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Wolves defender search continues
Friday 30th January 2009, 11:42AM GMT.
Wolves have refused to rule anything out as news emerged of interest in West Ham defender Calum Davenport.
But the club have confirmed they have finally entered talks with Hearts over defender Christophe Berra.
Reports of a successful £3million bid for 26-year-old Davenport are untrue, as Wolves have not yet made an offer. But the 6ft 4ins former Tottenham centre-back is one of several central defensive targets the club is eyeing.
Wolves face competition from Sunderland for fit-again Davenport, whose last of just 13 league games for the Hammers since his £3million signing from Spurs two years ago came on Boxing Day.
Berra remains a possibility after Hearts non-executive director Sergejus Fedotovas – also director of the club’s parent company UBIG – flew over from Lithuania.
Fedotovas only tends to get involved in transfer deal and, with Hearts believed to be experiencing financial problems, star assets such as Berra could well leave before Monday’s 5pm deadline.
Hearts are said to want £3million for Berra, while Wolves have offered £2million. Chelsea’s Michael Mancienne remains another possibility.
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey said: “We’re not ruling out anything – we’re working towards Monday’s deadline.”
Boss Mick McCarthy has partly cleared the decks by allowing Darren Ward to join Charlton on loan to the end of the season. But he won’t allow Jody Craddock to leave until he has signed a replacement.
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mancienne would be a fantastic signing he played brilliantly for the club when he was with us on loan he was defiantly a fans favourite. i go to most of the home games and when stearman and mancienne played together it looked like a class partnership. so lets hope we can get mancienne in by monday. COME ON WOLVES
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Excellent news at last. Three targets…lets atleast hope we can get one of them, altho two would be amazing.Dare we dream?Davenport and Mancienne in on loan would do for me!
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Just posted on Nathans Blog.JM/MM PLEASE prove me wrong.Whatever it takes 1 or 2 signings really do need to be concluded prior to tonites deadline for playing tomorrow.Come on Wolves just do it.
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I hope we get another defender in, I would prefer Davenport to Berra as he is more used to English football.
We are still top and hopefully we will stay there but either way 1st or 2nd doesn’t matter as long as we go up.
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Keep Craddock and send out Collins and sign someone else – everyones a winner!
Craddock was good enough to start the season and it showed how much we missed him last year when he left so why is he not good enough again now?
I appreciate he isnt getting any younger and isnt the quickest anymore (but neither is collins) but an experienced head may just stop the boat from rocking ……….
just my opinion
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Why do we need a new defender?
Collins is doing a top job, he just needs a few more games to get his sharpness back.
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as i said in earlier post there will not be any new signings.
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What a pointless article.
Pull your finger out Morgan/Moxey.
Where’s the ambition eh?
We’ll end up signing three West Ham reserve rejects.
Mancienne would of signed by now if he was coming.
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i, if he played that well why did mick drop him and confine him to the bench.
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At the end of the day we’ll sign none of them. All we are doing is making it look like we are trying.In reality we are offering daft bids to try and con the fans in to thinking we are showing some sort of ambition.You don’t fool me Morgan
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Use Collins as bait Jez, surely Chelsea are interested in a swap deal as he is Premiership class? Why else would we have given him a 4 year contract, when our aim is to be promoted to the Premiership?
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GET MANCIENNE AND DAVENPORT OR BERRA AND IF IT COMES TO IT PLAY MANCIENNE LEFT BACK STIL FINK WE NEED ANOTHER STRIKER AS KEOGH ISNT UP TO IT MISFUD FROM COVENTRY 200K????
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Agree with Hunty…Mancienne is the player we need tried and tested, real class. he’s not going to get a game at Chelsea and they would bite our hand off for anything over £2.5m…..Come on Wolves think big be bold don’t wait till the last day….
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New defending blood is vital, but we still need another striker. Big Chris seems shattered and Keogh just won’t get the goals we need. Sylvan is chipping in, but we need a bang in form striker now!
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Thats it JIWAL, don’t jump to conclusions and let your natural melancholy drag you down…it is harder to sign players on the deals that are appropriate to a club in our position than people imagine. This isn’t a computer game. Out of Darkness…
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Yes finally or could this be just a little bit of sourced information from jobsworth.
If we had the 2 it would be great and unless we start scoring we should ship out 1 and replace as we are struggling lots we arent even having a pop from distance as we have done.
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Well sais 15 ! The these people REALLY think that we just make an offer to a club for a player over the phone and they say “yes he’s yours and he can play for you tomorrow!”. It doesn’t quite work like that. The player and agent do have some say aswell!
