Time to map out a plan for Villa's future
- Says blogger Matthew Turvey
Today’s transfer rumours – Jan 10
Thursday 10th January 2008, 8:28AM GMT.
Throughout the transfer window we will be bringing you the daily gossip on the deals involving our clubs.
WOLVES
INS: Wolves are back in for Billy Sharp and are looking at a £1m bid.
Colchester’s Clive Platt has also caught the attention of the Molineux staff, apparently.
VILLA
INS: Spurs defender Pascal Chimbonda is a target – he could form part of a £15m double swoop with Jermaine Defoe.
Villa are also chasing wantaway Arsenal full back Lassana Diarra.
ALBION
DEFINITE: Richard Chaplow has signed for Preston for a fee which could rise to £1.35m.
BLUES
INS: Swiss left back Ludovic Magnin – a 28-year-old defender – interests Blues if they fail to get David Murphy from Hibs.
A bid for James McFadden in the region of £4m could be on its way.
DEFINITE: Rowan Vine has been sold to QPR for £1m.
WALSALL
INS: Gambian international Yankuba Ceesay, who shares an agent with Edrissa Sonko, is on trial at the Banks’s Stadium.
We are not saying they are true we are just saying they are out there. You have read ours now add your own rumours.
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I wouldn’t mind Billy Sharp…but is he really what we need? Sure he can finish but if he’s not getting the service surely he’s going to be just as useless as munchkin Elliot?
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i enjoy these rumours i must admit but its getting a bit boring seeing everyone else actually sign players! i love my team but they really like stressing me out!
billy sharpe would be a good signing but i dont want freddy to leave which looks very likely as MM doesnt seem to like him
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Billy sharp is a poor mans Freddie Eastwood, if we can’t supply Freddie then Billy isn’t going to do any better.
At least he may be able to track back and run round like a rabbit.
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billy sharp to be unveiled by wolves tomorrow
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Billy sharp – a poor mans Freddie Eastwood. Wow, what a put down!
Eastwood – 4 goals
Sharp – 2 goals
A real clash of the Titans!
Then there’s Clive Platt, it really is exciting being a Wolves fan!
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OH NO!!!! another young player coming to be ruined?
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Billy Sharp cannot get a game at Sheffield Untd even when Beattie is injured, mind you Robson is not a great judge of a player so prob bets if you do not read too much into that. Surely Wolves should be looking at a creative midfielder??
Allardyce to be next Wolves manager, you heard it here first!!!!
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Good bit of Biz for the baggies – decent fee for Chaplow and great sell on clause. Nice lad and always tried – just never good enough for us.
Hope he does ok back at Burnley.
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no 7 knowing football mor likely mm to newcastle!! however i put 50 on jol at 5/2 seems like good odds
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The excitement is killing me,being a Wolves fan is like painting a woodchipped wall.I haven’t felt so demoralised since Twoddle was in charge.Gordon Bennett!ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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It might be Allardyce and Sammy Lee!
Perhaps Newcastle will come and get Mick(the best manager in years)McCarthy – but then again perhaps not!
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3. They’re different styles of players you tool. Whilst i’m not saying Fredy is rubbish, he as far from shone, largely down to poor service yes, but partly on his own permormances too.
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And by Burnley, i obviously mean preston !!
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in response to 8. if he is not good enough for you, the sell on clause is irrelevant, as he will be going nowhere near the premiership!
As for our rumours – sharp and platt no!
I reckon if you give Eastwood a run of 6 or 8 games he will score 3 or 4. I might be wrong, but if you can score 15 for Southend – who were relegated – there is something there.
I also agree with someone yesterday. Liam Hughes might be worth a go, as he can’t do any worse.
The creation has not been there. But I was at Plymouth, 17 corners to 1 and all over them. Yet will still could only score 1!
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A few random thoughts;
8. Yes good luck to Chaplow back at Burnley, especially as he has signed for Preston
Bit puzzled as to why Freddy has such a stellar reputation?
We need a midfield, still.
No new real signings for us, still.
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11. After his record at Sunderland I think you have more chance of Newcastle going for Billy Sharp has manager than Mad Mick.
