Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Hahnemann signs deal for Wolves
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Marcus Hahnemann has became Wolves’ second summer signing and immediately declared his desire to become the club’s number one.
See also: Marcus Hahnemann’s career in pictures
The 37-year-old goalkeeper, who was released by Reading at the end of last season, has signed an initial one-year deal.
Six-foot three Hahnemann, who was an ever-present in Reading’s two seasons in the Premier League between 2006-08, has set his sights on competing for a place with Wayne Hennessey and Carl Ikeme after returning from his native United States.
He follows £2.6million Serbian international midfielder Nenad Milijas to Molineux.
The experienced custodian said: “It’s an excellent move for me. Wolves are a massive club and it’s another chance to play in the Premier League – that’s a huge draw for me.
“I know I have a real fight to be the number one and no promises have been made.
“I know I have to go in there, have a good pre-season and then see what happens.”
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey reveals Hahnemann turned down two other Premier League offers, because of the chance to establish himself as first choice at Molineux.
He said: “Marcus had two other offers in the Premier League but he wanted to come here, because Mick said ‘you’re a very good keeper and if you are the best keeper out of the three, you will play.’
“That’s the sort of competition we want in our goalkeeping department and right through the side.
“Mick wants competition for every spot but with injuries, we didn’t always have that in the goalkeeping department last season.
“After talking to Mick, Marcus wanted to join because he realises he has a genuine chance which he might not have got elsewhere.
“He’s a very good goalkeeper who will be challenging Wayne Hennessey and Carl Ikeme directly for the number one spot.
“Regardless of who is playing, he will be a good mentor for our three goalkeepers, because he is of excellent character and has plenty of experience.”
Moxey feels the profile of the new signing fits what Wolves are looking for.
He said: “We have talked about Premier League experience, which is something Mick has identified in potential signings and we knew it would be difficult to get.
“With an excellent record at Reading, Marcus fits that criteria.
“He’s been playing at a very high level for seven years in this country and been a key part of Reading’s success in that period.
“Negotiations were smooth – he wanted to join and we wanted him. We thought this would be a good thing to do.”
Seattle-born Hahnemann leaves Reading after 276 league appearances over seven seasons.
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Good move there! Now for an experienced centre half. Lets build the spine of the team of premierhsip experience. Experience centre midfielder and an experienced centre forward.
Fixtures are out, I think Wolves on paper have got a few games were we can get points on the board.
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Great bit of business! Good experienced goalkeeper who commands his area well and will force hennessey and Ikeme to play there socks off to be number 1 and we’ve got him on a free. Another shrewd bit of business in my opinion!
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happy with that !
bring on the Hammers
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Although nothing has been said I believe this does not bode well for Matt Murray’s recovery.
Not a bad signing as cover for Wayne and Carl now lets see some quality outfield signings
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OK, why not – he certainly ticks in the ‘experienced’-box!
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Think the signing of Hannheman is n ominious sign for Murray. Not once does Moxey mention Murray as challenging when he is back fit. Looks like another season out on loan for Matt. Lets get him fit and in the 1st team, best keeper we have
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excellent signing. the management obviously rate hennessey highly but obviously recognise that we need competition. He was superb during Reading’s time in the premiership and although is knocking on in years, is certainly not past it in goalkeeping terms. Also renound as a model proffesional so should be a good influence around the place. No transfer fee should also give us more money to spend on other areas of the team.
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Not only a good back up even no1 if the others have problems. But I think his experience will bring the youngsters on through training.
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good signing, it’s only one year and both young keepers could learn from him. Especially wayne, if he could learn to command his area and judge coming out of his goal better like hahnemann does then the welshman will be a reliable premiership keeper this year
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Great bit of business, i was shocked Reading released him!
We still need to strengthen the defence and striking options but things are looking good. Looking at the fixtures we have a good start, a great finish, just the middle looks a bit daunting lol Chelsea and Arsenal in a row…………ouch!!!