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On Wolves website MM has said it’s unlikely Wolves will sign Berra, But is confident of bringing someone else in.
Perhaps Collins sending off at reading could be a blessing in disguise. IMO our back four lacks expierience, we now have pace with Stearman so let’s play Craddock alongside him. Problem solved for now!
What about Anthony Gerrard at Walsall, must be better than Collins.
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JIWAL is correct,we have seen this all before,usually at the beginning of the season when they are trying to sell season tickets.The trouble is we dont just need a defender.If everyone thinks we are home and dry just because we sign Berra they are going to be disappointed.
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if we make a permanent signing of any one of the three players mentioned and a loan signing of another we will get promoted, simple as that
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I’m afraid all we’re still hearing is talk but no actual action!
It’s now Friday and still no positive news just another player leaving the club and no one coming in.
It seems that some fans and the club think that all we need is a central defender and all will be ok. We need more than that! A quality attacking central midfielder and another striker to freshen things up are needed. As I mentioned on Nathan’s blog imagine if Ebanks was to pick up an injury. We would be deep in the mire as Iwelumo is totally out of form, Keogh doesn’t score goals and Vokes although highly promising is umproven still at this level. I’m afraid the clock is fast ticking down to 5pm on Monday. I think we will end up with nothing which im my opinion will be totally unacceptable. I hope that McCarthy, Morgan and Moxey prove me wrong.
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Davenport has a bad attitude, he told Zola to **** off and said he wont play under him.
I actually have faith in Mick though, he will bring in the right players.
Anyone else think West Ham is the new Sunderland to us.
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Everybody seems to be missing the point the reason we cant sign anybody decent is that Moxley wont break the wage structure its as simple as that
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At last!! some news! hopefully we will get one of these 3 as we need to get somebody in! even if its to give the team we have a kick!
ive heard that Berra is ‘average’. could somebody give me a bit more confidence??? he is being talked up as being a rising star, hardly fair giving him all this pressure to come into if he is going to need a bit of time to come good!
could someone tell me why we have never made an approach for Jobi Mcanuff?? the lad is for sale and is clearly ticks all of micks boxes! proven goalscorer, experienced, talented, quick!!
in mick i trust!!….i think!!
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Bill you are living in dream land mate.Even if we sign a defender we might make the playoffs.Our recent form is abysmal.Cardiff Swansea and Sheff Utd will soon overtake us if we carry on playing like we are
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if we do not sign anybody i fear our team will think they are guarenteed first team footy and wont play half as good as we know they can!
perfect example kightly….he is playing at about 30% of what we know he can, but he knows he is going to b pick every game! come on sign somebody to make the team fight for positions!
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Judging by Mick’s Comments on the O/S it looks as though NO Deals will be Completed Today!!!
considering Tommorow is MatchDay and Sunday No Deals can be completed we are truely hinging all our hopes of deals on the Final Day
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I dont mean to pour water on anyones hopes but signing Macienne on loan is a different prospect altogether than signing him permanent. All those people who are saying we should spend £2.5 and get him I fear your a bit misguided. He is a great propsect and even if Chelsea accepted an offer people presume a player who has made the England squad and touted as an England future starter, would drop a league………..I cant see it to be honest. The best we can hope for is a loan and if we make it up then we may be a more realistic club for him. Signing a 3 year deal with us when we cant guarantee he’ll be playing Premier stuff next year…………he has to give himself the best chance of playing for England and at the moment it isnt with us. Loan him in Moxey!!
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It seems we are being treated to yet another smokescreen entitled “we have tried to sign a top defender but his club wanted too much”. It’s allegedly worth something well over 30 mill to a promoted club so why are we quibbling over a couple of million now? Speculate to accumulate, the club has never been in a better position at this time of year, or is it a case of the management asking us to “keep our nerve” when they clearly have lost theirs.
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couldnt agree more 16,this time last yearv we signed seb had bout 3 bids in for different players ,this year seems awfully dull and quiet, come on mick craddock is waiting hes never let us down,collins is not mentally as strong as his temper lets him down,mancienne .not sure about stevie ward at the back,tries hard but not his position
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18,Just read those comments,so MM thinks it is difficult to find defenders better than the ones we have,WHY THEN HAVE WE ONE ONE OF THE WORST GOALS AGAINST COLUMNS IN THE DIVISION? 36 goals conceded to date is not promotion form,As i said in nathans blog all we are hearing is speculation to keep the Fans happy.No real intent to sign anyone MM happy with his Squad and berore all you happy clappers jump down my throat no i dont want him sacked just to show some ambition and maybe a touch of commensense.