Bill Sharp sounds like a player out of Roy or the Rovers, it can’t be his real name surely?
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If Sharpe was any good Robson would Keep him, Like Eastwood they aint good enough at this level good service or not.we will go down 3-0 to Palace get your Money on it.
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Think mad micks lost the plot,time to get shot!Lets get big and little Sam back together down the Wolves
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14 – I agree, he will not be going to the prem – but who knows… morgan may decide to buy him for you for £5M in a year or two, he’s better than what you have – that will do nicely.
15 – too late – see 13
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14
I wouldn’t give Eastwood a run in my back yard!
Send the petulant prima-donna back down south, where he belongs!
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Methinks MM is hoping that if we get Billy Sharp playing with Keogh again they will score goals and rekindle the partnership they had when they played together at their last club, as for Eastwood going well maybe it would be the best for him as a player cos then he wouldn,t have to get even more demoralised by Muppet Mick
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This is boring – we don’t need anyone, wolves can’t buy anyone…. Zzzzzzz
Re-cycling old news (Billy Sharp – LOL) whats the point ?
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16
Yes, that was what I was trying to say. I will lower the speakers next time so they don’t fire over your head!
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Oi Happy!
Yesterday you said Chaplow was only as good as what we already had!
Make your mind up, you evil wind up merchant!
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21. If Mad Mick sold Eastwood he would score lots of goals elsewhere and show how he wasn’t managed right.
Maybe we should sell him to Bristol City, we seem to let our good players go there.
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Apparently Allardyce and Lee are going to be hired as manager and assistant manager respectively if results don’t improve soon. McCarthy will go off to Ireland also.
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23) No need to lower the speakers, just don’t send smoke signals when everyone else is checking their mail
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Abdon 24 – I said he aint the “spark” that you need (ie a flair player) – he is just another box to box player and you already have those… however that may not stop morgan from wasting, sorry SPENDING £5M to get him…. won’t be the first time wolves have wasted a load of cash will it ??
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26
Where did you get that info?
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GET BIG SAM IN NOW!!!!!!!!
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Abdon – its on his santa wish list – He is just reading it out loud.
No one knows where he is going yet – even he didn’t even know he was leaving till last night….
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28
We don’t need a spark, we need a nuclear explosion!
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27
I see that my double irony may have cancelled out leaving my quip to read like a reality!
Thank you for pointing that out!
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Billy Sharp is in talks with wolves tomorrow, not unveiled. Anyway I would like to see him here back with Keogh. A partnership that scored 40 odd goals two season’s ago. I think Keogh will have developed as a player and hopefully sharp can fininsh off Keogh work. That will make a change.
Sell Bothroyd and cover half of Billy’s fee
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31
I think it was the fantasy he used before he got up this morning – but WOW! What a fantasy!
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The more important issue is getting Big Sam down the wolves. He comes from Dudley and Supports the Wolves. Ireland want Mick, Wolves want Allardyce and ask him to bring his old mmate sammy lee as assistant. I honestly think if we captured these two they could be Wolves legends. Steve Morgan would like it too, he can speak liverpudlian to Sammy Lee.
I still appreciate Mick but he keeps slagging me off (the fans) passing blame to us for booing the Keogh decision. So go to Ireland and get Big ‘n’ Little Sam down the Molineux!!!!!
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29. It’s speculation that is being batted around and I thought I’d post it here to get peoples thoughts.
Happy_Baggie are you a closet Wolves fan are something or just a council house dweller that has nothing better to do but wind up some Wolves fans on a website? Don’t you need to go and pick up your compensation money soon?
Honestly, you post on here more than you do the Baggie articles, is your club really that boring and disinteresting???
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“Colchester’s Clive Platt has also caught the attention of the Molineux staff, apparently”.
BIG DEAL! Is he any good though?
Coronation Street’s David Platt has caught the attention of the British public!
