Championship club pay 20million euros for one player

Financial fair play?

Or are we the only club that ever says that?


From Portugal: Wolves agree to sign Ruben Neves from Porto in deal worth €20m

By Sport Team UK

Saturday 1st July 2017

Ruben Neves to Wolves is one of those surprise transfers which really should have been obvious, and not for football reasons.

A year or so ago the Porto midfielder was considered in his country to be one of the best youngsters in Europe. He was linked with big money moves to some of the continent’s biggest clubs, and it made sense, here was a player mature beyond his years.

Trusted with the Porto captaincy on repeated occasions from the age of 18, Neves was cementing himself as a club hero, and the fans obviously adored him.

But last season he went so far backwards that his price probably halved. It was clear pretty early on that things weren’t going well for Neves last season, under new management at the club. Danilo was preferred and there was no desire to find a way to also get Neves in, or to give him a full enough platform to develop his game.

In August, in a match against AS Roma, Neves had been told he was coming on as a substitute. The manager then reversed his decision, it was too much for Neves, and all the frustration took over him, sat on the bench struggling, and failing, to hold back tears, perhaps the midfielder knew his new manager just didn’t fancy him.

Neves played less than half the games last season that he had the one before. There were a couple of small injury issues, but nothing to account for that difference.

In such a scenario a transfer is likely. What isn’t likely is the player leaving Porto to join Wolves and reunite with the manager who frustrated him so much last season.

But then, Neves is a Gestifute player, Porto have been desperate for money, and he may well have been ‘encouraged’ to do what he’s told.

Havnt they been taken over recently? If so presume it's invested money they are using to finance such deals! Ffp is not a myth but aren't there rules regarding new owners and sitting owners like tan in regards to putting money into a club! Having said that clubs relegated from the premier league are making mockery of the parachute mayments as it is not being used for purpose it was intended for?

Annis its not just us these big spenders will fall foul of FFP .

Annis its not just us these big spenders will fall foul of FFP .

Only got look at the deals being done at moment vast majority are freebies or small fees payed! And there's not as many deals done I'm sure as previous seasons for this time of year

Alot of teams are gambling with the new rules but if they don't go up they will be fucked

Alot of teams are gambling with the new rules but if they don't go up they will be fucked

Strange it's not on Ssn so presume not sealed deal?

Signing foreign players for the Championship who are unproven for such big fees is suicide. Wolves will be in League 2 after their latest experiment.

Signing foreign players for the Championship who are unproven for such big fees is suicide. Wolves will be in League 2 after their latest experiment.

OH JOY or will go bust and sell again?

FFP only us I don't get how they can get away with these fees paid you can't tell me that a club like Bournemouth are servicing debt alongside only paying from investment it's all balls

FFP only us I don't get how they can get away with these fees paid you can't tell me that a club like Bournemouth are servicing debt alongside only paying from investment it's all balls

Bournemouth had a fine foe breaching ffp in the season they went up these clubs are just gambling

I think we should all do that then

Well,they did buy mason off us.

Will certainly be interesting to see how they do given the amount of money they have spent in the last 2 seasons

Personally I think we are now going about it the right way, Choo and Dalman are learning quite a bit off NW in the football business and if we can get rid of some deadwood now we will better placed come January if we need a final push as IMO we will be up there and would rather we spent money on players NOT fines.
These clubs gambling had better hope it pays off or they are screwed.

Deluded