What a shambles!!!

[theplater]

If you're fortunate enough to win promotion to the Premier League, and manage to survive the first season then the aim surely, with the money earned doing that is to improve your squad season by season.

Wolves actually finished 7th in our first season, reached the QF of the Europa League and reached the F.A Cup SF. We pretty much kept the same side in our second season and finished 7th again. That surely laid the foundations for the squad to be improved. It quite simply hasn't been. It has infact been systematically diminished in every season since then!

The selling of our better players season after season and replacing them with inferior personnel is a recipe for disaster. We now enter this season with the weakest squad since we were promoted in 2018!

At this minute I'm struggling to see us surviving for yet another year. I don't believe we'll be so lucky as to have the 3 promoted sides as poor as last seasons promoted sides! That, along with the arrival and nous of V?tor Pereira effectively saved us last season.

I lay the blame fairly and squarely at the feet of one little man....the utterly ridiculous, completely out of his depth Jeff Shi! If Guo Guangchang isn't prepared to remove and replace the miniature fool, or put us up for sale then we're heading back to the Championship and whatever that brings!

[theplater]

I am now not only convinced Jeff Shi is incompetent, actually I've been convinced of this for several seasons now but also Fosun don't care. I am convinced that we're now just a vehicle to promote the Chinese interests like E-Sports by using us as a brand! What interest do the Chinese have in football? Our ownership have managed to last a bit longer than most disastrous Chinese ownership but believe me this one will go the same way. My real concern is where we'll actually be when they finally leave!!

[nortonwolf]

I?m sure that they care Plates, they ought to as the financial consequences will hit them when we get relegated. The gradual diminution of the squad since 2020 has been painful to watch, the number of failed big purchases is pretty appalling, the number of young players not wishing to come here sadly telling. VP wants three signings before the window closes, can?t see it and if we do the quality will be questionable?

[MichiganWolf]

It's been the same pattern the last several years - come in with a threadbare squad, try to make it work, spend a little in January and barely survive. You can only survive so long with such a strategy. And I do believe that this is the year we go down unless something drastic happens. Keep reading that JSL is keen on the Newcastle move. Which is all well and good if we get the correct valuation, but I have no faith the money will be reinvested into the attack (especially this late in the window). JSL leaving would leave us only with Hwang and Kalajdzic. The former is nothing more than a forward to bring off the bench and give a solid effort and the latter is a knick away from a wheelchair.

[theplater]

I don't know where to start with this! It's not the defeat today, or the battering we took against City on the opening day of this season....it goes back much further.

The slow demise of our club, started for me when Shi decided to get rid of Laurie Darymple, a man who had forged a positive link between the Club and the fans and decided to run the whole shebang himself. It led to us being left in the dark and culminated with the sacking of the one man who had built a side with a passion and a purpose, Nuno. The cracks started there and have only grown larger season after season since!

Shi's sole determination to make us a self sustaining club, like Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth has been a disaster. Unlike those clubs, who have men at the helm with a knowledge of the game, and a plan in place to replace players to suit he has been blindingly incompetent to set up a system where that could work for us. We have effectively copied Southampton's model of selling our best assets and not replacing them with like for like or better until that talent runs out! And that's where we are right now!

As it stands right now this squad will take us down! The gaping lack of quality or nous in the defense has been evident through pre season to now. I don't know what happened to Agbadou but he's a shadow of the player we saw towards the end of last season, and if Toti's the answer I don't have a clue what the question is! The same goes for Munetsi and a few others. I don't see a game plan and have no idea what we're trying to do, yet I can clearly see the plan of the opposition!

The whole thing is a **** show and it's down to one man and his ludicrous decisions....our ridiculous Chairman Jeff Shi!

[nortonwolf]

If anything sums up the current situation it is this, before a ball was kicked this season we were 3-1 to go down, after the transfer window we are 5-6 on... No Wolves fan I know believes we are going to avoid the drop this year.

[MichiganWolf]

The only way out of this is for all the players we have brought in to come close to their ceilings. But Wolfe and Lopez look like they need time and development. Which is not always provided on a club trying to survive.

Any fan could have told you that losing Cunha, RAN, and Semedo from a squad with no depth meant we were going to need ready made players to step in. Jury is out on a few of the signings, and Arias looks like he could be decent.

It's too bad because I rate Vitor as a manager and think he can coach a midtable team. But he doesn't have a midtable squad.

I don't think anybody expects Wolves to be a European squad every season. We just want a competitive team.