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can someone explain the difference between McCarthys wolves tactics, which involve players battling and putting in a shift and is completely devoid of creative footballers, and Sam Allardyce’s Newcastle tactics which involved players battling and putting in a shift and is completely devoid of creative footballers
Albion are proving that football teams can still get promoted, just like reading and man city in recent years. i wish we would find someone capable of similar ‘miracles’
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37: Did you not notice you was reading transfer specualtion which is open to all debate not just specifically Wolves.
Be very aware now you may just of set the Happy_Baggie up for a come back
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40. I’m fully aware that I’ve set him up for a come back, he has nothing better to do after all.. he spends practically all of his time on these articles winding up Wolves fans. He must leave a fairly sad life, either that or he has been excluded from school and has nothing better to do with his time.
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*lead a fairly sad life.
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BILLY AND FREDDY UPFRONT KEOGH JUST BEHIND TO SUPPLY! PERFECT!
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39. yeah i can explain the difference in their tactics.
allardyce does not.
1, play strikers left wing.
2, hoof balls upto small strikers who cant hold the ball up.
3, let his tallest striker take the corners
4, favour the irish
5, favour sunderland
6, make his best finisher chase players back in his on half then pump the ball up field then wonder why he is not in the box to finish it.
7, say we looked to sign ishmail miller before wba but i had already signed stephen elliot.
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37,totally agree!I reckon Happy_baggie gets an ego boost everytime he comes on here trying to wind up us up,so sad that he is.So empty his life must be,o dear!
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I for one would love to see Big Sam down at the Mol but not his scouse sidekick little sam who I think is about as inept as Muppet Mick and has abot as much charisma as a dead flea!!
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Big Sam is a secret WWFC fan……………………
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39
1999 Sam Allardyce takes over at Bolton who are in the bottom half of the championship table, then reaches the play-offs. Next season gets promotion. In the next few years they finished 8th and 6th in the premiership and get into Europe, they are still in the premiership now.
Now stop being silly!
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West Brom manager Tony Mowbray is planning a double swoop on former club Hibs for David Murphy and Guillame Beuzelin.
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Clive Platt is 30yo, so a good investment for the future, don’t you think? Sorry, it seems like another piece of media gossip to me.
- And as has been said already on here, why do all other clubs sign players left, right and centre but we always seem to take so long that the next transfer window has opened before we actually try to sign anybody? McCarthy for Ireland!!!
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And yet Lee with Allerdyce got Bolton into Europe. Maybe charisma (which Hoddle had, does not help much in creating successful teams.
Allerdyce will not be at Molineux neither will lee. Mick is the man and we need to support him and the players.
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Be patient Dingles – as reported earlier this week in the E&S you are trawling the world for top talent – Billy Sharp is a good place to start – remember , in Mick you trust hahaha
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So Big Sam needs a job?
Maybe he could go for the Irish/Korean managers job!
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44.
HOWEVER SAM IS PRONE TO..
1 play centre forwards in midfield and on the wing
2.play central midfielders with only defence in mind.
3.play his left winger at left back.
4.sign central defenders who Cant defend for toffee
5.focus his teams on not getting beaten rather than winning games
6.drop his most creative player like a ton of bricks because he doesnt run about enough.
who does that remind you of??
dont get me wrong i’m no fan of McCarthy, but Allardyce is just a manager with identical traits and a bigger ego.
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I’m NOT advocating that we should get rid of Super Mick!
But I thought this may be of some interest…
I came across this on the BBC Website from 2001..
Q&A: Bolton boss Sam Allardyce
It’s rumoured that you’re a Wolves fan. If so, would you consider managing the club one day?
Having signed a ten-year contract it would have to be after that. As much as I liked Wolves as a boy and it was a childhood dream to play and perhaps manage for the club, I’ve come to Bolton and this is where I want to stay.
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boing boing wolves are upset cause they arn’t as good as us boing boing
big sam would fit in @ wolves as he is from wrens nest afterall
boing boing
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48. erm mick mccarthy got sunderland promoted too, dose that mean he should stay or not? im confused by yr logic.
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Why are people saying that Big Sam’s a secret Wolves fan? My understanding was that he’s made no secret of it at all. He was a boyhood Wolves fan.
