It couldn’t be worse: Wolverhampton Wanderers are at the bottom of the Premier League table with just two points. Historically bad things are threatening. And on Saturday (December 13th, 2025) we go to league leaders Arsenal FC.
Of course: The fans are worried about Wolverhampton Wanderers. After eleven games without a win, the “Wolves” fired coach Vítor Pereira and four games later things haven’t gotten any better. They are on the verge of relegation after almost ten years in the Premier League. And that in December. They have scored two points in 15 games so far. It’s a disaster.
It turns out that selling the best players without adequate replacements cannot be a recipe for success. Key players such as Matheus Cunha (Manchester United), left-back Rayan Aït-Nouri (Manchester City), Pablo Sarabia (Al Arabi SC) and Nelson Semedo (Fenerbahce) were released and not adequately replaced. The result: The team is embarrassingly harmless going forward and has only scored eight goals this season. Unfortunately nothing fits in the back either. With 33 goals conceded, they are the league’s shooting gallery.
In the 80s it was even worse
But: It can’t be as bad as in the 1980s, when they were relegated from the first to the fourth division within three years. After three successive relegations, the club reached its lowest point in the 1986/87 season when it was relegated to the Fourth Division and was outclassed 3-0 by amateur club Chorley in the FA Cup. So older fans know: things could get much worse.
That hardly seems to be a real consolation at the moment. With the 4-1 defeat against Manchester United on Monday evening, the Wanderers’ negative run in the Premier League continues. It’s only December, but the crisis club has already been almost relegated.
Fans rebel
There were angry protests in front of the Molineux Stadium before the duel with Manchester – the Wolves fans were already settling scores with the club owners – a Chinese investment group. Some of them only arrived at the stadium around a quarter of an hour after kick-off. The result of a catastrophic start to the season.
At a loss: Ladislav Krejci from Wolves
The “Opta” computer has calculated that there is a probability of just over 98 percent that the club will end up in the bottom three at the end of the season. They are already 13 points behind the saving bank. The 4-1 defeat against Manchester was the eighth defeat in a row – the crisis club ended its longest losing streak in league history.
Coach misses the effort
“I understand the frustration. I’m not going to tell the fans what to do. I would like them to support the players, but they need to see effort and commitment in return.”said coach Rob Edwards, who took over from Vitor Pereira in mid-November.
The club’s last successful times weren’t that long ago. Under coach Nuno Espírito Santo, there was a phase between 2018 and 2021 in which Wolverhampton was feared by the competition in the league. In 2018/19 they finished seventh, the following year they reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League and a season later they had another solid season in the top half of the Premier League table.
Things have been going downhill since 2021
Nevertheless, they parted ways with Esporito Santo – since then things have actually gone steadily downhill. The club has worn out seven coaches since then and now that a large number of the best players have been sold off, Rob Edwards has to pick up the pieces, so to speak.
There is no short-term hope either: the away game at league leaders Arsenal awaits on Saturday. The “Wolves” could ultimately go down as the worst team in the history of the Premier League. Derby County currently has the negative record: they finished the 2007/08 season with eleven points.