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I suspect Murray will go out on loan once fit again and won’t be in contention for a Premier League game this season unless we have really bad luck with injured keepers. Good signing in Hahnemann though. Pleased with that!
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The best keepers are all over 30, happy with this signing, GK position should be covered now!
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Great bit of biz
Well done Moxey & McCarthy
This lad is a very good keeper, better than spending £40k pw on Hart
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Murray is not mentioned as it was announced on Sky Sports at the weekend as he will not be fit for the start of the season.
Very good signing as if Hennessey continues to dither off his line, he will be dropped!
Great fixture list for us. Bring on the Hammers!!
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Great calming influence and controls his box, I think Hennessey will start the season but if he dosnt command that area he will soon be dropped. Next two signings will be Huddlestone and Derbyshire.
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Reading fans will tell you he didn’t have a great season last year bit it’s still a good squad acquisition. One of Ikeme or Hennessey should ‘push on’ which gives us good coverage.
I don’t think anyone at Wolves wants to put pressure on Murray, that’s why he’s not mentioned. He won’t be fit pre Christmas and then MM will want to send him out on loan, as before, so I don’t think there’s anything sinister that Moxey isn’t telling us that we don’t already know. If he does make a contribution it will be later in the season and should be seen as a bonus.
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the reason reading released him along with lita is because they are high earners and they have 1 year left of parachute payments
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So do we reckon that’s the imminent signing that Moxey was referring to the other day? Hope not – but think so unfortunately. Still, plenty of time left until the start of the season.
Agree it’s decent enough – need the competition and an experienced head should help with the inexperience of WH. He also has the added incentive of trying to force his way into the side to enhance his World Cup place – so certainly not just coming to make up the numbers or for a final pay day.
I see in the Reading local paper, he talks about the possibility of commuting on a daily basis rather than moving the family up. Hope that’s not the case as I can’t see how spending 4 hours or so a day in the car will be of much help.
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I wonder what Carson is thinking at the Poorthorns, he will be the next keeper to leave for the Prem.
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Bit of a wilde card I no but I was wondering whether Ricardo Rocha would be worth taking a look at. He’s 30 yr old defender, just been released by tottenham. He was very highly rated at benfica and got into the portugese national squad. But it never quiet happened for him at tottenham and IMO wasn’t given a fair chance with all the defenders that tottenham have got. Has been in england for 3years so wouldn’t need to adapt to english life. and he would be a free transfer!
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Let Murrey go.
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Funny how a good set of Fixtures and a new good Goalkeeper changes everybodys mood, eh?
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This is a good solid signing, lots of experience, and a good attitude. You need this when if and when our young keepers dip in form.
We are going to ship more goals this season than last, so being able to rest a keeper will probably be necessary.
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Good start and good end to the fixtures.. however Mun Utd, Liverpool and Tottenham away in December means we will probably have a rough christmas!
Good signing.. hope this wasn’t the one Jez was excited about tho.. but still a good signing!
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are those empty seats i see,aye boing boing armchair
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Great signing, will no doubt push for No1 spot and will support the development of the young keepers, especially seen as we lost Mimms who was doing a cracking job.
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Great signing.Could be the making of Henns & Ikeme.
Looking forward to West Ham United,roll on August 15th!
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I’m happy with that signing …. next ….
I see on a few sites weve been linked with Marcus Berg today
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The reason Reading released him was the fact that he was on a quite good salery..and the fact that he started showing poor form at late. I certainly hope he took a wage cut, because then he will be a great back-up for Hennessey, Ikeme…and hopefully Murray.
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Great news, an excellent keeper. I just looked through his ‘career in pictures’ and think it’s hilarious that in 50% of them the caption reads ‘Hahnemann is beaten by [x]‘!
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Can anyone see the pending sale of Hennessey for big money?
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We have no excuses with those opening couple of months fixtures – not expecting much on the road in Nov and Dec though! We also have a decent run in – probable 6 pointers with Pompey and Sunderland to finish too.
