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Steve Morgan insists Wolves are as well equipped as any team to tackle the Championship – but warns he will not ‘throw money around’ in his pursuit of success.
Wolves have spent around £3million this summer on four signings, while five departures could eventually recoup £5million.
Much of Morgan’s £30m transferred into the club remains in the coffers, but the chairman maintains it will be spend wisely.
He said: “There was a groundswell of expectations because money had been injected into the club but it was never about a magic wand.
“I was never going to throw money around, particularly when I was learning the job myself. It’s bloody impossible to balance the books at a football club!
“We knew that and it’s as close to being balanced as possible, while trying to fulfil ambitions and move forward.
“We signed three first class players in January and four first class players in the close season.
“It’s too easy to write big cheques on big names. If they don’t deliver, then the moans will start and I’ll be doing most of them!
“The message is we’re going out there confident and we’re in good shape.
“We’re in the toughest league in the UK giving it our best shot and believing we’re well equipped as anyone to tackle it.
“We’re doing our best but we might have to be patient. What is very much ongoing is getting the right players for the right money to play attractive football.
“I think we’ll see some attractive football this season. It’s getting the right blend to work with the existing squad and I’m supporting Mick McCarthy all the way.
Morgan insisted his tenure at Wolves was for the long term – with the current management.
He said: “I’m not even remotely thinking about leaving because I’ve only just arrived.
“I believe with this management team we’ve got a lot to do and we want to take it forward. I love Wolves and I very much want to see what we can do this season.”
Morgan added there could still be one or two signings before the transfer window shuts.
He said: “I don’t think we need to supplement the squad much more, perhaps just the odd extra player because we’re in great shape.”
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muppet
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Get the team right first, we are still a championship side. The ground is good enough for this league, win promotion then moan about the stadium!
PS Morgan DON’T think of moving out of the Golden Palace to any out of town site so you can build your own stadium!
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i am very confident with him in charge he is doing it the right way and all we need is pateint throughout the club now and i think we will have a very bright future!!!! come on you wolves!
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Steve is the man to lead us back into the big time. Old Jock Hayward had a go, but to be honest his heart wasn’t really in it with him living in the West Indies.
Steve is a true Wolf and within 5 years we will be challenging for Europe again. It’ll be like the 50s again!!!
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NOT HARD TO SEE WHY LIVERPOOL REJECTED HIS OFFER FOR THEM IS IT!!
NO THEY WANTED TO REMAIN IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE..RATHER THAN SELL TO THIS MUPPET AND SETTLE FOR BECOMMING MEDIOCRE CHAMPIONSHIP RUBBISH.
NEVER MIND HE’S GOT WHAT HE WANTED NOW..AND CAN CONCENTRATE ON BUILDING THE BEST SPORTS COMPLEX THE PREMIER WILL NEVER SEE.
SHOULD HAVE SOLD TO SOUNESS SIR JACK..FOOTBALL PEOPLE WHO ACHIEVED SUCSESS AS PLAYERS AND WHO KNOW THE GAME. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE..AT LEAST WE WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH RUBBISH IN VERY LUXURIOUS SURROUNDINGS..NICE!
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well said we have sufferd in past regimes notably sir jack,s where every agent in the country would tout every has been in the game to us at a inflated price tag usually after one last pay day to inflate their pensions so yes i agree dont buy for the sake of it and buy cost effectivly but at the same time remember sometimes its the only way to get to your detination you have to pay the fare. quality doesnt always come cheap ask messers ince and irwin but it was that extra quality that took us to the destination required ie premier league ?
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see this is were our team is goin all we are now is a business,u shud be caring about the team and promotoin first muppet just like mick,
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We’re in the toughest league in the UK giving it our best shot and believing we’re well equipped as anyone to tackle it.
SO THE PREMIER LEAGUE’S A DODDLE THEN!
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Surely when the plans for the stadium development were well worked out before the new stands were built, under the Heywards. I would have thought the problem of “towers” could have been over come relatively esily with a flexible enough design build. Seems the plans were perhaps short sighted…or have i missed something…Portsmouth are the model for the future on the playing side, look where they are now.
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OH NO YOU CANT AYE BOING BOING
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I just hope Morgan sticks to his guns because we saw under Sir Jack that throwing money at the team doesn’t work. I just hope that the fans can be patient this year with what is still a very young side. I think another top class centre half and we’ll be there or thereabouts
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4,TREVBARKER, true wolf? whys he always at anfield then aye boing boing
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2 - interesting. Has Morgan yet ruled out moving the stadium out of the town?
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“I was never going to throw money around, particularly when I was learning the job myself. It’s bloody impossible to balance the books at a football club!
BET YOU DIDN’T INCLUDE THAT LITTLE GEM IN YOUR BID THO’.. NO YOU WERE GONNA DO HELL N ALL TO GET IT..NOW YOU HAVE YOU’LL DO F**** ALL EXCEPT SWELL YOUR OWN BANK BALANCE!!
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“Steve is a true wolf”
Funny that, I thought Liverpool were his team.
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No 1. Take a look in the mirror and see who the real muppet is you loser. Its your sort of comment that will keep this club from progressing.
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One sentence sums up the club fully -
The “rejects from last season have bought in
£5 million and the Manager has bought in replacements costing £3 million who, judging by pre season and the two games so far ARE NO BETTER THABN THOSE WHO HAVE DEPARTED!!!!!!”
I rest my case - same shit different season!!!!
