They haven't got a prayer in hell of doing so mate.
Mendes has hitched his wagon to them for now, it suits both purposes, but none of the players they have been fed would be considered by a top 4-6 side yet, and when they are they will move to them, purely because wolves aren't gonna be paying the wages those others can and they don't have and won't ever have the profile in terms of club, which translates to a massive amount of money for the modern player/agent in terms of commercial deals.
It is one thing entirely buyign your way out the championship etc another entirely buying your way into the CL in this country.
Mendes won't be sending his real top clients/players their, they are already entrenched at clubs such as Real, United, Bayern, PSG, City and the likes, which means they are gonna reach a tricky point soon, of having to deal with other agents for the plkayers who could push them on, whilst the club they are trying to bring the players in for owns part of Mendes agency, that isn't gonna be an easy thing to do.
Thats basically it. We found this in our first summer that lobbing loads of money about doesn't automatically mean you sign Emery, Monchi, Witsel, Mata, Koulibaly, Van Dijk (etc). Most of the PL clubs have huge cash reserves and money alone won't do it. Liverpool have done well, because they've got a likeable coach who fits their approach and been patient. Santo has done well at Wolves but he is nowhere near a big enough name. Our problems in recruitment wouldn't have been solved simply with more money (I think it's doubtful Wolves have access to more cash than us when you consider whats lurking in the background) but with a clearer acceptance of where we fit in the scheme. I hope Wolves fans bleat on about being next to Manchester City, it's a similar mistake we made and will likely see them prioritising targets that are unattainable.
The Mendes link is quite clear. It's a useful output for him to have a team he can send young players who have fallen by the wayside to and probably maintain their wage packet. You look at lads like Neves, or the guy at Milan who's name alludes me and they are young players, who'd had a big pay increase and hadn't delivered and ran the risk of going down the Wright Phillips route where they were moved too quickly and ended up ruining their careers. A club like Wolves presents a nice buffer to this and of course they benefit from it. It's very unlikely that agents though, upset their clients at Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool to let us have a bigger piece of the pie, one of the most successful clubs in English football with 50 odd years of continual top flight performance. It simply won't happen for Wolves.
That being said though, they will still enjoy a massively successful period relative to where they have been the last 40 years. I imagine they will be solid in the Premier League for all the time they provide the use of being an outpost for lads who had struggled to make the big move. If they try to move too much from that, again they may find difficulties.
Whats interesting for us is the discussions re Brands & Fonseca, whether we end up getting them or not is their agents are Rioala + Mendes. You can certainly see Moshiri positioning the club to be very close to 2 of the most influential agents in football and if they come it will again likely have an impact. With the nicest platitudes to Walsh, not only was he not really a DOF but he had no such connections.
I suspect we will agents moving talent to us at a higher level, Brands successfully recruiting from the European, Dutch and South American market and Walsh likely focussing on bringing in younger domestic players for our the future. While people can't abide Walsh I think that system could work very well for us, and each person has a clearly defined role that they are able to do.
