Wolves have stepped up their efforts to sign Peterborough striker Aaron McLean – as they prepare to admit defeat in their pursuit of Burnley forward Kyle Lafferty.
Posh have admitted they had turned down a £1m bid from Wolves for McLean, who scored 33 goals in their League Two promotion push last season.
Lafferty is expected to join Rangers, who have topped Wolves’ £2.5m player exchange offer with a £3m cash deal, with a player and lucrative friendly thrown in.
That is believed to signal the end on any increase on their bid for Lafferty.
Wolves are instead expected to return with an improved offer this week for 25-year-old McLean, who is a former Grays team-mate of Michael Kightly.
Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson, a former Wolves midfielder, said: “Wolves have made a bid, but we dismissed it out of hand.
“For a start it was nowhere near enough, but we are not interested in selling any of our better players and we have no need to anyway.
“There has been a lot of speculation about Aaron, but this is the only offer we have had.
“Aaron is fully aware of what’s going on and he’s happy with the way we’ve dealt with things.
“Wolves may come back to us, but I seriously doubt they could tempt us to sell.”
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey said: “Aaron is one of a number of players we are looking at at the moment.”
McLean has been a huge hit since his £150,000 move from Grays in January 2007.
After hitting four goals in nine games on loan for Posh, the Hammersmith-born striker scored 32 in 52 League matches, 29 of which came last season.
Previously, the 5ft 8ins striker scored 23 in 42 for Grays, eight in 49 for Aldershot and two in five starts for his first club Leyton Orient.
Any arrival of McLean would leave boss Mick McCarthy with a logjam of strikers.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Andy Keogh and Stephen Ward also vying for places, with transfer-listed pair Freddy Eastwood and Jay Bothroyd still on the staff.
McLean is believed to be one of up to six new signings planned by McCarthy this summer, with at least one central defender and Derby midfielder David Jones among them.
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Am I the only one who isn’t too bothered about us missing out on Lafferty? For a while I thought he might have been a good signing for us but the more I hear about him and his attitude the less I am convinced he is the right player for Wolves. Aaron McLean, on the other hand, would be a great acquisition, but we would need to put a lot of money in to prise him away from Peterborough. I’m sure that MM and JM are working hard to bring in some defensive reinforcements as well so hopefully we will hear some good news very soon!
Not convinced. Andy Keogh bagged plenty for Scunthorpe in League 1 but couldn’t hit a barn door in the championship.
What happened to proven experienced championship players Mick?
Another S Ward in the making!
sounds far fetched…..
If Aaron McLean is wanted at Molineux then a serious approach to Peterborough should be made within the next few days as it is highly likely that Darran Ferguson could be on the Leicester radar for their vacant job. Rumour is that they will appoint a new manager by end of this week.
I live in Peterborough, I’ve seen him play and I’d rather have him than Lafferty. Poor scouting though - he signed for Peterborough at the same time as we signed Kightly - didn’t anyone notice him banging the goals in at Grays?
How about we forget about strikers for now and get a couple of defenders!!
5 - I think he was the guy who we were watching at Grays initially, and we noticed Kightly while looking at him? he’s been on the radar for a bit I think.
What worries me is that Mick wants a big guy like Lafferty, and showed his intentions last year by signing Kyle on loan. Yet, if the story is to be believed, he is now after Mclean, who is 5ft 8in? Maybe Vokes is seen as this sort of striker.
So much for the 30million investment we are struggling to sign lower league players when we need premiership quality if MM wants a striker couldnt do much better than super kev who wants a two year contract,personaly I feel we need to strengthen mid field along with a top central defender.
I’d much rather have McLean than Lafferty. But, then again, it would be better still if we could muster a defender or two
what a relief we ain`t gonna get Lafferty, no way is he worth that sort of money,spend the money on the defence………come on you wolves
A good goalscorer but the only concern is that if we were playing both of our quality wingers, where is the height - unless Vokes or Keogh are playing?
