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Wolves tie up Ebanks-Blake deal
Thursday 10th January 2008, 2:49PM GMT.
Wolves have signed Sylvan Ebanks-Blake from Plymouth for £1.5 million.
Blake has joined Wolves for £1.5 million after turning down a deal to stay at Home Park.
The Molineux club triggered a release clause in Blake’s contract and have persuaded him to come to Wolves.
Plymouth Argyle manager Paul Sturrock said: “We did not want Sylvan to leave, and we would have offered him the best contract that has ever been offered to a Plymouth Argyle player to try to persuade him to stay.
“However, he was so determined to join Wolves that he would not even discuss a new deal with us. For me, that is disappointing.”
Ebanks-Blake, aged 21, joined Argyle from Manchester United in 2006 for £300,000.
Sturrock added: “When Sylvan joined us, he and his agent were insistent that the £1.5m trigger price was written into the deal.
“If we hadn’t agreed, he wouldn’t have signed – it’s as simple as that.
“When Wolves indicated they were prepared to meet that £1.5m price, we were bound to allow Sylvan to talk to them and we could not ask Wolves for a bigger fee.
“That is the way of the modern system. Everything favours the player and his agent.”
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lets just play 11 upfront!!!!!!!!
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at last some good news….take a look at fox from walsall, looks a better bet than the norwegian guy
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yes!!!!
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now we are talking! i hope this is true for E&S’s sake! he is quality
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Ebanks-Blake is an excellent signings, but does this mean the end of Eastwood?
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Blimey, a signing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can he play saturday, or do we have to wait till clipboard and unfit have coached any talent out of him and the muppet destroyed his confidence?????????????
Strange, he isn’t Irish!
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woooohooooo !! great news i say
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I want to put the manager speculation behind us now and press on with our season. These signing give me optimism.
come wolves SUPPORTERS. Mick’s got some quality to work with now so lets get behind the team and behind the manager and the board and the staff and get into those play-offs!!!!!!!
WERE ONLY 2 POINTS OFF THEM
COME ON WOLVES!!!!!!!!!!
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ner eastwood will stil stay, he stil as a big part 2 play in our side
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Good signing should score goals and thats what we need,lets give Freddie a good run in the side he will score goals,go for it MM.
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Get in, this could really kick start the season!
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Great Signing, Him and edwards are quality! This is were our season takes a turn for the better!!!!
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Finnaly a striker who can put the ball in the net.
Now Mick lets get someone to feed him.
Prove us all wrong Mick
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Boom!! And Edwards in from Luton too, a quality player as well. I thought it was a bit quiet today!…
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Great signing…….how many boo boys will be saying the same thing now though??I expect attitudes will start to turn again like the tides of the sea!!!!!
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A sound piece of business should do well
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This is most definitely a step in the right direction. I’m pleased that we’ve signed a young, quality player who can score goals. Let’s hope he gets the service he needs to answer our goalscoring problems.
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this guy should get goals..but then so should fred.jay.andy.stephen…surely we need creation in midfield and maybe a bit more bite..potter&gibson major dissapointments for me and squad players at the very best..
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Don’t no to much about this guy, lets hope MM gives him a regular partner like eastwood. Im sure though that with the right service all our forwards would get goals. I no we need to strenghen in certain areas but i do remember a lot more balls were being put in the box last season, so im sure most of our problems must be put down to the way MM is setting the lads up. We all pay our money lads and all have the right to moan but lets all get behind the boys during the game and not on their backs! I like many of you love this club and feel the hurt you feel when things aint going the way we would like, but come on lads surley we should of learnt our lesson now, the more we give the lads grief the more they fall short of our expectaions. We are all in this together lads so lets cheer em on no matter what and im sure things will soon start getting better. UP THE WOLVES…….
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The cynics seem silenced.
Two very good signings and maintain last seasons policy of young and hungry.
Come on SUPPORTERS help shut up these knockers.
Up the Woves, Keep the faith
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come on MM. now let’s go back for halmosi
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The cynics seem silenced.
Two very good signings and maintain last seasons policy of young and hungry.
Come on SUPPORTERS help shut up these knockers.