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4-idiot
i like morgan, but how can you say he is a true wolf, he is a liverpool fan, everyone knows that, but he seems like a good bloke.
Also, sir jack saved us from going under, and his heart was in it, until he had been let down so many times by players and management.
Come on mick and the boys, you can do it
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This bloke is just what the club needs. A bit of creative vision, and clever thinking - let’s build for the long-term not some short-term slap dash approach. Delighted he’s in charge, and confident he’ll get us both into the Prem as a competitive force.
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stu- why is he a muppet???
he is very confident. i loved sir jack to bits but he was just too late in wanting to sell up (as he admitted)
this guy is going to push wolves forward. but u seem to be one of those wolves fans that doesnt like change!!
get behind him and move on kidder!!!
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5) Looking forward to the class gulf on Saturday Terry!
All we have to do is sign a centre half. As we saw last night Collins for all his effort is a concern. Great to see Davies back. Bombing about, tackles flying in.
Hopefully Iwelumo starts on Saturday and put the fear of God into their backline!
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He’s talking sense. When Hayward came in with wasted money, plus look at Leeds - we don’t want to go down that route.
The plan needs to be
1) get up (this season)
2) Stay up (five seasons)
3) Become a mid table team (five to ten seasons - this is where Villa really are. We will need to have a stadium that holds at least 40,000 - 50,000. If that mean leaving so be it.)
4) Become top 6 (God knows how long!)
5) Top 4 (Oh to dream)
We’ve had our chances if we’d done it back in the 1990s we could be at the mid table stage by now. Oh that Bolton play off…
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4 TLB.
Jock Wayward? Steve a true wolf? What about Jimmy Richards, Doug Wagstaffe and Stevie Butt?
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1 - Very intelligent comment that mate, Well done!
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terry - lets look at the long term picture - we have a bloke whos heart is in it for the long run you have a bloke that cant even get you a sponser neva mind selling you!!!! the future is GOLD!!!!!
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“Steve is a true Wolf”
Is he ? Is he really ?
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I,too will not be throwing money around supporting this bunch much longer.
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WHATEVER !!!! Sounds like he is happy to stay in championship mid table obscurity to me, not going u or down, WELL DONE and forget the stadium and sign some decent defenders you mug
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what on earth is he worrying about the ground for ?
We could have a fabulous 35k all seater stadium but if we are playing rubbish football in the lower divisions who will want to see it ?
We could do with 2 or 3 very high quality signings to supplement the decent squad we have now that is far more important and urgent
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4 what you mean jacks heart wasnt in it are you mad what a short memory you have
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4 Have you lost touch with reality?SM not true wilf LIVERPOOL supporter!Your a million miles away from the 50s team.Just scraped through against the mighty A.S.Your nearer the 80s with gates of 4000 and unattractive football.Having said all that i admire your optimism.The reality is that under present management team your not going anywhere.BOING BOING
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Sorry Steve but did you see the struggle against Accrington………….Without Kightly we dont shape up so well!!!
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4. Are you mad? He’s a business man and a scouse fan!! Lunchtime drinking is not good pal.
He brought the club for 10 quid sayin he would invest 30 million… Which apparently he has done but it’s his club now and he could take it back whenever if i’m not mistaken. If he gets you up (MIRACLE COMES TO MIND) he’ll pocket 40 - 60 million… and whilst wolves are one of say 8 clubs who could get into the big time realistically you’re maybe 4/5 th in that pack…
He has spent 3 million this season but will get back 5, 20k + fans plus tv money will make him a handsome profit in the chUmpionship, IF you go up (ha ha) he’ll bag a load of cash perhaps spend half then not have to worry if (ha ha again) you get relegated!! so all in all he’s in a no lose situation!!!
Basically don’t get too carried away poor neighbours, HE’S IN IT FOR THE MONEY!!!!!!
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He could put up some cash for a new centre half, something which we need so badly. 2 or 3 million should get us some quality
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Steve Morgan promised to invest 30 million in the club - but it looks like 25 million of that will go on developing the stadium….. and guess who the builders will be ??
Morgan is investing 25 million of his money in his own business - whilst increasing the value of his assetts.
I thought he was a fool to buy the Wolves, but he just may be the cleverest man in England !
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No. 14 you do not get a big bank balance owning a football club.If you want to be a millionaire owner you need to start out as a multi millionaire.
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4 you been on the wacky backy whos sir jock
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What a delightful mix of idiots and albion fans we have posting on here.
What Morgan says makes a lot of sense. With the squad now in place we can compete. But as Morgan says, if we can make one or two additions then i’m sure we can make a concerted push for promotion.
The Bile that some people spill on these comment pages does nothing except tarnish the clubs name. Southbank barmy army - you really should go to some anger management courses, I think you have a few unresolved issues.
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38- Gibbonry, at last somebody that speaks sense
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31. where are you lot then we get higher attendances than you lot.
35. i see they are queing around the block to buy your club and sponsor your club.
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Just spend some decent money on the central defence. Treat it as an investment. Three million there will re-coup twenty million in due course.
I remember when the club was hours from becoming bankrupt so I agree we must spend wisely but we must spend and soon. There are a lot of clubs coming on stream with rich ’sugar daddies’ as well as those that get demoted with parachute payments that are bigger than the economies of some countries. Spend it now Mr. Morgan - will be much more difficult next year.
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38 - It took until I got to the bottom of this list of mostly strange, wierd and pathetic opinions to see something of real sense.