We must stop this dithering around with transfers ie stop penny pinching. There are going to be a few clubs armed with big money - QPR, Blues, Derby, Reading and possibly Sheff Wednesday. However, we have something that they have not got… some quality, young players. Get signing and there is no reason why we can’t with the first few fixtures, lead from the front!
Mad MM scraping the barrel, for signings, love to know how many ST you have sold on the back of these major signings not, never mind keep singing Ho Hi Silver, it just about sums you lot up.
Why would The Lad Mclean want to leave the posh, they have more ambition than you lot. If you signed himm Mad MM would fall out with him and play your major player S Ward
I don’t think this will happen as Fergie v2 would be very reluctant to sell. And their chairman said if teams want Aaron they can have him… for no less than 10million.
In other words no way is he leaving until he says he isn’t happy there. Peterborough are trying to make it big time, they’ve promised him Premiership football but that’s surely no more than a pipe dream.
If this is true I’m sure we could lure him away. I also reckon he’d cut it in the Championship anyway.
Gotta think it’s just paper talk at the moment though.
i know why they are saying a log jam of strikers but realistically we currently have
ebanks blake
keogh
vokes
who really should push for 1st team. we defiantly need a goal scorer as keogh doesnt get many and we dont want high amounts pressure on vokes from the off.
i personally would say make cheeky moves for jerome of brum or phillips of wba
i would love us to get aaron mclean but doubt we will
Lafferty would have been a waste, this lad would be a quality signing.
So we’ve wasted the last three weeks in chasing a target that was always liekly to be unobtainable. Can we now concentrate on seriously strengthening the team particularly where it is most needed-defence and midfield
spot on wolfhound.
cant really complain about being outbid by Glasgow Rangers, but we havent exactly set the market alight, and dont look like doing so.
we are however still obssessed with strikers, when wes till have too many, and it is midifled and defence that is lacking quality.
im hoping that we are keeping the real gems super quiet, and that they fall into the latter category.
COME ON YOU WOLVES !!!
why o why are we still chasing strikers - we have more than enough. If we have the right quality in midfield, our current strikers will score more than enough goals needed. Lets just hope we’re keeping our cards close to our chest regarding who is it we really want in our midfield and not alerting everybody else. Also why are we not after Shittu & Sonku if they’re available - push the boat out and get them quick
we cant afford prem wages,players that cant get in the prem teams dont deserve prem wages,WWFC weve been there done that weve had the prem as beens and its pants.Keep it young and hungry,i know that will provoke a reaction but im behind that young and hungry policy.Sell Freddie and buy this kid .
Agree with Greg (1) about Lafferty. We can’t compete with the two bigger Scottish clubs and once we’re in a bidding war, prices paid can get seriously out of hand. At the price he’s likely to go for, he’d need to be an instant success and that would put extra pressure on him/the team. Decent player but that’s a heck of a premium for his potential. May prove to be cheap but not worth the risk in my view.
Just wish we could get a bidding war underway for Eastwood (or any of the other players on the transfer list for that matter) - but that seems somewhat unlikely given the only links seem to come from Freddy himself. Now that teams are returning for pre-season, let the transfer activity (and endless speculation) begin in earnest.
lets hope we can improve our efforts in the transfer market. Lafferty lost, Berra no progress after initial offer, Maclean offer too low, Gunter no progress. Shipping out as well nothign positive on freddie, potter etc
If we cant attract above average championship players then we are going nowhere.We have got to offer a reasonable wage package to these people otherwise they simply will not come.With this money pumped in by Mr Morgan surely we can do better than this.Something isnt quite right at the Wolves.
Why is the muppet man still buying strikers???!!!!!!, in fact why the hell is he still in charge of our beloved Wolves??!!! this jerk still has no ideas as to where the problem lies, WELL MICK!! problem is WE AINT GOT NO DECENT CENTRAL DEFENDERS!!!! Mclean is a no hoper just like your man Bothroyd what a waste of space he was, thing is nobody will want to buy him cos they know what a jerk off he is, so let him go on a free like frankowski, also may I suggest you get rid of neil collins as well the same way, total disgrace in a Wolves shirt cost us the chance of a play off spot on many occasions last season and no doubt will again this coming season, if Morgans got any balls then he should stand up to Moxey ( who I believe really runs our beloved club) and get rid of the fat smug so and so and the muppet man as well then get off his scouse arse and bring the guvnor back to the golden palace!!
