Wolves fans are nervous about the 2025/26 season – and Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer have dropped their predictions with the new campaign about to kick off.
It has been a turbulent summer for Wolves in the transfer market so far.
A host of players have left, and some for arguably lower than their true market value.
Just three new signings have come through the door so far, and fans are urging the club to get busy now with just days to go until the new season, and just a few weeks until the transfer window closes.
Fosun were said to have acknowledged the need to rebuild Wolves this summer, but so far, worryingly, that has not come to pass.
It is safe to say that, as things currently stand, many Wolves fans are not optimistic about a successful season.
And it looks as though Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer also fear for Wolves this term.
Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer tip Wolves for relegation battle
Last season, Wolves stayed up relatively comfortably in the end.
Vitor Pereira came in midway through the season and did a tremendous job, eventually guiding Wolves to a 16th placed finish.
Granted, the challenge from the three clubs that went down wasn’t very good.
But it was great work from Pereira, who could really do great things at Molineux going forward if he was backed well.
But fans think he and Wolves could struggle this season – and Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer both reckon a relegation battle will be on the cards, after the losses of Matheus Cunha and Rayan Ait-Nouri.
Lineker said on The Rest Is Football: “They’ve lost two of their stars. Cunha I’ve mentioned. Rayan Ait-Nouri has gone to Manchester City.
“I think it’s going to be a tough season for Wolves – a relegation battle again.
“I think the promoted three clubs could all go. But I did say if one stays up it could be Burnley, and if it is, it could be at the expense of possibly Wolves or Brentford.”
Shearer added: “I wouldn’t put too much of an argument against that. I think they’ll have enough to stay up though. I do think the three that have come up will go. Wolves will just have enough, but yeah, just above that (relegation zone) I think.”
The biggest three weeks in Wolves’ recent history await
It is little surprise to see Lineker and Shearer both tipping Wolves to struggle this season, although it seems both think they will just above survive. That said, Shearer seems more confident of that than Lineker.
Wolves are set to struggle if the squad stays as it currently is.
But the narrative has been that Pereira is confident of a few more additions before the window closes.
Quite simply, these next three weeks are the most important in Wolves’ recent history.
If Wolves do not sign the right players, it is difficult to see how anything other than a relegation battle awaits this season.
But if Wolves’ recruitment team can deliver, and Jorge Mendes can provide a little bit of magic as he has done in the past at Molineux, then perhaps it’s not out of the question Pereira can achieve his aim of consolidating Wolves in mid-table.