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Excellent news. Good work a bit like Friedel at Villa. From the statement it looks like Murray is forgotten about. Surely it should be the best keeper out the FOUR? :(
On a fixture related note. Who thinks last years loyalty points should be carried on to this season???
I suggest this as it rewards the lucky fans that made games last year. Also it allows season ticket holders that attended half a dozen away games (1120 points) first refusal on big 4 away games. If the points are reset to 1000 for season ticket holders at start the season, new season ticket holders may gain tickets to these games and fans that attended last year miss out.
Surely this idea would be fair and right. New season ticket holders would still get a chance to tickets as its on a priority basis. Thoughts would be appreciated.
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Great news… Good signing…
Peeps we have got to get on with the job, Matt murray is a top bloke but I know it sounds harsh but we cant take a risk with him anymore due to his fitness.. Its a very high risk.. No-one is leaving him in the cold!! its the club being sensinble and not taking high risks which we cant afford to make
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27.
It won’t be a problem getting tickets for any Premiership game.
It wasn’t last time we went up.
And now with the recession and all that.. it should be fairly easy to get a ticket, if you want to pay £30 – £40 a game. Home or Away.
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33..yes i totally agree with you, points should be carried on..however, i don’t see it happening to be honest :(
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Ok that is a good signing. Now we need Duff and Ledley and if Doyle will change his mind we need someone like him. These would be reasonable starters for the, then we need to address the back.
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25. That’s the away contingent, moron…
GREAT SIGNING!
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Ok that is a good signing. Now we need Duff and Ledley and if Doyle will change his mind we need someone like him. These would be reasonable starters for ten, then we need to address the back.
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Ok that is a good signing. Now we need Duff and Ledley and if Doyle will change his mind we need someone like him. These would be a reasonable starter for ten, then we need to address the back.
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TERRY – SOLD YOUR MASK YET??? HAHAHA BONG BONG TONY ADAMS FOR SANDWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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VERY GOOD SIGNING AT LEAST WE DIDNT SPEND STUPID MONEY ON SOMEONE LIKE FRANK CARSON FROM THEM LOT DOWN THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!! CENTRE HALF, CENTRE MIDFIELDER A WINGER AND STRIKER ARE A MUST NOW WITH A COUPLE OF LOANS TO BOOST THE SQUAD A BIT MORE I WILL BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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good signing but looking at his age i hope when he goes down he can get back up agen aye boing boing down
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Great new keeper, keeps his head when others flap, I’ve been impressed by him most of the times I’ve seen him, if it were me at the helm, but it’s not remember that! I’d cash in on Hennesey, maybe this is the strategy, he’s been linked with others many times? Hennessey to balance the books, before August!
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This guy cost Reading promotion on the last day against Birmingham – what makes Mick think he is good enough for the Prem?
Too old and a liability.
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Bob Wolf – what cost reading promotion was not winning for something like 9 games and only scoring 1 goal in 6 home games!!!!!!! cant some wolves fans ever be pleased??? go support them lot down the road!
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36 – I am going to email the club. I am sure I have previously read they had considered it but hadnt come to a decision. So if a few fans support the idea they will adopt it.
I the demand for Man City away will be high and this would help.
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Hahnemann is a dude! He has a great car collection!
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Just as long there is no one to replace S Ward
thats all that matters to me, this chap is world class. Great to see the wolves signing all these great prem class players
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i have heard from a realiable source that chelsea have accepted a 5.5m offer from wolves for mancienne and after the european championships have finish he will leave sweden and go straight to molinuex for a medical and discuss personal terms
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so bob wolf, there you are, was wandering how long it would be before you and your (happy) mates sbba and jiwal turned up, what was that you were saying in april?? that wwfc were not going up? that muppet mick was gonna get sacked before easter? and who do you suggest as wwfc new keeper? mick kearns ? lol idiot
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Bob Wolf is a Tesco bag.
