lemina if we do drop and we wouldn’t lose Doyle and we know he can do well in the championship. So blood him this season so it is win/win.

We stay up and he does well great.

If he does well and we go down, still good as we keep our midfield well stocked and for a cheap price that won’t hurt us when the loss of revenue bites!

 

[Kennedy]

I actually think the deal for Doyle was set up to protect us in the event of relegation……

As we will lose gomes and lemina if we do drop and we wouldn’t lose Doyle and we know he can do well in the championship. So blood him this season so it is win/win.

We stay up and he does well great.

If he does well and we go down, still good as we keep our midfield well stocked and for a cheap price that won’t hurt us when the loss of revenue bites!

That does seem logical.

 

[Hsvwolf]

Dave Edwards on Talksport shortly with the lowdown with what went on in the last few days of the transfer window at Wolves

 

[wolfslair]

Has he been on yet?

Dave Edwards on Talksport shortly with the lowdown with what went on in the last few days of the transfer window at Wolves

 

[AndyY]

Dave Edwards on Talksport shortly with the lowdown with what went on in the last few days of the transfer window at Wolves

And how does he know the inner workings?

 

[Hsvwolf]

And how does he know the inner workings?

No idea......just saying he was on talking about us . As an ex player though suspect he knows more than a lot who claim to on here

 

[Sussex Wolf]

No idea......just saying he was on talking about us . As an ex player though suspect he knows more than a lot who claim to on here

An ex player who’s routinely doing commentary duties for our games.

 

[Boss Hogg]

And how does he know the inner workings?

Maybe he is yduti or whatever his name was!

 

[SuperGran]

No idea......just saying he was on talking about us . As an ex player though suspect he knows more than a lot who claim to on here

What did he say

 

[Very Proud (AKA Still Proud)]

And how does he know the inner workings?

He still turns up at Compton everyday. No-one’s had the heart to tell him he doesn’t play for Wolves anymore.

 

[WWFC4EVA]

He still turns up at Compton everyday. No-one’s had the heart to tell him he doesn’t play for Wolves anymore.

Good!.... he'd get a game now!!!

 

[Wolf316]

Good!.... he'd get a game now!!!

We aren’t in league 1 yet!

 

[crocos]

He still turns up at Compton everyday. No-one’s had the heart to tell him he doesn’t play for Wolves anymore.

All set up for a very very late final run into the penalty area for a trademark header to ease the fear of a triple-relegation and secure our place in League 1 for 2025-26.

 

[Adrian_Monk]

As an ex player though suspect he knows more than a lot who claim to on here

I raise you a Lee Naykor

 

[woop woop barmy army]

Agreed but if we somehow had the player who played for west ham and tore us a new one, running through us wonderful

(not going to happen)

players get worse when they join us not better.