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Mancienne and Berra in would get us promoted. Scolari does not rate mancienne, remeber his comments when he made the england squad? On Sat I would like to see us go:
Ikeme (Hennessey makes me nervous)
Foley
Stearman
Craddock
Ward
Kites
Quashie
Jones
Jarvo
Iwelumo
Ebanks
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27. Negotiations can be going on today, tomorrow and sunday. Its not as if Moxey is playing tomorrow is it!?
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mick there are other clubs than west ham available to buy players
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Following on from 29,not only is it worth £30 million to get promoted,supposedly Morgan also invested £30million as a condition of buying the club.It simply defies logic that we are not prepared to commit sufficient funds to buy these players that clearly are available.And as for anyone trotting out “we dont want to do a leeds” dont make me laugh!
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We do need to splash the cash to add a bit of quality. When I think of the Wolves team I don’t feel with have any technically gifted players, they are a bunch of enthusiastic, full of energy tryers. Kightly can’t take freekicks or corners, and SEB and Iwelumo never look as potent as say a Hunt, Doyle or C.Jerome. When Albion played us the season before last, at times they looked awesome. The likes of Kamara, Koumas amd Greening looked to have superb technique. I was also very impressed with Jimmy Kebe for Reading on Tuesday night. That’s the sort of player I feel we are missing, a passer and freekick taker, basically a quality player. Unfortunately I think Mark Davies could well have been this player, but que sera sera.
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Went to Reading on tuesday and thought the lads put up a much better fight.
Chelsea will not let Mancienne come back as they want our wonderkid Ishmal plus cash in exchange.Just heard from a spurs fan that Gunter is being allowed out on loan until the end of the season. Come on Mick / Moxey get your finger out for this Welsh centre half who already knows and plays with a lot of the existing team.
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Someone used to post on here as ‘make mine a Marlon,’wouldn’t it be great if Harewood arrived in the next few days.IF you are not ruling anything out go for it Mr Morgan,I should imagine you can remember the impact made by the Doog in 1967.
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Are there any Sunderland/Irish players that you haven’t signed yet Mick that could do a job at centre back? Perhaps we could get Ian Harte back to put a shift in?
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Do we only scout 2 teams? should we be called West Handerland?
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no 32 Laughing Wolf,you obviously missed Ikeme’s poor performance against Preston.
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Express & Star: “But the club have confirmed they have finally entered talks with Hearts over defender Christophe Berra”.
Sky Sports News Online: “13.30 Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has accused Hearts of trying to spark an auction for Christophe Berra.”
Wolves fans everywhere: “Stop the smokescreen and bolster the defence with quality now, you muppets!!”
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LACK OF AMBITION YET AGAIN WOLVES.
STICK YOUR EARLY BIRD WERE THE SUN DONT SHINE THIS TIME.
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I feel like a lot of people that we need at least 2 signings, a central defender that does not make as many mistakes as collins and a forward that is able to score goals, because Iwelumo has lost his confidence in front of goal and Keough is more a link man than a goal scorer.
The problems lie with Morgan not keeping his promise over the 30 million he proised to put into the club when Jack Hayward gave it him for £10. I wonder what Jack thinks of him not keeping his promise to his beloved Wolves. Imagine we got to the premiership, he could then sell the club for say £100 million + and make one hell of a profit out of us, with hardly putting a penny into the team. So I say Morgan show the colour of your money before the fans wake up to the biggest con trick ever. If Morgan really cared he would put big money into the club now, as at the time of writing we have made more money out of transfers in the window than we have shelled out, is that a club going all out for promotion.
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DANNY SHITTU… Quality defender only played 9 games for Bolton… £2 million quid and we would get him…
Mancienne aint as good as everyone makes out… Callum Davenport is ‘another’ west ham reserve teamer and Berra will go to the Premier League…
Why let Darren Ward go? He is better than Collins and Shackell…
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I would take Marlon Harewood… He has scored goals for Forest and West Ham at this level and id take him on loan for the rest of the season…
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I agree with no 36 we do seem to lack technique in the midfield area apart from David Jones who doesn’t seem to be getting a look in at the moment.
I don’t like talking up Albion but one of the main reasons they got promoted last season was due to them having a superb midfield for the championship and they all chipped in with goals on a regular basis.
We need to bring in more quality to the midfield aswell as the defence.
