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Kightly calls for calm on captures
Monday 1st June 2009, 11:00AM BST.
Wolves winger Michael Kightly has urged fans to be patient as the clamour continues to see Premier League signings brought to Molineux.
Supporters are keen to see the arrival of fresh blood to boost chances of survival next season and build on the momentum of the Championship title win.
The agent of Red Star Belgrade captain Nenad Milijas claims Wolves have already made a bid of around £2.6m for the goalscoring midfielder.
Wolves have lodged interest in numerous other targets, while others such as centre-backs Sami Hyypia and Onyewu Oguchi won’t be coming to Molineux.
But Kightly stressed fans needed to remain calm, as he is sure boss Mick McCarthy will sign the right players.
The wide man said: “People just need to look at other teams to see how many signings they’ve made – no one.
“Every year and every transfer window it’s the same – it’s quiet, and then all of a sudden, it goes manic.
“I’m sure the club will get the players they want and there won’t be any problems.”
Kightly also believes everything is set up for Wolves to have a special ‘pull’ to be a highly attractive proposition for new signings.
The 23-year-old believes the club’s position, with promotion as champions, its heritage, fanbase, Molineux, the club’s potential, its training ground, management, coaching and medical facilities make the club an excellent choice for prospective arrivals.
He said: “It’s a very attractive club for someone to look at.
“You just have to look at the place, look at the ground, the fans, the training ground, that fact we’ve got a top manager, top coaching staff and top physios – every aspect of the club is right.
“Hopefully we can stay in the Premier League this season, establish ourselves in there and this club can move on.”
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Well said Kites. Did you hear that people, patience!!!
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Does Kites ever not do a report for the E&S, the boy should be relaxing at home
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This is all well and Good. But having coached and scouted players, I know that in the transfer market you have to be Quick, very Quick.
We cannot afford to miss out on Experienced
Quality players
we need to be rapid in the transfer Market – quick like Vassell or Harewood over 20 years.
IMO/IMV
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I don’t feel quite like panicking, but definately a little concerned when I see Birmingham closing in on 6mill Benitez.. and all we’ve declared is that we’re not willing to pay this or that..
Even the players we are linked with, seem more interested in going else where!
I feel we’ll be left with the scraps.. and I hope i’m proved wrong
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i am sure we will make signing and i am also sure they will be better than last year, however we do need to move quicker, we had a head start on the blues and burnley (that still looks wrong) but we haven’t taken it.
still think it is a shame that we are not going for huddlestone as i have heard his price has now dropped to £6m from £8m.
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QUICK EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!
It’s 12:30 and we havent made any signings and the transfer window has been open for over 12 hours.
Come on Moxey pull your finger out or at least tell us Wolves fans who you have lined up to sign. I’m pretty sure no other teams will be reading your press releases and try to hijack your plans.
Up the Wolves.
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Transfer window does not open till 1st July
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I dont think anyone can have a go at the club for not signing anyone yet…………this is partly some morons who support the team who havnt got a clue and the express and star making something of nothing.
Quite simply if we sign no-one then we go down, the club know this so dont you think they are working on bringing in the right players?? Of course they are so morons sit tight they will come. Until then just shut up.
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5 Yep Its “rumoured” that Notlob are prepared to pay £6m for Huddlestone
It will be very interesting to see who Moxey does manage to come up with – Imv I dont even believe that Moxey is prepared to spend £6m on any player
Lets see – If any of the media stuff is to be believed – Dos that mean that we wont pay a higher Prem salary of £x (even on a free transfer) and wont pay a fee of above £y either?
So if true – that places us in the below £3 – £4m bracket?
NB* I hope we dont talk ourselves out of too many deals
Well anything better than last time must be an improvement – I dont think this is down to SM or MM – Imv Moxey hasnt got what it takes to “pursuade” the “better than average Prem Players”
NB* I hope Moxey reads this and gets “fired up” to prove me and any other doubters wrong OR will we get Mols favourite son making another “appeal” to the fans?
Just get on with it Moxey – IF you cant manage it go for the best of the lower leagues – Lee Croft is available on a Free from NAARWICH and his Opta stats were very good in the Chumpionship
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6,7 & 8 enough said. Don’t know whats wrong with people. If we are not top by xmas these same people will probably want MM sacked.