I can’t believe some people. Yep, throwing money left right and centre really worked under Hayward didn’t it? And can we forgive him please for happening to be from Liverpool. The number of Wolves related Multi Millionaires weren’t exactlty forming a queue outside Molineaux when it was up for sale were they. The guy clearly has big plans for the club and wants collective as well as personal glory.
What Morgan is doing is sensible. He’s running the club properly, like the business it is, not some fanciful day dream followed up on a beach in the caribbean.
If we are successful then it will be sustainable success, something we can build on. It seems some people only get a kick out of picking faults.
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Grogphil …… How did you get that past the moderator ?
Ever since Morgan arrived I been trying to post comments saying his intention is to develope the Mol. and build a new stadium off M54, J2.
Not one has been allowed on these pages.
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well obviously he was dreaming when he wanted liverpool, he certainly would’ve had to splash the cash there.
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Has the pitch lengthened and does it make a difference as Steve says? Anyway I will be there on Sat in the North Bank to judge.
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Every one is entitled to an opinion but oh my lord some people really do appear to often with the the same tiresome just spend money to find salvation.
God bless the Wolves
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15. coming from leicesterbaggie shouldn’t you be a fox? cretin.
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I think we have to invest a little more if we want to go up–This is spin He is balancing the books and keeping the club viable–Give him a chance yes-Lets see-How long can we wait and keep putting our money in to see what is at the moment and has been for a long time a Meadioca Side- Most of the article is probably E&S Spin but he seems to have a lot of patience he is going to need it-Hope he sits by me next match-He will see were patience get you–Craze Dave
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Well that puts a end of the massive Spending club
face it you are a Swansea Doncaster type of club,
Big crowd last night 9500,
MM it seems is with you for life.
Its just gets better
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38 - did you go last night??????
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Albion numpties….Get a brain and then you can get a job.
Apart from 33 who is obviously an accountant - Like Jeremy Peace…:)
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gibbonry shut up nice one southbank barmy army
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Centre Back please Mr Morgan. I notice there are a few Tesco fans on here, Your comments are about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit.
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I can’t believe all those who put me down.
Sir Jock was just in it for an ego trip, what did we ever achieve. At least when we were in the old fourth division we knew we could only go upwards. Being in the Championship has done us no favours.
Thank god that Steve Wolfie Morgan will run the club properly and not as some ego-maniac-bizarre-trip
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how about we give the bloke a decent chance before slating him eh lads?
“MUPPET OUT, MORGAN OUT etc”… give it 6 months and it’ll be the same people chanting for their replacements to go to. Rome wasn’t built in a day y’know.
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All these strikers purchased but still conceding 2 goals a game. Perhaps some could play in defence!!!
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All the plonkers giving Steve this stick should ask themselves if they would try to get sensible signings and value for money or waste their hard earned cash on losers. Which by the way for those who don’t understand finance and the world of football is easy to do.
It’s easy to criticise from the sidelines.
He is the right man doing the right things and I expect when we eventually go up he may sell then!! You don’t go into a business without have a game plan do you????
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Well said 38 and the Baggie fans should be more focused on the Emirates than making your normal balanced comments. We have ten times more chance of getting promoted than you guys do of staying up, enjoy and savour this season though!
Game number two of the season and we are already having a dig at Morgan and McCarthy give then a break, let them do there job and support them. Have a real chance this season, one quality central defender should do it (is Lescott available lol).
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Steve is talking sense here!
Lets just hope we sign a decent centre back and get a winger on loan and i will be happy!
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I can’t believe all those who put me down.
Sir Jock was just in it for an ego trip, what did we ever achieve. At least when we were in the old fourth division we knew we could only go upwards. Being in the Championship has done us no favours.
Thank god that Steve Wolfie Morgan will run the club properly and not as some ego-maniac-bizarre-trip
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11.Booty
I was at Plymouth and as I have previously said I think the team is in very good shape to compete this year. As you so rightly said the one really weak position is without doubt Centre back. Craddock, nice bloke he might be but in this team he is too old, too slow and too easily turned he will cost goals if not replaced!
Up The Wolves
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I’m With SM & Gibbonry
Flashing the cash in the past just bought us expensive mediocre players (1 or 2 exceptions)
There’s already a turnaround, we’ve sold one or two mediocres to downright useless for some reasonable cash and bought in some gems for next to nothing.
Like everyone else, and I think that includes SM & MM, I think we still need to bring a couple more in. I think it’ll be a busy last week for everyone at the end of the window.
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Toughest league in the UK BAGGIES record won it once runners up twice.BOING BOING
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I’m going to say some very controversial comments now..
I think Morgan is talking a lot of sense.
I think we have a good squad (though we do need a centre back or 2).
Now here’s the big one…
I think Micks a good manager and I think we will get promoted this season.
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry to everyone, I know if I was a true wolves fan I would be moaning right from the start of the season. Oh and sorry to Southbank Barmy Army I know I should have typed this WITH THE CAPS LOCK ON ALL THE WAY THE MESSAGE!
I’m looking forward to this season, should be good… Sorry.
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Looks like we can chalk another wasted year on the wall.How many years is it now,18or 19 in the second rate league,with one year out for good behaviour.The fans deserve to have someone in charge who will make it happen.It should be obvious to anybody that without strenghening ,our defence will ship in too many goals.I am sure all Wolves fans will have experienced something similar,last week I met a Arsenal fan in London and he asked what was my team.I can still hear his laugh when I said Wolves’THEY’RE THE TEAM THAT ALWAYS MISSES OUT ON PROMOTION AR’NT THEY’I told him we once were good but that was a long time ago.
