Derby midfielder David Jones has become Wolves’ third summer signing after agreeing a three-year deal.
See also: Wolves: Jones’ career in pictures
Jones signed his contract at Compton after a fee of £1m had been agreed some weeks ago by the clubs.
The 23-year-old left-sided midfielder arrives to some fanfare and has been hailed by some as the missing creative link.
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey said: “David’s arrival follows the same young and hungry path as Sam Vokes and Richard Stearman.
“His pedigree is second to none having been schooled at Manchester United and he was the mainstay of Derby’s promotion two years ago.
“Mick McCarthy has always liked him. We wanted a left-sided midfielder and he gives the team great balance.
“He is a very good passer, both long and medium range and works very well in tight situations.
“He is great at dead ball situations and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him taking our free kicks and corners.
“We think he’ll be a tremendous addition to the squad.”
Jones has scored six goals in 32 League games for the Rams, missed a chunk of their ill-fated Premier League season through injury.
117 Comments
He couldn’t get into the Derby side
He is a lightweight - please prove me wrong
Excellent signing. Anyone know what odds the bookies are offering on Wolves for automatic promotion? Worth a punt I think…
Good Good, I’m happy with this signing, all the moaners keep talking…
Good feedback from my Derby mates so I’d say this is a good signing. We now need to cement Berra into place, and hopefully McClean.
My XI vs. Plymouth:
Hennessey
Foley
Stearman
Berra
Elokobi
Kightly
Edwards (Henry?)
Jones
Jarvis
SEB
Keogh
Bring on August 9th!
it’s quite obvious from results and signings that paul jewell has lost the plot… probably a bigger reason for jones not playing than him being rubbish!!
No.1 probably because he was out injured. So do one.
12/1 to win the league.
4/1 to get promoted.
1 Derby Wolf
Should fit in well then!!
No just joking.I’m sure the lad with his history will be a great success. At least I very much hope so as it seems much is expected of him from.
As a midfield (dynamo) he is after all what we need apart from a good C/B ?Berra, and a support striker.
Up The Wolves
He was injured most of last season but was the reason they got promoted with his assists and goals - he had the most assists out of their entire team.
one more centre back and a support striker and i will be over moon very happy so far!!!
would still liek to see young jones given chance at left back and maybe free up elokobi for the middle? and davies given a place in midfield/bench. Moreover, glesson looks useful!
good times ahead
role on next season
eddie wolf,I still see you are banging the play keogh drum….of all the posters on here I find your footballing knowledge equivalent to a worms knowledge in the art of juggling,an utter embarrassment.
Not really seen to much of jones ,cant be worse than some of the carp we have here at the moment.
I see he missed a large part of last season through injury… Does that mean he is another SICKNOTE! 6 Goals from 32 games is not what I call a great return from midfield. Lets just hope he does the business. We need someone creative, strong a leader in Midfield as was Muke Bailey years ago. We also needs a lot more goals in the team otherwise it will be same as last season.. Lets hope SEB in not injured otherwise we will be really stuffed.
Great signing. He hardly played last season, due to injuries.
My only concern is, are we going to get rid of any of our transfer listed players? Edwards, if he is fit, I would keep but who is going to pay big money for Elliot, for example!
Great signing.
My only worry is that the ways of old are going to come back to haunt us. And by that I mean that expectation is going through the roof!
brill signing, will replace olofinjana no doubt
If you have a look at what the Derby fans think on Teamtalk on their your say page, the general opinon is that they wanted to keep him so for the money we paid for him i think hes a great signing. We haven’t had a good creative midfield since the days of Rae,Ince and Cameron and think he’ll complement Henry really well. Glad to see the back of one in six George when he gets sold.
Unless we sign Steve Howard or re-sign Kevin Kyle try to be positive about the signings!!! The 3 players we have signed are young & have some experience, so lets see them play for us before making judgements. Paul Jewell lost the plot in my opinion - who else would think Lauren Robert would help in a relegation battle!!!
Derby Wolves like all the other moaners SHUT UP.
Read the article, he didnt get into the Derby side because he was injured!