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Quite right 7. DudzieWolf, the window does not open until July 1st BUT that does not stop clubs talking to agents in the meantime!
The last time we gained promotion to the Prem we were weeks behind the other teams and missed out. This time though I am sure that agents have been spoken to and agreements have quite possibly been made BUT they cannot be officially announced until July 1st.
I am as eager as everyone else to know who we will sign but the club will not be saying anything until the ink has dried – so yes, patience everyone!
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Protracted discussions take a long time and having had a healthy head start ours are likely to be far in advance of the blues or burnley.
If I am not mistaken there has not been a single signing made by any club in any division yet! Some of the European leagues only finished their seasons this last week and I dare say that it is holiday time at most clubs across the continent.
As Kites says just relax, the players we are going to sign are not likely to have made the press as senior club officials and any agents worth their salt recognise the benefits of keeping discussions behind closed doors. Don’t be surpised if a number of new faces appear on the back of the E&S that we hadn’t even thought about!
For now enjoy the rumours, speculation and gossip and get out there in the sunshine!!!!!
Up the Wolves!
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Comment 7.
TRANSFER WINDOW OPENS ON
Midnight June 1st until midnight August 31st i.e exactly 2months. This isnt just for the premier league but for every professional league in the world.
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Why do people keep saying the transfer window doesn’t open until 1 July??
IT IS OPEN FROM MIDNIGHT ON THE DAY THE SEASON ENDS!!!!!
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13 !!! since when from 01/06/09 til 31/08/09 is 2 months ???? ALL football fans knows that the window opens on July 1st !!!
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I don;t know when the transfer window opens or closes but I do that June 1st to August 31st is three months !!
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It’s all about us finding better players than we’ve already got. This is going to be more difficult for us than Birmingham because their players are rubbish.
One thing that seems apparent now is just how much more time Wolves have got to prepare than the rest of the Prem. It seems ages since we played a “competitive game”. I think we can have a huge advantage on the other Prem teams that have just knocked off for the season.
It was a feature last season how we hit the ground running (and had a really good and winning friendly campaign). We can get 2 more friendlies/practice games in than the rest of the Prem. If we’re as fit as fiddles by the 1st game and the fixtures drop right, we can make hay for the 1st month of the season.
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Off the BBC website:
The transfer window is now closed for signings for the remainder of the season.
Premier League, Football League and Scottish Premier League clubs cannot sign any players, on loan or full transfers, until the transfer window ahead of the 2009/10 season opens on 1 July.
Outside of the transfer windows, any club may still sign players on an emergency basis (such as if they had no goalkeepers available) with the permission of their competition’s governing body, such as the Premier League.
Players who are out of contract and do not have a club, can be signed outside of the transfer window if they are unattached free agents when the window closes.
The transfer window does not apply to clubs below Blue Square Premier level.
*Argument over*
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What Kightly forgot in the prospective arrivals is how much you are prepared to pay and what wages will they get As we found out last year Fulham is a far more attractive club to play for than us.Forget the heritage,fanbase etc.the premiership is all down to money when trying to sign players with experience.If your not prepared to pay for it you have to gamble as we did.
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i think all contracts run until a set date. So anyone coming to the end of thier contract will not be available until that set date has passed.
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Those who want new signings through the door quickly are going to be disappointed; the transfer window doesn’t open until July 1st.
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This is copied from the RULES OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE
SECTION M
TRANSFERS OF PLAYERS’ REGISTRATIONS
TransferWindows
1. “TransferWindows” means the 2 periods in a year during which, subject to Rule M.4, a Club
may apply for the New Registration of a player or to have the registration of a player
transferred to it or for a Temporary Transfer.
2. The first Transfer Window in any year shall commence at midnight on the last day of the
Season and shall end on 31st August next if aWorking Day or, if not, on the firstWorking Day
thereafter, at a time to be determined by the Board.
3. The second TransferWindow in any year shall commence at midnight on 31st December and
shall end on 31st January next if aWorking Day or, if not, on the firstWorking Day thereafter,
at a time to be determined by the Board.