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Reading had 21 clean sheets last season – best in the Championship. Hahnemann played 34 games so not sure how many he kept? but still a great signing.
No. 50 – hope you right but cannot see Chelsea selling him due to him being English (home player rule to be introduced in Europe)and also the current Glen Johnson transfer – what was it? Sold for 4M to Pompey and now being sold to Liverpool for 16.5m
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50… If you are right m8, that is what I call a result. If we could get Duff, Ledley and the baggie up the road that would be somewhere towards getting to where we need to be.. Need another quality striker of course and more defensive cover.
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33. Wolves AY I
I think you’d have a point if we were playing a Big 4 Away game very early on, but we’re not. The first isn’t until 21st November (Chelsea).
So, unless we sell-out our first 6 Away games, there’s plenty of chance for fans to build up points. I can’t see us selling-out more than a couple of Wigan, Man City, Blackburn, Sunderland, Everton and Stoke. If we do, you’re right – a bit rough if you can’t get a ticket to earn the points to get a ticket…
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Just heard Tottenham are after Hennesey don’t know whether this is true or not but I wish you all the best with this plank in goal.
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50. I’ve had that dream too then I woke up. Lets hope your correct role on the end of the U21.
Good set of fixtures. Chance for a good start hopefully to put some points on the board
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Chazadawolf – great suggestion for a player, he wasnt given a fair crack at Spurs!
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50 – I have insider knowledge of whats going on at wolves and whilst the suggestion of signing Mancienne is a great one, Wolves will be attempting to loan the player as they are not willing to sell at this time…………
More experience at the back is whats needed in my opinion. Craddock will not be good enough thats for sure but this is being addressed also. I would expect 2 or so more signings over the next couple of weeks or so but nothing imminent.
If you think of our teams starting 11 if fit, we are not far away from being a pretty darn good side.
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Lets look at this cynically.
He was a big earner at Reading.
“It’s a chance to play in the
PL”. Translated as ‘I don’t want to reduce my income as I am retiring in 2-3 years.’
A one year contract with an option for another year. Translates as:
Hahnemann — If you go down I’m off to another prem club.
Wolves — If we go down we don’t want his wages on the books in the championship.
He is an o.k. keeper, but I would have preferred Brad Freidel who is vastly superior.
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RE;-NUMBER 50′S POST…I HAVE HEARD FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE THAT MICHAEL OWEN AND ALAN SMITH WERE SEEN AT A PUB CLOSE TO THE GROUND TALKING TERMS WITH MOXEY……AND THEN I WOKE UP
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Is that 4 goalkeepers you’ve got now?
Is Mick thinking of playing them all at once???
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47 – Wolves AY I
I think the club are considering loyalty points, but ONLY with regard to Away Season Tickets.
I went to nearly half the away games last season ( mainly Saturday matches)and like you was concerned that I wouldn’t get chance of the ‘big’ away games, so I called in to the ticket office AND emailed the club.
Upshot is that I ( and anyone else) can apply for an AST and if it is oversubscribed, loyalty points will be taken into account from last season and allocated to those with the most loyalty points – similar to the way Home Season tickets went on sale to those with 100 and then 50 loyalty points.
Sorry it may not be what you want to hear, but most of the Prem clubs only cater for around 3000 away fans max, so demand for the big games will be high and the club are trying to generate more income from that demand.
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The last five newly-promoted teams to kick their season off at home all avoided defeat.
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22) Your mood. Your posts recently have taken over from South Bank in terms of negativeness.
Molineux needs to adopt the Stoke mentality and ensure sides are put under pressure. Get behind the class youngsters with a few astute signings and there is no reason why we should not be mid table!
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The last 3 newly promoted teams that were handed an opening day home fixture, and win it, all stayed up (last year, Hull beat Fulham; the year before Sunderland beat Tottenham and in 2006, Reading won.)
Mick – if you’re reading this, try and get Messi, Henry (Thierry), Gerrard etc on loan just for August 15th. Pay whatever it takes.
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50 – no offense but believe it when i see it.
