Gleeson set to be sold to MK Dons
Friday 26th June 2009, 10:58AM BST.
Wolves are on the brink of their first sale of the summer with the departure of midfielder Stephen Gleeson to Milton Keynes Dons.
The 20-year-old Republic of Ireland international ended the season at Stadium MK on loan and is moving south for an undisclosed fee.
Gleeson, who missed the Dons’ play-off bid after injuring his ankle, made just three League appearances for Wolves and failed to appear for Mick McCarthy’s Championship winners.
He did win a shock international call-up for his country under Steve Staunton, gaining two caps.
But the homegrown Dubliner has proved himself in the lower divisions after three hugely successful loan spells at Stockport, who he helped to promotion to League One via the Wembley play-offs a year ago, playing 27 games.
The same season he also played four games for Hereford, who were also promoted from League Two.
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Meh…
If he couldn’t do it in the Championship then the Prem would be a tall order for him. Wish him all the best with his move to MK Dons though.
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Good to see all the old dead wood is going. Just need the likes of Collins n Ward shipping out now.
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Yet another case of our old youth system failing to bring a lad with talent through.
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Very sorry that he didn’t manage to establish himself at Molineux and he looked a decent prospect, but if Mick doesn’t see him as potential premiership player, better for him to move to a level where he can get first team football. Good luck to him, and I’ll be following his career with interest.
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Wolvesmod…..if you think a 20yr old can be discarded as “old dead wood” you need to open your eyes a bit.
Perhaps Gleeson doesn’t play McCarthy’s style, but his career is just beginning and he can go a very long way in a different team.
We might even want him back in a few years!
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A few more can follow you out the door.
I am not nervous about the lack of signings coming in, honest!!!!! Still im keeping the faith but I just hope the old staying up on a shoe string wont take hold again. We havnt touched much of the £30 mil and then the extra premier cash on top!! But im not nervous. Much. Do you believe me?
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I hope this will not be another midfielder from our ranks that comes back to haunt us ie Mahon, Andrews and Clingan.
We are probably talking pittance and I believe he will be a class act.
People on here keep mentioning Ward. If you are talking Stephen Ward, you are clueless and your opinion on football means nothing. He was one of our best players last season. Fact!
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why are u posting this we dont care just sign some 1 for god sake birms have signed 6 people already and have said today they want to sign at least another 5 players is it me or do we look a joke ? and morgan is saying that we got the team to handle the premiership im sure birms have got the same good players in there team as we have they may have a few better than ours and look how many there buying at this rate birms are staying up wolves are coming down all cause of us being so cheap again aint moxley learnt nuffin from 2003!
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He’ll probably be playing Premiership and International football in a couple of years like Keith Andrews and Mark Davies, whilst we have to put up with Collins & Ward every week.
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Well done Gleeson to get away from MM, never get a chance at Wolves while he is there
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7. i totally agree how can people call stephen ward deadwood. he was quality last season
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7. Too right! A striker switches to Full back position and looks like a natural and you get idiots coming on here slating him as usual.
Did you even watch the games wolvesmod? Because everyone who sat around me in the Southbank had praise for Stephen Ward all last season.
What an idiot you are…
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Do you believe me? errrmmm nah.
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I’ve heard it all now “Stephen ward our best player ?” there is some crap written on here but if people seriously think he has anyhting to offer us in the prem is clueless . It has to be a wind up surely ? Would anyone on here seriously play him next season ? I must be missing something but I’m open to a debate on it
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ward was only decent at left back when he played against wingers with no pace, when we played blues he got destroyed. With all the pace in the prem – walcott, lennon, young etc hes going to have no chance.
And everytime he played left wing he was to slow to pass a player and gave the ball away cheaply more often than any other player.
No chance he’ll cut it in the prem.
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Gleeson aint good enough to weak for a start,and how can you say that Andrews,Davies and clingan have come back to huant us? also yes brum have signed 6 players but i would only prob have 1 out of them down here
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Good luck to Stephen.
12 LCW agree with your comments about Wardy, but don’t waste your time trying to reason with Wolvesmod, I suspect he shares the same single brain cell as Bob Wolf – if you know what I mean !!
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Ward is not gonna cut it in the Prem, what planet are you on!! His lack of pace is criminal and anyone with praise for him is a real muppet.
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This was inevitable given our promotion. I’ve not doubt he’ll go on to be a very good player but I think it’s the best move for both parties and the fairest move for the player. Good luck Stephen.