This guy didn’t play much early last season. He actually made most of his appearances under Paul Jewell. My mate who is a Derby fan says he is quality but had a year of bad luck with injuries and niggles that affected his play but looked to be on his way back towards the end of the season (sounds like Kightly).
If he can show the form he has throughout most of his career then we have a great buy.
Echo everyone else over Berra, let’s hope we get him before anyone else does. If we do and they all gel we will have a back four of real quality.
It is starting to look like we will have a pretty good squad going into next season, particularly if Mark Davies can finally have a bit of good fortune!
12 savagewolf:
Look mate, it is only an opinion. If you dont rate him, I have no qualms because football is all about personal opinion! For goodness sake, Trappattoni likes the player, so i guess he know nothing about football too…
At least we won’t have Bothroyd taking free kicks anymore!!
Still need Berra & another striker.
15 S*U*P*E*R, expectation does not take to the pitch on match days but the players do!
If they cannot cope with it they should take up tiddley winks or some other kind of activity!
Professional players are under pressure from all areas, they have to deal with it.
When supporters pay hard cash they have expectations and why not?
looks like another quality signing,now lets make sure we settle for fast paced quality football that will make us the champions! REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS!
Not bad 3 signings so far, think with Berra and another striker we would be set for an exciting season ahead. Actually getting really excited again now…..come on the wolves.
Think with the return from injury of Matt Murray, Mark Davies and Lewis Gobern they are 3 signings in them selves.
Add in the added extra competition now from Little, Jones and Elliot Bennett we shape up very well this year.
Good signing, worth the risk at £1m. If there was no risk he would be considerably more. It was touch and go weather MU let him go in the first place. Good touch and passer, maybe a bit lightweight but so is Fabregas and look at him!!!
As regards expectation, lets accept we have to go for it this season plain and simple. If we don’t make it who knows who will be staying at the end of it!!!! GO FOR IT WOLVES! GET THE COUPLE MORE IN WHO WILL MAKE IT THE MORE PROBABLE!
24. Jeff
Yes I agree, they should be able to deal with it, but they obviously can’t. It’s a little hard for players like Keogh to give their best performance when whenever he makes a mistake he has ‘Freddy’ chanted at him.
But anyway, we don’t want to start a Freddy debate again!
We all have expectations, thats obvious. At Wolves though, we seem to expect too much, and thats part of the reason why we are where we are.
I would have much fancied Hoolahan from Blackpool plays a lot more games and we know from his performances last season he can do it in this division. I really want us to do well,i must i travel 90 miles to each game, but i don’t see anything to put us apart from 8 or 9 teams next season and i would now add Norwich into that equation. Less buys more quality i still think if we would have signed 2 quality central midfielders last year we had a good enough squad and i still do.
1 Spent some of last season injured and had a hiernia op. Is a good creative player so we still need a `hard` man.
Just to clarify he lost his place in the team at the back end of the season they went up, please note did not play in play-offs was dropped!
He was poor when he played in Prem and yes did miss most because of injury but will not make or take tackles like Seyi does but you will see.
Now if we could get Howard that would be a signing
13. It is better than Olofinjana’s return..
He’s signed.
All get behind the team now as there are plenty more deals going on at the moment.
Hate to say it but Jez has pulled off some good deals for us the last few weeks.
Nice one..
We must all wait and see but I agree with Spirite Wolves. Hoolihan at £250k would have been a far better investment and I worry about anybody being bought who a Championship rival is happy to let go!
Vokes and Stearman are to be strongly supported. This signing comes within the “wait to be convinced” category. Is he that much a better player than Potter that justifies a £1m price tag?
1 - you’re a complete idiot.
Comes from the same footballing school as Ebank-Blake, think he’s not good enough?
Don’t even bother coming to the games if that’s going to be your attitude next year.