43 – i bet carson is feeling about 80 then the amount of times he went down to pick the ball out of the net last season ay boing boing theres another one!
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33 – i’ve emailed the club about that twice now. and twice i’ve had no reply. i’m guessing that means we’ll all be reset to 1000. bit unfair really – i only missed norwich away last season.
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47..i have just emailed them aswell :) fingers crossed ay
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Good Signing regardless of age, wage or anything else. has proven over the years he is reliable.
Not 100% sure baout mancienne rumours, doubt chelsea will sell with carvalho being linkeed with inter.
And for those mentioning damien duff, would be better than jarvis cuz he is simply not gonna cut it in prem, but think there will be better options for less and duff is on 60k a week.
And ledley, better options for cheaper, he will cost at least 5Mil which is gamble when you can pay half the price for gamble like milijas, this guy will be top class, trust me!
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GOOD move we need a solid keeper until Matt gets fit. Ikeme seems one for the future and has his feet on the ground. I just hope he gets more luck with injuries than Matt. Such a shame that Matt is not fit we would need this signing. Hennessey seems a bit too big for his boots and wants better things by all accounts.
Come on Matt get fit please. Your a great keeper and just need a bit of luck.
Lets hope Mick can pull some more good signings out of the bag.
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Thanks everyone for the feedback!
63 – I understand your point regarding away season ticket (I think I would have enough points to gain one) but I cannot 100% say I will attend all the away games.
Thats is the reason I have not applied. The limit is 1500 away season tickets so that leave 1500 tickets on average. Is it fair that NEW season ticket holders this season have the same chance of these tickets because we all start with 1000 points.
55 – I would imagine that Man City, Everton and Stoke will sell out! I cannot make Wigan and Man City so that 2 games I have missed out on for points.
I just feel if old season ticket holders had first refusal on remaining tickets then new holder on any left after a point, this would be a fair method.
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Quote on the Wolves website from Loyalty points FAQ.
“HOW WILL THIS BENIFIT SUPPORTERS?”
“It is widely to be unfair that fans that regularly support their team at away fixtures have no greater priority for an important match at the end of a season than someone that has not bought an away ticket all season – this scheme will change that. When tickets go on sale for popular or cup fixtures supporters with the most loyalty points will be able to purchase tickets first. Therefore more tickets purchased means greater chance to attend important games!”
Surely then the supporters that attended games last year deserve the chance to have first refusal on away tickets.
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72 Wolves AY I
I hope you’re right and we sell out often. Loads of vocal support can only help. But I think the financial reality will hit loads of our lads, and the only guaranteed sell-outs will be the Big 4 and the local games (Stoke, Villa, Brum…). Premiership prices aren’t cheap.
Good luck, anyway.
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would love huddlestone and derbyshire with mancienne thrown in on loan too, if we get these three we’ll take the prem by storm!!
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Would like us to have a look at this Swedish U21 striker Marcus Borg. Scored a cracking hat-trick last night.
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I think this is a great signing this guy was flying, as were Reading until he got injured! Im afraid Wayne isnt ready for the mental pressure of the premiership just yet, hes got ability but the great goalkeepers have great judgement which often comes from experience – Hahnemann has already got premiership experience and wont be flapping about which will instill confidence in the back four – great signing stick him in from the start cant afford to drop points!!
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Sir Terry Baggie – The empty seats are, I believe, in the home dug-out at the poorthornes.
Mark Venus, assistant manager at Glasgow Celtic, who’d have thought it aye.
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70- What makes you think Jarvis will not cut it in the Prem? He was much better than Kights for long periods of last season. IMO it is Kights who will be more prone to a drop in form than Jarvis. I think Jarvis is actualy the stronger character. He’ll suprise a few people yet!