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Wolves must look an attractive option to Mancienne. He would command a great salary and essentially be guaranteed to be playing Premiership football next season unlike at Chelsea where he is number 3 or 4 in the pecking order.
The agents are probably pushing it as well as they dont get paid unless there is a transaction.
Asking price is probably stumbling block but I think anything under 10 million would be fair to both Wolves and CHelsea.
Lets face it, if he’s as good as we think he is we will be selling him in a few years anyway as we did with Joleon.
Charlie
ATLANTA WOLVES
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its ok we are after x y and z beleve it when and if they sign had all month down to the last few days good on ya mr morgan moxley
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tbh, i agree with 45. danny shittu would b a great aqquisition, and would be available from 2mill +. has the experience. how about sonko from stoke? he isnt playing n he is a good player. will we all leave the mancienne saga, as commented above, he would b here now if he would hav signed. tbh, its getting borin, whoever mick signs we must support them, and mick and the board, otherwise things will become very negative. C’MON YOU WOLVES!
(on me granddads comp, he doesn’t know and im banned :P haha)
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Lets face it, we wont be signing anyone!
We would have by now, Moxey has a track record for dragging his heels in the transfer market. Cue the message on Tuesday Express and Star Headline when Moxey will tell us all how much his mobile has not stopped in trying to get in new players!!!!
Jan Window might has well not exist for wolves! We are top of the table and not bought in any extra “quality!”
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Oh Yeah and Shittu got 10 goals in 37 games for Watford last season… Sign him Up Micky!
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Mancienne would be my first choice if not Berra. In terms of a striker how about Simon Cox form Swindon Town? I do like Keogh but he just doesn’t score enough.
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Potentially bad news on the Mancienne front. Ivanovic has agreed a move to Fiorentina apparently. With Carvalho currently out injured, Mancienne is now the third choice centre half at Chelsea (behind Terry and Alex)
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it makes me laugh the people on here who say “sign so and so, you’ll get him for £2million.”
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? ARE YOU AN AGENT OR A SCOUT!?
IDIOTS. COMPLETE IDIOTS.
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47. spot on mate. When jones doesn’t play we lack a bit of quality on the ball in midfield, let alone set pieces! Bring him back for tommorow but with henry please as jones does need somebody to do the donkey work for him to be an influence on the game.
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54… Its called an opinion and Market value… so why call people idiots for having an opinion… maybe if you want an ecomics lesson i could give you one…
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55 not 54… the comments just moved…
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Mancienne must be the best bet. The other two I would rather have Davenport but I would suggest £2 million is tops for either.
Anyway on to tomorrow. This will not be easy but I expect a win. Wolves 2-0. Ebanks-Blake 2.
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Wolves have the BEST FANS any club could wish for.However the owners and their lackeys have failed consistently to match that commitment,We have NO CHANCE of signing ANYBODY of premiership class this transfer window,We are fed daily a diet of lies and misinformation just to keep everybody who loves this great club dangling on a line.Our top buy EVER cost just over 3 mill why does anyone think its gonna change in the next 3 days???? ITS BEEN GOING ON FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS!!!
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yes, that’s right morons, you all “know” that mick and gez are at it again. sitting at their desks, stroking their bad guy white cats and planning the downfall of another january transfer window – Like the one where we signed Kightly, and the one where we signed SEB etc etc.
Accountant Wolf is back in the mix again. He’s not been around since, oooh, when was is it – oh yes, the last ‘bad’ run we had.
At least the muppets like Bob Wolf and Southbank Moron Army tend to be consistent with their opinions.
You lot would find fault if you were Man Ure fans.
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I have to agree with you no 60. Bring back 1957, the year the frisbee was invented.
The Sky at Night was first broadcast.
Stanley Matthews played his last England game, age 375.
The Brooklyn Dodgers moved to LA.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time.
Jodrell Bank Radio telescope opened.
The first animal went into space (called Laika – Russian for Tiddles)
The laser was invented.
The first US attempt to launch a satelite took place – the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.
Osama bin Laden was born, as was Sid Vicious, Steve Davis and Donny Osmond.
Humphrey Bogart died as did Eliot Ness and Oliver Hardy.
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we need another striker! keogh is a complete waste of space….he used to run around like a headless chicken but no goals..i admired him though cus he tryed. Now he doesn’t even bother runnin about and still no goals…car stand him! Iwelumo does nothin after christmas with every club he’s been with…. that makail-smith from posh would be a quality signin! As for tomorrow i’ve got my money on a O’Toole winner…sod’s law!
