Sylvan Ebanks-Blake is bristling with confidence for Wolves’ next promotion bid and is confident his fellow stars will be alongside him for the challenge.
The Championship’s top scorer is dismissing all the speculation raging around Molineux’s most coveted players, convinced manager Mick McCarthy will be choosing from an even stronger squad next season.
Those coveted include goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey, midfielder Michael Kightly and Ebanks-Blake himself, the division’s top scorer with 23 goals last term.
He said: “Wolves are a big club and don’t need to sell any of their best players so I don’t think they will.
“I think that’s where it stands really. The chairman came out and said what his thoughts and ambitions were.
“That is something which filtered through the whole squad and the management staff.
“There’s probably nothing more which needs to be said. You could see from the back end of last season when we kicked on what sort of squad we have got.
“With the manager adding to it over the summer things can only get better.
“We went close and we know there’s not much that needs changing for us to get into the Premier League, where we all want to be.”
It only took a repeat of his Plymouth goalscoring form for Ebanks-Blake to receive the kind of attention that comes with success under the Molineux spotlight.
But the 22-year-old is relaxing before his return to duty next month, determined to keep to the disciplines and principles which served him so well in his first few months as a Wolves player.
He added: “For me it’s not necessarily about trying to improve from last season.
“It’s about maintaining what I did and doing all the right things that helped me enjoy the season I had.”
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We are Wolves ! Another twenty something goals from SEB next season should see us up as champions. Trust in MM and we shall do well with our young and hungry wolves ! All we need now is all the wolves fans behind the team, the management and believe in what is about to happen over the next three years at the Molineux…..
Nice One Sylvan! Good to see you establish your position at the club, settling the score, rather than leaving fans fretting over whether you are truly happy at the club. Great striker, and with Keogh (and/or) Vokes as a play-off man, we should be fine!
I see moxey has “wheeled” the fans favourite out again… I thought this had been dealt with already by the board who stated that “NO ONE will be sold”…
However, if SEB or the club thinks the board can decide these things they don’t understand how football works these days.
If Kightly or anyone really wants to go, it won’t matter if you are a “big club” - the pressure to sell will be too great and he will go.
No club can sit their best players (assets) in the stand for a season - its dead money.
So whilst I genuinely applaud the stance your board has taken, i think when push comes to shove, the player will always win.
Quality player, well done mick. The way he holds it up and brings other people into play is fantastic, he got of the season and finished top scorer. He is very hungry to get goals and im predicting he will get 27 next season.
more goals needed from the rest of the team!!!
Goon on ya son.. now go and stick a few more in the onion bag for me?
It’s all very well Wolves fans on here being optimistic for next season, but what reason do we have to be optimistic?! If we hadn’t signed SEB in January, we’d have probably ended up around 11th.
So, what if next season he gets injured at some point?! And lets face it, it’s extremely likely in todays game. Even the best players rarely complete a full season.
I guarantee that as soon as SEB goes, so will the optimism. We have no strength in depth and to rely on one PROVEN striker is not good enough. We’re faffing around bringing in ‘young and hungry’ strikers, but if they don’t score goals we may as well be playing Neil Collins up front!
In fact, I’m sure Neil Collins scored more goals than half of our strikeforce last year! AND he claimed more assists (although 99% of those were assits to the opposition in the form of a penalty)
You have heard it here first Kyle Lafferty will be unveiled as wolves player on Thursday at the latest, he’s having talks with mick and moxey today.
Yet my lad doesn’t get played. The team should be built around Eastwood.
Sack fick mick.
Good on ya Sylvan, with all the hype surrounding Hennessey(Expected) and Kites(Expected but surprised) due to lack of Match practice last 6 months then reading this makes me think not many stars will not leave but a lot can happen over the summer but thinking positive.
On the Kites thing, to have seen the amount of interest in him since end of season is remarkable considering there was nothing the season before when he had played more or less every game in last half of that season
happy baggie you are silly sometimes. He has a 4 years left on a contract if somebody come in with silly money and he wants to go then were let him but I have heard he’s kicking up a fuss because he hasnt been offered the captaincy. How much did you get for gera? oh yeah he went to a bigger club fulham!
1 - SEBS goals will be an important feature for you next season - as were Kev Phillip’s goals for us last season.
