General Wolves News

[Alan]

I guess we'll see! Just having a hard time getting too worked up about it, myself.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

And if any licence were granted to make things look above board it will be at peppercorn levels. Intra-group stuff always is.

 

[Johnny75]

I guess we'll see! Just having a hard time getting too worked up about it, myself.

I guess this is where we as predominantly British based fans are different to Americans as we're wedded to our clubs and their identity like a religion.

Not being a franchise model you get attached.

 

[AndyWolves]

I proved this at the weekend.

Fosun Sports Group own Wolves eSports
Guo owns Wolves the club (W.W.1990 Ltd)

The two companies are not the same but they are using the same logo/ trademark.

It's doesn't necessarily mean that wolves the club will give up the rights etc for nowt, but it's certainly reliant on FSG (too early for that?) to pay wolves the club decent amounts for licensing, or maybe even sponsorship in the future?

 

[Del Woppio]

Also continuing to announce this shit on the main channels is just pissing me off frankly

 

[Johnny75]

It's doesn't necessarily mean that wolves the club will give up the rights etc for nowt, but it's certainly reliant on FSG (too early for that?) to pay wolves the club decent amounts for licensing, or maybe even sponsorship in the future?

Fenway Sports Group own Liverpool and the Boston Red Socks.

Not sure what they have to do with this.

Not a chance Fosun pay Wolves anything over £1 in licensing, why would they?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's doesn't necessarily mean that wolves the club will give up the rights etc for nowt, but it's certainly reliant on FSG (too early for that?) to pay wolves the club decent amounts for licensing, or maybe even sponsorship in the future?

Never going to be more than chickenfeed in football terms. None of it scales and it still won't in 20 years (not that I expect Fosun to own Wolves by then)

 

[AndyWolves]

Fenway Sports Group own Liverpool and the Boston Red Socks.

Not sure what they have to do with this.

Not a chance Fosun pay Wolves anything over £1 in licensing, why would they?

Fosun Sports Group

Edit. Poor attempt at initialisation

 

[Johnny75]

Edit. Poor attempt

As was my joke by the looks of things.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Never going to be more than chickenfeed in football terms. None of it scales and it still won't in 20 years (not that I expect Fosun to own Wolves by then)

If they have their teeth into the logo and then walk away there is a significant risk we get bunged some cash to surrender our own IP. That’s a big worry to me.

 

[Alan]

I guess this is where we as predominantly British based fans are different to Americans as we're wedded to our clubs and their identity like a religion.

Not being a franchise model you get attached.

I'd say it's more about me coming to the club late on than anything else. I wasn't born into it, as it were.

I get the unease but I don't see them doing it at the football side's expense just yet, so it's all a bit shrugtastic from where I'm sitting.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We don't make shit off our logo commercially as it is (not until the burgeoning Mexican market takes off anyway).

I'm not arsed about us selling the family silver as it were because it's more like the family zinc. It just strikes me as a colossal waste of energy. Who is anyone to say what kids will like a decade or more from now, imagine saying to someone 20 years ago that you'd have the Internet in your pocket permanently and you could also access nearly any music track you ever wanted, for free, at the click of a button. They'd have you put away.

eSports might be a fad, it might not, I can pretty much guarantee that in relative terms it will never mean anything for any football club ever.

 

[Tuco]

Surely if this all becomes big time the likes of the top four will be interested and hoover up all the cash? It doesn't fill me with unease, it just seems a waste of time.

 

[AndyWolves]

They (Jeff and co) have talked before about generating off the field revenue and expanding the brand as a way to generate income and to "emulate Red Bull". I guess I always assumed it would be to the benefit of wolves the club.

I guess I never really considered that a huge, multinational investment company might wanna keep some for themselves.

I guess at the end of it, if wolves the club get access to funds which make the club more successful I'm kind of ambivalent to what Fosun sports group do to get there.

I would think though that if a sports group has a football team in it you'd want the football team to be fairly successful rather than middle of the road.

 

[AndyWolves]

We don't make shit off our logo commercially as it is (not until the burgeoning Mexican market takes off anyway).

I'm not arsed about us selling the family silver as it were because it's more like the family zinc. It just strikes me as a colossal waste of energy. Who is anyone to say what kids will like a decade or more from now, imagine saying to someone 20 years ago that you'd have the Internet in your pocket permanently and you could also access nearly any music track you ever wanted, for free, at the click of a button. They'd have you put away.

eSports might be a fad, it might not, I can pretty much guarantee that in relative terms it will never mean anything for any football club ever.

If you'd told me 10 years ago you could become a YouTuber and it be incredibly lucrative I wouldn't have believed you.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If you'd told me 10 years ago you could become a YouTuber and it be incredibly lucrative I wouldn't have believed you.

Should have done more research in 2011 as PewDiePie was earning $4m a year by 2013...

We won't be earning anything off eSports in 2023.

 

[AndyWolves]

Sorry for the spam, but if Fosuns aim is to create a brand - then why start by buying a football club? I just don't get that bit, was it for the logo? I don't think it was with the intention to flip the club because it's inextricably linked to the brand now.

 

[Tuco]

Sorry for the spam, but if Fosuns aim is to create a brand - then why start by buying a football club? I just don't get that bit, was it for the logo? I don't think it was with the intention to flip the club because it's inextricably linked to the brand now.

They just seem to be throwing the clubs name behind this and that and hoping it takes off. The fortunes of the team seem way down in their priorities ATM.

 

[AndyWolves]

In football news Fabio starts for Portugal u21s

https://twitter.com/x/status/1434923013372317702

 

[big mean bunny]

I am actually due to start teaching an eSports qualification this year, so will check some of that. In an odd question though can anyone confirm who the Wolves player is here, comes on very briefly at 58 seconds.