Nice to see some new young players getting signed instead of the old has-beens of old - however, some of you need to calm down - all of a sudden there is people on here implying one or two more signings and we are automatically going to win the league!!!! lets get real - if we were playing a team who had just signed Vokes, Stearman and Jones, would we be sitting there thinking we were going to get thrashed? I don’t think so.
i think wolves upper tiers got alot of stick from us fans last season - deservedly so in the main but surely we all have to agree - so far in close season they have done an excellent job and we have got the jump on these signing about some of the premier boys !!
cant wait for the new season
top two for sure…poss even champions - if we can avoid injuries
lets all get behind the boys - even if things dont start off well - good things are to come !!!!
My only worries are…
1, What was that injury last year?
2, Why are Derby (with a big parachute payement) letting him go.
Apart from that, Mick keeps um coming so the 3M’s are becoming masters… However I agree with 37 misterdj - lets not think we’re up until we actually play the first premiership game. There are a lot of very good sides and players take a while to settle and the chances of all our signings coming good is remote. lets keep it low ky but things are looking good.
good to see us signing players but in my opinion we still need a strong centre midfielder,centre half & another goalscorer & were looking good.
i hope this is the season m.davis stays fit & shows his quality but im not going to get my hopes up.
Savagewolf thinks we have to many carp in the squad perhaps we should get some roach and perch to keep them company.
Kr1kk1t
I agree with 40. We need at least one more centre half. That guy from Hearts?
Need at least 1 Centre Half and an experienced holding midfielder (Gravesen?), who can help this very young team, as well as add some muscle. Gravesen and Mark Davies playing centre midfield - mouth watering propsect …. but let’s wait and see
This signing may be a risk, but Moxey is shrewd and he knows that. The deal may be worth £1m, but I bet you it’s more like £500k up front and another £250k after apperances then £250k if we go up.
savage wolf, hes always bangin the keogh drum! lol Ed. He’s an Eastwood hater aswell lol. No serious savage wolf, he carn’t be worse thn the carp at the moment? apart from the transfer listed who u on about, read the other posts, quality team goin up! I’m guessin ur an armchair fan!
Seems a good signing hope he is the answer in midfield. Still need a big forward and a defender.
good signing but id like to see Gobern and davies fit. too very yound and talented footballers which realistically could be knocking in 10-15 each season.
Hi derby fan here (In peace)this guy is a fantastic signing for you guys he was the back bone of our team when we won promotion. The only reason he didn’t play much last year was he had a number of niggeling injuries, if it wasn’t for that he would have got into our first team week in week out. he’s fast, strong and has a free kick like beckham. gve the guy a chance ad he’ll do wonders for you. but be warned get on this kids back and he’ll disapear. have a good season. The Rams
17 now we have a one in five goal scorer as opposed to a one in 6? Hmmm! We need a free from injury, creative powerful leader in midfield.
I hope this means DJ meets this criteria otherwise I’m doubtful about the outcome. Call me a cynic, but we need more goals in the team as a whole. If SEB is injured where are they going to come from? AK is putting a few away, with the emphasis on a few!
I hope this boy does it for us and stays injury free…..
The new Paul Cook!
haha this bloke hardly got in derbys team you know the one that got a huge 11 points in the prem thats what sort of player youre buying a rubbish one!
i think all 3 signings so far could be good for wolves.
jones i hope keeps fit and i notice that he can take a decent fre kick and corner.
vokes good prospect who i hope will improve and add some of the missing firepower to the wolves attack
stearman again seems a good solid dependable centre back and played well in a poor leicester team and gives us some pace in central defence too.
berra from hearts would be good buy, scotland under 21 and hearts captain. but he is playing in the worst hearts team in 20 years. hearts have a huge debt and have to sell players to reduce this.the problem here may be the owner who hides in lithuania and cannot get another manager who will let the owner pick the team and decide on transfers etc. this is the 4th year on the trot they have been in similar situation.
mclean just wait and don’t pay silly money.
i like eastwood but he and all the other transfer listed players need to be moved out asap.
with these additions we could have a very good side and i hope we don’t have the same baffling team selections, tactics, decisions,formations, man management we had last season.
the league is going to be tougher i think next season but i would expect top 6 but who knows with luck and more goals why not promotion. only thing is i thought the same last summer.
come on the wolves!!!!!! please
Hey! Jones was born in Southport. A second Andy Mutch?
