Albion boss Tony Mowbray is still hoping to land more new signings before the start of the season.
The Baggies manager is standing firm by his Hawthorns wage structure, despite missing out on Madjid Bougherra last week, while talks over Bolton defender Abdoulaye Meite have also broken down.
Mowbray still believes he could strengthen before his side play Arsenal in the Premier League curtain-raiser.
He said: “The search continues. There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes.
“Some targets get pretty close and then disappear. We continue to get closer to the finish line with other targets.
“Yes, I would like a few more bodies in, but they have to be of the right quality. If you can’t get the right quality you just have to keep going.
“I would hope there will be a few more coming in before the season starts. Sometimes the expectations from players’ advisors are way beyond where we can go and that’s fine by me.
“We’ve got a wage structure and the players all understand that. It’s a philosophy I try to have and it won’t be broken.
“Hopefully we will find the right quality in people who want to come and play for our club. They will be a part of something that hopefully is going to be successful.
“We will keep pushing on with the efforts and hopefully we will bring that quality in.”
Mowbray is still refusing to be drawn on which of his goalkeepers will start the season, with Scott Carson and Dean Kiely still vying for the No 1 jersey.
He said: “The season is pretty close to us but at this moment I am just giving then both an opportunity to stake their claim. I thought they both did very well again on Saturday.
“They didn’t have masses to do but whatever they did they did efficiently.”
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He should be able to bring in a few players before the season starts for you. You defo need another centre half.. Gary Breen on a free lmao BREEEEEEEEN
same old story
better make sure ur chairman has a few windows in his diary first…..
Us Albion fans always seem to be moaning about
the fact we have not brought in a centre-half,
but surely the 6`1 MAREK CECH could play there.
TM won’t be drawn on which goalkeeper starts… At this rate you’ll have to play both if you want 11 on the field
4
being tall doeent make you a centre half, u dont wanna go down the road of playing players out of position, it dosent work at the mol and it deffo wont work for u imo.
stewart, go and get yourself ready for your trip to Plymouth, theres a good lad and stop posting silly little jealous bits of tripe.
There will be definitely be more signings, 3 by next sat and 2 loanees in the last few days before the window shuts. Its been frustrating but our wage structure is the stumbling block and thats the same for about a third of the clubs in the prem.
The more I read on this site the more evidence that the Wolves fans have a massive problem with us, an even bigger problem than we already knew. Keep to your own section, we don’t want half wits posting stupid remarks on our section.
Go start getting yourselves ready for your trip to Plymouth instead ay.
100% agree with TM and JP’s philosophy . We have a pay structure and we SHOULD stick to it. If more clubs did this instead of caving in to unrealistic wages football would be in a much stronder position. After all the are just footballers!!! they are not saving lives or in some cases willing to give there lives for the country. Just people who get paid far to much to play a game (RANT OVER)
We made many signings last season late on and I expect the same this season. We didn’t do bad last season did we?
Bitter Wolves fans - still trying to poke fun are we? I guess you think you are going to take the champ by storm again like you thought last season, and the season before, and before that, etc etc etc. Perennnial underachievers.
JP’S philiosphy at the monet is to get maximum return on his investment, which means trying to keep albion up speanding very little balancing the books so he can sell for maximum value. As i predicted no interested buyers and what i laughed off no billionaires interested. No shirt sponsor, reduced capacity, club for sale, mowbrays anger at lack of money and if it looks likely in jan/feb that you are going down i think he will quit as he will not want a relegation on his CV because of a lack of backing from the chairman. Sorry guys you are doomed and the future of the club looks uncertain, even league 2 clubs have no problems getting sponsors?!
10. wolvompletely agreee may be under achievers I completely agree but we always will be a bigger club, have a bigger fanbase and more history than albion I think the tables will be turned in 1 years time.
Whilst I agree with the pay structures, we are never going to establish ourselves as a Premiership club if we don’t become a bit more flexible. As the squad stands now we will struggle big time.
wolves will always be a bigger club
u need a life mate
enjoy plymouth dingle !
WE the wolves dont want half wits posting on our stories either BUT IT DOSE,NT STOP YOU POT KETTLE SPRING TO MIND WOLVES FOR EVER
My old mate loffingfilth is back!! Hoorah!
You’ve actually written some sense for a small amount of time) when talking about Peace running the club like a business…..better to do so than run it like a hobby or a toy that drains a golden tit dry with no reward…..or was that good business by Sir Jack?
No sponsor - can’t believe you lot are still using that as your main point - well done!!
Reduced capacity - better facilities.
If it looks like we’re going down in Jan you think Mogga will walk? That wouldn’t make sense either, why go through all the trouble of disassembling a squad, build up a new one, install a footballing ethos in a club, get promotion in order to prove your worth at the highest level to just walk away?