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61 and the rest of you HAPPY CLAPPERS dont you actually WATCH any of the Wolves matches???Cant you see whats wrong????Yes we signed KITES and SEB BUT wer’e fishing in a different pond now.We need to get players in who are going to cut it in the prem and not many of us are convinced that a stubborn mule headed manager can attract the right type of Player so, LONDON WOLF, and your mates ,THINK ABOUT WHATS GOING ON at our great club, and try and interpret what you see at the matches,are we good enough to go up,PROBABLY, are we good enough to stay there NO NO NO !!!
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61,You people never cease to amaze because individuals do not agree with your views they are morons and muppets,All people are asking for are the finishing touches to what has been a good season but however is in some danger of falling apart due to the lack of activity on the transfer front.As other posts have said MM/JM have had plenty of time to target players and do their utmost to bring them in.So what is wrong with supporters airing their views on a discussion website?
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Ref 62 Spot on my friend. Question befor the start of the season would we have taken where we are at present ..YES Question before the start of the season would we have taken where we are at, with Collins having played more than half of the games…YES YES YES YES YES .Calm down everyone and enjoy the fun and get behind your team and your manager…. or go and support the Albion….
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How long does this saga have to go on, we have been desperate for a decent central defender for a number of seasons now.
All wolves fans can see the problem, a pacey forward gets the ball in that channel on our right side and no-one is quick enough or big enough to get under them and stop it.
This problem will again be exploited over the remaining games unless Morgan, McCarthy & Moxey start thinking like Premiership management, otherwise we will be cannon fodder should we be lucky enough to make it.
Look to the future boys and invest decent coin on quality players.
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The great thing about football is the differing opinions.I believe with some of the previous posts that WWFC lack ambition.Now is the time to invest as there will never be a better opportunity to get to the Premier and stay there.But Collins on a 4 Year deal and the likes of The Crab being played week in week out whatever the performance speaks volumes.
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61, i hate people who think they are far superior in intellect over fans who express a different opinion to you. Some views might be moronic but they are still intitled to them and at the end of the day we are only like it because we are all passionate about our club. As for your tongue in cheek comment about the transfer window Mick had never seen kights play before it was taff evans who got him to the club so dont give him credit for that. Oh actually you might be right, we should give mick credit for bringing in Kevin Kyle in the window. Perhaps they do do good business in the window. sorry
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65 & 67 both spot on. MM tells us he wasn’t a bad centre half in his day, if so, then why can’t he spot the faults with 1 or 2 that he already signed, and why can’t he get a good one. Danny Shittu has been mentioned, i infact suggested him at start of season, a tough no nonense type (a bit like Darren Moore who got Albion up before). Don’t know much about Berra, but wouldn’t have thought the league he plays in in too demanding (apart from Rangers & Celtic).Lets invest now and make sure of the millions we will get, as if we drift into playoffs it will be disaster time, another year in Championship and most of oour best players gone. we can’t miss the boat now we’re so close to the premiership
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ANDY, You missed out that that was the year of the BEST WOLVES SIDE EVER!!! But you never did see them did you.We were up there with the Busby Babes,It could happen again weve waited long enough but it won’t happen with the clowns who are running the show at present.
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he must play craddock saturday !!!!!
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(60, bb1957)i agree. we’ve never gone for the very best. Be it players or managers. i remember back in ’76 writin to the club sayin ‘go get Cloughie’. They got Chung! 2years later he’s won the league an Euro cup on peanuts! What if eh? In late ’95 when Taylor was sacked i said ‘get O’Neill from Norwich. He’s fallen out with Robert Chase (chairman)and is lookin for a club to match his ambition. theirs a spark,an aura about him few people have.’ So we get McGhee from Leicester!! Leicester appoint O’neill. 6 months later they’r promoted & go on to win 2 league cups. In the early 70′s we were only 2 or 3 players short of winning the title. McGarry signs the likes of Farley, Jefferson, Shaw, Oldfield, Gould,O’Grady while at Derby Clough goes for David Nish, Colin Todd, Archie Gemmil & Terry Hennessey. A year later they’re Champions. In ’77 we go up with Forest. Chung gets Daniel, Rafferty, Bradshaw etc. all decent but not top drawer. Cloughie gets Kenny Burns, Shilton, Gemmill, McGovern etc. They conquer europe. To understand why the club has failed you have to look into the past to see the fundamental flaws going way back to the idiot John Ireland in the 60′s to the idiots Hayward/Moxey in the present. Will Morgan turn it around and lay the foundations for REAL sustained success? Well its too early to say. But having been bought up watching Shankley’s Liverpool he should know the core values & what it takes. I wish him well.