NUFF SAID…..WOLVES TILL I DIE..
Great news about Lafferty. Very overated.
After last seasons antics, surely centre of defence and midfield must be priority, I think every fan can notice this but MM seems to like 8 strikers on his books.
Henry is not the answer and George has had ample years to prove himself in this team.
I’m sure they could be tempted with an offer of either Stephen Elliot or Jay Bothroyd plus cash? It’s just a case of whether SE or JB would be prepared to drop down a level?
And in response to number 1, no I’m not bothered that we’ve lost out on Lafferty either!
great signing if we get him!
lets show our ambition and go and get ben watson from palace would cost around 2.5m - 3m surely we can afford it he fits the young and hungry and has got experience in this league!!!
Mclean is quality he would be a good addition to our squad didn t like the idea of lafferty vokes can do that job
This goes to show how we desperately need the transfer listed ones out of the door. I don’t like the thought of us paying good money to the likes of elliot, bothroyd and eastwood to play reserve team football.
Anyway not to seem like I’m bad mouthing McCarthy but how can you be interested in a 6ft4in striker (Lafferty) and then declare interest in 5ft8in McLean??
He did say he was after a Target man, and with SEB up front we need someone to hold the ball up for him. Not two out and out strikers… By which i mean if we did sign McLean, it might not help our squad develop.
I think even a blind man can see that we fell short last season on not on defensive frailties which wolves did keep 19 clean sheets!! but the lack of goals. Baggies scored for fun as they had 4 “goal scorers” we had to rely on S. Ward, Elliott, J B, and freddy “who didnt get a run in the side” eastwood, all 4 of them had a poor goal scoring record. So its looks to me, MM is going for broke, its going to be exciting, fly off the seat of yer pants football which we crave for. I rather we win 4-2 then scarping 1-0 as the goal difference cost us which we all know.
Defensively we know have bidded for Berra, so lets just all calm down, enjoy the euro’s and take a chill pill.
I agree with 8, if we want a new strike look no further then sandwell town in kevin phillips . he may be gettin on but he knows where the back of the net is and can you imagine him and blake up front next season (goals goals goals) springs to mind two players who can put it in the onion bag.
Come on me babies sort it out.
Why is everyone waffling on about defenders?! Yes, I’m sure Mick knows that we need a couple, but he’s not about to tell the E&S who our bloody targets are is he?! I’d rather not know and then be pleasantly surprised like I was with Vokes.
We can have the best defenders in the world but if we haven’t got proven goalscorers then whats the point? It was clear to every single man and his bloody dog that we didn’t score enough goals last season.
DEFENSIVE & MIDFIELD!
why are we chasing strikers? vokes, keogh etc should be good enough…
AND why not look at some of the european players on show at the moment?
come one wolves sort it out!
7, correct. aaron certainly knows where the net is, wherever he has played, and that is usually a natural gift, number 2, remember a certain steve bull and they said exactly the same about him as you have just said about aaron, and they also said he wouldnt be able to do it internationally but i think he got 8 goals from 13 appearances, most as sub!! i would sooner buy a guy who scored 30+ than 1 who scored4, whatever division they are in.
STOP PRESS!!!!!
just seen Ameobi coming out of the training groung.
I hope to God that we are not going to up our bid for Lafferty. His value has become lafferble! However it doesn’t sound promising when £1mil is “way off the mark” for Mclean. I am also worried about the official site getting Murray, M.Davies and now Gobern to say how they are looking to next season after injury. It all smells like the transfer negotiations are not going too well?? WATCH THIS SPACE!!
I know somebody who is close with Moxey, he said Wolves currently have £16 million bids in for various players. He said we’re obviously not going to sign all of them but hope to sign a few!
Up the Wolves!!