Up the Wolves, Keep the faith
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I remember everyone getting excited about signing Eastwood. It doesn’t matter what quality we have if Mick asks them all to work hard tracking back and put in a shift.
Mick out
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Ebanks-Blake in. Looks like quality.
Now Eastwood, Elliot or Bothroyd is going to bang in goals Saturday.
Mark my words
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Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
He doesn’t sound Irish?
But he is wearing a green shirt in the photo!
Does this mean McCarthy will be staying then……doom……..gloom…..doom…..gloom
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These stories better be spot on. Just looked at Sky Sports and Wolves web-site and there is no mention.
Can I now suggest that we go for Jack Hobbs of Liverpool on loan and hopefully with the 2 potential foreigners we will be going places.
We must drop however S.Ward,Collins and Bothroyd!
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Looks like a good signing, is it true he’s already not talking to MM just to save time?
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It is true.
And it is good news.
Banging in goals for fun, can’t wait to see him in a wolves shirt.
We don’t need Bothroyd and Elliot anymore.
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Can he play Saturday
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20 & 22
You can say that again!
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wow there 2 signings in one day!! hope blake can play on the left wing as mick will probably try him there! and dave edwards? who luton describe as energetic but unable to shoot straight and lacking a final product? remind you of anyone?… oh well they can`t do any worse!! can they?. COME ON THE WOLVES!BIG noise against warnock on saturday please lets start a fresh!!
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Striker and a play making midfield player, i hope all the wingers start to eat some humble pie, remeber the run we went on last jan. Well done MM.
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I have to admit I have been one of the so called knockers – mainly because of the disappointing performances and the strange going ons re Freddy. But I take my hat off to these signings and hope that we soon get on the right track. However if we dont!!!!
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A massive improvement to the squad in one day!
From what I’ve seen of Ebanks-Blake he seems like a bargain for 1.5 million.
Don’t know much about Edwards but he can’t be worse than Potter!
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Quality signing! A big unit who is good in the air and has excellent feet – this lad will help hold the ball up for the other strikers and is just what we have been missing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again….IN MICK I TRUST
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31 i doubt jarvis and kightly will be allowed to eat pies of any description while they’re meant to be keeping in shape for the footy and ball season.
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if he wants to start the game saturday..illl give him a lift up friday night and even get him a costa coffee..season starts here
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the story has been confirmed on plymouth’s website…dont normally trust the e&s but this must be a done deal great news top player :D
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Someone’s pulling the wool over your eyes.
More players mean more crap excuses (the new players have yet to gel…etc)if we fail to get promoted again!
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Lets just hope Mick is good to him unlike Freddy and doesn’t knock his confidence.
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I know this is pessimistic but all the previous e-mails look as if they have been copied and pasted from those at the beginning of the season . I truly hope it does kick-start our season.
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You lot are amazing. Next you’ll be saying we’ll win the league. Face it with Mick we’ll make the playoffs at the very best, most likely mid table.
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Drop S Ward and Bothroyd, get gobern on left, Eastwood and Ebanks-Blake upfront and Keogh just behind. Ofcourse MM will never do anything like that and so Elliott and Bothroyd it is on Saturday with the new guy coming off the bench.
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Oh dear !!
Jan 10 2008, the first day of the end of his footballing life.
Has he no ambition ?
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Hope he gives SEB and freddy a chance together. keogh and elliot and freddy and SEB two pairs of strikers. does this spell an end to jay B? i hope he gives freddy a real chance.
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he’s probably has irish great great great grandparents….but a great signing anyway… well done mick??
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31. Whingers not wingers. Could do with a winger or two if he will not play the youngsters in the wide positions when Kitely and Jarvis are not playing.Playing real wide men stretches defences especially if they have to double up on Kites.
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I wonder if wolveswolves has ever said anything positive, I think willenhall wolves sould give you some competition for the most negative comments though. Good to see the signings today, can’t wait.
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Yes, I’ve noticed the official site is strangely reticent in delivering real news of late and prefer the E&S and teamtalk sites for news.
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So we’ve paid £675K for a player that cost £250K in the summer. And we’ve paid £1.5m for a player that cost £300K 18 months ago.
