What better time than the long, cavernous, empty second week of an international break to spend 5000 words guessing the prevailing mood at each of the 20 Premier League clubs? Let us tell you, there is absolutely no better time to do that. Not like anything else is going to happen, is it? Not like a great big giant monsterbastard of a news story is going to drop and render this even more pointless than it already was, is it? Ah well. It’s here if you want to read it anyway.
No pressure. 20) Wolves This is going very badly. Worse, it is also going very predictably badly for a club that ended last season in absolutely stinking form, to which the response was to sell the club’s most reliable defender (Max Kilman) most exciting if brittle attacker (Pedro Neto) and hand a still inexperienced manager a whacking great new four-year contract.
That has to go down as one of the summer’s biggest errors . A run of one league win in 10 games now duly stands at one league win in 17, with Wolves having amassed a mere six points in what now amounts to very nearly half a season of effort. It really isn’t all that far off Derby County levels over really quite an extended period.
There have been some games that haven’t been so bad; they have competed manfully in narrow defeats to Newcastle and Liverpool and weren’t disgraced at Arsenal on the opening day. They have also, though, shipped six at home to Chelsea and five at Brentford. They have already conceded 21 goals – almost a fu.