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i think loyalty points will not be carried over, the club will be happy to gain more (glory hunting fans) ie new fans boost revenue its wrong but thats the way it is
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Great signing.
id go for joey barton, there isnt a hard man really in our midfield. a huge gamble but if it pays off could be the diffrence. also beckford his worth a go, 30 some odd goals ay a bad return is it? someone who seems to be surplus requirements tho is dean ashton they seem to think is injury prone but when fit international class
up the olves :)
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72 Wolves AY I
I have the same problem, I don’t think I will be able to attend all away matches, but hopefully, as there are less mid-week than in the Championship, I should be able to see a higher percentage.
The problem, as I saw it is that it is not just the away season ticket holders that draw off the allocation before general sale, I think I am right in saying that official Wolves supporters clubs who regularly order away tickets will also get an allocation which means that there will be even less on general sale.
That is why I have applied for an AST even though I will lose £10 for any match I don’t attend – I know others will not be able to do that.
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I see that a Belgrade newspaper is today reporting that Milijas was sentenced to a year in prison for causing an accident while driving drunk (the accident was December 2005 so it’s taken a while to go through the courts). The sentence is suspended for three years. Not sure what this means for the work permit appeal but certainly can’t help.
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quite worrying that in the pictures of his career all the captions say “hanhemann being beaten by…” apart from of course in the picture he is playing against wolves. typical
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Good signing both a few more please which I hope will come–My first posting for some time up for it now-First 12 fixture to the Arsenal are very important games, we need to take the max-points and of course beat the GUNNERS—
Congrats to Ron Flowers-Well derserved great Player and I think a Barnsley Boy originaly—Crazey Dave
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56. If tottenham met our valuation (probably 6mil) then I am sure the club would be willing to sell as alot of the supporters can see his flaws but this maybe down to his tender years. But really can you really comment on goalkeepers when you have ‘calamity’ carson and deano ‘i cant be bothered to play in my national team squad’ Kiley? Like in departments in our squad we have alot more talent then albion and half the age so shhhhhhhh!
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Nice one E&S, show three pictures of Marcus being ‘beaten’ by opposition players!
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We have to beat the sides around us – Blues, Burnley, Hull, Stoke, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Wigan. Albion won once away from home but I think we can get results away from home because of our speed on the counter-attack. Against the top 4 I know Micks style and that will be to get in their faces and unsettle them and have a real go, I love those games even if we lose lets give them a real battle and shake them up a bit. I think we need to send Vokes, Edwards, S Ward, Carl Ikeme on loan as they are not ready but could be in the future. Time to sell Dan Jones, Gleeson, Darren Ward, Jason Shackell. If we did get an tempting offer for Hennessey I would like to see us get Martin Fulop from Sunderland. Unfortunately there is no room for sentiment now lets get:
Joe Ledley
Tom Huddlestone
Matt Derbyshire
Lee Cattermole
Shaun Davies
Michael Mancienne
This will give us the best young squad in the premiership. No substitute for quality. I also think we should go to albion and bid 4 mil to get Olssonn and Morrison.
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Martin Swain toid us in yesterday’s paper that we should expect to lose 5 or 6 on the trot and we should not complain because Abramovich is far richer than Steve Morgan. He made no mention of the wealth of the owners of Bolton,Wigan,Hull and Burnley. We must compete with these teams.Whether we do or not depends on how well we buy in the transfer market in the next few weeks.If we don’t spend some real money the fans have every right to complain.Let us not make it 4 relegations out of our last 4 seasons in top flight football.
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Pointless signing(freeby), the guys to old.He cant jump.
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Hahnemann is a good signing. he will provide the much needed experience wether he is first choice or reserve.
Heard the rumour of Nicky Butt? Wolves bound?
I just hope the purse strings are not too tight, i.e. not following up on the £5m plus players like Huddlestone, Hunt, Taylor? who knows, either way the lads will give ot their best!
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Its ridiculous. Another goalkeeper whats the point? Wolves wheres this apparent big signings. 6 weeks to go till the premier starts and who have we signed? A serbian international midfielder who no one knows what he will b like and a 37 year old goalkeeper on a free transfer? Ridicoulous
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