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Sadly I think this will be the end of Freddy Eastwood at the Wolves. McCarthy seems to rate everyone else a lot more than Freddy.
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Could have Bothroyd, Eastwood, Blake and Keogh on the bench on Saturday now
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No noise until it all happens!!
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Nice one Mick. Now lets get behind the team!
Lightening quick!
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47) As someone else stated we could copy and paste all these comments from the start of the season when we signed Eastwood.
I will be more positive when I see it on the pitch, but sorry I don’t see it happening.
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Who’s your moaniest moaner or booiest booer? Prize? …. How about a season ticket for Brum. I like WBA too much to send them there.
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looks a good signing. wonder if he will give eastwood a chance to play with him. not heard anything about the luton player so i cant comment.
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Top Goalscorers in the championship now includes a Wolves player!!! – SEB to his mates!! Rock`n`Roll!!
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well done wolves. at 5′ 10 he’s not the target man everyone said MM was after, so will be interesting to see if thats it as far as strikers go. but great bit of business, he’s fast, young and has been banging in the goals, exciting signing.
will any of our strikers be off out the door now? talk about competition for places. Elliot is the only one i’d be glad to see the back of.
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If he is a striker/target/ best is yet to/ six yard box predator/ “puts his shift in” etc. etc. sort of player, does this mean he will be on the right wing then?
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Great signing at this level!
Hopefully now the MM doubters will keep it shut!
But let’s hope we don’t turn him crap like we have Eastwood.
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He was desperate to join us good lad!
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All the Pilgrim supporters down here are very upset at losing Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
He is a goal poacher and he holds the ball up well when needed.
We got him through a loophole in the contract and they are sick about it.
All he needs is someone to get the ball to him…
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Surely 1 or even 2 of the Strikers have to leave now you cannot possibly keep 5-6 Strikers happy. Not too fussed which leave but would hope Jay Bothroyd is one of them.
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It appears he has a tache.Surely this already ranks him alongside Thommo,Floydd Streete,Hibbit and Jackie Gallagher.
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so the wolves sign a new striker whats his name ~?
E FIRES BLANKS
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Gone 4 o’clock and still nothing on the Wolves site!?
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Is this story FACT or FICTION – nothing on website?
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A good signing with potential – lets hope he gets the chance to play.
This could mean a striker leaves – who would you fans choose to go ??
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RIGHT!
I am one of McCarthy fierciest critic and justified with the pathetic football been produced this season and the shocking form of some players who ought to have been dropped months ago… HOWEVER 2 signings I want to be optimistic and I will be so long they are given a starting spot aswell as given a good run in the team rather than warming the bench. We had the same feel good factor at start of season when we got Freddie in and looks what happened to him. So Mick if you are reading these post I suggest the player “your favourites i.e S Ward, Elliott, Henry ought to be loaned out to other teams and give the big hitters like SEB, Freddie, a good run in the side. For heavens sake give Jarvis a run out, Gibson and Edwards in tandem in midfield, take the capt away from Henry the burden is too much for him and give it too someone like Gray, I think he needs to shoulder the responsibility more. I await further developments and team selection with interest, but if he doesnt change things around and not play players who are in form then I am still going to state Mick Out! But with an influx of new players ok lets give him a chance again. Fickle or not I am 100% wolves not 100%McCarthy. His man-management of certain players stinks!
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Great signing (SEB) but we can sign all quality strikers in the world if they don’t receive the supply in the box by one or two creative midfielders we are never going to score. Having seen Wolves a couple of times in december our midfield looked pathetic.
Not a lot of creatitity have gone lost between Henry and olofinjana and if S. Ward play out of place DON’T play him at all. Waste of space. Give Jarvis a fair chance to prove himself.
Don’t know about Edwards. Looked good against Liverpool last Sunday.
Come on, WOLVES
Looking forward to go to Molineux later this year.
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wolfmanmac dont be silly rightwing. he is quick and powerfull and on form so he will have a place on the bench. silly
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I don’t know if anybody has noticed but according to the Plymouth website SEB is only 5ft 8 ins! As Freddy is not much bigger I think either Bothroyd or Keogh should partner him! Any thoughts?
