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Wolves: We’re no Chelsea
Friday 1st June 2007, 10:20AM BST.
Wolves have been inundated with agents offering players since Steve Morgan’s takeover, but have told them: “We’re not a new Chelsea.”
Morgan’s imminent £30m investment has seen agents beating a path to their door thinking a new gravy train could be about to arrive at Molineux.
But chief scout Dave Bowman, who is masterminding Mick McCarthy’s hunt for new players, today insisted that won’t be the case.
Read the full story in the Express & Star.
Wolves have been inundated with agents offering players since Steve Morgan’s takeover, but have told them: “We’re not a new Chelsea.”
Morgan’s imminent £30m investment has seen agents beating a path to their door thinking a new gravy train could be about to arrive at Molineux.
But chief scout Dave Bowman, who is masterminding Mick McCarthy’s hunt for new players, today insisted that won’t be the case.
“Agents have been on the phone thinking we have become Chelsea overnight,” said Bowman. “We do not have £30m to spend on new players.
There is investment in the club, but the club has to be run the same as it has in the last 12 months.
“That has proved a successful blueprint and we’re sticking to it, although the money helps us bring players to the market place that we might not have otherwise looked at.”
By Steve Marshall
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This makes my blood boil. These agents are the scourge of the modern game and they epitomise everything wrong with football today. I just hope that Wolves don’t fall foul to these money grabbing vultures AGAIN !!
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This Dave Bowman makes the old scout george somebody looks so poor. the new guy really knows his stuff, and i, and i suspect a lot more wolves fans are really surprised and impressed by the desire shown by the players dave has found so far. paying big wages to older players in the championship is a big mistake, as there legs have gone half the time, and are really injury prone. if wolves do have to buy oldish players, then the odd center half in his late twentys early 30s is ok, but for the other positions we might aswell go for young blood.
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gud
the days of the injury prone oldies and the deadbeats looking for a last rake off are long gone
long live king mick
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Dave Bowman seems to really know his stuff and I’m impressed with every player he’s brought in for us this season.
Hopefully there’s more to club! But I can’t help finding this ‘hush hush’ with regards to our transfers a little bit annoying.
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In our view its fare better to play our cards “close” to our chest and make announcements when something actually happens
The fact that Wolves are playing down the Morgan takeover speaks volumes and is a statement that the club are not being held to ransom or being part of auctions every time we go in for players
Could be worse – we could be off loading all our star players like a certain strpey outfit down the road!!!
Up the Wolves!!!
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Just keep doing what you did last season i say, the players bought in are top class considering how much we spent.p.s. Ive heard theres some cheap players going down at tesco’s.
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Long Live Dave Bowman!
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Agents are a good thing, and I’m glad they see Wolves as an exciting opportunity. I hope Willie McKay offers us some more African players. We’ve got £30m to spend, and we may as well do it properly. I think £2m on Cureton, £2m on a keeper and then the rest on hungry African players would put us in the Champions League in the next three years. When we’re there the sky is our oyster. You can’t win n e think with kids or non-league rubbish. SPENDING BIG WORKS.
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You ain’t no chelsea ?? Well thats cleared that up then…. By the time you have paid off Moon face Moxey and had the ground painted scouse red you may have enough left for a pie – or are you still getting free ones when the BOING BOING army take over the custard bowl. Sad aint the word.
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We have a suggestion to perhaps help out our stripey friends down the road
Could Mr Bowman pass on all the leads of bargain basement players we dont want to the Boggies?
There again Maybe NOT! ;-)
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Mark F, you’ve hit the nail on the head mate, these agents are like vultures circling injured prey just waiting for the rich pickings, you agents really should get real, honest jobs rather than lining your own pockets whilst someone else does all the hard work. It’s you ………………(enter your own word here) that keep the costs in football on an upward spiral so the likes of us real fans have to work longer and harder to earn the dough watch our heroes. Forever Wolves and long may MM’s reign continue.
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Execellent assessment of the way wolves will conduct their business in the transfer market, if teams want to spend over the odds then let them, Wolves have had a harsh lesson in the 90′s of how not to spend money, I could list players who are laughing in their retirement of the amount of money they were paid in the McGhee, Taylor and Lee era, rotten money grabbers!!
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i get frustrated by the hush hush approach too BUT !!!!!!!!!!!!
Even though mr moxey gets all the grief (which 9 in 10 he does NOT deserve) i prefer to be kept in the dark by moxey, morgan, bowman and Merlin-Mick knowing that at least if we are in the dark we will get the better players more economically and not be cazzumped by the premier big hitters.
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You like it in the dark cos that where all the other mushrooms live. Top players…. you couldn’t attract a dog with a biscuit !
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Is Visgae Wolf having laugh? Big spending hasn’t worked in the past, thats why we’re still in the championship. As for Willie Mackay, he’s the bloke that pulled our pants down with Henry Camara deal, so he’s a really good idea. And finally; non league rubbish. Has he watched Kightley? Visage Wolf should stick to knitting, he probably knows more about it!
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so all you boggie fans saying we’re not chelsea well your no villa,and villa are the biggest club in brum you come third,BUT I DO ADMIT THESE AGENTS TRYING TO OFF LOAD CLAPPED OUT PLAYERS BUT SUPER MICK KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING,there’s a little blue and white tin shed club down the road who’ll have them to go with the ones they already have, boing twang sob sob.
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I heard a welder was required at the whorethorns! I believe to weld the roof back on the team bus ;)
We still need to spend money though, Football is money and as fans stick to warching footy instead of being accountants, oh and Moxey please leave we still hate you despite super Mick getting you out the dire.