I look forward to your knowledeable, balanced and well thought out retort.
One question only today. Would anyone in their right mind buy a share in an already-licked- lollipop off No.11 Laughing Wolf?? He can twist any news item into negativity as long as it suits his no-brain comments. You would have made a 1960s Estate Agent look honest sunshine.
I really hope we do bring in new players asap, becuase its important we have a good start to the season ok arsenal aside anything out of that game is a bonus, but bolton away and everton at home is potentially 2-4 points, if we were to loose our first 3 games before the window, think this would really affect us for the rest of the season because it will affect the players confiedence and would also upset the majority of our fans. Boing Boing
Laughing
For the moment, put aside your disdain for the Albion, and lets talk facts, instead of conjecture or that you want us to fail.
You spend enough time on these boards to know that the position with the sponsor, is a case of not being able to get one, but rather whom, and how much.
The remainder of your posts follow the same tired road,
we are going down.
Our manager is leaving.
The clubs future is uncertain.
And the oldest chestnut of the lot, we will be changing places in a year.
Oh and an older chestnut even older than the other oldest one, Bigger club blah blah……..
lets for one peco second say that that is true,
so what ?
at the current time, and that is all that matters, is we are BETTER, and by a considerable margin.
what do you think about that sunderland striker who used to play for cardiff(his name evades me at the moment)or beattiefrom sheff. utd
How I have missed you all!
wbaforever ok let’s talk facts.
Fact 1- I told you all that Albion would have much interest. I was correct.
Fact 2- Albion could not find a shirt sponsor with a seven figure deal.
Fact 3- Your clubs majority share holder and Chairman has the club for sale and will therefore want the maximum possible return on his investment so he wont be putting milliuons in as this will be money he will lose upon completion of a sale.
Fact 4- Gera (in my and many albion fans opinion) your best player has left and phillips your top scorer has also left making you considerably weaker. Whether your new signings work out only time will tell.
Fact 5- I do have bias to my beloved Wolves but I have been right regarding the sale of albion and your shirt sponsors so it’s very hard to even challenge somebody when they have repeatedly been right
13.. I agree but a stand has to be made sooner or later
fact 1- I meant very little interest. sorry.
19 well said, ALBION are better than the Dingles, by a million years….we are that far ahead of them now, I can’t see them EVER catching us! Lol, they can hope to one day meet us in a cup because I can see them falling into league one, they have lost the best midfielder they had, and spent pretty much peanuts compared to others in the Fizzy Pop League……
laughingwolf,bigger this,better that, blah blah blah.one year of top flight football in 25+years,such a big club in the same way as blackpool and huddersfield,keep living in the 50’s,and your sponsor sums you up year after year “CHOKER”
howard
Chopra!!!
LW
Fact one, i presume you mean, there was no interest ?
but as i say, it really is only conjecture on your part, unless you have insider information, and KNOW it to be fact.
The same for fact two.
Fact three, i concede there is a semblance of reason there, but we have spent a fair amount,
and i expect more signings before KO.
Fact four re: Gera is opinion so not actually a fact.
Fact five, You`re right to bias toward your club, i am bias toward mine, but i do not post spite filled messages, if you are honest with yourself, you know that this is indeed FACT.
LW.
Can’t be bothered answering your ridiculous points again, it’s like giving a rattle back to a baby so that it can throw it out again (sorry babies, no offence meant.) I just had to ask you.
Where does JP’s philosophy on Monet come into it and is wolvompletely a high flying financial term?
To all wolves fans…. I see Ian Harte has turned down your contract offer after doing well in pre season.
We lost Bougherra to Rangers for more money and european football - Harte would rather be unemployed than sign for you guys….
QUALITY !!!!!
24 laughing wolf. I suppose the main reason we dont have any willing purchasers of the club may have something to do with our chairman rightly believing OUR GREAT CLUB is worth rather more than a tenner.
25. A million years or…..1 year. With our young talented squad you could light years behind us in the near future so don’t speak too soon my friend. If you look at my above comments Wolves have a new chairman, a fantastic businessman running the club and an experienced manager with young internationals, albion peaked last year and now their best players have gone.
so touchy these day boys, reality starting to set in is it???
30
nice spin happy
wbaforever- see comment 24 a typing error.
YOur own chairman said there was “no official interest” so thats solid enough, as I predicted!
fact 3 you have signed players from you had on loan from last season and a few small additions from the turnover from last season.
Fact 4- you repeated what i said (opinions)
Nothing to do with nasty comments towards albion just i got slated when i said nobody would buy the club and i was correct you were all too busy in cloud cuckoo land about billionaires!