In Response to No1, I’m GLAD we have missed out on Lafferty. He wasn’t popular with Burnley fans so what hope did he have here? The kind of money they were after for a player who doesn’t seem to do much of anything will buy us two quality defenders, something we need much more than another “striker” that doesn’t score goals.
Can’t say that I know much about this guy but at least he seems to know where the goal is. That said, it is a big step up to the Championship and there’s no knowing if he can make it so I hope we don’t go throwing silly money at him.
On a positive note, Gobern is apparently over his problems following surgery on his knee. His return will give welcome cover on the right if Kightly can’t shake off his ankle problems. If we can get Mark Davies back in the frame then our squad will be much more solid without having to sign another midfielder.
Loads of clean sheets last season & not enough goals, simple reason we did not get anywhere near promotion last season.
That why he is after strikers & rightly so, the defenders will come in time for pre-season, but our focus has to be on scoring more goals.
Simple.
If we are really serious let’s spend some money on established championship or surplus preiership players. Look at stoke and Hull and the sprinkling of these players that went along with youth. I’m not saying this would be a bad buy but look what happened when we signed SEB an established player proven at that level.
1 - No mate, Im bothered too!!!!
No.36, Do you mean Tomi Ameobi?
You can have the best strikers in the world but if they’re isolated up front with no link up play, then you might as well ask them to kick thin air, because they won’t get the ball or support. Sammy Clingan linked with Championship clubs…tut, another one that got away!
McLean, up the offer his record is as good if not better than Freddie! 1.5m with add ons if we reach the Prem.worth a punt on a young player! Lafferty was tooooo much!
1 - Not baothered either,… but what does surprise me is why no one wants the strikers that MM is trying to offload?….either all the other managers are daft or MM is daft for buying them in the first place.. not hard to work out which one it is…
Could not afford Carsley/Lafferty Jones turned us down.Obviously Moxey is running the ship NO AMBITION as long as he has his fat cat wages.
I’m bored of hearing people whinging on about us “going for more strikers when it’s defence we need to bolster”. As someone posted earlier, we need to score more goals next season. Every club tries to get forwards and midfielders at the start of the close season, they are in high demand. You can see at the moment the amount of clubs fighting over the same players. Defenders can be sorted later, they are in less demand. (Although I think Berra would be a fantastic signing…just what we need). I’m also sick and tired of certain posters on here saying “these are the players we should sign, then we’ll be in the prem” and listing every player that the E&S have already mentioned and we already know about! Derrr…genius!
Up the Wolves.
Agree about Watson from Palace, would like to see a cheeky bod for Danny Murphy too.
Another target for you lot to get excited about,
other clubs with ambition like QPR just go out and sign good players you lot talk all the time, so go and sign all the Young kids from lower leagues, then when 1or2 get decent they will demand a move to a Prem club, just like us.
Staying down the Mad MM and your real owner Jez’s way.
Better and more proven than Eastwood?
Think Not
Any chance of some defenders or midfielders to supply these strikers?
I reckon we should go for Louis Saha instead.
We heard a rumour that we are in for a young lad called Colgate
Far better than McClean and should give the whole team the Big Ring of Confidence (Not to mention the Big WHITE smile!)
So Sorry - We just had to!
Where’s Big Wolf telling MM who to sign & whatnot, I reckon we should put him in charge, seems to know what he’s talking about..NOT!!
What would be the point in offering too much to begin with? There is no shame in having a bid rejected and later going back with an improved one,(ok, havent done so yet but hope we do) atleast that way we would be getting more value for money and not just throwing it away.
not many signings have been made at all this summer by ANY clubs, most players are currently away on holiday and deals are not likely to be struck until after they have returned and even after the euro’s have finished
its nice to read the speculation thou, i think this guy looks alright for the posh would be intresting to see if he could make the step up some of Mccarthy signings from the lower divisions have kightly from grays, jarvis from gillingham, foley and david edwards from luton
if anything they have made more of an impact than the so called better class of player we have signed with premiership experience like bothroyd
even stephen elliot and kevin kyle have experience in the prem (i dont know how by some of the performance they put in for us) and i imagine would be on far more in wages
id like to see us signing defenders and midfielders thou or atleast see some more speculation as thats were we really need to strengthen
I’m not a big McCarthy fan but be fair!! You can only buy players as agreements are reached with the club and the player….this may not be the order of priority you want the players in. He may well be looking for centre halves but these deals may take longer. Also I don’t believe we can blame McCarthy for buying guys like Bothroyd … we had no one …. he had to get players in quickly. BUT glad we have missed out on Lafferty. We still need some wise older heads in if we are serious about going up…even if they cost a bit in wages!!!