Difference is we had two other forwards who scored around another 40 goals between them, plus a midlield who scored a further 40 gaols….
20 gaols from SEB will need to be coupled with a further 50/60 gaols from elsewhere just to make the playoffs - and you will need around 100 in total to get automatic promotion.
This is why the big interest in lafferty is so baffling - you need a goal scorer not another “tricky” type player.
I was just about to post “Blimey, optimism for a change and I like it”….and then SUPER posted!!! Never mind at least its mainly positive for a change! Keep smiling everyone!
“Loving” the “idea” that “Happy_Baggie” “thinks” he “knows” “how” “football” is “run” “these days”.
good god number 7 , last season is history so forget it ,you cant change anything, and next season is the future and you cannot predict that so lets just sit back, see who comes and goes ,have a little chat about them but lets not start slating the team already, strewth, we havent even started training yet !!!! Relax a bit lad.
7. S*U*P*E*R
Great positivity from you there S*U*P*E*R - presume you won’t be going to any games next season either as they ‘are going to lose them all’, whilst we are at it we may as well say that SEB will be injured, half the team will be abducted never to be seen again and Molineux will go up in flames. I think i’ve heard so booing on a saturday when we were 3-0 up.
1.. Think you will be there or there abouts but champions really cant see it the 3 that came down will finish above wolves and QPR have got to be taken into account thats just my opinion, but saying that I thought Wolves would make the play-offs last season and we would finish 2nd shows what I know
Bloody hell SUPER (7), who has been on the negativity juice this morning.
Lets see what happens in preseason before you bang on about stength in depth. We have already purchased one forward and we seem to be linked with every player under the sun at the moment. If you beleive the reports we are set to spend 6-7 mil in the pre season, at least lets see what happens first.
Actually, I’m quite positive about our chances next year, all I’m saying is that putting all our hopes on one player is just setting ourselves up for a fall! If SEB is injured we’ve had it becasue we haven’t signed any goalscorerers.
It’s exactly the same as pre-season last year where we based our season on Kightly, then as soon as he was out the equation, it was curtains!
Heheh - as someone on 606 has posted, here is a link to footage of Jez Moxey closing the deal on Lafferty.
http://www.visaeurope.com/personal/onlineshopping/main.jsp
It’s great lads talking about who we love in the team and who we hate thats what makes football the game we all love but one thing is… whatever MM does rightly or wrongly (no one was more dissapointed tham me we have got to support WOLVES FC every Saturday once that whistle goes then when the game has finished then moan if you have to..”SING YOUR HEART OUT FOR THE LADS”
Happy Baggie - you’re just winding people up again.
This isn’t a case of Jaz wheeling out his favourites…it isn’t of Wolves doing at all - this is simply E&S trying to get a story to put on the website. It is natural that a reporter will ask players if they are happy and the players don’t have much choice other than to answer the question….if they don’t answer it then the reporter simply writes that the player won’t commit himself. Trying to build up this big JM conspiracy theory is below even you HB
4,laffin, he daint agenst us infact apart from one header that nearly bost the floodlight he daint touch the ball aye boing boing
Magic.
This is good to hear from SEB.
Forget the negative posts from the stripey lot down the road. They don’t like to hear of any positives coming from the Mol.
The’re not happy unless they can criticise.
Why even enter into a debate if no-ones leaving,NO-ONES leaving.Just get on with strentgthening(defence),building a premiership team and 40,000 seat ground which Mr.Morgan promised a few weeks ago.
I’m not critisising wolves - if you read my post i actually applaud the stance taken by your board.
But surely you know by now that its the players who carry the power - whether its Gareth Barry at villa, Zoltan Gera at albion or Ronaldo at man utd - if a player wants to go, they WILL go… and all you can do is get as much dosh for them as you can.
The size of the club or statements from players mean little these days - its just about money !
Greg Cooper (20). Quality link - although comparing the bloke in the video to Jez is doing him a little injustice.
Everyone slags Jez Moxey off, but he’s paid to do a job - run Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. I think he’s done a bloody good job. When the Hayward money dried up (more to do with Sir Jacks’ greedy family than the great man himself, I suspect) and before Mr Morgan arrived with his £30M, Jez had to find players wages, signing on fees and some sort of cash for MM to strengthen a very small squad. I know he hasn’t always communicated well with the fans, but I don’t care, as long as my Club doesn’t end up like Leeds or Leicester (even though they got away with it), I’ll be happy.
