Pre-season 25-26

[Alan]

its because Francesco Totti...im sorry

One of my early favorite players, he was.

 

[Celtiña]

Are the 2º Game on pre-seasson.

I think Wolves have to sign like 3-4 player depende if Guedes or another exit.

but i think the most important is the subs Semedo-RAN, it's strange that long wait.

 

[Alan]

I think you’re in for a bit of shock come the autumn

As ever, we'll see. It would be so unlike us to be overly cynical.

 

[Templeton Peck]

It's pre-season. None of you should give a flying fuck.

 

[prawnking]

Yeah, pant wetters! Listen to the cool kids.

We'll be just fine with Munetsi and Chirewa in midfield

 

[Celtiña]

U guys need put one video to Sa.

And asking, by u are nervous with the ball: look this video..

And the video show Rene Higuita dribbling rivals.

 

[jd1981]

It's pre-season. None of you should give a flying fuck.

Pre season results don’t care, state of the squad with 2 weeks until GD1 alarm bells should be clanging full blast

 

[Templeton Peck]

It's just not important though. We looked decent under Gaz last year. West Ham won 11 out of 11 pre-season games under Avram Grant ffs.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Pre season results don’t care, state of the squad with 2 weeks until GD1 alarm bells should be clanging full blast

On that we agree.

 

[Alan]

Yeah, pant wetters! Listen to the cool kids.

I was never cool

 

[prawnking]

On that we agree.

Literally everyone posting is worried about the squad rather than the result

 

[PuntsWolf]

Problem is you’ve got Huge amount of fees and/or wages invested in Bentley, Johnstone, Hoever, Lima, Bueno, Munetsi, Bellegarde, Hwang, Guedes, Sasa, Fabio and we don’t want any of them starting games and this doesn’t include R Gomes who we’ve spent a lot of money on but seems to be being kept out by Hoever and doesn’t really fit anywhere else.

We’ve just acquired so much tat and expensive tat. Our wage bill is probably ridiculously high despite having little to show from it despite losing a lot of high earners. Given the penny pinching nature of the club, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lack of activity is down to not being able to clear some of this tat.

 

[prawnking]

I was never cool

I think you're cool, Alan.

Which probably makes you very uncool!

 

[Jinky]

Literally everyone posting is worried about the squad rather than the result

Agreed. But it’s been enhanced tonight watching that performance. We looked miles off it all over the pitch.

 

[Loki]

A lot of tat nobody seems to want for some reason.

 

[Dire Wolf]

I'm not going to get worked up now, it is what it is. We've known it's been coming, the club is an absolute mess under Fosun. Not one person on this forum would be at all shocked if VP walked away on the eve of the season. I don't think he will, he seems an honourable guy, but if he did it would shock no-one and no-one would cast any blame in his direction.

That we look this poor in pre-season could mean very little. Or it could more likely be a harbinger of what is to come. Everyone has been saying that we need new players. These games are highlighting it in big fucking neon letters that most owners would notice. Jeff Shi is not most owners, he's an absolute fucking clown show. So here we are. About to start the PL season with a squad that with a couple of injuries, maybe wouldn't finish top 2 in the Championship.

Fun times.

 

[jd1981]

Problem is you’ve got Huge amount of fees and/or wages invested in Bentley, Johnstone, Hoever, Lima, Bueno, Munetsi, Bellegarde, Hwang, Guedes, Sasa, Fabio and we don’t want any of them starting games and this doesn’t include R Gomes who we’ve spent a lot of money on but seems to be being kept out by Hoever and doesn’t really fit anywhere else.

We’ve just acquired so much tat and expensive tat. Our wage bill is probably ridiculously high despite having little to show from it despite losing a lot of high earners. Given the penny pinching nature of the club, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lack of activity is down to not being able to clear some of this tat.

Some players on that list that can consider themselves very lucky to play some PL football, keep physically fit and earn very well at the club’s expense whilst not contributing anything near to what they draw out the club.
Nobody is going to buy them at the price the club would want to sell simply due to the fact that people have eyes and can see that they’re vastly overpriced and payed.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

It would be interesting to know what our King of the Tatters, Mr. Stevie Bull, really thinks about the value and (re)usability of that pile of tat.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Problem is you’ve got Huge amount of fees and/or wages invested in Bentley, Johnstone, Hoever, Lima, Bueno, Munetsi, Bellegarde, Hwang, Guedes, Sasa, Fabio and we don’t want any of them starting games and this doesn’t include R Gomes who we’ve spent a lot of money on but seems to be being kept out by Hoever and doesn’t really fit anywhere else.

We’ve just acquired so much tat and expensive tat. Our wage bill is probably ridiculously high despite having little to show from it despite losing a lot of high earners. Given the penny pinching nature of the club, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lack of activity is down to not being able to clear some of this ta

Well said.

Just to add the obvious questions about Tom King:
1. How on earth did we end up signing him? Tony Roberts´s mate but why? Just why?
2. How the **** is King still employed by us?

Just like that nonentity, Darren Ryan, who has left for an expat social and sporting club in the Middle East. About 14 years on a cushy number with us after being involved in about a dozen mainly Welsh and League 1/2 clubs in the previous years.

I conclude that Wolves FC is riddled with nonenties who got their far too secure jobs through mates.

 

[White Wolf]

Because it's a friendly hard to really say much, Nuno had us half-arse most of our friendlies as a fitness exercise and we were sharp by the time the season started. Meanwhile under O'Neil preseason results were good. Depends what Pereira's approach is, which I don't know.

First-half was alright, Joao Gomes was the best player on the pitch and oozed quality. Lens really went for him, very excessive for a friendly. Played some OK stuff, Strand Larsen's finishing really let him down but he got into decent positions. Hoever looked slower than I remembered him and he struggled with some of the basics.

After the rotations for the second-half, Lens looked far better and also fitter. They do have more depth and us which played out. Guedes took his goal nicely and was trying but a lot of play was amateurish, messed up simple things. Lima was disappointing, all the wing-back options are.

Go beyond the starting eleven (which itself has some major weak points) and there is barely an option off the bench. That's the main takeaway, and is alarming.