Boggy1, i’d love to see you in the crowd at the cottage next season, I hope you’re not already relegated by the time we play you cos it wouldn’t be much of a challenge so try to to be too much a waste of space. Love Zoltan xxx
To all these albion fans who keep saying about all talk and no action with buying players etc.
Who have you bought except some Rochdale reject?
you really can’t say anything until you start signing others yourselves.
Also McLean seems to be of better value for money than Lafferty, but we’ll wait and see if anything comes from this.
14 -If you can’t agree personal terms with Jones from derby who is 21 there is no way you can afford to pay Super kev 20k per week!
I’m not to bothered about missing oun on Kyle Lafferty, We have 3 forewards in Vokes, SEB & Keogh. I honestly think we should be roating these, when tactically required.
Maybe a foreward from the youth system to cover for injuries. Other positions should take priority now
49, Boggy1
Wonder if you will as much to say, when you are owned by Carsen Yeung???
He has already tried to buy a ‘big club’ & failed so he has turned to sandwell.
And in terms of players I hear you are on the verge of signing an ex - Rochdale winger now playing in the irish league, it was the first headline on Sky Sports News………..not!!!!
If I were you I’d be more concerned about my own rather than what we are doing.
im a wolves fan and dont agree with the rochdale reject bit (about paddy macourt), i know its all banter but kightly was a southend reject and look how highly we all think of him.
personally im all for buying players from lower leagues, ok beckham was at a big club but was sent to preston to gain experience, defoe was sent to bournemouth. joe lewis a reject at norwich going nowhere although young, goes to peterborough and within what 5-6 months he’s gone from nothing to an England U21 goalkeeper to England Full squad backup. certain players if they arent lucky enough to be pushed straight in at the top like rooney, they need the lower leagues to improve and gain experience.
i like lower league football and its proven with kightly even greening started off at york? then 12months later gets a champions league winners medal with united, and i dont know a wolves fan who wouldnt want greening in the gold and black shirt??
i dont like people who knock the buying of lower league players, i personally dont think its right. they just want to who come up and make a name of themselves. fairplay i think.
its the ultimate rags to riches scenario.
and if they use wolves,albion whoever to get to the top abit like lescott, robbie keane although they came through our youth system then so be it!!
thats football until we are a BIG club this will happen, even man utd are having trouble holding onto players so what chance do we have??
wots the point in gettin ‘laff’erty when u can get this bloke who is a much better player has a better goal scoring rate and probably got more assists than lafferty who played on the wing tbh i wouldnt even pay a million for him
No offence but Rangers or Wolves, Rangers or West Brom? I’m a Baggie and obvioulsly Rangers are a bigger club than us and Wolves, but we have Premier League football on our side, you don’t!
It shows that all the hype over your ‘minted’ chairman was for nothing and that really Wolves don’t really share much ambition, MM i don’t feel has much ambition either, as long as he keeps his job and you are in and around the playoff places i personally think he’d be happy with that progress for the next 5 years!
Also the guy who said Ameobi has been seen coming out the training ground, shut up!! If you won’t pay 3.5 million for a good player in Lafferty, then why would you pay 4 million for an average player like Ameobi, when you have several strikers already.
What is amusing is the way last week you were all defending lafferty’s (non) scoring record - “he was played out of position”, “he’s the missing piece” ect ect…
..and now that he’s probably going elsewhere you all think he’s useless and this new guy is fantastic…. and when he doesn’t come you will all be “really pleased” he aint signed.
Then again, after reading the stick you gave kightly last week when he just wanted to talk to MM, its a wonder ANYONE wants to sign for you lot.
