Andy81

Yeah, guess you could be right, although who wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign for the 19th best team in the championship last season?

I hadn't at least All of the players we signed could have said 'no'. Anyway, personally, I don't think there's much wrong with building a network, people say that it's wrong for an agent to have this much influence at a club, but he isn't our only source of players, and it seems, club, player, and agent are benefiting from the arrangement. As I say, if we are sneaking hidden payments around that would be wrong.

Well, it's not peanuts, we've broke our transfer record three times since Fosun turned up, and currently have the most expensive player in the league. Recently other clubs have been banging on about us breaching FFP and now we're not paying enough! They look Premier League class in retrospect, but Neves and Jota were not playing much last season and are only 20 and 21 years old. No one had heard of them and it could have gone wrong, could still go wrong! We had a similar model last season don't forget. But as I say, if they have done wrong, then fair enough, I wouldn't want us to cheat our way up. We shall see.

Agree with this, if there have been any backdoor payments to either clubs or players then clearly that's not fair.

I don't think this is about FFP, quite the opposite actually, we're not spending enough on these players apparently

Where would Wolves fall down there? If Small Heath were fine with Carson Jung or whatever his name was, I don't see how Fosun wouldn't be a fit owner. Again with Mendes, clearly Wolves have a relationship with him, I fail to see how this is against the rules however. I think one of the key principles of Fosun is to have good relationships with key people, no matter what business, it looks like this is what they have done with Mendes, and it's generally working. He also brought in a lot of shit last year, like Ola John and some Portuguese full back who then went on to be shit for Forest too, no one seemed to complain then!

For the record, if they've done anything wrong, then I hope it's uncovered. It seems as if the unnamed club is unhappy because we have got good players for cheap, which seems a little far-fetched as we're no better off than Newcastle were at this stage last year. Neves being our best signing was cheap, but this I believe is because Porto desperately needed cash, anyone was free to sign him, but it's fair to say, we probably had better knowledge of the situation than most. Is this against the rules? I really don't know. Jota is on loan, as he was at Porto last season. Did Porto break any rules signing him on loan? There have been plenty of players turn us down in the last 18 months, as well as the current Spain manager. The relationship with Mendes is one people always point to, but this isn't unique, just seems to be out of order as it's Wolves. I believe most of Small Heath's signings came from the same agent in the summer, Man Utd deal with mainly one too, and a few years ago Doncaster had an arrangement with Willy Mckay. As I say, if Wolves have done anything wrong, then the club should be punished, I can't see what they have done wrong from the outside other than build a network.

Fair enough that’s better than I thought. I guess in this league Villa Park is always a draw for away fans, so this will be pretty common I expect.

Apparently there were Villa fans in the home end in be reverse fixture. To be honest, Villa are pretty stingey with away tickets in such a big stadium. They pretty much give the smallest amount possible I think.

Totally agree.

Agreed. I can’t understand how they’re still there. Plus it’s just a waste of time, their style would get found out in the prem

It’s fair to say I’m easy, but not in this sense, I think it’s possible although unlikely we could finish second, but third I don’t think will happen.

With respect mate, the key word there is ‘some’. You tend to notice more these kind of opinions, but it won’t be the majority of Wolves fans at all. All the stuff between Wolves and Villa this season is the press stirring and social media reacting.

Well, I saw half the game yesterday. Me and my mates were thrown out just after half time by enthusiastic Fulham stewards. Congratulations on your impressive win yesterday!

yeah, I was convinced it would happen for him to be suspended for Villa to be honest. It is bad luck for you really. Who do you have at the weekend?

Cheers, maybe you'll be able to tell me what it was like after - I'll be blind drunk

Cheers! I'm not too confident now Neves is suspended.

haha, good point. Happy days then, we'll be 12 points clear on Saturday, Fulham are awful right? RIGHT?!

Yeah, that's what I said in the quote you posted

Yeah it's not been great! The only thing in our favour now is that games are running out. Villa in third are 13 points behind us with 13 to play, so you'd have to gain a point a game on us for the rest of the season, which is possible, but a bit of a tall order. Just noticed that you have to play Cardiff still, that could be huge for you. Cardiff still have to play us as well, and we'll want the title, so with any luck we'll help each other out!

Last night was a bit of a kick in the balls for us. I wasn't there, but our keeper is really letting us down at the moment. I'm not worried about promotion, but the title is a little more in doubt now. When we kick off on Saturday the gap will probably only be six points, and you all know how hard Fulham away is at the moment. After that we still have to play Villa and Cardiff away, and Derby at home.

Not surprised in the slightest. I have no idea how they are still up there. I think it's more a reflection of Championship refereeing than it is Cardiff as a team.

Absolutely. You know he will be targeted if he's on the pitch as teams like that just can't cope otherwise. We've had it all season with Jota, I honestly don't know how he's stayed fit all season. You do worry with someone like Grealish who has had less luck with injury.

I have heard people say 'See you next Tuesday' to him to be fair In fairness though, you want to be careful against Preston, I've seen them twice this season, and they don't mind leaving a foot in. Not really what you want with Grealish at the moment.

So what's the situation with Grealish? Is he just not 100% over his injury? How far away is he?