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Coventry to haggle on Freddy cost
Wednesday 14th May 2008, 1:30PM BST.
Coventry City chairman Ray Ranson today confirmed his club’s interest in signing Wolves reject Freddy Eastwood.
But the Midlands neighbours are set for another conflict over the valuation of the 24-year-old striker.
Coventry were ready to give Wolves their money back when they originally bid for the player in a loan now, pay later offer in the last days of March.
They agreed to take Eastwood on a loan basis until the end of the season before paying £1.5m to secure the player on a permanent basis.
But having survived their relegation scare by the skin of their teeth, Coventry owner Ranson is ready to haggle over how much his club will pay for the Welsh international.
That Coventry are still interested has at least been confirmed with Ranson saying today: “Would we be interested in signing Eastwood? Yes.
“We’ve got several bids on the table for players.
“It’s an ongoing daily process and needless to say the fax machine is working at the Ricoh. I’m speaking to clubs and agents all the time.”
Ranson and Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey have not yet started negotiating over Eastwood and the air could be frosty when they do. Coventry were furious that Wolves pulled the plug on the previous deal at the last minute.
The Molineux chief then hit back with an equally critical response over the comments of Coventry manager Chris Coleman.
But Eastwood is now on the transfer list and his agent has indicated to Coventry that he favours a move down the M6.
The only other club so far linked with Eastwood has been Crystal Palace although their manager Neil Warnock has distanced himself from that speculation.
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I have complete faith in Moxey when it comes to transfer negotiations. Work a bit of Camara type magic Jez, and get 2 million for the gibbon messiah.
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Wanderers reject, Wanderers reject, woah, woah!
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PLEASE GO SOON ,WE ARE WOLVES
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Bye
Thats what he’s worth to Wolves -3 letters. Jez will get the money back!
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Never given a proper chance by muppet mcarthy and when he was what did he do??? win us games.
good luck Freddy.
hope you score a hat trick against us next season.
(but we still win)
MUPPET OUT!
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‘and needless to say the fax machine is working at the Ricoh’ Who on earth conducts a real business by fax these days? Coventry obviously! I hope they have plenty of gas mantles for the floodlights next season!
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Get rid of this waste of space! I think it was proved last season that we did not need him, Keogh and SEB were playing too well together!
Cut our losses and for Gods sake, put this fiasco behind us!
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Hasn’t he gone yet!
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Get rid of him asap then we can concentrate on more important issues like getting behind mick and the team next season
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Nice to see most agree so far apart from no’5 ^^
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1. pondlife – getting good money for our players is the one thing Moxey is good at. Would love to know how many potential signings he has lost for the club due to not wanting to pay the transfer fee or the salary that people want nowadays. While Moxey is here the Balance Sheet will always look good. If that makes you happy rather than promotion then he is a star.
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Freddy is useless get him out & Helguson in.
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Newbridge
SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!
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10 – As you gather from the poll to the right, there seems to be a slightly larger portion of fans disagreeing.
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i quite agree that moxey is good one thing it is cutting wolves a good deal in the market
12- nice shout! didnt helguson reject move to champ side last summer though? saying he was to good for the championship
good striker none the less
even brian mcbride if fulham was to sell him
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How many league games did Freddy win for us compared to the number of chances he was given? Ummm… one (vs Blackpool).
Those are the facts, and they speak for themselves.
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I remember a few on here saying the same about Mcindoe last season. I wonder if we’ll be here next season watching freddie score the winner in the playoffs while we talk about giving thick Mick another year with his young and hungry team.
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Freddy Eastwood is class,,,now we will see what he is realy thought of by our management,and the anti Freddy brigade.Iff as you all say he is rubbish,lazy,doesnt put his shift in,,only three goals after having a fair crack of the whip all season..We ought to pay Coventry to take him,how can we ask decent money for a player like him..Now we will see how propper football people value him,,and remember all you people who wrote him off,,you will see what a great judge super mick is,,perhaps do a straight swap for Kyle.
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13 – I’ll think you’ll find he’s absolutely correct. Eastwood is in fact a wanderers reject. Can’t hide from the facts.