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Still waiting for confirmation on the our web site (although Plymouth seem to have confirmed it and BBC sport confirm the other).
It all reminds me of when we signed Eastwood with so much optimism.
I just hope he/they turn out to be good signings and turn the season into something a bit more interesting to watch!!
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I watched the Luton/Liverpool game at the weekend and thought to myself how well Edwards played (amongst others) and why dont we have gamble with him. I think the two signings are both positive steps towards dealing with weaknesses in our squad and continuing the evolutionary process of changing the squad from a ‘get numbers in quick’ one, as was needed at the start of last season, to one with better quality. Lets hope that we continue with a few more signings, get some of the long term injured players back and push on to what is and should have been our REALISTIC target at the start of this overhyped season, a play-off spot. Good luck to the two new lads.
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Our reserves are looking pretty handy now, SEB should be excellent partner for Denes Rosa
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66 & 67, it’s confirmed on plymouth site so just go there. It’s also confirmed on sky sports news. I dont know what is up with our site, it’s slower than neil collins. Still waiting on ticket info for away games including the F.A Cup!!?!?!!!!
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Have you noticed something. Make a couple of good signings, if the Edwards one is fact – why did we not spot him earlier as he was just up the road – and the Boingers have all gone quiet.
Keep it tight at the back, play Kites and Jarvis and we could make a major challenge or at least cement ourselves in the play offs.
Let’s get back to the support and encouragement shown last year.
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You lot are excited,he is a good player but will MM play him??? he will probably put him in midfield.
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72. Plymouth say he is 5’10″
I know it’s only 2″ difference but try explaining that to my missus.
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SKY SPORTS NEWS at 16.23 said wolves are “close” to signing SEB… ??
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i think in an ideal world wolves fans would like to see freddy and him form a partnership now with keogh in the works aswell! say goodbye to bothroyd, the most frustrating player ive ever seen!! blatantly a class act but unfortunatly the laziest player we have! get rid of him he has had his chance. id like to keep elliot which may cause a riot but i think the guy tries the most out of our strikers! PLEASE get rid of potter now we have this edwards from luton, i have seen him play once and he is a big prospect!
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Post 47;
wolveswolves has NEVER said anything positive!
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Well as SEB is a big man it seems that Hennessey has a lot of his kicks now. I bet we still score no goals.
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I stand corrected 5ft 10 – but it still aint very big!
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Is the rumour true that MM will put him in goal? Seriously though, Sam Allerdyse needs a job, make him an offer and pay our clown off. This ain’t rocket science, come on.
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gd news id rather get rid of bothroid and elliot, i feel sorry for eastwood hes the same player as keogh he works hard but doesent produce the goals
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hmm. from what I’ve seen on Sky Sports News SEB is pretty big. Looks like Hennessey has got a lot of kicking to do. i bet we still don’t score any goals.
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83 – 5′ 10 aint very big!
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Great signing, HB should mean the end for Elliot i think. But its right, another young hungry player which is great!!
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BOOTHROYD OF TO PRESTON??
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good signing!!!! but unless he is a “one man band”, he will need service… and MM let him play his natural game, don’t force him to “put in a shift”!
Was not to happy with MM and his signings, but he seems to be spending well this window! maybe he does know what to do with a bit of money…
Come on MM prove all the booh boys wrong!!!
UP THE WOLVES!!!
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He’s definetly signed, check the Plymouth Argyle official website!
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As a Plymouth fan very sad to see SEB leave as he is quality and only gonna get better as still only 21! Not the tallest around but is a real handful for any defence
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SEB and Keogh is the likely partnership, as long as AK is over his chest infection. The new guy is powerful and aggressive.
Congratulations to MM and Jez, none of the media even mentioned it as a rumour!
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him and billy sharp would be an amazing partnership with keogh playing off the pair.
watch this space.
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55 Debenham.
Don’t worry, we’ve got our own share of booboy numbskulls when things aren’t going well, hasn’t every team, but thanks for the kind thought.
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just wonder how long it will take muppet mick to demoralise him as he has all our other strikers apart from steptoe elliot!