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6,7,10 and 11) You are the clowns of the Wolves comments boards. People should ignore what you say as you talk absolute garbage.
For all proper Wolves fans, we will be back. Blues and Reading have tough games and we should be taking 6 points from the next 2, even though we have our defensive frailities.
UP THE WOLVES!
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lets be a bit more postive we will sign a centre half before monday MM wouldnt have let ward go otherwise sometimes we have just got to be patient – if we win both our homes games coming up i for one feel that we will again be more than 2 points clear at the top as i belive reading will get beat 2mora and blues will struggle – reading will lose harper and hunt before monday aswell – come on you wolves !
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61 Idiot London Wolf people like you have been brainwashed into thinking Keogh Collins and Ward are world class players, you need to watch the games and not keep lip reading what that mad man MM says. This club will go no where with MM, 3 years on and still same type of player. If collins was not on a ban MM would play him.
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.61 LONDON WOLF ! Are you kiddin ?
Do you really think Wolves fans pay for there season tickets to dream that one day we’ll have a great start to a season like this, just to be DISSAPOINTED by the TOTAL LACK of ambition shown by MORGAN and the board ??
He payed 10 quid for OUR beloved club, promising 30 million investment ! WHERE IS HE INVESTING THEN ???
he’s spent LESS than we’ve recieved !
I could of given Sir Jack a tenner, no i could of doubled that and give him 20 and promised investment once were in the premier…
Can anybody PROVE ME WRONG and tell me where any of that 30 million has been invested ?
This is the BEST opportunity weve had to make investments count for years SO WHY ISNT HE ??
And dont tell me the players are’nt there ! Sonko, Berra, shittu to name a few just in defence would come if we offerd DECENT MONEY and DECENT WAGES !
Were top of the league ! surley quashie isnt the only player we can attract?
I will continue to support the players who wear the shirt but our BOARD will be hung if we miss the boat AGAIN this year !
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74 I agree we should be taking 6 points from the next two. In fact we should take 9 points from the next three but I think that our defence will cost us big time in these games unless we rectify the problem now! We also look poor in midfield at the moment and we need a decent attacking central midfielder to feed the strikers when our wingers are getting double marked.
In my opinion if we get a quality centre half and quality attacking central midfielder we shoould get top two. If we don’t we will struggle to make the top two which would be a disaster after being top for most of the season.
Come On Morgan, Moxey and McCarthy the next couple of days are hugely important. If we have to pay over the odds for two quality players so be it. It could mean the difference between promotion this year or more misery at the end.
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.61 LONDON WOLF !
Do you really think Wolves fans pay for there season tickets to dream that one day we’ll have a great start to a season like this, just to be DISSAPOINTED by the TOTAL LACK of ambition shown by MORGAN and the board ??
He payed 10 quid for OUR beloved club, promising 30 million investment ! WHERE IS HE INVESTING THEN ???
he’s spent LESS than we’ve recieved !
I could of given Sir Jack a tenner, no i could of doubled that and give him 20 and promised investment once were in the premier…
Can anybody PROVE ME WRONG and tell me where any of that 30 million has been invested ?
This is the BEST opportunity weve had to make investments count for years SO WHY ISNT HE ??
And dont tell me the players are’nt there ! Sonko, Berra, shittu to name a few just in defence would come if we offerd DECENT MONEY and DECENT WAGES !
Were top of the league ! surley quashie isnt the only player we can attract?
I will continue to support the players who wear the shirt but our BOARD will be hung if we miss the boat AGAIN this year !
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NO74 I agree totally with you about the lack of ambition in the transfer market and poor managerial appointments ,but you shouldn’t refer to Sir Jack in that way.He has been magnificant in his generosity.No one should forget whatever money currently being spent is really Sir Jacks.Morgan got a £30million asset for a tenner.The question I keep asking though is where has the money gone? No one gives me an answer.
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Sorry nos keep changing,should be no74 Wembley74.
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.61 LONDON WOLF !
Do you really think Wolves fans pay for there season tickets to dream that one day we’ll have a great start to a season like this, just to be DISSAPOINTED by the TOTAL LACK of ambition shown by MORGAN and the board ??
He payed 10 quid for OUR beloved club, promising 30 million investment ! WHERE IS HE INVESTING THEN ???
he’s spent LESS than we’ve recieved !