11 – Well whilst i obviously want promotion i certainly don’t want to do a Leeds. So in my opinion if somebody isnt worth the money then why should we pay it. Moxey does a good job, but some people like your good self are just a little too stupid to notice.
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Okay so we have SEB, but we dont have a proven goalscorer if SEB gets injured or supsended, or even, if he decides to leave. Eastwood will score goals wherever he goes. Keogh is not a goalscorer. I think its a big mistake letting Freddy go, he has been treated unfairly by mccarthy who has been too stubborn with the situation. Would love to see him have another season and given a good run in the team. I truly believe with Freddy in the team during the season we would have surely made the playoffs, maybe gone up automatically.
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not good enough, did NOTHING all season.. was given plenty of opportunity to prove his worth and didn’t take those opportunities.
freddy lovers… for the same money you could get another SEB, Freddy shouldn’t be in the same league.
League 1 at best.
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Pondlife – I have absolutely no confidence in Moxey’s ability.
I have absolutely full confidence in the ignorance of some fans that still quote one bit of good transfer negotiation in light of a high number of disasterous deals. I know the managers also have to share responsibility but in the same time that he did well with one deal, we signed Silas for money and let him go for nothing, we didn’t make anything on McIndoe, we got way under market value for Lescott (certainly based on the £2.5m them lot got for McShane from Sunderland), can’t see us recouping the Darren Ward money, Franckowski cost us, we didn’t do that well financially from Kenny Miller, we lost £100K on Seol despite selling him to a prem team, Carl Cort, Paul Butler, Cedric Roussel etcetera etcetera. I can only think of Camara, Naylor and Lescott – two of whom came through the books – where we actually made a profit of more than the cost of a bag of chips. Same certainly can’t be said of the club down the road who are so much stronger financially because of considerably more astute transfer activity. Yet people still praise Jez ???
Still, why let facts get in the way of a good argument. Moxey’s spin must be working (on some).
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remember wen u lot woz alll sayin watch out albion weve got freddy !!!!
WATCH OUT WE AR PREMIER LEAGUE!!!
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At least clubs are interested in him, says alot for Freddy, what about the other transfer listed players, what does that say about them? Especially Elliot who cost the same as FE. Now, what do you think we will get for him?
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Where ever he goes he’ll score a shed load of goals and they’ll be against us…its not good!
he still has some time left of contract so his value should be 2.25 million to any buyer…or we do a straight swap for Jay Tabb and the Morroccan fellow you know who i mean,
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So where does it say they are going to haggle? I didn’t read it on any of the other boards that carry this story. They only said they were interested. More E & S stirring perhaps? (Guess this will no longer be consifered to be posted.)
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I for one wanted Eastwood to do well!!! But now that the season is over and Mick is not going we need to get Freddie out the club. I was told by someone that drinks in Wolvo he is always out on Friday nights and Saturday nights drinking and trying to start trouble. As with Mcindoe Macarthy does not like this!!!
And has Freddie really been that good when he has come???? Maybe a few blinkered fans out there????
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The sooner the Freddy saga is over the better, one less thing fanning the flames of discontent
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what a bunch of muppets, the lot of you!
Freddy hardly had a game, so did not get a chance to show his worth. Nice pass to Oly for goal against Plymouth. Take 1.5 and move on!
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Our message should be “Either pay the money or he goes elsewhere”.
But it will always be a mystery to me why McCarthy didn’t let him go out on loan as if he had been as successful, as many here suggest he would be given a run in the team, we could then have either kept him or sold him at a greater price. Even more of a mystery considering he hardly even played after the loan deal was scrapped.
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Yeah right, maybe when you learn where the CAPS LOCK IS
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pondlife, are you the slime that coats the rocks at the bottom of the pool or the scum that floats on on top ?
moxy let lescott go for a fraction of his worth, and will ship out Keogh Kightly Seb and Wayne at the blink of an eyelid if you wave enough pies in front of him. Alhough freddy may not have been in favour with mick there is no denying he is talnted. maybe coventry’s style of play will suit him better. He will score loads next season.
You are the gibbon.