I would love to see him at the Golden Palace
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37. we like commenting on here because we have nothing to moan about top of the league says it all. we like reading all you dingles cry because you arn’t good enough
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Happy Baggie. U can b happy with your goalscoring and midfield. Not so with defeats against Stoke, Coventry and Ipswich and your poor defence. Chaplow would not get a sniff in our team!
If MM sorts out the forward line and with Seyi away and Henry suspended, he has a chance to change the midfield, with the tighest defence in the division by 4 goals, have an opportunity to put a run together like last season.
It is not all doom and gloom. Look who’s top with the Tescos and Watford – Bristol City. Surely the biggest club in the division, can put these teams in our sights!
Less of the slagging off and get behind this famous,great club.
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smith@wba some of us try to have decent conversations about all clubs on here stop doing all the name calling rubbish and post something constructive
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57
I can’t believe that I’m responding to such a ridiculous comment, however:
McCarthy did get Sunderland promoted then lost his job half way through the season.
Now what was your point?
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I see the Norwegians transfer has fellflat on it,s face due to his wage demands let,s hope now this is the last we here of him
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Platt used to be with Walsall, but we let him go. He’s scored goals everywhere he’s been since though, MK Dons and now in the Championship. I don’t think he’s a player to pin your hopes on for 15+ goals tho! Another day is ticking along without any bids coming in for our young playoff’s hopefuls at the Banks’s Stadium! Happy Days! We could do with hitting the loan market, we’re a bit thin on the ground at the moment!
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abdonwolf;
our fans have all bemoaned a lack of creativity yet you seem to want a manager who offers nothing in those stakes.
your argument is that allardyce has a proven track record.
im just stating that so has mccarthy(sunderland and milwall) , so did hoddle(swindon) and taylor(watford)look where they got us!
allardyce will serve up more of the same. i just cant see the point, that is all.
:)
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Happy’ Forever, Baggie boy et al.
Am I the only Baggie that’s sort of hoping for a bit of a Wolves revival. I come on here for a bit of banter but they’re so depressed I’m frightened it may push them over the edge.
Abdon, Realist and the few (sensible Wolves posters.)
Reading some of the contributors on here must embarass you. Do they understand the meaning of irony. No its not like goldy or steely but not as shiny, Big Sam for Wolves and Brummie Rob Wolves or Baldrick and Benny Dingle as we think of you.
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65 Luckywaster.
You make a very good point, Big Sam did well at Bolton but it took a long time. He was manager there before Gary Megson came to the Albion. If he came to the Wolves, fans would be calling for his head in no time. Leopards don’t change their spots.
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Allardyce and Bolton have had some very exciting times over the last few years, would you not enjoy seeing European Football again or see Wolves in the top six of the Premiership?
Allardyce will not offer the same football as McCarthy, it will not be the tame insipid variety on offer at the moment.
Remember back to the start of the season when Ococha came along to give the midfield a lesson, is that the type of boring long ball you are afraid of?
You have to kick your way up and kick to stay up once we have done that and we have the millions in the bank then I too would love to watch flamboyant football.
Until then I think he would be an excellent manager and a big enough ‘name’ to attract better quality players, certainly better than the average players that we have right now.
Wolves need to compete and stop with the make weights that have plagued us for years.
As for all the other names you mention, only Taylor I think was the one that we should have kept hold of. Check back on your Millwall history and you will find McCarthy cocked that up too!
Wolves have nearly always been a long ball team, and as hard as nails. Over the years they have dished up really exciting football. I don’t know where you get this nonsense about ‘creative’ football from because at this level it doesn’t often exist, Hoddle tried it but the players weren’t good enough to pull it off.
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i just think the people who are jumping on the allardyce bandwagon are the same ones who are complaining about mccarthy’s lack of ingenuity !!
the irony is lost on a few methinks :)
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69
Ok, I submit!
It is starting to feel like Chinese water torture!
