The Wolverhampton Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
Elvis Elendu damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
Wolverhampton plan ahead with Jan Kuchta from Sparta Prague
The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Jan Kuchta comes from Sparta Prague for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kieran Trippier in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wolverhampton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Fer López
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match22 Aug 2026
Fer López sends Wolverhampton past Bournemouth
It finished 1‑0, and it was Fer López’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Wolverhampton.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matt Doherty falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Fer López
A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Wolverhampton
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market24 Aug 2026
Wolverhampton borrow Cemran Dansin
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Cemran Dansin arrives from Orlando Pirates with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Jan Kuchta
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Rodrigo Gomes
- Player ratings André spends the afternoon fouling