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45 - by your logic then, what about 43 - oxford wolf, or 28 - wolf in devon… how about 21 brummie wolf or 20 ledbury wolf (are you starting to get the idea ?? Join in at any time….) then there is 16 - rugby wolf and possibly dalston wolf if dalston is a place.
All the above are just on this page, but not forgetting me old mates filton wolf and malvern wolf ect ect… see easy it is to make you look stupid ?
So who’s the cretin now ?
p.s - it’s you.
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You lot slagging off Sir Jack are complete muppet’s! You dont know a thing. Just remember what Sir Jack did for this club.
If it wasnt for his millions, we would be at the same level as Stafford Rangers by now! So stop whining and show some respect to a true Wolves legend!
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All of you are so use to disapointment that you just accept it now.
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21,rummiebob,yes i am mate thanks,but i dont really think we are that much classier than arsenal few of the other teams yes,but not arsenal, aye boing boing up the MOWBURY way
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25,winchywilf,lets look at the short term picture,weem in the prem and yow aint,aye boing boing
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nice one 38 the rest on here bar you NUGGETS
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The article sets it out correctly. Paid out 3M getting back 5M and he doesn’t want to spend a penny on the club. Read this again:
“We’re doing our best but we might have to be patient. What is very much ongoing is getting the right players for the right money to play attractive football”
This is mealy mouth Morgan doing the staying in the black without spending more than his 10 quid.
No money spent = no progress from last year.
Liverpool are praying to thank the soccer gods that he didn’t get himself in there.
Sir Jack, you are a cool guy but how could you give your club away to this muppet?
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I would be delighted to see Wolves promoted and all the area clubs in the Premier - if we can stay there. I think Morgan is a shrewd business man with good sense and will not drag your club into Bankruptcy - but Mick is totally the wrong manager for you and your fans - he has no plan, no sense of football style( which I know Wolves fans crave) and no tactical brain. Change that and certainly things could improve quickly
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i was expecting wolves to go up last season because they pushed westbrom very close in the playoffs the season before. albion just had the edge in quality
and tactics. but you did not build on that. and that has to be down to the manager. westbrom spent alot of money last season because they lost some good players,but they replaced them.you need to spend more than 3 million to go up and you need a better manager than lets have ago mick.
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all the steel that sir jack put in and all the steel that morgan says hes going to put in,will no doubt increase you scrap value
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14 i wish you would bog off and find another team, your are an embarrasment and a joke.
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Well at least we can develope our stadium. The slum area (WBA) and the surrounding immigrant villages will have to be knocked down before you develope that area.
Its not West Brom but West Beruit with a bang bang
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baggy 1 you couldnt even get 6,000 against real majorca , premiership my ***
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terry- wernt leeds in the champions league about 4 years ago??? football is always bout the long term - ow well lets see if your still happy come may!!!!
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OOOOOOOOOOOO 61 Howard….. Touchy touchy. How long did it take you to have that pop into your mind ?? Bet you couldn’t wait to post it on here !!! ha ha
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Lets not forget Morgan made his millions in the building industry so surely it is hardly surprising if he is more interested in improving the ground in preference to the team.I cannot believe we have spent £400,000 on a restaurant when it is so obvious the team needs major spending on it.Do the people running Wolves honestly believe people are going to spend £1800 to watch the kind of rubbish we had to witness last season .I dont think so.I watched the match last night and I came away totally depressed.WE ARE NOWHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH.Henry,Edwards,Collins,Jones,Keough,are simply not good enough and quite frankly I have doubts about the players we have purchased this season.
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4 Trevor Lloyd Baker said:- Steve is a true Wolf and within 5 years we will be challenging for Europe again.
Haahahahahaha thats the funniest thing ive heard all day!
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Can all you lot from the Poorthorns just go home and play with your Cindy dolls, those of you who can afford them, and leave the men’s work to MM & Morgan.
Go and see if you can get TESCO to sponsor you and then they can save on strips as you can just where the bags, you could part of their new Cheap Value line, you know, what all the rest of you buy as you can’t afford the brand stuff. You could play in the prem as long as you live and you will never achieve what we did in the 50’s, the only way you will get to Europe is a training camp in Lamanga, Oh sorry you won’t know where that is will you, well it’s a bit further than your Glam holls destination of Blackpool.
You enjoy it while it last’s because when the Sleeping giant that is WOLVES awakes you lot will be quaking in your boots, you are all so sad and poor, well got to go now as my helicopter is re-fuelled. CHOW!
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The extra face should be a decent premiership centre half, preferably a young hungry England U21 or similar on a season long loan from one of the big guns who will only be keeping their bench warm.
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4. Trevor Lloyd Baker
Moron! It’s nothing like the 50’s. We had a great manager then, and all the financial backing we needed.
Last night we drew 1-1 with Accrington Stanley after 90 minutes and just scraped through after extra-time.
Get yourself a brain!
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No matter what cost we must get into the PL. We can do what Bolton did and use the PL money when we get in there to stabalise ourselves and then move onwards and upwards. We still need a leader in this team Thomas Gravesen is the man just like Paul Ince did in his first few years at WWFC.
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Perhaps the owner’s wife and mother in law, would like to try their skills at running and developing a local youth development scheme to bring new local talent to the club.