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abdonwolf 88, totally agree with every point you have made, you know yourself we don,t often see eye to eye but I have to admit this time you are right
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it seems all our transfers drag on, fall through, have last minuse hitches etc and other clubs are able to get things signed and sealed quickly why?
i haven’t seen anyone we’ve been linked with that i’ve though wow!! and to be honest the way the team plays with our tactics what striker would make a difference.
i thought eatwood would be brilliant at wolves and the main reason he is not is down to mick and his tactics and formations and also not strengthening midfield over the summer.
we need to move on bothroyd, elliot, s ward. and sorry to say if keogh doesn’t improve he must go too.
we need quality in midfield. and why are our homegrown youngsters not given a chance here? davies, little, gobern and scots u21 mulgrew.
billy sharp good goalscorer with keogh at scunnie but would he produce here. maybe mick would like to combine sharp and elliot and we’d end up with billy elliot at least he could dance round defenders.!!!!
don’t waste our money only buy quality better to wait till summer and see if mick is still here then.
worried about palace game. come on the wolves
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abdonwolf would you agree with me that we need a midfield general in the mould of a certain Mike Bailey?
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71 Latvia wolf
“Labdien”
What do you mean?
Surely every one agrees with me?
Sorry that was just a bit of irony for my mate luckywaster!
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73 Latvia.
I think like the fan who suggested you sign the ‘real’ Pele the other day. He may be a little long in the tooth now. Or perhaps not?
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try telling the newcastle fans allardyce played exciting football!!
Their complaints mirror our criticisms of mccarthy so accurately it is scary!
mccarthy / allardyce. both old skool 80′s long ball merchants with penchants for falling out with their players and packing the midfield with non entity footballers.
only difference is one got the international job he wanted and one did’nt
:D
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im also bored of this debate. lets start a new one.
90′s tyre mark strip..footy faux par or ahead of its time uber fashionista??
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To those morons who actually bother to post saying I post too much – diddums… if you don’t wanna read my stuff scroll past – but you know you can’t. You are just another load of HB lovers.
60 says we have a rubbish defence (LOL) – then lists a whole 3 games we have lost…
37 – I won’t bother to point out that this a shared web page as everyone else realises this. Is “council house dweller” actually an insult ? I don’t live in a CH but even if I did -so what ?
As for calling yourself “big sam for wolves” – what a positive supporter you are. Just another idiot who boos his own team – your manager is Mick McCarthy – you have just signed 2 players and STILL you aint satisfied. Try going to a match.
Back to the footy..
SEB looks a good signing – should get a few goals for you but you will need to play better balls to him than you do to FE.
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Why take these rumours seriously when they’re clearly off the mark and haven’t got a clue what’s going on. Doesn’t even mention the two we actually signed today. E&S is tripe.
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who the hell is Yankuba Ceesay!
as a walsall fan i think ifwe need sign any1 it shud be a quality player who has experience of playing in England at ths level not some crappy gambian haha
Gary Alexnader To Walsall(What a transfer that would be)
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79, they’re just rumours from other papers. Can’t blame the Star for that.
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sveiki abdonwolf, ka klajas? kas ir tava vards un uzvards? ka tu dzive?
hiya mate nice to see you,ve learnt some Latviesu valoda! Are you really Latvian like me or have you picked up a Latvian/English dictionary from the libraray? I see we,ve signed Ebanks -Blake from Plymouth, wonder how long it will take for McCarthy to demoralise him as he has all our other strikers, Poor Sod don,t know what he,s let himself in for does he!!!?
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Happy_baggiehow come you like to post on the Wolves sites so much I went on to the boggies site the other day and guess what no posts from your good self are you a closet Wolves supporter by any chance or are you really just a wind up merchant?
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The Real Bully, allo my Boggie mate, I didn,t see that post about Pele the other day as I had to have this naff computer repaired, my 98 year old grandmother could do better up front than any of these so called strikers of ours! she used to beat the $hit out of me when I was a kid and I bet she could still beat the hell out of opposing defenders now!!!LOL
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luckywaster stop knocking abdonwolf!! and stop all the crass comments, can,t believe the drivel that sprouts from your posts if you haven,t got anything constructive to say then may I politely suggest you take a short hike to the tescoboggies site and write your crap on there!
NUFF SAID!
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