Would you swap
Talking about this with various other teams supporters (including a Wolves fan or two) Premier League and some foreign mates who support other foreign teams , Juventus, Bayern, Barca etc.
Not talking about the league position, thats obvious.
Or some of the players, although they are part of it.
I mean the situation, the ownership the Mendes bit.
On paper, can understand the delirium from Wolves fans, Fosun are minted, there partnership with Jorge Mendes has allowed them to sign players of higher quality then most in this league and they are top comfortably.
But, and i mean no disrespect here, when i mentioned Wolves to the foreign fans, they all said "who", i had to explain they were huge in the 1950s and where they were geographically etc. Just mentioning the Midlands was enough to invite "why not just buy Villa", already have a Chinese owner, biggest club in the area etc.
The supporters of the "huge" clubs had never heard of Wolves, no clue where they even were. But they all knew Jorge Mendes, and all knew how powerful he is.
And thats a running theme, everyone knows Mendes, most know Wolves now but only vaguely, even the English fans dont know much, there not considered a big club by the Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea,Man City fans etc.
And nobody can understand why Fosun got Wolves?
Its not because they care about the fans or they grew up as fans.
So if its to make money from the Premier League and Europe, thats fine, but its a huge risk, money guarantees nothing in that league and the big clubs are leagues ahead to start with.
If its because they see an opportunity to make money in China off the Wolves brand, again thats fine but there must have been far more established clubs available.
Mendes is there because Fosun part own his company or something, so again he isnt there for Wolves, he is there to get his players in the window. None of them were doing very much, none were 1st team and 1st choice at any of the clubs they were at, even Neves had hardly played for Porto last season, Jota was on loan at Porto, did well, but clearly not enough for Madrid to want him to stay. Willy Boly, hardly got a game for Porto last season.
Maybe Fosun and Mendes can convince them all to stay if they get promoted.
But, it will take years and years to make Wolves an attractive club like Manchester City are now, tons and tons of cash on building work, structure, marketing, spreading the Wolves name. All of these things will have to happen to make Wolves capable of tempting the best.
And are Boly, Jota etc going to wait around playing for Wolves while that happens?
Will Mendes make them?
Will Fosun invest in Wolverhampton to make it more attractive to potential signings? Dont mean to be disrespectful but if you have a choice between living and raising your family in Wolverhampton or Manchester, London, etc then your likely to pick the more established city surely?
Unless you live in the surrounding areas i guess.
Interesting subject i felt.
Disclaimer- Any Wolves fans reading please dont get the hump (in case i join your forum in the future). Personally i couldn't care less, as long as Leeds do well i don't care about anyone else, just a subject for discussion.