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Im Pretty Sure Potter Doesnt play too often i dont like potter to much either but how can a player who is not playing get blame for the form
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If we cant solve the lack of creativity in midfield it doesnt matter who is up front they wont score!!! This guys good though so ……………
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85- learn to spell..it aint rocket science.
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so its 3 – 1 – 6 on saturday? cant wait
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No. 38
I BET YOU’RE A JOY TO LIVE WITH !!
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wolves website has moxey stressing that no deals have been done but hopefully overnight
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Latest news on Official Sight from JM is neither player has signed.
Hopefuly SEB will sign overnight and no news about Edwards other than Deal agreed with Administrators and JM is unhappy that the deals have been announced by their clubs
Lets see what happens??
Remember Modeste Mbamy (or however it was spealt) wonder what happened to him after PSG
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FLORIDAWOLF,
2 signings in one day, and players that, on the face of it, will be an asset. However, I cannot help but feel sorry for anyone connected with Luton or Plymouth in the way these have happened. We go to the administrators of Luton and agree a deal, did Luton want to sell him? Then we find out, most likely from his agent, that Ebanks-Blake has a ‘out’ clause in his contract and meet the valuation, Plymouth did not want to sell him, and he is a new player to them. We now have 2 clubs that hate WWFC. This is a sign of the times I suppose, and we have an owner who treates it 100% as a business, there were loop holes and we took them. Is this good for the game? In the short term we most likely will benefit, but, in the long run, football looses. Another indication of it being a rutheless business and the weak will fall by the wayside.
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YET ANOTHER STRIKER! I s Muppet Mick totally devoid of posistions on the pitch apart from forwards, does not this imbecile realise we need 4 new midfielders and defenders??
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S.E.B. Cannot think of any other player who would make a better signing at that price. Pligrim’s supporters down here wiil be crying into their beer. Never mind how big or small, think about Best or Greaves or many others not the biggest but great goal scorers.Here comes the but, they had wonderful support from the midfield as S.E.B. has had this season from Halmosi. So I will say spend some more get Halmosi, Plymouth are a selling club poor sods, after the half season Wolves supporters have endured this pairing would make your eyes water.
Up the Wolves.
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looks like a young nathan blake. cant be bad really. blake was good when he was younger not bad at holding the ball up and heading too.
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How funny. Two signings and already the majority of Wolves fans are off McCarthy’s back.
What a surprise. Fickle and one eyed comes to mind
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I love wolves
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“goal goal goal, – michael kightly micael kightly.
Goal goal goal – Michael Kightly Michael Kightly”
This should be the clubs official song to the tune of “More more more -How do you like it, how do you like”
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hope he gets more service than freddie does
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We might just make the play-offs…
Then what? Another lousy season in the Premiership, back in the Championship the one after.
This management team are not Premiership quality, M&M must go and be replaced by top-flighters to give us a Premiership future
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this is the best news i have had all day!! wolves signing somebody at last!! and also a cracking player. watch him play loads of time cos live down near plymouth and his off the ball and all the ball skills are great!!
Sorry mick but still not sure about you wish you would go to the irish job, and bring in Ince!!
welldone to morgan, more signings please two good midfielders along with blake and we should be a good side, please raid plymouth again for hamosi think that how you spell it, cos he is outstanding!!! and a good defender.
rich
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Great at Plymouth
just wait till mad mick and his Very good coaches get hold of him
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agree with u dublin wolves
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49 – yes andy much in the same way kightly cost us £20,000 and is now worth £4m plus. so your point is???
i think it’s because and wait for it…..he’s a far better player now with 13 goals already this season.
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65 – aint that what your missus calls you? she did before i left this afternoon.
booiest booer prize has to go to wolves,wolves the albion fan
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oh for gods sake you lot of moaners, get of your soap box and back the boys for a change,
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my my you lot are getting excited arnt you, youv brought a forward from plymouth WOW i remember you got excited when you brought a forward from southend what happened to him boing boing
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Since we haven’t got players who can get on the list of Championship top scorers, it makes sense to buy the third placed!
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The two signings we have made today look pretty decent.