The ground appears to have become an investment for profit as an asset, not a football ground. There will be no fans left to fill it, if things continue as they are.
The new owner is not a Wolverhampton person and he maybe making the mistake of under estimating the loyal fans of Wolves. Im not happy, we have troubled times ahead.
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This honestly sounds like the end of The Wolves. My heart is weeping and broken.
Number 4, are you nuts, a true Wolves fan? He only truly supports one team and they play in red. Wake up bonehead!!!!!!!!!!
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Sir Jack saved us from oblivion! Nobody on here is a bigger Wolves fan than Sir Jack and you have no right to criticize him for what he did to save us.
If it wasn’t for Sir Jack we would be as lowly as Accrington Stanley!
Hey, we drew 1-1 with Accrington Stanley last night after 90 minutes! Perhaps we haven’t progressed as far as the Pie-mans spinning tells us!
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Sorry Mr Morgan, you are listening to the master spinner.
We won’t compete at all this season. The top 10 is my expectation, and I just hope that we don’t slide into the relegation zone.
I am normally right on football matters, the wife is right on everything else!
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who cares if hes not a true wolf?? hes in charge, he has the purse strings and like it or not hes here to stay, so get off the guys back and support the club those of you hell bent on slating all and sundry
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22. You missed off:-
* Find Lord Lucan
* World Peace
* End to Climate change
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I was abused last Autumn for predicting that Wolves wouldn’t get promotion and very bad things were said about me, including my parentage!
I was proven to be 100% correct, and the Happy Clappers were wrong yet again!
So, I am sad to state that nothing has changed from last season, we have just moved the deckchairs on the Titanic!
Sad to say, this is going to be just another wasted year in the Championship.
We need a new owner with imagination, money and a will to win. The current setup of MM&M is just a time-wasting exercise, delaying the time we will return to the Premiership as a major player.
These clowns are just playing at it!
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to all those having a go at morgan………………………………………………. your all brain dead………………
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Im a realist and know throwing money at it dosnt always work, but selling 5 million worth of players and only spending 3 million isnt going to take us anywhere, the stadium is fine the way it is and only needs investment if we manage long term premier football,..dont think many would have wanted Morgan if they had known the 30million investment was going to stay in his pocket!! sorry early days I know but 2matches in and weve been awful in both
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38. I think southbank barmy army’s comments on post 14 can only be taken as pretty accurate at the moment, bottom line is were not getting promoted if we dont spend on some quality.
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Baggies, enjoy the laughs now. We can wait for our laughs until after you play Arsenal. What is the record defeat in Premiership history? Arsenal will make a new one at the weekend. Double figures on the opening day. That should make man Utd and Chelsea sit up and notice.
That skip company from Runcorn are looking for a Prem team to sponsor. “Wirral Rubbish” should look good on your bar code shirts.
Poor old Peace. He tried to sell you and couldn’t. Seems everyone knows what you lot don’t. The “Arsenal of the Championship” from last season will soon find out that the real Arsenal are a different class. Philipps knew that, and jumped ship. Gera went to a real Prem team rather than face the embarassment of being associated with the poorest Prem team ever.
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38. Gibbonry
First posting on this board and already an authority… I think NOT!
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11. Booty
Pratts like you have been telling me to be patient for the last 20 years!
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, GO AWAY YOU MORON!
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60, nice to see some positive comments, shame it had to be an Albion fan to do it! Played 2, drawn 1, won 1, manager and chairman already hung, drawn and quartered. What are we, Chelsea? (cue sarky comments from Albion fans).
The beginning of the season is a time for hope and optimism, get behind the team against Sheff W. and see what we could do!
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35, Happy - Spot on, sad to admit it but it’s true.
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Southbank Barmy Army has once again proved what a prize pratt he is.
Souness is a total joke and wanted wolves on the cheap for 20m one wolves got to the prem he would triple his investment then sod off. He was only in it for the money, cos lets face it hes not likely to get another managers job.
Morgan is the right man for the club, he actually gives a damn, and more than that, he knows how to run a business, and off the back of that the club can grow, make a profit and invest back into the team. For the first time in many years last year wolves made a profit on their own as a business. Im sick of idiots like Southbank who have no clue about the economics of modern football. If you go around throwing money left right and centre, you end up as Leeds did, broke, and then the team gets broken up.
If you really think Souness would have been the right man and Morgan isnt, i suggest you no longer attend matches and no longer post messages on here because you clearly do not understand this sport.
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Sorry guys I appear to have slept through the 1st half of the season. Oh hang on have we played 2 games and are undefeated?????? Surely not judging by some of the stupid rantings on here. Some of you lot must be completely brain dead, What were you expecting? Thump plymouth 4 - 0, then knock 6 past Accrington Stanley. You need a dose of reality. I reckon some of you lot are actually hoping that we fail so you can be the gobby knob in the pub saying “see, I told you so” .Get a life. Oh , and STOP WRITING WITH THE CAPS LOCK ON……
It makes you look stupid.
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‘Wolves have spent around £3million this summer on four signings, while five departures could eventually recoup £5million.’
3 mill on four signings, hahahaha! You’re obviously a selling club now dingles! Enjoy mid table obscurity.
Living in our shadows for a very very long time i suspect.
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Moxey was right there is a Molineux factor,it’s caused by “Supporters” wanting the manager sacked after the first two games of the season.Neither of these games have been lost.