Finally, get behind MM and the Boys, no booing or jeering or singing for players to be brought on even though they are rubbish (Freddie Eastwood, take a bow!!).
UP THE WOLVES!!!
PS. I for one will be glad to see the back of Freddie Eastwood. I thought he was a very poor signing when he came(and overpriced), and I was right!!
UP THE WOLVES!!!
funny how the crappies keep jumping at every headline about the Wolves, even when it was put up that their club was for sale they still have to make snide,nasty remarks-they must be worried about us because otherwise why keep on and as for the sale my offer and I will not be cajoled into making a bigger offer or enter an auction it stands at- 7/6p + a bag of “pork” scratchings!
I think it is very kind of Happy Baggie to come on here and offer his advice, i relish the opportunity to reciprocate in the coming season.
12..Difference is we can keep our strikers where you can’t and pls get a life and keep to your own sad page, take TERRY talks tripe with you…
To all the dings who just post “get back to your own pages” - you can’t have seen all the ding comments on our stories lately… and 31 is one of the main culprits but of course he’s too thick to see the irony !!
If any one of you can stop licking windows long enough to have a football debate then please feel free to post - i look forward to it.
to the rest of you - keep licking - you missed a bit !!
nice one seb 20 to 30 goals from you next season plus some from vokes,olifinjana,kightly,and lafety(if we get him) we r going up say we r going up.
Barmy Army
Happy Baggie…getting a bit mellow??????
Like your style though,
Still think we should have gone for Ched Evans, Man City striker and Wales International still only 18. I saw him play alongside Vokes for most of the second half against Iceland, and he made Vokes look a bit of a donkey….or does that apply to a lot of the players MM has bought???
RR
#16. Happy Wolves Fan, Wasn’t that an episode of Dream Team?
All we have at the moment is rumour and speculation.
Does anyone really believe a tenth of it? Most of the talk of big clubs trying to sign our better players is the result of agents trying to earn increased fees and football journalist trying to justify their wages through the summer.
We had the same thing about Kightly last year. Does anyone think he improved in value last season? If anything he lost value due to the recurrent ankle problem that is still keeping off the pitch. We are more likely to lose Kights to the treatment room than another club next season.
We should worry about who we are going to bring in, not who wants his agent to up his profile so he can ask for more money!
Come on Mick, prove us all wrong. Spend some money on transfers (or wages), sign a couple of gems (Berra maybe?), add a couple of older pros (with REAL experience not just a lot of appearances) and give us a squad that can seriously challenge for promotion.
Oh, and please let the Lafferty talk be more rumour… he isn’t good enough for the Burnley fans so he isn’t likely to win friends here
OK, so we are well aware the be-deckchaired ones call us ‘The Dingles’. I am always a little confused though. Has anyone had the unfortunate experience of walking through West Bromwich/Sandwell/Smethwick/Oldbury/Lye etc etc… These people make Wulfrunian folk look like Royalty. Dingles indeed! The audacity of it.
17) I totally agree with you. QPR are a big danger but Derby need to have a total overhaul, Blues are worried about losing a few and do not have a defence and Reading will lose players.
As for Wolves having to score 100 goals to be automatic. Absolute tripe. Albion scored 100 in all competitions, not the league!
Happy. One correction.
Moxey/morgan/McCarthy didnt say no-one will be sold. They said no one is for sale.
Now, my house isnt for sale but if someone came along and offered me twice its value id snap their hand off quicker than an Albion player offered terms from another club.
Once we have the quality youngsters back and hopefully get the signings we have been after and want to come here we will have a very good team and reserves.
This is how it could look :-
Hennessey, Foley, Berra, Craddock, Elokobi, Kightly, Davies, Howard, Jarvis, Lafferty, Ebanks-Blake
Subs: Murray, Little, Gray, Edwards, Keogh
A side packed full of quality with a quality bench!
Happy you are an idiot. If you try and talk football to you about albion that might have a slightly negative undertone you get all defensive and start calling people pathetic. Pot kettle black springs to mind!!
So you can go back to your window licking!