All football fans are fickle - but you lot take it to a whole new level.
And the REALLY funny part is - you all think you are “supporters” - you couldn’t make it up !
Could the reason that MM is, on the face of it, more interested in strikers at the moment be that he thinks that SEB could be spending the season in gaol.
I wouldn’t worry about Mclean’s size as I’ll gaurantee he will easily out jump your tallest player. He is fantastic in the air and a very good finisher all round.
happy - lets hold off with the sweeping generalisations eh ? there were many a wolves fan bemoaning the morons giving kightly grief last week, and there’s many a post on this very thread from people showing joy at this not going through who have had a negative stance towards signing lafferty from when the initial interest was made public.
lets pay the 4 million for Lafferty and the transfer list him at the end of next season… is that Irish enough for you Mick ???
66. Couldn’t agree more. There’s always a fine showing of fickle fans on all bulletin boards and always an element of fickle behaviour on the terraces (Happy - I assume you’ve forgotten about Dean Kiely eh?).
I think 2.5m plus a player that Wolves fans have never taken to (Elliot) wasn’t that bad a deal for someone with Lafferty’s track record and potential. When the bidding goes up to around 3.5m plus, it gets to the stage when that’s a heck of a lot of money for someone’s potential.
And Happy - since you regularly seem to suspect that anyone posting anything slightly negative about your lot on your own pages is a Wolves fan, does it ever cross your mind (bit of an assumption on my part) that the same may happen on these pages??? Just a thought.
shatpankwolves; every now and again you make my day, you’ve just done it again. Thanks, great post.
59 has long as he is better than your best ever signing s ward he will be o.k.
Yo lot will never get out of the Fizzy pop league, so live with it, you had 1 season out of the pop league in how many years, then you appoint Mad MM, to make sure you stay in the Fizzy pop league.
Cant you just leave him be and put up with the fact you will be playing against him next year? Nah seriously though, you will need to do a lot better than a million as we dont seem keen on selling anyone.
1:
No your not. I dont really rate Lafferty, and feel we need him even less, particularly as we have SEB Keogh & Vokes! Oh and Ward!
60. shatpankwolves
At last you have come round to understanding our role in the football world. We are a feeder club for Premiership clubs. Nothing more and nothing less.
Get them from the lower divisions at the right price, pay them an adequate wage, but don’t be surprised when they want to leave to better themselves.
Talk about loyalty to the shirt is two way. If we paid top wages, then we could demand that sort of loyalty, but the club has gone down the financial route instead. Players with prospects have to exploit their wage potential, because it won’t happen at Wolves.
The keeping on of the failed manager for another season, the retention of an accountant as CEO who balances the books tells us what the plans for this club are.
I am personally watching the transfer market anxiously, hoping that Wolves don’t get carried away and destroy the clubs frugal wages policy with a ‘big’ signing. That could spell financial disaster for several seasons.
is it me, or is there alot of talk about Radar’s. Was he on the radar? Yes, but then Kightly was on the radar. Now Lafferty is off the radar.
time for a new technology?
I agree with #6 - we need to buy 2 decent defenders and an aggressive positive midfielder!
Mclean Is amazong in the air thats for sure an really wins a lot of balls he shouldnt hes a goal machine and hopefuly hewill stay at the posh
Another effort by McCarthy for 2 months gone to waste, does he not realise there were other strikers we could target. And what about strengthening the defence and MF? I suppose this takes 2nd presidence, another dull season to look forward to it seems. I would sooner pull out all the stops for McLean anyway above Lafatme, but lets get the areas which let us down sorted 1st eh. Defence and more so MF, SEB sorted the forward line out so unless he is set to leave lets concentrate elsewhere please
The reason that Wolves don’t score many goals is because players like Keogh and Eastwood have to spend so much time helping out the defence. This is what Mick calls, “putting in a shift.” Eastwood is a bit reluctant and this has produced major tension between him and McCarthy. The cause of this is the rotten defence.