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Worrying times ahead me thinks,Another young lad shipped out now looking to sign Tommy Smith(Watford)and Surman (Southampton)For gods sake WHERE IS the Quality players we were promised? 1 million pound players are not the answer,Unfortunatly looks like Moxey has not learned from previous experience in the premier league.In the games i saw at the mol last season SW did ok BUT it is a different ball game now and i believe that he would be seriously out of his depth in the prem at left back.We have to speculate to accumulate in this league but unfortunatly it appears that a working profit overides footballing success in Moxeys mind.
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Shame. I thought this guy had a lot of potential and looked to use the ball very well.
Davies, Andrews, Mahon, Clingan – we’ve let too many of our homegrown young midfielders go in haste. We may be in the prem now but just because he’s not quite ready for that level yet is not in itself a reason to sell a promising 20-year old. The mantra is “young and hungry” but I’m concerned we’re not giving our homegrown young and hungry players a chance.
If we don’t see at least one significant signing in the next few days I fear it will be only one season in the top flight anyway. Matt Kilgallon or Calum Davenport would do for me (or preferably both).
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I thought he would be good enough for us.
It certainly isnt the end for him and he only has to look at Keith Andrews who was discarded and now he is apparantly a fans favourite at Blackburn with a £2m prive tag on his head!!!
Good luck Stephen.
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Could someone get a new keyboard for tom (sic) please? One with commas and full stops. I’m getting tired of paddling in his stream of consciousnous.
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thought ward did ok but would have elokobi at left back in the prem. i thought gleeson had a lot of potential and to be honest we could have loaned him out again like we probably will with vokes.
i am also a bit nervous about the lack of new faces…we need to be brave and splash some cash to show other targets we mean business
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8 – the only joke around here is you and your stupid opinions.
Why don’t you go and support Blues if you love them that much? They need the money after spending half their budget on some pudding from Ecuador.
I wonder how you dress yourself in the morning because you’re such a moron.
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18 BW
I’m on the planet ‘Bob’s Brain’ and I must admit it’s very boring here – hardly any lights on at all in fact !!
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tellitlikeitis…
Shocking comeback to be perfectly honest pal, I’d stick to dishing out praise for your mates Ward, Collins and Keogh. If you were in charge for next year we’d have Silas back playing on the wing and Luzhny at the back!!
What a plonker you are!!
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Stephen Ward is gas whatever position he is asked to play.
I don’t think he’ll cut it as a leftback in the premier though, should push on as a left midfielder.
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25) Come back to me when you have ever been anywhere with Wolves.
I said that Ward was one of our best players last season and I am right. I am not for one minute suggesting that he would start in the Premiership and neither should hill.
16)Nick is at Glastonbury, so you are an imposter. Clingan has certainly played his part against us for Norwich and so has Mahon for QPR and Watford. As for Andrews, he is now worth £2m plus!
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It’s not a major source (my mate works in the club shop) but he tells me …
The 3 M’s have a few deal in place for players in principle but the club’s we’re buying from would sell ‘till they have secured the signing that they want !
A kinda cascade effect and once the Chelsea, Man U and Arsenals start signing players the flow down will open up our signings
(by the way, he’s heard that Vassell from Man City is a cert)
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8)
I can partly understand your frustrations but our lack of activity is only relative compared to the Blouses and their desperation purchases. How many CB’s do they need? As I said we are messing about again over Matt Mills and I really like what I’ve seen of this lad – sign him now or the Blouses will nab him and he is one I would get peeved over if he went to them (unlike the other two CB’s they have signed so far).
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25) I apologise, you were not having a dig at me. Some people on here have a pop as I am a brummie – like thousands of others!
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How can ANYBODY justify Stephan Ward being a Premiership player? He’s just about a Championship player.
FFS he can’t run for starters!
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Has anyone else heard that Matt Killgalon is linked with us AND BIRMINGHAM! I can really see the appeal of Blues cus they’ve only signed 3 CBs so far, so not much competition! Do they think they’ll have a better defence if they have lots of CB’s when theres only 2 slots to fill.
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Pitiful performance in transfer market. Prospective targets are unlikely to come when they see Birmingham and even Burnley! outdoing us in recruitment. After Christmas it’ll be the “Molineux Sales”: SEB & Kites sold to a top-ten team. Very sad the lesson of 2003 seems to have been forgotten.
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Told you all 48 hours ago that Tommy Smith was a target.
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35. Burnley have signed nobody. They are in talks with a guy from Derby? Blues have signed championship players.
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People keep slating Blues’s signings but what have we signed? I keep hearing posters saying that Benitez is rubbish. Have any of you seen the guy play?
If Surman and Smith are the level of our sigings this summer then we are in serious difficulties next season!