For the last 20 years we’ve thrown money at players trying to get out this division and this hasn’t worked,and have sacked the manager every time we’ve failed.
For once the chairman & CE are putting some thought into how the money is spent. Trying to build a good young side and not wasting the clubs finaces on players after one last big payday.
Let’s look at the big picture.I’m sure I speak for all true Wolves Supporters.
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wednesfield wolf 103. errrhh yes mate something like that,..I did expect us to beat Plymouth with the amount of players they’ve sold, and is a big victory for WOLVES agianst Accrington Stanley too much to ask???
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97 BRERETONWILF,,,we will give it our best shot mate and it wunt be from the lack of playing the mowbray way ,proper football something you lot aint seen for yours and never will under joker mick,and even if we do come straight back down we will have loads of dollars to keep us ahead of you lot for years to come,so get used to being below the baggies cos thats how it will be for years,,boing boing,,PLAYING IN THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOOOH YES.
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97. Your cheap shots are amusing…
Now for some facts…
West Bromwich Albion 2008/09 playing premier league football.
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2008/09 playing championship football.
To be honest it is very very boring having a pop about a bloody sponsor. We all know it won’t have any affect what so ever on the teams performance.
Obviously ‘wirral rubbish’ is not the actual name of a skip co. BUT if it was and they wanted to sponsor us then SO BLOODY WHAT!
I’d be fine because I have my strip, sorry barcode (yes i do bleep when i go through check out) and will not be having whatever sponsor ironed on. We’re football fans, not advertising boards!!
As for ‘poor old peace’ well, successful multi millionaire businessman!! Yeah poor little JP.
Arsenal a differant class.. YES obviously they are so are Man.Utd Chelsea Liverpool but the other 15 teams are well beatable.
The Phillips and gera comment was borderline stupid. You know it I do and so do all the other REAL football fans on here.
Now whilst I was having a chuckle with my Wolves fan buddy on hols last week when you struggled to a 2-2 v’s the mighty Argyle it really doesn’t bother me if you go up stay down go bust or merge with stafford rangers to become a massive force in football… at the end of the day we support our teams because those were the colours put on our backs as kids… Reading your comments, I think perhaps this only happened a few years ago??!!
I know it hurts playing secong fiddle for the last 10 years maybe with the exception of 1 season but with the ingenious leadership of MM the millions and millions of pounds Mr. Morgan will invest, i’m sure you too have good times ahead..
Oh and i reiterate, HE’S IN IT FOR THE MONEY….
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Where is the 30million then SM?
This summer we’ve had money in from the Joleon Lescott deal, Freddy, Oli, Edwards and the season tickets, that’s got to be at least 5-6 million for the players and 7 million for season tickets, and you have spent less than 2 million on new players.
That means you ain’t had to put a penny in this summer, either put your money where your mouth is or bog off back to Liverpool and let someone who wants to take us forward have the club. You only got this club because Jez knew he would keep his job.
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89. Norway Wolf.
It was the Gallaghers and the council who stepped in and saved Wolves, not Hayward.
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108.
“Morgan is only in it for the money”.
Perhaps. We’ll just have to wait and see what he does if the club are still in the division from hell in say 2-3 years and he has spent 30 million or close to it.
If someone makes a big money bid for a player e.g. SEB or Kightly, will he accept it as it would be “a good bit of business” or reject it as the club would not need to sell and certainly not it’s best players ?
The next few seasons could be very interesting, or just more of the same. I’m going to be optimistic and say it will be interesting e.g. chance of promotion, but all I can do is wait and see.
Oh and good luck for the season - you might just need it… ;o)
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109, for gods sake how many times do we have to read that it was never going to be a case of 30 million just being put into buying new players, its for the club as a whole, the amount of albion morons who post on here pretending to be wolves fans is unreal, give the bloke a break you pathetic idiots he’s tring to do whats right for the club and I for one support him 100% along with all the other real supporters
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In respect of his comments on balancing the books, I assume he is ignoring transfer activity. On this basis, tickets + Merchandise + Sponsorship + TV money + Money based on league position etc coming in, with wages of players and staff, running costs etc going out. Plus, there’s a small matter that if he could have made over £3m in interest from his £30m over the two years and as 109 said, the instalments from Lescott.
But that would ignore the fact that his £30m bought the assets of WWFC; predominantly the ground, training facilities and players.
Over the past two years, irrespective of the wages (since that’s a more day-to-day cost), it is difficult to see how he hasn’t done very well for his investment. If you assigned a value to players when he bought the club, there must be big increases to the worth of Kites and Hennessey; George (with one year left on his contract 2 years ago) went for well above what would have been expected at that time. SEB - purchased for £1.5m in January must be well above that value now as well. I suspect Foley and Elokobi are modestly above what we paid as well and Jarvis probably about flat.
On the downside, we lost around 300K on Eastwood, whilst we’ve probably lost on Potter, definitely lost on D Ward, then there’s Keogh and S Ward, where we’ve probably lost a little. It’s a little too early to comment on this summer’s signings.
Net net, he may say that “It’s bloody impossible to balance the books at a football club”, but he has to be up on his investment. .
