About this deal
Wolves have a through line of fantastic owners since the 80's. Hayward of course invested tonnes and even sold them on condition of investment, Morgan didn't work out that well but had the clubs interest at heart and again sold the club on condition of investment, rejecting others in the process. FOSUN have invested tonnes and through Mendes attracted players they never could have dreamed of.
I am long term sceptic on the whole Fosun/Mendes project but setting that aside there are flaws in a club with a player trading model and they seem to be self evident. You always tend to sell your best players and the better and younger ones are always playing with one eye on the next move, indeed they might be specifically attracted to the club with either a tacit or even explicit understanding that this is the case. Representing Dingle, Nicholas Ragg pointed out that his client's offending stopped in 2017. Mr Ragg said: "In 2006 a young Mr Dingle was very insular, isolated and shy. He started a new job he still works at and was sent up north.
Are you sure you want to leave the feed?
He had to stay in a B&B and couldn't or didn't want to go out for drinks with his colleagues so he went on the internet."
I often think about that day and wonder where those girls are now, and if they know the cult they started. He added: "As you now understand this was absolutely appalling abuse including the sexual abuse of a baby for money. Then you stopped offending. That same year (2017) you met the woman who is now your wife. It is clear you have a long-lasting, healthy and above all adult relationship. You and she got on with your lives until 2022 when the NCA traced your activity and arrested you." Sentencing Dingle, Judge Neil Davey, KC, said: "Your offending began when you were 16. It is clear as an adolescent you were lonely, socially isolated and immature.
Beyond the coast
If Mendes was involved with the Albion in the way he is with Wolves I would feel uncomfortable even if at the moment the arrangement is working. At the time the pre match music was the stuff that was in the charts,played by an old geezer in a box in the old halfords.