I could of given Sir Jack a tenner, no i could of doubled that and give him 20 and promised investment once were in the premier…
Can anybody PROVE ME WRONG and tell me where any of that 30 million has been invested ?
This is the BEST opportunity weve had to make investments count for years SO WHY ISNT HE ??
And dont tell me the players are’nt there ! Sonko, Berra, shittu to name a few just in defence would come if we offerd DECENT MONEY and DECENT WAGES !
Were top of the league ! surley quashie isnt the only player we can attract?
I will continue to support the players who wear the shirt but our BOARD will be hung if we miss the boat AGAIN this year !
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Are some of you stupid ?
Throw money at this player and we will get him that type of behaviour will prove to other clubs we are Mugs who will pay over the odds for any flipping’ player and we have more money than brains.
Jez is a very savy business man look at the deals he got for Kites & ect and the unbelievable sales of Olofinjana & Eastwood.
Instead moaning like moronic dingles have faith how often do we do deals in the media the answer is not many in fact we more than likely sign someone who no one expected
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Funny how many of you thrive like bacteria on the negative, and then die off and vanish when its going well.
Quashie had a good game against Reading. Were having a bad run but so do all teams.
Morgan is a top business man, smart enough to sell up before the decline. He would eat you for breakfast in the board room, so what makes people like you 61 a genius.
Jog on negatives cmon you Wolves
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80 CHRIS. I meant his sons not so much Jack himself. Just got in from a hard day at work! Sorry. But Jack has to take a lot of blame for not overseeing his investment more. When he sat in the stand at PVale near the end of 89/90 we were 8th. Countless millions later at the end of 05/6 we were 7th. If you had taken over a business in the city & 16 years later you had missed all your targets & were still at Square 1 what would your shareholders think? Sorry but it is failure on a spectacular scale. Jack Walker took over Blackburn 2 yrs later & went up in his 1st season and won the Prem title 2yrs after that. They’ve been in the Premier every year bar 1 since & also won the League Cup. Why did Walker achieve so much for a similar investment at a smaller club? Because he was there every day keeping people on their toes. I love Jack as much as any fan. The club’s infrastructure he improved greatly. Stadium & training facilities? fantastic. But he tolerated apathy on the field & it ruined his years with us. When the dust has settled on the Hayward years the historians will say he failed & missed a golden chance to add to Cullis’s success, to rejoin the elite at the dawn of the Premier League. He failed where it matters most. On the pitch.
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Why oh why are we leaving it till the last minute to sign players? Panic is it? If MM really wants these players why didn’t he sign on 1st Jan? They are not going to get cheaper because the markets closing they are going to get dearer.
Plus the fact we have lost valuable time messing around again.
Stinks of Moxey again with his tight ways.
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Costa del Wolf where are you based over here? Which Costa?
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Could Gary Breen be coming back,had is contract cancelled,would fit in as if he hadn’t been away.
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I hate the fact that people jump on the back of the board and Mick when we are doing badly! seriously we do this so much, other teams mock us for being so fickle. If were doing well its all smiles but if we draw say two for example and lose, its like we have dropped out of the football league.and we need to string them up, come on lads i want signings as much as the next guy but be fair, lets change our image and get behing the team for the last charge for ppromotion! And as far as im concerned well get atleast two player on deadline day- always the way guys, 40% of last years deals were done on the last day-FACT so cheer up eh!
SOUTHBANK LOYAL FAN
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32 Laughing wolf) Moxey might not be playing tomorrow, but can you see him missing his matchday FREEBIES? Just a little bit more ambition on his part would help, in my opinion (and I have one) he is nothing but an hinderance!
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three players in before deadline day , i suppose some of the people on these pages, think that they still can pick the team for saturdays match for watford , well i might as well have a go 1. mick kearns
2. jhon humphrey
3. mick hollifield
4. john pender
5. john rudge
6. ricky herbert
7. towny towner
8. paul butler
9. jackie gallagher
10. billy rafferty
11. billy livingstone
champions league here we come , some of the people on here actually deserved that .
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Yadder Yadder Spend £30M Steve Morgan has no ambition?
One common theme running through the lack of better quality players must be between Moxey and MM
Before anyone starts banging on about – Wim Top of the league blah blah just look at how many centre backs we have with no pace (that we have bought) – Surely there are players out there in any of the leagues that have pace and potential? & are a better prospect than mssrs Collins D Ward and Shackell?
As for Prem quality players – How many want to make the step down (unless they are young reserves) or would prefer (fringe players) to stay and fight for a place (which means for some pick up my wages and who cares)- It has been reported that Marlon Harewood doesnt want to make the step down to the Championship!