Cause for optimism here, I think that hennesy, kites and SEB should have seen enough exaples of players moving too early and getting lost in the reserve team abiss. It all depends on what type of charecter you are (sidwell demanding his wages- personally I’d just move safe in the knowledge I’m already a millionaire, going to earn good money at the next club but I’d just want to play) theres one example. These lads are only young and have years to make there pots of gold. Hopefully they will stay and added with 3-4 additions we will be strong. Many comparisons have been made on this site with us and newcastle which is right in a way we are similar. As with them our start is paramount, if we get off to a good start and put last seasons mistakes behind us the atmosphere will be electric dowm the mol but if MM repeats the same old dross football of last year it will only antogonise people further. Our first 8 games will be all important to determine whether we can challenge for auto or whether we are looking at the play offs.
7. Super, carrying on from this…Young n hungry, in the form of Kites eg. Has a season and a half to establish himself then gets a good agent and has half the Prem clubs poking their noses in. Its all well and good having young n hungry players, they will no doubt be the future. But for which club? Keeps Moxey happy cos the balance books look good (thats his job), we need to get some established class. Cannot see McCarthy handling established class tho, so our once great club will remain a top 10 CCC club for many years to come unless something changes at boardroom, backroom staff, medical staff and coaching levels. Total overhaul required, how long does Morgan need to “take a look”. Surely enough has been seen up to now
Anyway, enuf moaning. I’m gonna take out all me frustrations at the Sex Pistols concert in Bham tonight
The Belfast Telegraph has all but confirmed Lafferty is on his way to WW for 2.5m + elliot + another unnamed , unless Rangers pip us……….
20. Greg Cooper.
That is hilarious! Wish I could do the splits like that!
Simon
To be on the safe side he should play no pre season friendlies - how often does our star man get injured in these things!
In terms of people having a pop at Wolves for letting our stars go, well there is only so much they can do. If Everton come in with a 5 million offer for one of our lads the moeny is good and more importantly the player will want to go. Villa, have this with Barry and even Man U have it with Ronaldo.
20. Excellent, perhaps we should rename Jez the Star Wars Kid
1. australia wolves
ANOTHER 3 YEARS? ARE YOU MAD?
37. Couldn’t agree more! Did you see the photo of the baggie blogger’s get-together?! And they call US dingles! Lol!
The other player in the Laff deal is Potter. I don’t think Laff has got it though personally, at least SEB had bagged a few before coming to us
49,rolledover,the more i look at the pic the more i can see why you ran away from us at the moll aye boing boing
Yes terry, like I said, quite terrifying. Were your lurchers tied up in the back yard?
does anyone else agree with me the best player of euro 2008 so far as to be cosmin contra great player aye boing boing
47,dudzwilf, be careful mate there might be a few 1,000 there and yow wont be used to that will ya aye boing boing
my neigbour is married to a dingle she washed is dingle shirt last nite put it on the line to dry got up this morning and sumbody had nicked the pegs blummin thieves aye boing boing
Mick Get These In And We Will Be Premiership :
N.Eardley 19 Oldham Rb+Cb Wales - £750K
C.Berra 23 Hearts Cb Scotalnd - £2M
A.Gerrard 22 Walsall Cb England - FREE
C.Gunter 19 Tottenham Rb+Cb Wales - LOAN
W.Hoolahan 25 Blackpool Lm R Ireland - £250K
B.Howard 25 Barnsley Cm England - £2M
D.Jones 23 Derby Cm Wales-England - £750K
D.Bell 24 Luton Rm+Cm R Ireland - £750K
( ONLY IF KIGHTLY GOES )
K.Lafferty 20 Burnley St+Lm N Ireland - £2.5M ( PLUS POTTER AND ELLIOTT )
GET THEM IN AND WE WILL BE PREM !! COME ON MICK PULL YOUR FINGER OUT AND WRAP THESE SIGNINGS UP .. QUICK !!
UP THE WOLVES !!
LAFFERTY TALKS:
1st Story:
But on Monday night Coyle had to concede defeat and accept the offer from Wolves leaving the way clear for Lafferty to leave the Clarets.
Wolves manager Mick McCarthy is hoping to open negotiations over personnel terms with the forward as early as Wednesday morning in a bid to push through the move.
2nd Story:
But last night Coyle finally accepted a £4 million package for Lafferty from Mick McCarthy’s Wolves.