Savagewolf thinks Jones may be a carp, but he’s a ram, so should have more impact on the field than S. expects!!
And Andy Keogh is a wolf–he’ll gobble up footballing dimwits for tea!
Celtic Tesco (51) lets just spend a moment analysing the Tesco signings - well that’s done!!!
he is a qulaity signing….
Celtic Baggie (51), Jones was injured for most of last season so he hardly played–that’s why Derby were such crap!
In Derby’s promotion-winning season in 2006-07 he played a couple of League Cup games for ManUre and 30 League and Cup games for Derby. He had the most assists in the entire team and was the main reason for their promotion.
No need for sour grapes just because your lot can’t sign anybody even when they’re in the Prem.
Lol Derby are quids in, they are the Worst top flight team in History and he couldn’t make the team! lol well done Wolves….going down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Need a quality striker and a CB and we could have a good shout for automatic! As long as the boo boys stay away, this team can deal with the expectation.
Get some real money out MR Morgan and let’s go for it!
UP THE WOLVES!
3 great signings so far lets not go on about jones injury that ws last season give the guy a chance really excited about the coming season UP THE WOLVES
50 = The New Paul Cook, god i hope so………
just watching some of jones goals on youtube quality specially his free kicks we have been missing a freekick taker foe years and years lets hope thats over now
54 and 56 we havnt wasted any of our money yet and i hence the word yet.im sure we will buy some unkown rubbish you know like tex and ishy miller oh wait they were brilliant thats right and in response to 56.1 man doesnt make a team they would have went down with him anyway just probably with less points.
up the baggies
up the hoops
Now we just need C.Berra from Hearts and another Defender
( A.Gerrard from Walsall),
Another CM a ( HARDMAN ) T.Graveson from Celtic,
And a Striker … A.McLean from Peterbrough !!!
AND I HAVE GOT TO GIVE IT TO MICK,JEZ AND MORGAN .. FAIR PLAY .. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKK .. TREMENDOUS SIGNING THERE WITH D.JONES .. AND R.STEARMEN AND S.VOKES ASWELL !!
THE FUTURE IS LOOKING BRIGHT !!
SUPER SUPER MICK .. SUPER SUPER JEZ .. SUPER SUPER MORGAN .. SUPER WOLVERHAMPTON !!
UP THE WOLVES !!
57= HE WAS INJURED, THATS WHY HE DIDNT GET IN THE TEAM YOU THICKO
nice 1 and realy cant wate untill august 9th his is our season!!
Barmy Army!!!
So does this mean he’ll play on the left side of the centre or on the left wing? It might even be the first clue that MM is planning on a 352 next year, Elokobi, Stearman, Foley, with a midfield of Kites, Jarvis on the wing, Edwards/davis and Jones in the middle with Henry playing clean up guy protecting the back four. Would be a very attacking team and could be helped by the fact we dont have many CB’s. Would conceed quite alot but scare the hell out of alot of teams in this div meaning hopefully more times than not we’d out score the opposition
Sorry meant henry protecting the back three before people jump on my mistake
All the bored sandwell fans, where are all your signings? I’m sure they are all qeueing up somewhere. Of course your team is already geared up for the Premiership.
Saying that I had heard on the grapevine that Ronaldo was signing for Smethwick Town, or was was it Ron From Aldi can’t remember now.
Lets see how good this jones is, but it is strange that Jewell has let him go, seeing that he also needs to assemble a good squad at derby capable of mounting a promotional challenge? Why would he let a ‘quality’ player go for a million quid?
listening to you lot talking and moaning every week does my head in,yes you are entitled to an opinion but stop slagging the team off,lets get behind the players new and old.stop getting on players backs especially on match days,the wolves fans in full battle cry are the best in the land.and,when the players here they’better for it.so lads it is’nt only players who have to play better next season ,its us.
celtic Baggie hahaha ,thats funny considering the player you just lost to Celtic,this guy was injured most of last season,when Derby got promoted he was one of their best players,dont just look at his goals scored it will be assists from corners,free kicks that will boost the goals for column.