On the basis that Morgan is running it as a long-term business, he is looking to increase the asset value of his investment before reinvesting it - so, he’ll be looking to capitalise on the value of central Wolverhampton property by selling and moving to cheaper land. He’ll be looking at realising some of the increased value of players - hence we’ll continue to sell our better players and hope to unearth some cheaper gems to replace them. That is, until he feels that his £30m has made enough for him to be able to ‘risk’ more substantial funds in the transfer market, at least whilst we remain in the Championship. That’s my opinion anyway for what it’s worth. He’s not willing to chuck money at the dangling carrot of £60m + money if we get promoted. It’s not asset stripping, since the money stays in the club, but is definitely a case of banking assets when they’ve risen whilst trying to fluke it on the cheap in the short-term, hence his faith that MM can go a couple of steps further than 2006-7.
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it seems to me that some of my fellow wolves fans would like Mr Morgan to splash a load of cash on wasters like Mr Hayword did when he first came to the club. buying players who are just in football for the money and then you get stuck with them because no one else is stupid enough to pay these players silly wages. cant win with some people if he doesnt spend 15m on players hes just in it for the money, if if he does spend 15m on players its a waste of money.
lets keep the club on a stable footing and not go down the road leeds and the likes have gone down.
i read the other day that Newcastle owe about 30m in outstanding transfer fees. do we realy want that to happen ab Molineux.
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It is easy to despair of the intelligence of the average Wolves fan(always assuming those who post on this are a fair cross-section). Then along comes Gibbonry(no.38) whose reasonable and incisive comments about the incoherent ravings of South Bank Barmy Army give one hope. The response of “shut -up Gibbonry” by “Phil”(52) in support of SBBA merely reinforce the view that there are a lot of fans desperately short of an education,manners or common sense.Despite being a Wolves fan of close on 50 years standing,I think the club’s reputation of having in the fan base a lot of mindless whingers who are anti pretty much everything to do with the club-and who see conspiracies in everything to do with the management- is well deserved.
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The Leeds route that many people talk about relates to Risdale/O’Dreary basing their structure on playing Champions League football every season when they’d done it (overachieved) once. I don’t see the comparison as being a realistic one - comparing ourselves with Southampton, Leicester or Derby, for example, maybe. Not Leeds, Newcastle etc.
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I agree that Morgan should not be spending money for the sake of it.
But so far this summer we have spent £3m and got in £5m. Unless my maths is completely useless that means he has spent minus £2m.
There are now 20,000 people in Wolverhampton wondering why they didn’t offer Jack £10 for the club plus a guaranteed investment of minus £2m.
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BLAENBOY..Then along comes Gibbonry(no.38) whose reasonable and incisive comments about the incoherent ravings of South Bank Barmy Army give one hope. The response of “shut -up Gibbonry” by “Phil”(52) in support of SBBA merely reinforce the view that there are a lot of fans desperately short of an education,manners or common sense.
AND YOUR POINT IN ALL THAT SCENILE RAMBLINGS WAS WHAT EXACTLY..NURSE!! MORE SEDATION FOR PATIENT 115 PLEASE.
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What qualifies you boggies peasants to comment about Wolves AND MONEY?
TRUE wolves fans - keep the faith and support the team….starting Saturday.
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Unfortunately, Morgan gloating about the £30 million he has to invest does no favours at all.
Agents will target Wolves for inflated transer fees in potential signings.
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I think,South Bank Barmy Army,that your resonse (no.118)is all that is needed to illustrate my point. By the way ,perhaps I am senile (though I am not sure that being in one’s 50s necessaril qualifies),but at least I can still spell.
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#93 “So, I am sad to state that nothing has changed from last season, we have just moved the deckchairs on the Titanic!”
Oh come on, how can you compare Wolves to the Titanic, first of all the Titanic had a band!
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southbank army you really are a born loser, what utter tripe you post, you really must be the most negative person in the world
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123 - Unfortunately Southbank is one of many thousand moaning, negative Wolves fans!! If we had any positivity we would walk this division.
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It seems that a few posters are under the misapprehension that Jack Hayward saved Wolves from oblivion or non-league football. In fact Wolves were already established at our present level when he took over. But he did invest a hell of a lot of money to give us a home to once again be proud of and, however misguided his spending was, he did it because he had a real desire to make us successful again.
I doubt very much whether this desire is shared to any real degree by Morgan. His heart belongs to Liverpool so there won’t be any sentiment in his financial decisions at Wolves, unlike when we all shell out several hundred pounds for season tickets we can ill-afford. But there is a difference between throwing money around and investing for the future. It’s glaringly obvious to just about everyone that we need a quality centre half, but I’m not holding my breath in anticipation. I feel we’ve entered an era at Wolves where everything will be done on the cheap, and if we do ever escape this division it will be down to inspired signings, luck and the quality of opposition teams. Unless Mr Morgan has a sizeable change of attitude towards his new hobby I think we will continue playing at this level for a long time to come.
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Personally would like to see the team built up a little more with a few more quality additions
If true, Bobo Balde may just be a knee jerk reaction and maybe not worth breaking the wage structure for….
A young central defense partnership would be worth investment personally, maybe a loanee from the Prem alongside Stearman and D Ward and Craddock as back up
The ground badly needs a good tidy up as it seems to be looking a tad jaded/ neglected
Cant see how SM intends to add to this (capacity wise) as it is - maybe he is looking at a brownfield site down the road at the old Goodyears??? Government funding, shopping complex etc etc
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Breretonwolf thanks for your insight however you seem to miss a few major points
1)youve seen off one sugar daddy the so called loyal sir jack who got so fed up of bank rolling failure and mediocrity that in YOUR 1 season of premiership football he had his money back and sold you for 10 pounds!