This was only 24 hours after Rangers, a club Lafferty has supported since a boy, submitted a bid of £2.5 million cash plus £1 million rated midfielder Alan Gow.
Wolves’ offer of £2.5m cash, striker Stephen Elliott and one other unnamed player, to bring the total up to £4 million, is simply too good an offer to turn down.
McCarthy is expected to open discussions on personal terms with Lafferty, who still has several years to run on his Burnley contract, first thing tomorrow morning.
GET HIM IN NOW MICK .. SO CELTIC AND RANGERS DONT OFFER MORE MONEY THAN WE ALREADY HAVE !!
WRAP THE DEAL UP QUICK !!
Cannot take the team seriously with Collins still in the squad.
32. I take real offence to those comments expecially as physical and metal disability is something close to my heart.
Normally I am even tempered and very difficult to insult. But I feel you have overstepped the mark.
i Think Mark Davies could be the missing link between midfield and attack,just hope the guy can stay fit hes real quality.
I would like to see written statements from Kightly and Hennessey promosing to honour their contracts and give 101% to teh cause.Then I’ll believe
59 above i can hear it you are in a rage now aren’t you its only banta its ok
I don’t remember lafferty being such an outstanding player last season. Is he a 20+ goal a season man?
One thing is for sure - I bet keogh kicks on this season and I expect him to get 15+ goals. he seems to have learned how to shoot and with a year’s more experience and a more creative midfield, he will do a lot better.
Bling faith is a wonderful thing
Big Wolf I agree with all those players accept bell didnt do much at leicester. We also need an EXPERIENCED CREATIVE MIDFIELDER!
Who are the mighty WW going to sign today, there must be some players who no one else wants, and Mad MM will pay lots of Money for, you lot are now the official joke, never mind in Mad MM we trust, bet Liverpool are sick they missed out on Morgan, that big spender. You will have to pay more than £100.00 a week to get good footballers, maybe uncle Jez your real owner needs to look at Bilston town.
Lee Cook from Fulham is the latest midfielder linked with us………..
66 Who are u linked with, some £2 pub player i beleive……….
doh complain that us west brom fans complain on ur pages- we am entitled 2 our opinion- if u luk at our pages u will c that wolves fans post mani comments on them. Wolves i reckon will finish 6th next season but wont win playoffs. As mi fellow west brom fans hav commented on i agree that SEB cant score all the goals 4 u, u need a couple more player 2 get double figures this season!
up the baggies!!!
We have supposedly put a £6 million tag on Henneseys head. Not enough in my opinion and dont really want to sell him anyway. If Matt and Ikeme get fit we would have one of the best Goalkeeping depts in the country and we will need it if we dont get any centre halves in!
Cant see that Lee Cook coming here, he is a massive QPR fan and do we really need a nother left sided midfielder? What about DJ and Jarvis? Couple of Centre halves, Centre Midfielder and the long term injured back and we will be ok…he hopes!
69 - next season SEB will hit 20+ easily, kites fit he will get double figures easily ,keogh will bag a fair few, Vokes will chip in a fit mark davies will creat lots more goals and score a few if we sign laftery he will be double figures and if the brian howard rumours are true which i hope soo if we get him than will be around 10-15 goals how many do we need
70- i THINK MOST WOLVES FANS AGREE MATT MURRAY IF FIT IS THE BETTER KEEPER. i STILL SAY GET SCHMEICHEL IN FOR 1 MIL AND HIM AND MURRAY CAN COMPETE.LET WAYNE GO FOR 7 MIL WITH 20% SELL ON CLAUSE! USE MONEY TO STRNGTHEN WHERE NEEDED! WAYNE I KNOW IS YOUNG BUT MATT MURRAY IS AS GOOD A SHOT STOPPER AND BETTER COMANDING HIS AREA!
Dan jones will sign permanently for northampton although i heard forest are interested
66. I think the joke is trying to sign players that failed at ROCHDALE, from the Irish League hoping they perform in the Premier League.
Where is the joke in bidding £3m for a 20 year old International?
59 - what is really offensive is some mindless tw*t who would compare the trem “window lickers” to someone with mental health issues… I find your comparison disgusting.
I feel no need to justify myself to you, and I don’t think any other person on here would have made that analogy.
Either grow up or think before you type something so offensive.