Wolves starting X1 nxt season
Hennesey
Stearman,Berra,Craddock,Elokkobi
Edwards
Kightly Jones Jarvis
SEB Vokes
no.69 because Jewell aint got a clue. He also let Rob Earnshaw go. And, if im not mistaken, he has a good goal scoring record at this level. Not premiership.
Forget the new paul cook this guys the beckham of the championship
Savage, seems to me you are the one who don’t know alot
celtic baggie you complete and utter idiot i suspect you knoe little about football as your talking from your rear, and as for sandwell town not wasting money lets just remember the rotherham reject that turned you down because he relised that he would be making a complete and utter shameful carrer ending move, nuff said bye
Why would Derby want to sell him, for only a million, if he’s that good. Are they going to sign a player that Wolves should be looking at, with change to spare?
I’m going to dundee for our friendly cant wait to see the new boys in action.
Celtic baggie your right you’ve not wasted any money on signings because you’ve not spent any. jeremy peace is holding the club by the ?alls it’s so obvious to your football fans where you need to stengthen so whats happening? JP’s having a laugh.
Wolves Team Next Year:
W.Hennessey
K.Foley
R.Stearmen
C.Berra
G.Elokobi
M.Kightly
T.Graveson/D.Edwards
D.Jones
M.Jarvis
S.Ebanks-blake
A.McLean
Subs: M.Murray,A.Gerrard,M.Davies,A.Keogh,S.Vokes
I LIKE IT !! PROMOTION TEAM TO ME …
UP THE WOLVES !!
Celtic Baggie says they have not wasted any money, true you have the same outfit that got you the drop last time.
kr1kk1t
posts 45 and 75 ,I doubt mensa wont be calling you anytime soon with invitations…..What carp am I on about you cry?…,well start with ward,keogh,elliot,henry,collins need I go on.I cant comment on stearman or jones but I do know we have to ship the rubbish out,wonder why we have no takers?If worzel was shipped out with someone who can shoot to replace him to compete for a starting place upfront with blake (possibly vokes) we might be in business.
dont know wot all exitement about jones sounds a bit potterish 2 me as it stands we a couple of injuries from being average championship side until we get targetman,and a big un at back like shittu frm watford, any way any less than 9 points from 1st 4 games and the daftys will get on players backs and ruin it 4 every 1 4 another year.atmosphere embarrasing sometimes last year so lets get behind em next season or even if we spend 40 mil we goin no where,C-MON ME BABBYSSSS
By the way post 45 Im a season ticket holder and Im guessing you are listening to wolves on the radio surrounded by white coats and the screams of let me out ?Then again that sounds like the south bank last season so you might attend after all lol
Wolfie 2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate?…not you thats for sure.
64, so now you pay one million for another Murray sicknote? lol THICKO
81: kr1kk1t
What a riduculous comment the team is totally different to the one that went down last time.
Now onto the actual topic, I think Jones will be an excellent signing for you and I think MM has made a couple of good signings this week, things maybe looking a little more promising than they did a few weeks back, hope to see you get promoted & hope to see Albion stay up, would be good to get the Black Country derby in the Premiership.
I think it’s a good signing lets hope MM wont play him out of position. Also let’s not expect great things from day one and get on the teams backs, as we have done so many times in the past there a young side who can only get better the more games they play.
62) You are clueless. You haven’t wasted money…. Luke Moore. A terrible signing!
If anybody here thinks were going to get out this division with just 20 year-olds, you’d be having a laugh! Don’t get me wrong, 3 great signings so far, but man do we need to scrap this mentality as to where EVERY player has to meet this criteria. Now lets get some quality that doesn’t need to be nutured & is fully developed.
Looks like WWFC have the makings of a great side, definately Champions this year.
In fact, would not need too many additions to this great side to cope with Premier League
Lets be Honest, its such a great team, they should be pushing for Chanmpions League season after next.
2,jiff,yes ladbrookes are offering a million 2 one aye boing boing
which makes boggies 2million to 1 to stay up does it terry - or are you just going to come out with the usual “another one in the net” comment
36. Went to the same school??? So he’s as good as becks, scholes, giggs?????
Think you’re the idiot.