Without the players on the transfer list, Wolves entire central defensive squad consists of three: Craddock, 33 and slowing, Neill Collins, prone to crude fouls and poor distribution, and Lee Collins, assigned to the bench at Hereford by Graham Turner during the closing stages of last season.
Rivals Birmingham have Liam Ridgewell, Radhi Jaidi and Martin Taylor, and will probably get Bobo Balde–four defenders better than any of our three. Those who say we need strikers, not defenders, need to get a grip on reality!
Don’t people remember Darren Ward’s mistrap, which set Sheff Wed’s Tuncay up for a goal; the Watford throw-in which bounced on the 6-yard line and was then headed in by Kabba at the far post without a Wolves defender even touching the ball; or the so-called back pass from Rob Edwards which was a perfect pass to set Stoke off on their 4-goal spree at Mol?
With our present central defence we will be lucky to avoid a relegation battle.
Do those who write we need strikers, not defenders, ever watch the games? Or do they just sit at home and read statistics? Let’s get Keogh and other attackers out of our own penalty area and into the opponent’s! Let’s get defenders who can defend! We need them like a fish needs water!
London - yes there were some people defending Kightly - but many of those were AFTER it was pointed out that he hadn’t handed in a transfer request… the initial witch hunt took off like wildfire - and was vicious.
Andy 68 - I have already said that there are fickle fans everywhere, including the Albion, but there is a difference between blaming a player (i.e Kiley) for an error and the wholesale attack that we have seen wolves fans aim at a variety of players in recent times. This lafferty attack is just the latest and next week it will be someone else.
Yes we can all be fickle - but there are degrees, and you guys are something else (generally speaking).
One minute we talk about saying nothing “until the deal is done” the next we are in the media “competing” to sign Laffing boy from Burnley? Did we really go in for him, or was it another bit of “spin” from the club?
The mere mention of Burnley wanting £4m should have told us all that there was no way we were really going to “compete” for this lad - even with a few of our players “thrown in” plus cash
Who in their right mind is going to want (apart from maybe Eastwood or Bothroyd) Potter and Elliott??? in the Championship??? Mad Micks cast offs???
In our opinion, IF the deal was “real” - would it not have been sensible to offer Eastwood plus Potter plus cash? Or just Eastwood plus cash?
Or is it that the club are holding on for a “cash” sale for Eastwood???
It would be very interesting to see how many season tickets get sold everytime there is some “news/ rumours” of a potential “big” signing?
Frankly, believe NOTHING that comes out the Mol until the ink is dry on the contract
Alot of “sabre rattling” and “waffle” going on BUT nothing concrete - apart from the welsh striker Vokes
IF we really went in for Laffing boy then it was a waste of time and effort as soon as Burnley made it known that they wished for around £4m; and as for “offering” the players from the unwanted MM list - we have very few players that would make any Championship team sit up and pay attention - apart from FE and JB maybe?
A lower league inexperienced manager may well fall for this type of offering but not many Championship teams in our view!
Bothroyd - full of promise BUT really bad attitude - Elliott - full of promise BUT never really done anything since injured/ injury prone, Potter - has more bad games than good - Is he really worth a transfee fee? D Ward - no pace - good enough for Championship??? Not according to Palace and now MAD Mick?
Can the club command ANY money for these misfits??? Anyone care to give an opinion??? Are they worth swapping for other players??? (Playstation stats do NOT count)
To all you guys saying “get rid of Moxey” The simple reason is that it would take more than a few million to buy him out.His company has the franchise to sell all the food and drink sold at the MOL , he has another company which distributes all the match tickets.He is virtually UNSACKABLE!!!!
A present from SJH for syphoning off most of the PREM money back to the Hayward trust.
Hasn’t the penny dropped yet that a sizable amount of the 30 million promised by Morgan is for GROUND DEVELOPMENT.