I’m glad you appreciate what I said you repeated enough of it in your last comment!
Nedball and happy want to hold hands when you come and apologise?
35 - Loffingfilth. Ever so sorry for not getting any kind of response from you…..well done you!
handing out brochures on how to make money in Bulgaria 631851% profit guaranteed!!
I’m more than happy to hold hands with, erm Happy!
Happy, I’ll meet you at the Emirates on our 1st Premier League match of the season….I’ll be wearing the Pink Carnation
Laughingwolf
I do not usually respond to your blogs.
However i think your comments today have had an element of debate to them (as you know usually they take the form of childish remarks, and the worn out my clubs better than your club futile argument).
I to agree that our investment in the squad has been disappointing, so far.
I think my fellow bloggers probably jump on you due to past remarks, however i think it is pretty foolish to start making out that you are proven correct, especially when i have access to old statments made by yourself last season.
ie, “You will choke when it comes to automatic promotion”.
or
“You will fail to make it as Champions as you are an average Championship side”.
I seem to beleive you went missing from our boards for a while!!!
Welcome back, where you busy in the fluctuating financial market??
Or is KFC quiet during the summer??
32.. I take it we have not got any talented youngsters (I presume under 25 is a youngster). Have we not got a England under 16 goalkeeper have we not got 2 lads England u17/18 have we not signed a young dutch lad,Have we not signed an Full England goalkeeper thats 22ish do you wish for me to continue because I could go on.
Why have our best players gone whilst at the Albion Gera was average and Phillips was over the hill (Wolves fans words not mine) so suddenly they leave and become world beaters (my words).
To be fair I think we did peak last year because we won the League and in all honesty to better that we would have to win the Premier League and in all honesty I really dont think we can do that this forthcoming season.
35 - If you give unlimited monkeys unlimited typewriters, one will evenytually type something thats readable.
I would not then apologise to all monkeys for suggesting that they typed garbage….
In that same way, you have typed so much negative and anti albion comments over the weeks and months that when one of your “insights” actually happens I don’t feel the need to apologise to you either….
If only one in a thousand of your predictions comes true, then remind me never to commission your investment services !!
Ian Harte would rather sign on the dole than join the dingles, you have to laugh at that.
We might not have had any decent offers at buying our glorious club but lets face it Steve Morgan was ripped off when he paid a tenner for your excuse of a club!
I suppose Wolves are going to win the league again this season like they where going to win it last and correct me if I’m wrong but was tipped by quite a few pundits to go up as Champions, on what basis I’ll never know! My prediction for you next season is 7th! You got no chance of getting out of the CCC, roll on the 29th November when Super Kev gets a hat trick against you!
HB 39. I find your comments totally apeist and just one post away from becoming fishist.
I’d just like to point out some of my best friends are Monkeys and many would go Apesh*t if they read comments like that.
bigger club bigger fan base were was they when the custard bowl housed nearly 3000 for a top match not many years ago and half were fulham fans
Happy_Trappy Baggie,you might as well spout off now than later in the season,yoyo know what i mean.Good luck yo yo will need it.
Prawny - I guess i should apologise to your ape mates - it’s unfair to label them with laughed at wolf - he would probably fall off a tyre and a rope.
Bit Thick Rick 43 - yo yo’s go up and down…. until you go up you can’t even claim that… you went up once but then Hayward cut the string !
As for spouting off before the season starts… i think you lot have that covered.
30 - You’re right Happy, Harte preferred no commitment than being a squad member with limited contractual protection and the likelihood of just being a squad player. Can’t say I blame him but maybe it shows a little shortage of self confidence. Very similar to Phillips choosing a longer term contract in the championship rather than a deal with a premiership club. Mowbray performed wonders last season and I hope he will get the backing he deserves. I’m totally in favour of a sound wage structure and if that means losing out on some players now to protect the long term interests of the club the choice is a no brainer. But this shirt sponsor situation smacks of amateurism, I hope its not another case of a black country club shooting themselves in the foot when the window of opportunity is open.
big rich wolves enjoy your trip to plymouth saturday
Oh dear oh dear alot of comments aimed at my occupation, the tescoboys don’t like it when I’m right about their clubs finances and potential investors but don’t take it to heart thats my job, You would know more about your job than I do so don’t get so angry it’s only natural. 37- If KFC paid more than I earnt then I would happily work there (but your comment could disrespect employees of that particular company) a bit like Hoefkens comments must of offended some of the good folk of westbromwich? Nedball I am flattered you remembered the returns from Bulgaria do you fancy coming in for an Appointment? I got several clients who follow the albion they have got a good sense of humour but you have to supporting a club like that!
happy-baggie where are we getting the 1000-1 odds from? Are you getting confused with albions odds of aviding the drop
12. Loffingwolf. Blimey you must have had 2 weeks holiday in morecambe or had a touch of amnesia and forgot about our blog. Making up for lost time heh?