4. Outside a TransferWindow the Board in its absolute discretion may:
4.1 refuse an application; or
4.2 grant an application and, if thought fit, impose conditions by which the Club making the
application and the player shall be bound.
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19. I find it odd that, like most other Boggie fans, you are comparing Wolves with the West Brom, which went up last season.
There are some similarities, but for once let’s contrast and this may explain why we will be ultimately more successful…
1) We are a bigger and more famous club, better equipped for the Prem (in every department)
2) WBA are a YO YO club.
3) Our promoted side is better (and improving) than your promoted side before signings.
4) Our style of play is more effective for a lower half premier side (set pieces, play on the break, speed, energy, athleticism).
5) You lost your top scorer and never replaced him.
6) Our manager is a name and has more pulling power, premier experience and better connections.
7) We have a chairman who has ring fenced an additional £30m for investment before any premiership windfall.
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Axel … it is the club PR department producing all these stories and giving Kightly’s name to them.
Stories with his name to them are more likely to be believed than anyone else’s and have a calming effect on the fans.
Imagine, if you will, the sinking feeling in your stomach if this article was headed ” Moxey calls for calm on captures ” .
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its all about the wages
for example nicky butt
price = pennies
wages = £60,000 +
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23. Hahahahah Heeeeeee Hohohohoho
we’ll see come next May
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Mick out !!
look i know everyone on here is an expert, and a lot of you love nothing else than the opportunity to jump down someone else’s throat but i think its only normal for fans to be a little nervous when you consider
• our complete failure in the transfer last time we were promoted
• the Wolves pr spin was that we needed to go up in the top two so as to avoid the month delay that would follow a play-off route
• and countless fabricated/sensationalist stories by the media
however, that said, just cos we havent heard anything doesnt mean they aint happenning, so yes, its ok to be anxious, but certainly no to despair.
Come on you Wolves fans !
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PREMIER WOLVES…
PACK UP YOUR BAGGIES..LOL
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26. Good constructive response mate.
Tell me, does BB stand for Bird Brain?
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who’s panicking?
only the people who haven’t got a clue about football are panicking, the arm chair fans.
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13: SUPERSTARDJWOLVES
the 2 months thing, that creased me up.
i know the feeling of writing in haste and making an arse of myself.
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the transfer window in the summer opens on the 1st of jul and closes on the 31st of august, however if that is a playing day, then the f.a. waits until the closest monday
in the winter they open on the first of january and ends on the 31st of january again the terms above apply
i hope this is helpful
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I wonder how many of the badge kissers from down the road are looking elsewhere?
Premier league & having a laugh!
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22. there’s the facts boys.
I am not panicking, though I fail to see how we are in any kind of benfitial position having secured promotion earlier than the rest.
Tell me one club that would think, hey Wolves are now a prem club so let’s sell to them in April rather than waiting to see who else might be interested, thus making early promotion irrelevant.
To me it’s all PR spin and we’re in exactly the same boat as everyone else!!!!
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First of all whoever said it is all about finding player’s better than we have already got, needs too shut up. We have the best players in the world. Proven too be Premier standard that is why we are promoted and have left behind a class that will have too try and catch up with us. I thank Chris, Sylvan,and Michael for a wonderful season, and Chris for a superb early show that made it a fantastic season. I hope your back-up new player signings will fit right in to a great squad.
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WHILE MANAGER MICK HAS BROUGHT US TO THE PREMIERSHIP, AND ‘ALL HAIL TO MICK’ FOR WHAT HE ACHIEVED….LETS BE REALLY HONEST…A PREMIERSHIP MANAGER…HE IS NOT.
RADICAL AS IT MAY SEEM I BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD OFFER MICK A SENIOR POST IN THE WOLVES ADMINISTRATION, AND SEEK A NEW, PREMIERSHIP EXPERIENCED MANAGER TO TAKE WOLVES TO THE NEXT STEP.
IF WE LEAVE IT TO MICK WE WILL BE BACK IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP NEXT SEASON.
WE NEED A DYNAMIC MANAGER..DON’T DISCARD ENGLANDS EX ASSISTANT MANAGER, OF EVEN THE CONTROVERSIAL ‘EL TEL’ BOTH HAVE THE EXPERIENCE WE NEED NOW.