Hopefully SEB will score goals at £1.5m thats decent business, its worth noting that Edwards has scored the same amount of goals from midfield as our top scorer.
I notice Colchester have signed a couple of defenders and payed decent money for both does this mean Elkobi who we have been linked with might be sold.
As so many of us have been saying we need a creative midfielder and again we have been linked with Kris Commons from Forest who I think would be a cracking buy.
All in all pretty pleased with todays news and hopefully all the negativity surrounding the club, MM and Jez Moxey will start to stop
Lets be positive!
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hope he dosent sit on the bench like freddy
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YES!!!!!!!!! Wolves have done something good. Now Eastwood has a problem.
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Great signing! no one saw this one coming eh?
3rd highest goalscorer in the championship, a young lad who couldnt wait to play for the wolves.
Hopefully this will shut the boo boys up for a while !
Very astute business by the club, recognising the clause in his contract, acting swiftly, offering a value for money 1.5 million.
The lad fits our policy perfectly being another hungry promising young player.
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Any chance this new guy cn hit the back of the net?
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2 great signings this lad will get goals but only if the supply is there midfield has got to improve for this to happen so lets wait and see who else comes in
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Good quality signing but then we all said that about Eastwood.
Who’s gonna play up front? Are we going to change to a more attacking formation? 4-3-3 or 4-3-1-2
Don’t know anything about Edwards, is he central midfield? Attacking/Defensive?
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Two decent signings for the CLUB – Is this down to SM scouts???
***********IMPORTANT NEWSFLASH TO HAPPY CLAPPERS OUT THERE****************
The TEAM need decent TACTICS to win games not just a new injection of a few more players!!!
WITHOUT a better route to goal, strikers will starve of service – end up playing in midfield and find out exactly how all the other strikers at this club really feel – frustrated and confused!!!
What we REALLY need aswell as better players are BETTER TACTICS, NOT hoof and rush, Centre half’s playing at left back, Centre forward playing left wing/ midfield
Currently we sit far too deep in most every game – almost as though we have an 8 man defence – we need BETTER tactics and players who have better quality
Whilst these two are a welcomed addition to the squad; We cant see how they will change MM’s tactics???
Kites may be capable of ripping Cambridge apart; BUT he wont get away with that against better equipped opposition on his own!!!
Either MM gets the players to learn how to attack as a “team” or the club finds a manager who is capable of doing that!!!
Whilst the “In MM we trust” brigade again and again wear thier MM stickers “loud N proud” and that is very noble of them
We’re only interested in seeing entertaining quality football return to the club – a dreamworld of full backs supporting wide midfield players – players that can string more than 3 passes together without losing the ball; strikers that actually run at the goal and have shots!!! You know, a proper game of football each week!!!
With the new addition of a few more quality players, we fear that without the new addition of positive tactics – these players will become integrated into the MM academy of football zombies, where once a player showed promise they were punished and made to sit on the bench or even worse, not chosen at all!!!
Repent MM Repent Change your ways and learn about football tactics PLEASE or the alternative is that SM shows you the door at the end of the season – Simple really! Lets hope MM “sees the light” and finds inspiration in the world of football tactics!!!
Heres to hoping!
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he is not worth the money big mistake he is a lazy player watch him play he should stayed at plymouth bad move big wolves fan in plymouth
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Jez Moxey says: “”It never ceases to amaze me that clubs announce things publicly before deals have actually been completed.”
It’s clear from the Plymouth site that Plymouth and Wolves had come to terms on Ebanks-Blake and from BBC, on Edwards. What remained was for Wolves to agree terms with the players. It was right and proper for Plymouth and Luton to tell their fans the bad news ASAP.
Other clubs announce these deals and then sometimes they fail to agree terms with the players–even the top four occasionally. So what? Everybody accepts that sometimes happens.
It never ceases to amaze me that Moxey wants to keep everything secret all the time!! Why??
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Another talented but lazy Striker???? Has ‘Tragic’ Mick gone mad? If he doesn’t ‘Put in a Shift’ as Mick likes to put it he will end up on the bench with the Dingle hoards chanting his name and Mick pulling a deaf’un. Does this sound familier?
