The Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

[WVWolf]

If Pubill was a one-off, it's understandable.

Manu, Danso and Pubill in the space of two windows is a theme.

They were coming from Guimaraes, Lens and Almeria. Three clubs that should be attainable for us, and we were gazumped at the last minute by bigger clubs when the deal was 'done'.

There is clearly a problem in getting deals finalised and we're allowing opportunities for other clubs to step in.

 

[Spartacus]

Well that was an interesting read

I think i will come back in September and save myself the hopes raised and dashed

I have been in detox for some years from Wolves various forums and have fallen off the wagon this summer.... I think I need another few weeks away and see what next season brings on the pitch...... But that said, this is better than elsewhere...

 

[broughtonwolf]

Again, I think its naive to think players good enough to get us where we want to be, are going to 'want to play for Wolves' whatever that means anyway. That's not to say that we can't sign good players, but often we need circumstances to fall in our favour.

It's not unreasonable to expect a Premier League club to tailor its recruitment to realistic signings. Nothing to do with circumstances, we know who is leaving, the dates of the window and have plenty of time to prepare and analyse the potential player metrics.

This happens window after window. Try something different and act like a proper fit for purpose recruitment team. Yes I know...

 

[Banjo]

I just don't understand the need to shout into the void about how shit things are. It's been this way for years, we all know what it's like, none of us apologises for the club, and I just don't feel the need to complain all day every day when it achieves nothing, not even a helpful debate (we all agree that it's shit - what else do you want us to say?)

 

[The Bear]

I'm not sure how we could have moved on from Pubil earlier than today? Atletico came in the last 24 hours to match our offer did they not?

Up until then we thought we were getting our man as no other "bigger" club had been willing to match our offer.

So why would we have moved on earlier? We gave Semedo a set amount of time to change his mind, then we went after our first choice target.

You can argue we should have been negotiating with Pubil/Almeria weeks ago, so let's assume we did and made contact before the 1st July. And I'm sure we were having initial discussions on what would get a deal done in case Semedo didn't change his mind. But why would Pubil agree to sign for us when he knew he had bigger fish showing an interest with 8 weeks or more of the window still to go?

Sure we could have moved on when he instantly didn't agree to sign for us, but we might have ended up missing out on Vitor's first choice player because of impatience and pissed off the manager even more. We could have even opened up the door for one of our rivals to sign him after doing all the negotiating grunt work on a deal he'd accept if a better option didn't appear.

I'm sure that would have gone down well with Vitor too if we missed out on him due to acting too rashly still with around 2 months of the window still to go.

 

[Alan]

We’d have him if Atlético hadn’t been even more embarrassed over getting sniped by Bilbao for that other RB.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Deadline is 1st September. Let's face facts, we are not such an attractive proposition anymore with how things have gone since covid. From what I can see, we are trying to sign the right type of player and going for quality. As we've seen, convincing such a player to come to us isn't easy. I expect as time moves on and the deadline approaches, we will have more options open to us.

Fuck me. We aren't Rochdale.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I just don't understand the need to shout into the void about how shit things are. It's been this way for years, we all know what it's like, none of us apologises for the club, and I just don't feel the need to complain all day every day when it achieves nothing, not even a helpful debate (we all agree that it's shit - what else do you want us to say?)

This most recent gazumping happened about 4 hours ago.

Why shouldn't it be talked about?

 

[Haggstone]

It's not unreasonable to expect a Premier League club to tailor its recruitment to realistic signings. Nothing to do with circumstances, we know who is leaving, the dates of the window and have plenty of time to prepare and analyse the potential player metrics.

Didn't Atletico push the button on this because another deal fell through? That was in the original tweet that broke the news anyway. That's what I mean by circumstances. Admitedly, none of us really know if we were ever really in with a shout of signing this guy, reputable sources in the media seemed to think it was close but who knows how much of that was his agent playing games.

Regardless, as several other posters have alluded to already, if we are now describing our attempts to sign a kid, whom most of us had never heard of two weeks ago, as being unrealistic or a waste of time, then we really are in trouble.

It's possible to be disappointed with the direction of travel of the club, the lack of intent from the owners, the general cuntishness of our CEO AND to have a degree of understading when a deal like this falls through. I want to see the best players possible playing for Wolves at the end of the day.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's possible to be disappointed with the direction of travel of the club, the lack of intent from the owners, the general cuntishness of our CEO AND to have a degree of understading when a deal like this falls through. I want to see the best players possible playing for Wolves at the end of the day.

Absolutely, and I don't think anyone has veered too far away from that, whether it's Jinky who gets ridiculed, or Kenny who is seen as the wise old owl.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Kenny who is seen as the wise old owl.

One out of three ain't bad

 

[Banjo]

This most recent gazumping happened about 4 hours ago.