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Comment 31
Considering I made an error and your reply has confirmed to me you are a tit!
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First of all whoever said it is all about finding player’s better than we have already got, needs too shut up. We have the best players in the world. Proven too be Premier standard that is why we are promoted and have left behind a class that will have too try and catch up with us. I thank Chris, Sylvan,and Michael for a wonderful season, and Chris for a superb early season show that made it a fantastic season. I hope the back-up new player signings will fit right in to a great squad.
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Does any one know when the transfer window opens?
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36. Liz, what do you define as dynamic? Do you want Mick to wear a cape, a mask and his underwear over his trousers?
Is it not dynamic to inherit a skeleton squad, get the most out of a bunch of kids and then start to spend modest amounts on gems that have taken us to the Prem 2 years later? Hardly standing still is it?
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Folks _ listen it’s like waiting for Christmas
We all know who or what we would like – but nothing will happen until “Santa” Jez puts the presents before us on Christmas Day.
Anyway all of you will have had dissapointments in thinking you were going to get presents you wanted – but by Boxing Day you were so glad your folks got you the ones you played with.
So lets wait and see – i’m sure we’ll be ok until the New Year when you’ll all be ****ed Off with your presents they bought you
Keep writing to Santa Kids !!!
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I think you can contractually agree details and register a player at a later date.There is no doubt that Moxey appears ponderous in his negotiaions,but equally it is very difficult unless you throw money at it.At the end of the day it wiil be the quality of the signings that really matters, not the date we sign them.
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29 GB’s Premier Yead a true wolves fan agree 100% with what you say i mean that a true wolves fan mate
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36. Caps lock Off. Disengage fingers and mind.
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Folks _ listen it’s like waiting for Christmas
We all know who or what we would like – but nothing will happen until “Santa” Jez puts the presents before us on Christmas Day.
Anyway all of you will have had dissapointments in thinking you were going to get presents you wanted – but by Boxing Day you were so glad your folks got you the ones you played with.
So lets wait and see – i’m sure we’ll be ok until the New Year when you’ll be dissapointed with your presents they bought you
But thats’ life Kiddo’s
Keep writing to Santa Kids !!! You might be lucky if your Good
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No 23,Why are you claiming wolves are a bigger club.have you forgot you have spent 2 seasons in the 4th division,Albion never been there.How about gone bust twice, never done that either.We have also spent 14 more sesons in the top flight.We ar both top clubs but remember your place WE ALWAYS BEAT THE wolves
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Kiddo’s its like waiting for Christmas – Just wait until Santa Jez and his helpers bring for you.
I know you’ve all been writing you wish lists – but who any of you have got everything what they wanted for Christmas.Keep writing the letters and let’see who comes.
By the way we’ve all had Christmas Presents on Christmas Day only to get bored with them by the New Year.
This is no different from any other year – so keep thinking and sending your letters to Santa and be suprised !!
By the way Steve Morgan might wish to recruit more Elves Like Ward and Collins – but that’s just a Joke
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GB’s Premier Yead a true wolves fan mate i agree 100% in what you say you shoud be wolves bloger when nathan stands down i mean that mate. we will make good signings the club are not going to stand still and undo all the good work thats been done over the last three years UP THE WOLVES
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No 3, I am flattered you seek to imitate me, you obviously do not have a brain with enough thought power to form your own opinions.
Well said Kights, Patience is the key, signing players will obviously take time.
trust in the 3 M’s
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I see that Bolton are prepared to pay Spurs the £6 million we wouldn’t for Huddlestone. Whilst not overly impressed with him when he was on loan with us I hope it’s not a reflection of the board’s apathy and lack of ambition like in 2003-4 after they have said it would be differnt this time. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt at present and accept that they just don’t think he’s worth the fee. If a similar situation arises however with another player then we will know the truth.
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Comment #36 Have you already forgot that MM took us up this year as champions??? Seriously some people need to get a grip some are even sayon for him to be sacked! You really do make me laugh.
