Well, think again. This horror record belongs to a Premier League team that is currently having a season to forget, and we’re not talking about a newly promoted team.
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Currently, Wolverhampton Wanderers are breaking one negative record after another. Each of them symbolizes a historically weak season, even before the winter holidays.
After only 14 games, the Wolves already had their first record in their pocket. Since their 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest, they share the worst points tally after fourteen league games against Sheffield United.
The longest start without victories in sight
Particularly worrying: since then, with defeats against Manchester United and Arsenal, they have not picked up a single point. Thus, Wolves continue to languish at the bottom of the table with two points. They are now eight (!) points behind newly promoted Burnley in second-to-last place. If they don’t win today’s match against Brentford, they will equal Sheffield United in the next milestone: they would then have the longest winless start to a Premier League season.
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The Wolves have suffered nine (!) losses in a row and their confidence is at rock bottom. Their only two points so far came on matchdays 6 and 7 against Tottenham and Brighton & Hove Albion. That was at the beginning of October. Do gamers remember what it feels like to get something from a game? We doubt it.
The coach change card has already been played, but without effect. After the dismissal of VÃtor Pereira, his successor Rob Edwards still has not scored a single point.
Where did it all go wrong?
Yes, that’s always the question afterwards.
In short, the Wolves lost their most important players over the summer. Key players such as Matheus Cunha and Rayan Aït-Nouri became rivals, and Pablo Sarabia and Nelson Semedo also jumped ship. With Cunha in particular, it is increasingly clear how much the club relied on his 15 goals last season.
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This season they have only scored nine goals in total, which is approximately half a goal per game. New signings Jørgen Strand Larsen (transfer fee: €27 million) and Tolu Arokodare (€26 million) have only scored twice between them.
Therefore, fans are still waiting for suitable replacements for departures and are increasingly angry.
Even before the game against Manchester United earlier this month, Wolves fans expressed their frustration. They protested against the club’s owners, a Chinese investment group, and only entered the stadium well after the start of the match.
Chairman Jeff Shi has since resigned from his position but remains head of investment group Fosun Sports Group. His role as club boss has been taken over on an interim basis by Nathan Shi, who is not related to him and has worked for Fosun since 2016.
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Even after the departure of the club boss, the mood will probably not improve much, if we look at ‘Opta’ calculations. According to them, the club now has virtually no realistic chance of staying at the top and has a just over 98 percent chance of finishing in the bottom three at the end of the season. Given the table, it’s no surprise: they are already 14 points from safety. That is a difficult challenge.
Season Goal: Damage Control?!
The goal can almost only be to at least avoid some negative records. The record for fewest points in a Premier League season currently stands at eleven. There’s also room for improvement in terms of fewer wins: the Wolves would need at least two more wins to surpass the all-time low of a single win. You might think it’s doable until you remember the PL team’s start to the season.
Suddenly, it even seems likely that they could lose 30 or more of 38 Premier League games. In that case, they would be level with Southampton, who lost all but eight of their games last season.
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The Wolves have also lost all but two games so far. Today they have another chance to finally get their first win, or at least another point, at home against 15th-place Brentford.
This would be important to avoid, for example, the earliest confirmed relegation in league history. That record is currently held by Derby County, whose relegation in the 2000s was already sealed on March 29.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.
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