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If Freddy is so bad why did we buy him. You can’t just go throwing millions of pounds away on bad players.Bad management again.
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We should get £1.5M or keep him!
Who are Coventry?????????
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lets get rid of a goal scorer and give kyle a permanent contract well done wolves
hopeless
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Freddy is a goalscorer
Freddy is a match winner
and very creative
but Keogh and ebanks is working to well to have Freddy in and if he dosnt like it bad luck go.
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Get shut at the right price, anything near £1.5m snatch it!
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We should let him go out of all decency. The club has treated him very poorly and in the fullness of time he will show his true abilities – and probably against us.
However to all posters who talk about his lack of goals – most of his starts were as sub and coming on very late at that. How can you make the calculation goals per game meaningful in this context.
Freddy is class. he may not put in the size of shift Mick wants but I’m willing to bet that he is a twenty goal a season man in a top eight team. watch him go. Good luck Freddy – you deserved better.
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All these people saying freddy was given a chance, how many did he play a full game???
and how many was he only given a ‘chance’ for the last 10 minutes of the game???
if freddy’s name was andy keogh and he was irish, he would be in the first team, but if andy’s name was freddy, ask yourself, would he still be played like he is every game???
MUPPET AND HIS FAVOURITISM OUT!!!!
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Moxey’s not stupid…he knows the reasons why Freddy didn’t fit at Wolves & that he still has great potential elsewhere. So he’s not going to give him away, or even take a loss on him. Hopefully there will be a bidding war for him over the summer. Clubs will panic buy when they realise they’ll be starting the season without the players they need.
Simon :)
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Yawn yawn boring boring….
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Bye bye Eastwood and good luck in your new club.
For those of you that thought Eastwood was the best thing sinse Marradonna, please bare in mind Kyle as a good player.
The set up cross for Henry was sublime against Charlton away. He made a real difference against Boggies when we resoted to direct play. And the goal against Palace was amazing. And he has been on the pitch far less minutes than Freddy.
I am not saying Freddy is uselss or that Kyle is brilliant. They are 2 different types of player.
But please do not make Freddy out to be a super star. He has played more than enough minutes of football to prove himself and he has failed.
The fact he is moving to Coventry says it all. The premier league big 4 are hardly breaking down the door for his signature are they.
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What a load of rubbish, sick of it, get rid of him and stop moaning about how he should have been better for us etc etc. He didn’t fit in and has to go – caused enough unrest!!
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We better get a decent price. Eastwood is not a poor player, so why should we let other clubs dictate? Bear in mind especially with players like Elliot, we are going to lose a lot.
We don’t want another Frankoski, Robert Taylor, Silas situation – all signed for over a million and peanuts if anything back.
Even if you don’t like Eastwood, Wolves are not a charity case!
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haha superkev… watch out… you are DERBY
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Have to say that the Freddy saga has took on a world of its own and unfortunately we will be in a better place when he goes. Bullring Bullring (boring).
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If bambie on ice (kyle)ever comes back to wolves i think a lot of people will not buy another season ticket.
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Good Luck Freddie!Iknow how good you are but I don’t think you fit into the Wolves way of playing.Although I think you would be perfect in the hole behind Ebanks-Blake and another.Most also know that next season you’ll be flying I’ll have a few bob on you Top Scorer next season well maybe second top scorer Best of Luck
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get rid of him but not for less than what we paid for him.hes a bad apple wrong attitude and not good enough so sell sell sell the sooner the better….would like to keep elliot though he could be a usefull player next season?
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Hey Freddy fans,
Freddy is a goalscorer – yeah, right, 11 with Southend in the Championship and 3 in the Championship with us!
Freddy wins games. Yeah, right. Versus Blackpool at Home. 1 match out of 46!
Freddy is a creative genius. Yeah, right so were Blobby and Frankowski!
Ciao Freddy! And take your dimwitted fans with you please.
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I THINK IF COVENTRY COME BACK WITH ANYTHING ABOVE 500K WE SHOULD SNAP THEIR HANDS OFF, LIKE US TO SIGN DAGNALL FROM ROCHDALE AND SAVE THE REST OF THE MONEY
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Send him on loan. We don’t need the money and we’ll regret it, it will come back to haunt us etc.