Bigger club, bigger fan base and more history dunno where you get that one from? Me thinks you been having dreams lol.
Just read post 47 and it seems that Hoefkens has said something about the west brom area…. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned this before ??
How do these thing slip under the radar ??
I’ve also heard a rumour that we have no sponsor yet - they kept that quiet too !
Honestly laughed at wolf… if you are even a fraction of the businessman you go to such lengths to convince us about, surely you would have some modicum of self respect and not make yourself look like such an ar*e on here day after day - even your fellow wolves fans laugh at you.
…and the only person I know who says “oh dear oh dear” is my nan !
How do I make myself look an A**E by being correct and you being wrong? Go to the top right of the page and put in carl hoefkens you will find the story there it was on here he described it as a “poverty stricken unattractive industrial area” in his native country. I’ve got plenty of self respect unlike you who comes onto the wolves pages on a daily basis trying to run down our club. Your a loser. Enjoy walsall last night? Or are you another terry who dosn’t go to games?
quinton baggie havnt yet been on holiday this year nor last year infact as I havebeen too busy hope to go september but Don’t worry about missing me ill only be a fornight xxx
ok here goes , this is going to spark a debate , i cannot be the only albion fan who is sick to death of prudence peace .he thinks like a championship chairman therefore surely is ,he is holding the club back and yes i know up til now he has been great for us but he really needs to loosen the purse strings if we are to shed our yo yo tag , can anyone out there honestly see us spending 5-6 million on one player ?? i simply do not think this will happen while he controls the club , and before you ask yes i am a genuine fan of many years standing , thoughts please
Laughed at - by constantly repeating the same mneanigless drivel day after day (”hoefkens said, Hoefkens said”….) WHO CARES ????
No one but you is remotely interested in a “quote” a player may have made months ago - but every day you revel in it like it gives you some superiority… it’s childish nonsense and if you really are a businessman (or even a grown up) you really should just move on.
Once again you have bored me to the point where i shall just ignore you again - I said that before but forgot about it when you disappeared.
53 - in what way has JP refused to release funds for a player ??
Do you think we can attract top players just cos we would pay the transfer fee ??
Its hard for any newly promoted side to bring in top players - I’m just amazed at the quality we have brought in.
He has already publicly stated that he would need financial backing to really establish us - and be able to pay 30k+ per week to players… but in my opinion he is doing well with the resourses he has.
Happy- It’s only you and nedball that gets wound up and if you ask me your the same sad person who goes under 2 accounts, as none of you appeared on here for a while along with terry?! Please go back to ignoring me, you make no valid points and can’t admit when you are wrong, I’d be happy_wolf if you ignore me, thanks fella
54 Happy.
Wholeheartedy agree with your response to 53. While it’s understandable LW and his cronies attempting to criticise our club, you do hope for a little more realism from some of our own fans. On the subject of LW, as I said in post 29, babies, rattles etc. Stop giving it back to diddums.
54 + 56 i am a realist because if you think our squad is strong enough to stop up then you have on rose coloured spectacles , we simply try to do the premiership on a championship budget and it is a sad state of affairs when we cannot compete with the likes of bolton fulham , wigan etc. in the transfer market sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate and that is something we do not do
Well done walsall…. Yep West Brom your gonna go Far in the prem.. NOT!!!!
Usually teams try to strengthen when they get promoted but hats off to the Mowbray way. Sell Philips, Gera and Albrechtsen and maybe Robinson - bring in a few guys from the far east. Sounds like a winning formula to me (not). Do you think you lot will get more points than Derby got last year?
tim ….. does the dj stand for dingle joker ?? …. guess it must now run along you can still make that u rated film this afternoon if you hurry !!!!
57 Mac.
‘The likes of Fulham, Wigan and Bolton’ all have a few years continuity in the Prem behind them and Fulham and Wigan have rich owners as well. Bolton have stayed there through careful financial management. Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield Wednesday all speculated to accumulate. Over to you.
52. Loffingwilf, Not worried bout missing you at all. You go away september just as wolves are propping up the CCC. LOL
Boing Boing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim DJ
You lost to Rhyl the other week you plonker…good luck in the fizzy pop, you’re going to need it!
60 & 63:- Both of you hook line and sinker…
the real bully , totally agree with you but we will continually struggle while we have our safety first policy , i for one am sick of going into the top flight and just making up the numbers for a season or two at best , and its no fun watching your team fail to compete on all levels on and off the field
Tim Delusional Juvenile.
How does two people calling you a plonker and telling you to run along constitute catching them HL&S?