2)sir jack then said he wanted a wolves fan but sold it to a scouse fan
3)weve been far more successful than you in the last 10 years and are about to embark on our 4 th season of prem football with no investment from anyone other than what has been earnt good management i would say!
4)we may go down and we may get hammered but we will do it the right way like we have done by passing you off the park the last how many times weve played you
5)if and when we go down we will only be playing you again next season so you might want us to stay up and save you the embaressment again!
6)i really hope you dont lose kightly to the prem or injury because if you do it will be mid-table and no more then who you gonna blame mm or sm or both! oh ps forgot the legend that is jez top man that bloke!
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Remember the last time we were in the Premiership it was the quality of Paul Ince and Dennis Irwin that got us there.The trouble with this regime is they wont pay the wages for quality players so you end up with a mid tble team.There are plenty of Quality premier players around but they cost money and Steve Morgan has made his position clear he will not spend money
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97 Breretonwolf - You can laugh all you like if we get beaten by one of the top teams in Europe. At least we have earnt the right to play those kind of teams. Enjoy your trips to Doncaster, Preston & Burnley. BOING BOING
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129, why do you care? Go away.
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On criticizing Morgan: he’s put his reputation on the line. Mick McCarthy has had his ups and downs. It’s 50-50 whether he will succeed at Mol. With Jez Moxey Wolves have been virtually stagnant for eight years. Both are open to criticism.
Anything can happen this season. If Wolves falter, by backing JM and MM in such uncertain terms, Morgan has put himself in the firing line. When Morgan took over, he could have adopted the new-broom approach. He didn’t. If McCarthy’s Wolves flourish, he can share the glory. If they sink, he has laid himself open to criticism–and criticize him the fans should!
Personally, I don’t think I’ll bother. Like McArthy of the Lunt (27), I will follow Morgan’s excellent example and I too will not be throwing money around supporting this bunch much longer. Season tickets and travel are expensive. Time to save that money if Wolves are going to settle for the Championship.
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I see a lot of moaning on here for a guy who is investing his own time and cash into this project.
Any of you muppets get the cash. Or are you are too negative to give it q go. Mugs.
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In this day and age, with so much football on the tv and pundits getting paid for opinions rather than ever doing it themselves, people (whether going to games or watching football via Sky) expect instant answers. Fans always think they know it all - nothing wrong with that - what would pre-match drinking be without opinions. But that isn’t reality.
For example, Injuries to key players make a massive difference to sides that don’t have strength in depth - as we found out last season with Kightly’s injury. With him, we’d have made the playoffs. Whether we deserved to or not is a different matter. But that’s my opinion, as a fan, and many will probably disagree.
Sides that yo-yo between the prem and the championship, in general, have the extra cash. I think the blue noses are a cert for promotion this season. Just as everyone suspected that sandwell were certs last season - despite their best efforts to prove everyone wrong by leaving it to the last moment. They were able to cash in on Davies, Kamara, Koumas etc. two years after they were relegated for around than £20m, yet still got promoted. We cashed in on Lescott and Seol, two seasons after we were relegated for just over £7m.
There is an easy approach - chuck money at promotion and if we fail, become a Derby, Leicester or Southampton. If we succeed, gamble paid off - and there’s a completely new business model based on the £60m per year telly revenue.
Bottom line - Morgan, as I’ve said before, is building himself a cushion so that we can make a more concerted push in a couple of years time, one he’s comfortably onside from his initial investment, which I reckon he already is - probably to the tune of about £6m, based on the revaluation of the assets he bought. If we don’t get promoted this season, I think this means selling Kights, SEB, Hennessey etc, to keep himself up in terms of assets and I have no doubt that he’ll do it. If this means making a few quid building a new ground and selling the Mol, then he’ll do it. My opinion. Whether fans like this approach or not, there’s very little we can do about it - we were Wolves fans before Morgan, we’ll be Wolves fans after Morgan has gone - he owns us and runs it from his head not his heart.
I can’t see him chucking daft money at promotion because we can’t compete with the sides that have spent longer in the prem and have substantially more cash at their disposal. He trusts McCarthy for now - wrong in my opinion but again, nothing that I can do about it.
Morgan is in it to make money but he isn’t prepared to fritter his money away in just a couple of years. Wolves is long-term - but we’ve bought a ticket to the short-term lottery of promotion. Fact is that we’re up against sides relegated from the Prem, who’ve can buy 50x the tickets we can. And the stats show, unsurprisingly, that it works.
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if this site’s comments are anything to go by we don’t deserve to be in the football league, let alone the Premier.
southbank barmy army is the muppet here. I wonder if he’s amassed a fortune of £30m to
invest in the club.
I doubt it.
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Re 132 Golden Blood.Sure Steve Morgan is investing millions and this is appreciated by all the fans.But the assets of the club were given to him for a tenner by Sir Jack and it is only right that loyal fans express their views.Money is only relative and a large no of the fans will be spending year on year a larger proportion of their income on the Wolves than Mr Morgan.Perhaps we are mugs for caring about our football club.
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For goodness sake’s chaps can we stop the bickering and in fighting between ourselves and even the yo-yo’s from down the road. The reason we all come together is because we support the same football team. The optimum word here is support! Wether it is by attending the games and shouting encouragement
or by writing on this mail box try not to get so side tracked. The E&S together with the yo-yo’s like nothing more than to stir up trouble between True! Wolves fans.
Up The Wolves
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