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I see that Bolton are prepared to pay Spurs the £6 million we wouldn’t for Huddlestone. Whilst not overly impressed with him when he was on loan with us I hope it’s not a reflection of the board’s apathy and lack of ambition like in 2003-4 after they have said it would be different this time. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt at present and accept that they just don’t think he’s worth the fee. If a similar situation arises however with another player then we will know the truth.
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cheapscate moxey again i fear.
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We need to increase the Ground capacity and also fill in the corners, i know Wolves have had planning permission to build on top of the Billy Wright stand. So come on Steve Morgan aswell as building a premier team, build us a premier ground.
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We can’t be patient or all the good signings will be gone. We need to talk to agents quick moxey. These are who i wud like to see:
1. Steve Sidwell (Aston Villa)
2. Soel Ki Hyoen (Fulham)
3. Lee Croft (Norwich)
4. Henderson (Sheffield United)
5. Elliot (Bristol City)
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I’m sure Mick, Jez, and Morgan are sat in the conference room every day, dipping Rich Tea biscuits into cup after cup of Yorkshire Tea.
Nice cuppa Mick- don you want me to get on the phone and buy you a player? Which one?
Not sure, not given it much thought. Lovely biscuits these.
Maybe after another cup we should draw up a short list.
No point, Steve.
Why not. Well, I was looking on the Wolves page, and all the fans say that we are not allowed to buy anyone until July.
Oh.
And secondly, most of the players will end up at Fulham or Bolton.
Silence.
Anybody want anything from the shop?
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blimey, has only been a few hours. speculation is growing but if signings were already made they would be awful and rushed
p.s. albion = stupid
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It would appear the transfer market is in full swing and everyone already getting in a tiss over who we have not signed. If we cast our minds back we rushed on siging players in our last trip to the PL and look where that go us. I think a little common sense is in order and lets see what our backroom team ( SM MM JM ) do as pre season training has not even started…
Tamworth Wolves
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23) Some constructive criticism, allow me to retort,
No1) see No 46
No 2)are you forgetting, to be a yo yo club you first need to be promoted??? and I’m not talking 4th to 3rd division !!!
No 3) Very debatable, you won a very average Championship, where Reading and Blues did everything they could to self implode, and where in your last 10 matches you struggled to beat bottom clubs 1-0, do you think Blues and Burnley will do a Stoke and Hull?
No 4) You are kidding yourself if you think your style of player will guarantee 4th from bottom or better
No 5) absolutely right, for the sake of only ONE of our players, who was easily worth the 4 points over a season we needed to stay up, only ONE player.
No 6) premier experience? better connections? I cant see too many players break down his door, and his track record in Premier League is exactly what ? for example will he be offered Champions League football next season ?, where it looks likely Mowbray will with Celtic!!
No 7) it is good you have an extra 30 million to spend, but, pound for pound spent since the Sir Jack era you have had, and spent several millions more than Albion, and yet, over the same period you have not had as much success, or won as many head to heads as we have. Truth is, if we had had a quarter of the money you have wasted we would be an established Premier League club now, not just a team about to get their 2nd Premiership Promotion.
If you are going to be arrogant and spout drivel, at least try and make it a bit factual.
think about it?
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59 Mr Fox…I see it took you til 4.08 am to make an attempt at an argument. I think that says it all. You’re clearly clutching at straws. But I commend your effort and think you should be offered a response…
1) If time in topflight is a measure, Burnley are bigger than Leeds then? Everton bigger than Man U?
2) To complete your point…you need to be promoted AND RELEGATED.
3) I’m not interested what Blues or Burnley do…we won’t do an Albion, that’s all I’m saying (Oh and Hull will finish bottom next season)
4) Your “romantic” style of play made you finish a “romantic” bottom of the league. A poor man’s Arsenal that will be muscled out of it in the Championship.
5) Tomorrow Tomorrow your always a day away
6) There is more chance of Wolves taking the Celtic manager…see point 1 ref big clubs
7) We are New Wolves. The Sir Jack era left us with a ground and nothing else. Mick has taken this club from point zero to the Prem in 3 years under a new regime. We will be playing European football in another 3…mark my words.