Morgan will then sell at a profit. He is here to line his own pockets.Why do you think that Liverpool wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole???
i am really feelin annoyed to be frank. we chase lafferty for a few months then lose him, in that time we could have been after other reasonable targets and signed them by now.
we need business done before pre soeason so the players can have time to gel together. no disrespect MM, but please get after the defenders we need, with pace and ability.
on the subject of mclean, he would be a great buy for the club. i have seen him once or twice and rate him big time. pure goal scorer, so come on wolves:
2 PACEY AND QAULITY DEFENDERS - BERRA AND SONKO
1-2 CREATIVE, HARD TACKLING MIDFIELDERS - GRAVESEN AND HOOLOHAN?
1 STRIKER - MCLEAN GOOD OPTION
Going to scotland with the wolvessssss! woooop!
As I said on earlier posts which weren’t published we don’t know who Wolves are chasing. They are probably after quality defenders but the order they buy is not the order of priority….it is down to availablity etc. So, we don’t need to worry ….YET!!!!
I’m not sure this Lafferty is all that. Why isnt there any real premiership interest if he is that good?
Dan the WBA fan, yes you can offer him prem football but for how long? Let him go to Rangers, there league is crap but he will be able to play euro football.
MM is learning from his mistakes, -too few goals. We need anotha goal scorer with power and pace to add to SEB, so the bid for Mclean gets my vote. Sorry but I cant see any other strikers we have bagging in the goals. This does not mean we dont need defensive and midfield strenghening too.
79- Nippylobo brilliant post just fantastic. I could not have put it better myself and the examples you use make it jump up and smack you in the face (even if they are cringeworthy when you remember) Now you would think it might jump up and smack MM in the face and knock some sense into him perhaps???
81 Where do you get your info from? If true we’ll NEVER buy any food or drink in the Mol again!
81. Portugal Wolf
Are you saying that although Uncle Jack kept his promise and got us into the Premiership, he then sabotaged us staying there by siphoning of all the money we needed to stay there?
If so, and it’s true, then it alters the Hayward legend, and we should let him know that he is not welcome in Wolverhampton any more!
It also alters the Dave Jones position. He deserved better than he got from Wolves!
So, Mick is going to make 6 new signings. But we can’t dump the dross he bought last season. for Nobody wants them, and can you blame them? They gave me the worst season that I can ever remember in 55 years of supporting the Wolves.
Now they are talking about “fighting for places next season”. I don’t want to see these failures ever wear a Wolves shirt again. That shirt means a lot to me, and seeing such dross with bad attitudes wearing the old gold and black is more than I can stand.
How low do we have to sink under the Morgan/Moxey/McCarthy regime?
86. Billy Wrights curls
What you are stating is that jack Hayward asset-stripped us, just as we got back into the Premiership.
Dave Jones had no chance of keeping us there, as there was no money to spend.
Like you, I thank that the Uncle Jack legend needs re-writing!
How could he do that to us? I believed in Jack Hayward!
errrmmmm….if Sir Jack did eventually take back some of the £50 million of HIS OWN money that he VOLUNTARILY poured into the club to SAVE IT, who are we to judge????
Yes, what an evil, money-grabbing man he is. (?!?!)
Honestly, some people who comment on here and moan and groan about chief executives, owners etc. make me laugh.
It is totally pointless making up conspiracy theories like “Moxey sells all the bovril in the stadium”, or “Sir Jack syphoned all the money out of the club.”
Pathetic.
I thought it was about football.
Jez - (is your second name Moxey?)- why spend £50 million getting the club into the Premiership and not backing them when they get there - it doesn’t make sense
Spies tell me that MM is going to drop him back in midfield so you can have a middle 3 of Burgess, Philby & McLean..the other two came from Cambridge on a free!!!…
91. Jez
Show us what football we have obviously missed. All we see is dour, dire clean-sheets.
Football is about scoring goals.
Just to let you guys know McLean might be small but he can outjump most 6 foot plus players. His leap is amazing. I personally hope he doesn’t go, but think you will get him in a swap deal for Eastwood plus some cash.
95. Poshfan
I for one would jump at that one!!
Up The Wolves
NUMBER 8!!!!
I WOULD NEVER WANT TO SEE K.PHILLIPS AT WOLVES!! SO PLEASE DONT GRACE THIS ARTICLE WITH ABSURD COMMENTS LIKE THAT