Is it that boring for the albion fans not getting anyone in that you comment on our boards more than we do?
would prefer some1 like Dickson etuhu who isn’t so lightweight and can attack
Cypress wolf SPOT ON
I think we should say, “Thanks”, to Steve Morgan for these three June signings. Is it within living memory the last time Wolves paid transfer fees for three players in June? In 1993 (fifteen years ago!) Geoff Thomas and David Kelly probably signed in June, but I don’t think Kevin Keen signed until July.
Last year I think Mick McCarthy expected to sign Danny Gabbidon, Gary Cahill, Liam Ridgewell, Michael Mancienne or some other young centre-back (that’s why he let Jody Craddock go on loan to Stoke), but Jez Moxey didn’t deliver. (The Stoke chief executive did deliver with Leon Cort and Ryan Shawcross.) This year Moxey is delivering, probably under pressure from Morgan.
So don’t always blame McCarthy! Anybody who wants to urge the sacking of McCarthy now is required to come up with a better alternative. I’m doubtful about Sam Allardyce–has he been the same man since he lost Phil Brown as his assistant? Now Brown is a Premiership manager and Big Sam is out of work. Last December, I hoped we could get Chris Coleman or Paul Ince, but now we can’t. If McCarthy’s sacked soon, we could jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
Ireland did much better under McCarthy than they’ve done since and Sunderland roared away with the Championship in 2004-05. McCarthy deserves a second chance! It’s no use hoping for some saviour to suddenly appear out of nowhere. Let’s get behind McCarthy and the team and try to get promotion this season!
Wiseguy you are hardly in a position to talk are you? Look at all the premiership quality signings you’ve made so far,Moore & Greedy Bednar LOL! And you couldn’t even sign a Rochdale reject! Now thats well funny. Enjoy your last slot on match of the day, it won’t last……….
Get Graveson and we could go up
65,norf, daint ya say the same last season aye boing boing
54 rib,we dont need any mate we will hold our own with the team we have aye boing boing up the MOWBURY WAY
Just to let you all know that here in Malta we have a supporters club 180 members (no we dont have Tescos)if you are here on holiday and wolves are live on sky then come in to the Drayton ST JULIANS and have a good nite
To read all the happy-clappers kidding themselves that we are going up automatically next season is so sad.
Next season will be toughest Championship for years. We might scrape the play-offs, but that’s it! The other teams have proper managers, we only have Mad Mick, and he will loose it for us again. At least he is consistent!
I still can’t believe some of the things we watched last season…
95,wilfie, in the net ya go aye boing boing up the MOWBURY WAY
expectations are great and yes the players should be able to handle it but it wouldn’t hurt the so called fans to back the team for 90 minutes when they are out there
102 TB, should’nt really call you that! but you do need to strengthen like stoke and hull have and are doing.
Derby fans seem to think he is spot on and that they have let him go way too cheaply! Have a look at their comments on the below link!
http://boards.footymad.net/mboard/fmb.php?tno=181&fid=16&sty=2&act=1&mid=2129163092
103,maltloaf,thats more members than they got over here,dont think they will be live on sky thats only for the prem teams like match of the day aye boing boing
ARE THOSE EMPTY SEATS I SEE BEHIND HIM AYE BOING BOING
97,CLEMOWILF,we come on cuz we like a good laff aye boing boing up the MOWBURY WAY
haha wolves for ever called me a complete idiot .Well mate you might want to luck that paddy mccourt turned us down to go to the hoops which really doesnt bother me.He played for rochdale not rottherham get your facts right before you call people idiots you IDIOT.
three new signings and nary a one from sunderland.
Things are looking up. Perhaps Mick’s got the message at last.What worries me is we do’nt seem to be shipping out last season’s dead wood. i wonder why this is. Answers on a postcard please.
is this signing true or is it just guess and star
If this guy was Derby’s best player when they got promoted, how come they let him go for million, and how come they don’t believe he can help them do it again? And why would they sell a qulity player to thjeir rivals?