Taking off the MM tinted specs for a second; If the likes of Vokes and other players who cant get a regular game ahead of Keogh Collins etc – MM’s rep for his “selective” selection process must be “common knowledge” in the world of football in the UK – My fear is that when promoted; Will MM “Buy in bulk” ala Sunderland promotion or does he have the “nouse” to attract the better quality players that could assist us in the Prem?
Back to present day events – Stearman is a good buy that needs a defensive partner that has quality – not necessarily super fast
We should have moved forward the moment Mancienne was called back by Chelski – looking more for a wiser head with some pace that can blend with Stearman into a partnership
We brought in Shackell – Young & hungry – But does he have any pace? Is he good enough? Has he really been given a chance? How must he feel after signing on for and buying into MM’s game plan – only to find that Collins can do no wrong? (When the lad Collins was doing ok fine but when he starts dropping clangers regularly?)
Finally; Is JM following up on a list of players drawn up by MM or is JM “trimming off” certain names from MM’s list, & handing back JM’s list of “budget players”? & Have these players been scouted thoroughly (not just a knee jerk reaction)
PS IF we bring in additional players – lets just hope they are an improvement to the squad and not just potential “bench warmers”
UP THE WOLVES!
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My dream team come next week:
Hennessey
Foley
Berra
Mancienne
Hill
Kightly
Jones
Henry
Jarvis
Ebanks Blake
Vokes
dream team being the key words
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Hearts website,
Berra is due in Wolverhampton this morning to discuss personal terms!!!!
At last some movement!!!
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I also note with interest that McCarthy has put part of the blame for our recent run of poor results down to ‘strikers panicking in front of goal’ astounding absolutely astounding, could that be due to the fact that we have only been playing with one striker & one clown up front recently.
My answer is simple McCarthy, play the man who is used to scoring & reignite the best striking partnership in the divison, not the boy who is usless!!!!
DO IT TODAY
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95 That “useless or more like stupid boy” wouldnt be Keogh now would it?
Has he scored his “promised” 20 goals for the “real – eh fans that dont moan when I’m playing carp fans?” yet? ;-)
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no83Embarrassed Moxey stooge.
If Moxey is so savvy why are you so selective in the deals that you refer to? Why no mention of Frankowski,the failure to get any money on Miller,or more pertinent to today why under bid for Berra in the summer,waste £1m on Shackell and then bid the market price for Berra 5 months later.How much will we lose on Shackell? Very savvy.And don’t forget it all started with Kuqi,all those years ago.
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No85 Wembley Wolves. Very well put and sadly very correct.
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Thanks Chris (98), but i am only stating what we all know i suppose. there are other examples of clubs who have progressed on the field under rich owners while we havn’t. Boro(Gibson), Wigan(Whelan),P,mouth(Manderic). Then there’s Bolton & Fulham. Even Reading have had more seasons in the Prem than us! Also we havnt even won an ‘automatic’ promotion in 18yrs! Even WBA have managed 3 in their last 4 attempts! But having said all that we can only hope Morgan has analysed & identified the reasons for this failure and is planning a way forward on the pitch different to the Hayward model. As i said, you have to look at the past and learn from it otherwise the humiliation will continue. Sir Jack deserves credit though for keeping us in English hands & Morgan is a football fan so knows the game. I feel we have been given another chance so I dont want to see Wolves ruin another potentially bright future.
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Who said there couldn’t be any deals on Sunday? To my knowledge these deals went through yesterday: Shay Given [Newcastle Utd > Man City], Theofanis Gekas [Bayer Leverkusen > Portsmouth], Tal Ben Haim [ Man City > Sunderland] and Chris Killen [Celtic > Norwich].
The reason for waiting is that you can often get a better price once the seller knows it’s now or never. (So long as you’re not panicking more than he is, of course!)
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I was in a hositality suite for the game on saturday and saw Jez Moxey after the game. He told us Berra was there and the deal done subject to a medical. I said he must be disappointed to miss out on Mancienne and he said we HAVENT. We are still trying to get him today but it would be another loan and not a permanent deal. Would be good if he gets him too.
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Get Robbie Keane back, I’m sure he would love to put a gold shirt on again, even if he had to drop wages, at least he would be treated right. And lets face it, McCarthy loves his hardworking type forwards that run everything down.
And for gods sake, we’ll probably get Berra, so instead of mancienne, get a Central Midfielder in!!!!!!!!!!
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