Now get some sleep…you’ve a long hard season ahead (outside the topflight and counting, which means by your definition you’re getting smaller as every day goes by)
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60)Oh Dear, I feel I have rattled a nerve, but if you wish to continue,
1) You’ve missed the point completely, No 46 did not only say top flight stays, and it was based on going bust due to no revenue from support, or being in the bottom league.
No2) of course you need to be promoted and relegated, but the optimum word is PROMOTED, any fools can get relegated as in top flight to basement in 3 seasons? To say you wont be doing an Albion is very, very arrogant and naive at best, and, is one of the reasons your fans are not very popular.
3) You may not be worried about what Burnley and Blues do, but if you are going to try and predict the future, you can only do this on past facts, can you not.
4) Yes our “romantic” style of play saw us relegated, it also saw us praised by pundits and fans alike for being entertaining and fresh, rather than usual lump it up the field and hope, time and time again teams who try this in the Premiership ALWAYS get found out, its a revolution and revolutions need time to build.
No 5) seeing has you have not argued this point you must concur to agree.
No 6) I have no idea what you are trying to say, have Celtic come in for Mick then?
No 7) Are then saying that the Sir Jack era is like the Bobby in the shower Dallas episode, a whole period did not matter? thats a bit disrespectful to Sir Jack don’t you think?
And finally, the reason for the lateness of my reply is I am working nights this week ( I presume from your times of contributing you do not work, and hence, have lots of time to compose your efforts ) If, you are stating that we are by “definition getting smaller” because this season we are out of the Prem, remember we have completed four seasons their already, by your own definition than,you have some catching up to do to be as “small” as us?
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61) I have no nerves to rattle. They all magically disappeared when promotion was gained this season. I’m absolutely chilled now. But I’m having great fun hearing from my Albion chums like you so lets carry on….
1) We’ll agree to differ on size of club. You and 46 judge size on the lowest point a club has reached…I judge on world wide fame, past glories, present status, size of following, catchment area, media coverage and sustainability. Sustainability is just one of my criteria you’ll note. (You make Coventry a bigger club than Leeds don’t you?)
2) I make no apologies for being arrogant. Arrogance is borne by success. Success is borne by ability and will. Ability and will are borne by planning and expertise. Planning and expertise underpin Mick McCarthy’s New Wolves and will continue to do so for the next decade and more. Is it not arrogant to post on a Wolves topic when you’re a Boggie fan?
3) The future is best predicted on current facts my friend.
4) Can I join those plaudits and say you are the most attractive side to ever get relegated. Long may you continue to play your attractive football. I wish you continued success with it.
5) Let me rephrase so you understand…Close but no cigar.
6) No Celtic wouldn’t waste their time or ours. A Premiership manager is beyond their reach.
7) Looking back, you’re right the whole period does not matter now. Now that we are in the Premier with a fantastic squad of gifted and emerging talent and funds to strengthen…this is all that matters now.
I hope you get to read this before you start your nights. Well done. I know I couldn’t manage nights…far too much like hard work for me. I was watching an episode of Dallas once and it dawned on me…if you want to make something of yourself, stop watching this tripe and educate yourself. That way you can post on the internet any time you like because you won’t be a wage slave, you’ll be your own boss (and what’s remarkable is that the internet was not even invented at the time!)
What are you a security guard?
Keep up the good work my friend.
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Oh dear, you really are getting rattled aren’t you. Just to but your mind at rest, I actually run two businesses, not that I think there is anything wrong with being a security guard, I am not condesending enough to believe anyones job is “beneath” me as you obviously do. As for Dallas, never watched it, but I’m aware of it, its called having a general knowledge, its all part of being educated, anyway to argue with your logic, I’m not going to go down “my Dads bigger than yours” route your obviously aiming for, suffice to say education wise I am quietly confident it is better than yours.
1)world wide fame,debatable, you basing this on what??
past glories we can match you on
present status one of the only clubs that turns a profit each year and is financially sound and sustainable, without having to rely on sugar daddies thank you very much.
Size, your gate is no bigger than ours.
Catchment area, yes its good when a town club matches a cities following isn’t it, much more of an achievement.
Media coverage, are you serious? what past year, 2 years? we have had way more exposure on the media (don’t forget FA cup run)
2) “you make no apologies for being arrogant”, say no more!