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We think Visage Wolf is taking the preverbial – as his fame from a certain Wolves forum is well known in certain chat rooms (so we hear)
Be nice to see VW give our Boggie friends some good old “boggie baiting”
We hear Seth Johnson’s just been released by Derby – decent shout?
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Happy Baggie! you told Bridget & Tony to stay out off your pathetic news pages so stay off ours ok.
We don’t want no Sandwell Town fans talkin our business, just cause your jealous of our money! :D
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Yeah Baggie Hater get a life and stay off our forums, your jealous mate!
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My comments on the agents you can,t blame them for trying but wolves now no all about that, that is in the past now we will get who we want but thats negotiation the manager and the board and who,s this happy baggie he cannot stop commenting on our site its the only interest he has now after being let down so badly do you think he is turning gold & black
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None of you wulfs really believe you have 30 million to spend do you.
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A funny thing happend to me this morning i was taking out my days bag of rubbish to the bin(in my tesco bag of course)and there were Sanwell Town players trying to get the phone number to MM ’cause they heard we got loadsa dosh and found out that we were going to play in the premiership next year..and wanted to know if they could come and play for us us…..I told them they could join the 3rd best team in the midlands but they said that they didn’t want to play for Willenhall Town…
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Happy Baggie ?
Didn’t think there was such a thing at present. I think Sodje’s the only one who wants to stay and he’s rubbish and probably the one that you don’t want !!
Go and crawl back under your stone in that pit known as Sandwell.
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Perhaps we could stop worrying about what the Baggies are up to and just look forward to next season. They ARE going to be a force to be reckonned with, along with the three that came down from the top tier, never mind Saints, Preston, Wednesday et al. Let’s just keep supporting the WOLVES, the manager AND moxey and the rest. WE HAVE TO BE ALL ROUND Premiership quality, if that’s where we want to be
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Well said JJ, totally agree. If you have confidence in Mick, just let him get on with it and see who turns up.The last crop of players Mick signed are brilliant.If that means being kept in the dark then so be it.
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Personally, I get bored by all the rumour and speculation that goes round about who’s going to buy whom. I like Wolves schtum policy until something happens. It makes sense and if the deals come off, great, if they don’t there’s no thoughts about who’s incompetent etc. Mick knows what he’s looking for, good job it’s not just the last part of a jigsaw. Ideas like that are better left in the play pen
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Visage Wolf ARE YOU AN AGENT?
Think Leeds.
Just because you have money does not mean you spend it on big earning dross.
Lets keep a lean mean fighting machine going and be entertained all the way to th ePremiership and we will see what happens then.
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How about
MURRAY
LITTLE UNSWORTH COLLINS KOMMONS
KIGHTLY SEYI G DAVIES GLEESON
SHARP KEOGH
Subs Ward Henry McIndoe Potter Hennessy
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Wolves will not need to buy any more players because simply the team they have got now are world beaters and will always be the best team in the world. COME ON WOLVES.
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Not sure about the wisdom (or sensitivity) of Visage Wolf’s call for teamful of ‘hungry African players.’ Conjures up an unfortunate vision of a side missing out on promotion through failure to adjust to getting three square meals a day.
Sign Sharp and ask Ollie to bring back the best central defender he can find when he returns from his holidays, and we’ll be fine…
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people like “happy baggie” are bitter amd twisted cos the wolves are roaring and are gonna take 6 points off them next year!!! camara aint gonna score thats for sure, (and phillips will be past it), gud look baggies, you’ll need it
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sorry Kamara or whatever its name is, either way hes moving on too better things next season i.e Kettering Town
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i love wolves and so badly wat to no who they are signin. Also i cant wait 4 the season tov start…..
com on u wolves
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To ALL Boggie Fans – We hear your so-called “Suuperstars” are recording a new song as a after Play Off Final leaving present, Insiders say it goes something like this:
We’re leaving Anyday soon, Dont want to ever come back again
We’re leaving on Jet Plane Not sure, but we think its a BOEING BOEING ;-) :-) ;-)
Announcement on Smallthornes Tannoy system says: Your Exits can be found HERE HERE AND HERE :-)
See ya SUCKERS!!!
Merlin Micks Gold N Black Army
Up the Wolves!!!
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Your no chelsea?! Gosh your clever…a three year old could of told you that one mate, it isn’t rocket science!
COME ON YOU BAGGIES!
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we at last got a scout who knows his stuff,he his miles better then hoddles brother carl.
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Steve Brown, you need to learn to spell and use correct English. Unfortunately for you your a typical dingle, you cant even string a sentence together. Oo deary, deary me!
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yea i agree we shouldn’t just splash out on players, but we should spend a bit on a decent defender or 2
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we’re not all posh like u Tash.
anyone for tea and scones
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dear Tash
“Unfortunately for you your a typical dingle” should be “Unfortunately for you YOU’RE a typical dingle”. Better still, keep quiet about other people’s bad grammar, at least until you learn some yourself.
I have no doubt that by the start of the new season we’ll have the striker and quick defenders we need to be serious contenders. I can’t wait but i guess I’ll have to.
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Most fans argue over who is the hardest or whos won what. We are having a fight over gramatical context. Gotta love it. That Stevie Bull… wouldn’t know his similie from his pro-noun !!!!
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OH THANK GOD, YOU AINT NO CHELSEA I WAS GETTING A BIT SCARED THEN. then i realised what the headlines would say “NEW CHELSEA, BATTERED BY THE BAGGIES, again.
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baggie hater,& we8wba (very immotive word hate)
about staying off your forums, thats a bit pot calling the kettle black do you not think.
I have seen many of your inane vitriolic comments on our pages from yourselves & bonnie and clyde.
Oh,and another thing we8wba, if you actually read,or get a more intelligent member of your family to read your comment,you will find you told one of your own to stay of your forums.Priceless
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