Why shouldn't it be talked about?

I'm talking more generally than that.

 

[Alan]

*ahem*

A-T-L-É-T-I-C-O

 

[Kenny]

Kenny who is seen as the wise old owl.

 

[1986]

Logged in late yesterday evening after a very busy day at work . Started at page 198 , suddenly I got really excited.......another new player , a defender this time , cue reading three/four more pages . Getting very upbeat now at this point .
Then , half way down page 205 I got hit with a Mike Tyson special...........it was off , gazumped !
Spent the remaining 10 minutes climbing down the hill I had built for myself by reading the remaining 5 pages of lament .

Still groggy .

 

[Jinky]

I just don't understand the need to shout into the void about how shit things are. It's been this way for years, we all know what it's like, none of us apologises for the club, and I just don't feel the need to complain all day every day when it achieves nothing, not even a helpful debate (we all agree that it's shit - what else do you want us to say?)

We're pals, so thankfully I know you don't mean anything by the above.

No one is "shouting into the void". We're Wolves fans, posting on a Wolves forum, expressing our opinions on the ongoing day to day running of the club - and in this particular thread - our transfer business, or lack of. This need to try and moderate/stifle opinions when they don't simply fall in line with the general consensus needs to stop.

You say "none of us apologies for the club", but that's not true, is it? The same circular arguments/debates come round every window from BOTH sides and more often than not, it's the same people that tend to fall on whichever side of the fence suits. It's just those who express dismay or concern on our activity and how we're ran get called "pantwetters" and told their opinions "achieve nothing" (as you have literally done above), and the people on the other side get to feel some warm sense of achievement in belittling the opinion of others. I don't get it.

No one expects you to say anything else. If you also think it's shit - that's cool! But don't get frustrated or annoyed when people respond to the stoic defence of the club and the decisions that the club has made when there is a tonne of evidence to the contrary. That's how a debate works - but everyone is different and expresses things in different ways.

If someone is concerned at our lack of business - or to offer a very specific example - believes we should have resolved the Nelson Semedo situation weeks ago - it doesn't make them any less of a fan and it doesn't make their opinion any less valid then the next. It's simply the situation being viewed differently. The reason the same circular debate keeps happening ad nauseam is because it's being debated BY BOTH SIDES. However, I only ever see one of those sides mocking the other, or being told their opinion "achieves nothing and isn't even helpful debate", which is a shame. We've been here countless times, so I wouldn't expect much to change.

 

[AndyWolves]

Every single message ever on a message is shouting into the void, no message ever written on a board has made any difference

 

[Alan]

@Jinky you’re not wrong, but your side also belittles. As I say, we call y’all hysterical and y’all call us naïve. All of us get a bit OTT about it.

I haven’t seen anybody accuse either side of being less of a “real supporter”, though, which is a silver lining of sorts.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

@Jinky you’re not wrong, but your side also belittles. As I say, we call y’all hysterical and y’all call us naïve. All of us get a bit OTT about it.

I haven’t seen anybody accuse either side of being less of a “real supporter”, though, which is a silver lining of sorts.

I thought it was one side calling the other hysterical and naive?

 

[Lycan]

We're pals, so thankfully I know you don't mean anything by the above.

No one is "shouting into the void". We're Wolves fans, posting on a Wolves forum, expressing our opinions on the ongoing day to day running of the club - and in this particular thread - our transfer business, or lack of. This need to try and moderate/stifle opinions when they don't simply fall in line with the general consensus needs to stop.

You say "none of us apologies for the club", but that's not true, is it? The same circular arguments/debates come round every window from BOTH sides and more often than not, it's the same people that tend to fall on whichever side of the fence suits. It's just those who express dismay or concern on our activity and how we're ran get called "pantwetters" and told their opinions "achieve nothing" (as you have literally done above), and the people on the other side get to feel some warm sense of achievement in belittling the opinion of others. I don't get it.

No one expects you to say anything else. If you also think it's shit - that's cool! But don't get frustrated or annoyed when people respond to the stoic defence of the club and the decisions that the club has made when there is a tonne of evidence to the contrary. That's how a debate works - but everyone is different and expresses things in different ways.

If someone is concerned at our lack of business - or to offer a very specific example - believes we should have resolved the Nelson Semedo situation weeks ago - it doesn't make them any less of a fan and it doesn't make their opinion any less valid then the next. It's simply the situation being viewed differently. The reason the same circular debate keeps happening ad nauseam is because it's being debated BY BOTH SIDES. However, I only ever see one of those sides mocking the other, or being told their opinion "achieves nothing and isn't even helpful debate", which is a shame. We've been here countless times, so I wouldn't expect much to change.

Don't be sad mate, up the Wolve