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lay off anti irish comments if rule brittania players are so good why arent u in euro 2008.this post not directed at majority of wolves fans .u know who you are. wolves for life whoeverplays.
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Just what we need …not!…best defence….worst attack…go figure
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Just shows how bad our scouting systems is when we could have signed him for over a million less just 18 months ago
Ah well, hope he enjoys his goalscoring flair being coached out of him
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Can’t believe some of you guys are still not happy.
You’ve just signed a young lad that is scoring goals, give the lad a chance.
Think you might need someone with a bit of creativity especially if Kightly gets crocked again, but you may see brighter roads ahead.
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Kightly is crocked again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is out tomorrows game. I dont understand why they brought him back so soon. I have been out for 2 years with a bruised ankle….no way was the bone going to heal in 6 weeks.
Desperation…………
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We’ve got the players, now all we need is TACTICS from the coaches.
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I agree that Mick has started making some terrible decisions, playing players out of position is a bad trap to fall into & MM has done this on several occasions.
We were doing well last season with energy and quality on both flanks giving us the balance required. Wolves fans love to see wide players that can go at full backs and scare the life out of them and with Kightly struggling with injury its going to be difficult to find this, but playing strikers and central midfielders out wide is not the answer. I’d rather give a young lad a chance rather than play someone out of position, its not good for the player or the team.
I think we should stick behind MM though as I think in this league you can put a run of results together at the right time and get promoted. I don’t think changing the manager is always the correct option but I just hope that MM goes back to basics which is what got us playing well last season.
On the whole we have a better squad than last season but Mick seems to sticking by players that aren’t doing it for us at the moment.
On a positive note we haven’t lost for 3 games and we have just made 2 young signings that should make an impact, Blake will give us something that we don’t have much of, which is strength up front.
Can I just make a point that it wasn’t long ago since these pages were full of how awful we were at the back, now its all moan moan moan about creativity. We are going to miss Kightly like Man U would miss Ronaldo, its a fact of football that you miss your best players when there injured.
Fans (Wolves fans in paticular) turn very quickly but you only have to look at Newcastle and it DOES NOT HELP!
I hope the fans keep supporting the team but Mick you must stop giving them reason to moan by putting players in positions that don’t suit them.
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It is time Connor went may be a new top coach will show the other players how to take corners and Bothroyd can go cos for sure Moxey will want some money back
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88 wolvesnews.
Never mind the quality feel the width.
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I don’t see why people are getting all excited about these high risk purchases we have made. But I do see plenty of reason to be supportive and stop this awful booing – it makes all Wolves fans look like sad b******s.
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im all for these signings,young players with drive and a chance to progress not premiership hasbeens after a last big payday and not bothered performing anymore because they think they are better than championship level!!!
on another note,we have lost most of the attacking flair from last season due to a more defensive based midfield
so who goes?
freddy eastwood?…. must be personality clash with mick why he aint playing many games,still think he could bang in the goals for wolves if given the supply of crosses etc.. may be going!
keogh..good player and fantastic commitment but not a good goal scoring ratio..get bully to give him shooting lessons… staying!
ward..doing ok playing out of place but not a left winger… squad player..staying!
elliott.. not impressed with elliott at the moment,puts a shift in as mick says but if i put a shift in like that i would get the sack.. may need better supply to improve..staying!
bothroyd..has great ability and a decent shot…when he stays on his feet!goes down easier than a prostitute given £1000 for a bj!!!
given too many chances now and not done enough! maybe going
thats my opinions said
CMON YOU WOLVES…
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i think he could be the new george ndah
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lets hope he ‘fits the system’
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Let,s see how lobg it is before SEB is totally demoralised by Muppet Micks tactics and wishes he hadn,t bothered coming to us in the first place.. wonder how many times he can track back during a game?
TAXI FOR McCARTHY AND MOXEY:
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well like he said he has scored 13 goals in all competitions and if he dont score for wolves well i just take it as we are bad luck lol
well best to luck to the wolves!!!
good comments everyone!!!
im only 11!!!
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wait till pick gets hold of the 13 goals striker he will score
cmon wolves!!!
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well u cant say he is rubbish because he is good!
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