All sounds good, but that last line bugs me, “some of that £30 mil” if we went up, why not invest the lot and use the premiership money as fall back money (just incase we do an Albion).

We are then not using money we don’t have and are giving ourselves a real chance with like £25 – £30 mil to spend.

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Dave Jones would have kept us up, he got shafted for previous manager failings, Sir Jack did an awful lot for this club but he got disillusioned at the wrong time. People who slag Jez Moxey off haven’t got a clue, its a pity he wasn’t chief executive during the mid nineties when all that money was being wasted on ageing premiership players and average performers like Osborn and Corica. Time will tell but the club seem to be making the right noises.

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Moxey has constantly failed, except for 1 season when we got promotion and HE got a huge bonus, so why is he still in the job?
Would you ask someone with little or no football knowledge to run a football club?
Would you trust a person to make good football judgements like appointing managers or allocating funds?
His background is Hockey, he was brought up with hockey, not football and any knowledge he has gained has been at our expense.
Stoke City have gone one way since he left there and until he leaves Wolves we will not progress.
I suppose he is looking forward to yet another huge bonus this season as well whilst walking round the pitch with a big beaming smile which says ”look what I’ve done for you boys”.

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If we get promoted and we spend £25-30m we will be relagated a realistic amount would be £50m plus unless were aming for stopping up by the skin of your teeth and having spent lets say 25-30m it’s not guaranted.

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We’ve already spent some of that 30 million since Morgan took over. How else do you think we’ve been able to afford players such as Bera etc?

I doubt Mick will be given anywhere near 30 million if we do go up, which probably aint a bad thing. Although I think he’s done a great job, an excellent job in fact if we go up, many of his signings have been questionable to say the least.

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no. 1 – that wasn’t a quote, just something e&s added at the end

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Dublin Wolf–
Sorry I ment to say ” E&S ” are never wrong have you not heard that on the “Emerald Isle”–Regards Crazey Dave

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if we go up that £30m isn’t just for transfers! if we’re gona stay there some players coming in are gona be on £30k per week if we’re gona compete so expect a few free transfers on 30ish year olds a couple of loans and £20-£25m spent on 4 or 5 quality 24-27 year olds. We’re gona need at least 7 players in as it’s an 18 man matchday squad in the prem now so will need at least a 25 man first team squad

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If we do go up,,,and it is STILL if … we would need at least 60 million spent.Not one of that starting line up at St Bogrews are good enough

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Don’t forget it’s not only the cash we have available it’s the sky money, that’s what mad most fans upset last time, yes we spent £7m on players & say another £3-4m on the wage increase but we got £22m that year from Sky, just for the one year not to mention the increased gate reciepts. IF we get up you have to give it a go, and more of a go than we did last time I think that’s the point here

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5..

GROW UP AND GET BACK TO THE SADWELL PAGE..

You can only spend what comes in which has nothing to do with Moxey…
Get off the guys back for once…

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Lizbeth 20.

Its ok spending 60mil if we could attract 10-15mil quality type players, but we wont!

and as for sacking the manager just cause he had 1 bad season in the top flight with a different club a few years ago after he had got us promotion……well I think that just shows what a stupid posting it really is!

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Im sick of Moxey being the scapegoat of this club, everytime something goes wrong it ‘get moxey out!’ time, but the club, in my opionion, is being run fantastically and in the correct way (unlike QPR for example).

Look at the likes of Hull and Stoke, in with a chance of staying up… and with a load of special players? heck no!

Players who perform at the championship level are underratted… look at Beattie, Cahill, Lescott, Jagielka, Sidwell, Ashley Young etc etc, all learned how to play in the Championship… not saying we’d stay up IF we get there, but saying because of the way the club’s run and the kind of signings we’d make (british players perhaps with prem experience) we stand a chance.

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Kevin Foley approx £250k
Richard Stearman approx £1 million
George Elokobi approx £350k
Michael Kightly approx £20k
Matt Jarvis approx £750k
David Jones approx £1 million
Chris Iwelumo approx £350k
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake approx £1.2 million.

And Jez is doing a bad job? Baha

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We have a good young squad and with sensible additions including players we find in the lower leagues is the way forward. We dont want to spend on journeymen or foreign rubbish like in the past.
Lets give the players and club some slack. Roll on QPR.

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Spot on Neil, the key is to sign players with premiership experience. Thats where Sandwell Town went wrong signing unproven unknown foreigners. We need to copy Stoke in alot of ways, the spirit shown by their fans and players has given them a fighting chance. For me, our midfield is the weakest part of the team and Hennessey needs to improve very quickly. Its going to be a long hard slog with probably a few thrashings along the way.

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we do need to spend. The problem that many have ignored is the wage bill. New players will want premier league wages. This will cause problems if we go down.

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Dublin Wolf, if you’re on facebook, check out the new ‘Irish Wolves’ group and please join!

Westport Wolf.

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Westport Wolf, I certainly will. :)

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38 Agreed

Wolves need to invest in Premiership proven players – who are not afraid to take on Premiership players (or at least a similar standard to the Premiership)

As Ron Atkinson said on WM on Saturday when he spoke about clubs who get promoted – Albion spent money on players who play in a lesser standard than the Premiership – and to stand any chance of staying up – Wolves will need to bring in players who dont freeze against other Premiership clubs or take far too long to get used to the pace/ tempo of it – Big Ron also said we will need around 6 or 7 players of this standard – when we are promoted

We will be battling against the likes of Fulham, Wigan, Blues (If promoted) etc etc – a mini league of around 8 to 10 teams and we need to be able to take points off these sides

The Big Boys in the top half of the league will be like mini cup finals – where passion pride and sure doggedness will be key to getting anything – remember when we took on Man U and beat them at the Mol and Man Citeh?

