useless Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Wolves through Jeff Shi, their version of Purslow have stated publicly that they won't be investing as much as they were... this is him speaking to the FInancial TImes... “When we won the championship Wolves was not strong enough to be independent and we could only depend on our parent group,” he said. “But now we are much stronger. Now is not the time to always get funding from Fosun.”... Their net spend this season has only been £4m, and their owners have backed out of plans to extend the stadium's capacity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Feels like the club are trying to milk the PR they can until reality kicks in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Mendes’s firm made £6.4m when Wolves purchased Fabio Silva. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pas5898 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) 21 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Mendes’s firm made £6.4m when Wolves purchased Fabio Silva. Said it before on here. Entire Fabio Silva signing was a way to "reward" Mendes and get Porto out of financial difficulty. Close family friend is Portuguese and huge Benfica fan. All the other teams were complaining about the Porto deal because it was grossly over valued. Edited May 26, 2021 by pas5898 Missed a word 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 11 minutes ago, pas5898 said: Said it before on here. Entire Fabio Silva signing was a way to "reward" Mendes and get Porto out of financial difficulty. Close family friend is Portuguese and huge Benfica fan. All the other teams were complaining about the Porto deal because it was grossly over valued. That’s crazy. It really should be investigated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 55 minutes ago, pas5898 said: Said it before on here. Entire Fabio Silva signing was a way to "reward" Mendes and get Porto out of financial difficulty. Close family friend is Portuguese and huge Benfica fan. All the other teams were complaining about the Porto deal because it was grossly over valued. Definitely stinks I know he’s only 18 but 7 goals in 58 appearances for a £35m player is poor and no other team would be paying that amount for a unproven teenager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 There is a massive Nuno flag hung off the Ironbridge. Did Pep get this level of emotion when he left Barca? Fergie when he left United? THEY CAME 7TH! ITS INSANIA! (Said Peter Andre). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Don_Simon Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 A story gathering momentum that Nuno is Palace bound. A real kick in the teeth for the Dogheads that. Palace with more ambition The Porto Perton? Bad times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Interesting, I thought Nuno's stock would have been higher than (with respect) Palace. Given the trajectory that we were all being sold for Wolves to be on, then surely Palace, with their rapidly aging squad is a proper backwards step? It's not even sideways. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightdm00 Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 4 hours ago, Raver50032 said: Interesting, I thought Nuno's stock would have been higher than (with respect) Palace. Given the trajectory that we were all being sold for Wolves to be on, then surely Palace, with their rapidly aging squad is a proper backwards step? It's not even sideways. Maybe it's not if Palace are actually willing to invest in the squad. Nuno may have gotten out at the right time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Do they still want that Lang guy, seems there's a hold up with his work permit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) Lage expected to be appointed, talk that they're bringing him in because he apparently did well with youth players at Benfica and that's a route that Wolves want to go down, they're also bringing in one of Benfica's youth coaches who coached Fábio Silva whilst he was with them. Edited June 7, 2021 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pas5898 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 11 hours ago, useless said: Lage expected to be appointed, talk that they're bringing him in because he apparently did well with youth players at Benfica and that's a route that Wolves want to go down, they're also bringing in one of Benfica's youth coaches who coached Fábio Silva whilst he was with them. Good move for them. Clearly the owners are now on a sustainability mission. With Mendes they'll steal all the best young Portuguese talent, develop in the PL and inevitably sell to a "top 6" club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldricks Cunning Plan Posted June 7, 2021 Visiting Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) Still not happy that Nuno was effectively sacked. It hadn't been the best of seasons but there were mitigating factors around the reasons why we didn't perform to the levels of the previous year/s. As for Lage, on paper it seems like a downgrade but time will be the judge of that. I only came on here to post that an article coming out of Portugal on Lage's career mentioned that he was in line to take on the Villa job after your first year in the Premier League. Apparently it was widely reported in Portugal at the time so did it ever get mentioned on Villa Talk? Could it have been that he was lined up for a coaching job rather than that of Manager or could it have been if you hadn't survived relegation that season? There was also that incredibly unexpected news that he’d been offered the Aston Villa job just a day or two after they survived relegation from the Premier League. That was a very strange development, but most major news outlet in Portugal were reporting on it, so there must have been something in that story. Edit - Yes, I should have used the search function to look first. Edited June 7, 2021 by Baldricks Cunning Plan Should have used the search function! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 1 hour ago, pas5898 said: Good move for them. Clearly the owners are now on a sustainability mission. With Mendes they'll steal all the best young Portuguese talent, develop in the PL and inevitably sell to a "top 6" club. I’m okay with that, be nice to have a few good Portuguese players at the Villa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Lage wasn't offered the Villa job that was a mix up, there was a mix up in the English press, but it turned out that one of our owners Nassef Sawiris was being linked with buying Portugese side Vitória de Guimarães and the suggestion was that he wanted Lage to manage them, not Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, Baldricks Cunning Plan said: Still not happy that Nuno was effectively sacked. It hadn't been the best of seasons but there were mitigating factors around the reasons why we didn't perform to the levels of the previous year/s. As for Lage, on paper it seems like a downgrade but time will be the judge of that. I only came on here to post that an article coming out of Portugal on Lage's career mentioned that he was in line to take on the Villa job after your first year in the Premier League. Apparently it was widely reported in Portugal at the time so did it ever get mentioned on Villa Talk? Could it have been that he was lined up for a coaching job rather than that of Manager or could it have been if you hadn't survived relegation that season? There was also that incredibly unexpected news that he’d been offered the Aston Villa job just a day or two after they survived relegation from the Premier League. That was a very strange development, but most major news outlet in Portugal were reporting on it, so there must have been something in that story. He was definitely linked with the manager's job at some point but can't remember exactly when. Think he might have been in line before lockdown when reports suggested Smith's job rested on the eventually postponed gamed against Chelsea. I'm almost certain he wouldn't have been offered the job after we survived relegation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldricks Cunning Plan Posted June 7, 2021 Visiting Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, useless said: Lage wasn't offered the Villa job that was a mix up, there was a mix up in the English press, but it turned out that one of our owners Nassef Sawiris was being linked with buying Portugese side Vitória de Guimarães and the suggestion was that he wanted Lage to manage them, not Villa. That would make sense as the article also mentioned Vitoria Guimarães. It is understood that Lage did have the opportunity to return sooner, but for one reason or another, it did not happen. It is believed that there was the prospect of moving to Vitoria Guimaraes at the start of the season, for example, which would have been an interesting project at a club with big ambitions, but that never transpired. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 John Percy reporting on Arsenal bidding for Neves now as a replacement for Xhaka, says Wolves would want £40m and that Neves is open to leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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