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You lot make me laugh. How fickle are all of you? I will tell you the real reason why Eastwood will not be a Wolves player next season. Mick got proved wrong with Jody Craddock,the fans were right to chant Craddocks name and sort out our defence. It was shoddy until Craddock came back from Stoke. He didnt want to lose face against the fans twice so he simply did not pick him out of principle.
You can say he did nothing for us, he didnt fit in blah blah blah. How about the games he came on and saved us? Half of you obviously dont go up if you think he didnt.
Who put the ball through for Olofinjana against plymouth? Who gave us the chance to draw against QPR? I just think that given the chance (instead of 30 mins at most) he wouldve made a real difference to our promotion campaign. . Instead the only time McCarthy did start with him was with Steven Elliott, who frankly doesnt know his back passage from his elbow.
Mick wanted a player who can work hard, track back and get 25 goals a season. How many top strikers do you see doing that in this day and age? He could have the best scouting system in the world and still not find a striker that does all of that.
I’ll always rate Eastwood has one of the best strikers we’ve had up Wolves for a long time. The fans know it and I honestly beleive Mick knows it.
I agree with someones comments earlier, about McIndoe he had the most crosses of a ball in the league for us last season. We let him go cheaply in my opinion, he didnt want to play for us, but he was under contract. He had a decent injury record too.
I really hope he comes back to haunt us. Good luck Mr Eastwood.
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Disuptive whinger! Didn’t work, get rid!
Ta ra. Thanks but no thanks, not in the same league as SEB and bloody idle.
When he did try, he always took the ball one player too far and ending up losing possession.
Shame it didn’t work, but life goes on…
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swap freddie for rob earnshaw
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Newbridge, you Numpty. I’ll copy your comments and remind you of them later this year/next season
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I have to admit with all the stuff coming out of your club recently, I feel sorry for you. They treat you like idiots.
Eastwood is MM’s scapegoat, can’t you see this!?
For the sake of Blackcountry football, get him out!
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maybe eastwood and kyle will form a formidable partnership next season FOR COVENTRY how about that then? now that would be an interesting little and large partnership.
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pondlife – i wondered why you gave yourself that name. Moxey is a PR disaster – every time he gets quoted by the media he antagonises the fans and his handling of tickets for cup ties has been a disgrace.
Wolves are always trying to get players on the cheap and promotion on the cheap. He loves MM’s policy of buying players at low cost and low salaries from the lower leagues cause it keeps the clubs finances healthy.
All this is great – unless of course like me you want Wolves to be successful. Wolves are no closer to being a premier league club now than the day Moxey and MM arrived.
It seems to keep the pondlife happy but not us human being supporters.
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never given a proper chance by mick due to undisclosed reasons. sad to see him leave but we all know he is on his way to a rival championship team and we all know he will score loads and bag a goal against us but it is over with now so im putting this one to bed……
also i haven’t agreed with micks choices in team selection this year…won’t catch me singing super mick but he’s here for next season so will back him….lets see who he gets in first??
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22 – Andy
Spot on mate. Jez Moxey is not the football finance wizard he wants everybody to believe he is!! How much did Hoddle squeeze him for again??
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Give Freddy to Conventry for free providing he takes Collins with him also !
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21. Mr Smug – are you for real ? “Freddy had plenty of opportunities and didnt take them ” like what opportunities ? He had jsi oppportunity at the start of the season and scored for fun – he was then dropped and had naff all in the way of opportunities after ….oh except for Wales of course …and he scored !! He had NO opportunities other than last 15 mins when he usually came on and helped us win the game !!
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Of course Moxey is useless…………
Getting great deals for Kightly, Jarvis, SEB, Keogh, Foley Elokobi, Henry, Freddaaaay (Aka “imaginary goal machine”), Rae, Cameron, & so on.
Plus we got good money for Camara, Ade Akinbiyi, Seol (never rated him) and many more.
And the fact we are not in Leeds or Festers current situation proves he is useless.
Bring back John Richards !!!!!
Moxey is a business man FFS…….