Spending Big Bucks doesnt guarantee success – better quality players, experience, leadership better tactics (nouse) and good leadership on and off the field will count

All of the above with the crop of youngsters we have should see us through to be able to more than compete with the teams that are in the bottom to mid table mini league of the Premiership greed league

I believe that we are all but promoted now and a big well done to all the lads, MM and the back room staff

If it hasnt already started; Morgan, Moxey and MM should now be putting the Premiership Blue print together – starting with a Premiership spine of the team – in the shape of Premiership capable players – Goalkeeper, Centre Half, Midfield General, Left wing/ Playmaker and Striker – ala Fuller or Beattie type with the addition of a couple of quality loanees from the Big Boys or abroad

Moxey said something about if were that easy just offering money it would be easy – but last time around we didnt even have a decent training facillity (which shows a serious lack of ambition) – Players like to see ambition and prospects and a competitive wage offer – as any other decent potential employee

We need to compete and have the same mentallity as the sides we will be battling against – No more excuses (Moxey’s famous last words about his mobile phone being red hot)

NB We all know what happend before – let’s put that where it belongs (in the past) and do it right this time!

UP THE WOLVES!!! & Lets enjoy the ride to the Premiership!!!

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not one of you see whats been happening over the last few months do you??? not a single one of you! im not sure how many of you have seen the difference in play between the football six months ago and the football now ! MM went up with sunderland and got whooped he has learned from that and from what i see he is obviously spending time in training ensuring that does not happen with wolves! its not about buying in players willy nilly its about developing a squad who have a good understanding with each other and adding to it to develop more competition in more possitions when most of our squad was fit the players were hungry and playing there socks of to compete to keep there places e.g hennessy and ikeme just look at how they were performing but now hennesey has no real competition he is becoming complacent! the start of next season be it in the championship or the premiership id like to see say four additions to the squad to keep all the players on there toes im under no illusion that if we go up we will be in the top 12, its gonna be a hell of a fight to stay up there but the guys who run the club have got us there deserve a chance to keep us the, i just hope in january you arent calling for micks head because he has developed an awsome squad in the time hes been here, derby ran thereselves out of the game on monday but we were fit enough to bide our time and wait for that to happen i hope alot of you are eating humble pie this time next season if we get relegated oh well never mind its football it has its ups and downs! good luck for saturday boys.

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42 – some decent points. We’ve got a squad of 30 at the moment, excluding our three loan players. We’d have to trim that a bit – in order to get the 7/8 players needed – but also have to weigh up the high probability that we’ll be back in the championship after just one season.

Which players would you look at getting shot of? For me, I would look at players not good enough for the prem, that we could do without in 2010/11. Jody falls into the category, much as I like him. Think S Ward and N Collins do as well – though I’m not sure that MM would discard them. Darren Ward and Jason Shackell should also be discarded, and I think that Matt Hill, George Friend and Daniel Jones will also be possible departures. Personally, I’d prefer to see Karl Henry go and give Daniel Jones a chance – but I can’t see MM getting shot of KH.

Anyway, that would free up the required numbers for 7/8 additions whilst keeping the squad around 30.

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Rephrase that remark Jez to ’spent nowhere near enough’ the last time we were in the Prem. I am thinking is the investment going to be sustained? We certainly need : 1) An experienced international central defender. 2) A top class goalscorer. 3) Possibly two quality midfielders. These are the priorities; after this we should buy the best players we can afford regardless of position to build the squad to ensure survival.

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What i have said all season was if we do get promoted we would need to spend at least £40mil and the feed back was i was talking crap. i still stand by that and the feeling looks like i would be right if we dont spend big we would struggle thats if we get promoted lets get there first.onwards and upwards.

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Why does everyone say “You need to spend £xxx million to stay up…” Man City have blown £32m on one player – was he worth it? I’d sooner we continue our search for young players with motivation and desire than spend millions on one player with an inflated salary and ego to match. Let Mick continue to do what he’s shown he does well and not fall into the spend millions will guarantee success trap again – been there, done that, remember?

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Some possible targets. I think Richard Dunne from Manchester City could do a job for us. Maybe Boatang from boro. I know this is not exciting stuff but we need some grafters.

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why all the moaning and bitching, can we ust enjoy the success and say thnks to Jez and Mick, if some people are whinging now what are they going to be like if we start to struggle in the prem, also let them come to Oz so us on this side of the world can see them play

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52-micheal owen? and we are gona pay 100k a week for someone who wont play half the season? behave.

i think the wages will be our stumbling block next years as none of the current squad are on “huge”(i put it in brackets as it is still a lot of money to us) money, but compared to players we are going to get in, surely the current players deserve to be on the same wages as the new ones as they put in the graft playing week after week in the championship giving them the divining right to play top flight football?

I understand most of them are not good enough, but when we are on about harmony at the club and fighting for eachother, surely when a prem player breezes in, the lads all know his on 10-15k a week more than them. Its only human nature to be jealous, and i think the players such as SEB, kites, henno, jarvo, foley should be rewarded with new contracts.

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