3)The current facts are as a newly promoted team, with nothing new to offer, you are doomed to relegation before you start. Thats why the bookmakers make newly promoted teams favourite for the drop, based on CURRENT facts.
4)See above, and then at least try something new/different.
5)You said it,we needed ONE player, not EIGHT, in fact, if you had been promoted with us, we did not even need that one player, with our usual 6 points from you we would have been safe.
6)So you are saying Mick has no ambition to play in Champions League? (can I point out by the way,what Mick did in 3 Tony done in 2)
7) poor old Jack, he deserves better, a lot better.
Now I know you said sitting down like a security guard was too much like hard work for you, but if you can find time in your busy schedule, please, feel free to reply.
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59 to 63 – Bit early for Wimbledon , isn’t it boys ?
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Thanks for “Butting” my mind at ease. I am happy for my posts to stand alongside yours as an indication of our respective intelligence.
Well done on running your two businesses. Although if you are having to work nights are you running them or are they running you? A work-life balance that’s the key although I can understand your desire to take your mind off current football events. Immerse yourself in work, it will aid the grieving process.
I’m finding it difficult to elaborate over the points again and again when you move on inaccurately with replies such as…
Past glories, we can match you on…WRONG
Present status…POOR REPLY…Chelsea & Man U are in debt with sugar daddies…
Gate…we both have grounds too small for our support when in the top flight, potential gate is the point you failed to make.
I am finding it hard to motivate myself to continue this debate with such inadequate and inaccurate replies as these coming back. Alas, I feel it is taking too much of my time to keep correcting you (and there’s an episode of Dallas I’ve recorded, which I need to watch as part of the OU degree I am doing in my spare time)
But one final very telling point made in your email. We are not doomed to relegation as a promoted team. No one is. You are showing the scars of a very very poor and lack lustre campaign last season. Looking from the outside in you did seem to give up a little bit too easily this time round and I’m wondering if West Brom has the stomach to keep Yo-Yo-ing up and down so uncontrollably. How can you possibly stabilise?
I think it is noticeable (understandably so) that your posts have an undercurrent of jealousy and malice. This worries me. I think it will destroy you if we succeed.
When we do, I’ll cut short the celebrations and say a little prayer for you (and you two businesses).
Cheers, it’s been fun.
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64) lol, look he started it ,lol
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It’s the likes of Fox in the Box who’s making this close season so satisfying. Anything they can cling to……
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So much for the window starting in July, Gareth Barry signs for Man City! Told you I was right!
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I hate to be a doom and gloomer, because I always hate people who are so negative on here, but if we wont pay the money for quality like Huddlestone, who are we going to buy…. like Mick said we need Premier League Experience. That means buying some Serbian who hasn’t been to England let alone played in the Prem League isnot going to cut it… Same old story Moxey
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69,
So, do you think we should fund Harry Rednapp’s summer spending spree by paying over the top for a mid table reserve team player??
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The transfer window opens 1st July.This doesnt stop clubs signing players.The rule states,players who sign before that date cant participate in any offical fixture.Being that the Prem,doesnt start till 15th aug,this rule is a bit of a nonsence.
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67) I think you are taking me out of context, true I am no fan of Wolves, but neither do I wish them any ill, I am even less of a fan of the gulf thats growing between teams such as ours and the Untouchables at the top of the greed league, as you will find out this season, dodgy referee decisions, F.A. bias, inability to compete financely, you have all this to come. I was merely reacting to some one who was trying to big up their team by slating mine, and using spurious arguments to do it (No 60)Europe in 3 years!!). That said, a reality check is needed, you are going to find, as we did, winning the Championship was the easy part, now the hard times begin.
Good Luck.
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65) dear oh dear, empty vessels and all that, you obviously like the sound of your own voice, and it most be lonely up there on your high horse, I refer you to my answer no 72) but you Sir are riding for a very big fall, and when you do I will be here to remind you how foolish and naive you really are.
p.s. if you are going to do a degree, try doing a proper one, other than the media studies you say you are studying, it will be better for you in the long run, I know you said your lazy, but hard work really did not kill anyone!
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