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I bid 14 pegs and pay him to cut 2 conifers
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The trouble with us football fans is that everything is either brill or sh*te!
Yes, Moxey cleaned up the club well after the mess with petty criminals and rippers-off in the late 90s. Also, he’s done a fair job keeping us in the black.
On the negative side, the floodlights failed before a match a few seasons ago. This season the Scunny match had to be postponed after the underground heating failed. Over the last eight years there have been several occasions when ticket-sales arrangements were unsatisfactory (although I admit these have improved recently).
Now the regular sniping between Mick McCarthy and some of the players, on the one hand, and some of the fans, on the other, is a PR disaster. Moxey has not only failed to prevent this civil warfare, he has set the tone for this self-destructive behaviour.
But what really irks is the complacency of the fans who say Moxey did well over Henri Camara. We should have been able to do a good part-exchange deal with Portsmouth or Wigan, e.g., for Diomancy Kamara + cash. Instead we only got cash, £180,000 of which was paid to Moxey as a bonus. With the rest did we buy a player or players who helped get us back to the Premiership? And at that time we had the parachute payments too!
In 1999-2000, the season before Moxey came we finished 6th. This season we finished 7th. No progress in eight years!
Those who defend Moxey simply prove that they are satisfied with everlasting mediocrity. Moxey is not brill or sh*te–he’s mediocre. Mediocrities do not gain automatic promotion!
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55-steveO, swap him for kenny miller!
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where’s my great post on freddy stats!!??
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56. Boohoo, why don’t you change your name to DudzieFreddy, as you seem to support him rather the team.
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ok well.. here it is again.. for all you freddy fantasisers.
(league)freddy has made 21 appearances for wolves, he has had 10 starts (league). in those games he has scored 3 goals, 2 in the same match in which he was a sub (blackpool). If you take away those 2 goals against blackpool he has scored 1 goal in 30 appearances, with 10 starts included in those 30 appearances. so he has a strike record of 10 starts, 20 appearances as sub…… 1 goal. (prolific??, not given a chance??) I believe his stats are far worse than frankowski’s!!
So, if you look at his stats he is as poor as any striker we have at the club. He has started around 1 in every 4 league games this season… and has been poor in each.
how can you say he hasn’t had any chances when he clearly has and he has clearly failed to produce. Why do you imagine him to be some goal scoring machine, when he clearly isn’t?
see wolves site for stats used.
feeling very smug after that!!
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top line… 21 appearances as sub + 10 starts. was getting carried away
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Mr smug, your talking out of your mccarthy loving backside, not good enough??? on your little radio maybe. Your forgetting the 3 points he won us when blackpool played us off the park. When did he get a fair chance??? cause i cant remember!!! and he will show you hes good enough for this league next year , you muppet!!!!
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Newbridge at least you know that you are an idiot. Thanks for replying back!
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get rid of the lot!
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Place your bets now that Freddy is one of the top scorers in whatever league he plays in next season – how can an international goal scorer not figure as first choice in a Championship team? Answer: very poor management!
Quite clear that some of the comments on here are by fans with little or no knowledge of football and have never played football at a decent standard!
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foolsgold. You clearly find it difficult to read basic information. READ HIS STATS!!
great, he scored 2 goals and got us 3 points against a side who had just been promoted and finished in the bottom 5(?).. WOW!!
he was given a chances, in fact he was given 31 chances… he was given 10 starts, how is that not a chance?
he was/is crap… you’re just too stupid to see it.
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also, i’d have anyone on here a £50 bet that he doesn’t score more than 12 next season (i.e. beats keogh from this season’s score charts)
International forward?? do me a favour! got lucky in a couple of games and will be found out soon enough. Why do you think no Premiership teams are sniffing, perhaps because he isn’t good enough???????
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mick and jez,thanks. this season you have finally managed to do what my missus had unsucsesfully tried to do for the last 27 years, of not always a happy marrige, due to my some what blind fixation with the wolves.i have normaly renewed mine and paid half each towards both of my adult kids season tickets.i thank WW.FC for 46years of memories,my heart has been broken,my money takes alot of earning
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