I appreciate that signing players is not easy but that is where a good CEO comes into effect surely?
The fact is we report back for Pre Season training on Monday having signed one goalkeeper and a midielder who hasn’t even got a work permit yet. In my opinion another seven signings are needed at least with five of them being proven quality and a couple of younger players for the squad.
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well we let davies go and i expect we will let little,and jones go all good young players,but not ONE of them giving a chance by m.m. now we are after t smith what a joke. what is the point of our academy as m.m. as not played 1 person from it.
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The simple fact is not every player who comes from the youth side is going to make it. Even the best in the land (Man U) dont make it. For every David Beckham there will be a Luke Chadwick.
Our youth system rarely fails, cant really mention Clingan, he like Gleesan is a poor champ player at best unfortunately. Over the last 10 years we have seen Murray, Keane, Naylor, Lescott, Hennessey all come through and alot of clubs and fans would be proud of that.
As for signings, why are the blues suddenly the benchmark for us? They have signed 6 players just to catch up with us!
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39) Not one?? I suppose you dont count the fact that Hennesy and Ikeme came through? Or the fact that Little and Jones were given debuts by MM. Get ya facts right mate!
These youth arent being used as they arent good enough. Would you rather Little played RB than Foley or Stears? Or Jones instead of Jarvis? If so, i’ll have what your drinking!
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29) MATE I AM NOT AN IMPOSTER if you look at how you spell my name you will realise you moron..
ok Andrews is worth 2 mill your prob one of the guys shouting to get rid of him..mahon has never done anything against us and as for clingan ,what div is he playing in again?
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I see all the rubbish the Wolves press office keeps putting out about transfer targets has had the desired effect…..19000 season tickets sold!
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41 – The reason McCarthy played Little and Jones back then was because he couldnt really afford to bring many players in. I am quite sure though that Mick will play our youngsters if he thinks they are good enough.
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38,LOWER PENN WOlf agree 100% mate,serious doubts with JM’S ability as a premiershipn CEO,may be able to wheel and deal in the fizzy pop league but now we are back in the big time things appear to be crawling along.Why are we even considering Smith and Surman, when experience and quality(prem)is required.At least blues (whatever your views are)seem to have an idea of how they intend to stay in the prem and are going for it,whilst we are being linked with every Tom Dick and Harry(None except Doyle)that seem to be better than what we already have,Plenty of promises but nothing Tangible,2003 all over again.
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Keep Calm, dont panic, 1st July will see the signings begin.Keep the faith.
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42) Nick the Greek is a brummie and goes home and away. You don’t. So jog on!
My point is players like Gleeson, Little, Gobern, Elliot Bennett could become extremely good players.
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This was supposed to be a forum about Stephen Gleeson, but Waldorf and Stadler (self imposed les miserables muppets Bob Wolf and Wolvesmod) soon turned it into the Ward and Collins show.
For pity’s sake change the record !
Unfortunately most kids don’t make it, but a few like Stephen Gleeson prove themselves good potential professionals as they mature. Good luck mate, hope you do a Keith Andrews.
Keep your nerve Wolf cubs….Birmingham will continue to ‘Trash the Cash’ they still have to replace more of the tripe they put out last season.
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19,000 is nothing. We had 19,000 ST holder’s for a few seasons in the Championship.
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they say gleeson does’nt play the way mm likes so will mm be playing collins and ward as usual,we’ll be hammered if he thinks these players will do it in the prem,still keep the faith,lets see the signings roll in soon fingers crossed.
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Bob Wolf
Like I care what your opinion is ?????
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Good luck Stephen
Some shocking comments on here from idiots using phrases such as dead wood etc ..the same clowns who start preaching about footballers showing loyalty etc ..then happy to slate a 20 year old rookie
Wrong place wrong time Stephen … another good product of the Youth Academy ..Im sure we’ve got sell on clauses galore inserted into the deal
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47) Ive been going home and away for the last 23 years lad ..seen the good and bad times so jog on…sorry didnt realise you and him were lovers..also im half greek and my name is Nik so thats where my name comes from…..anyway about gleeson the lad aint good enough thats why he is dropping down a div
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9 Wolvesmod:
“whilst we have to put up with Collins & Ward every week.”
You are truly a joke,along with your comments.
Taking the “WE” as meaning YOU,you don’t have too.
Get yourself some fishing rods & go fishing!
It’s less stressful!
The spending ain’t over yet!
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Mr Mod
What’s up haven’t you had your cheerios today???
Few points
Whilst Steven Ward ain’t my fav player & wouldn’t be in my starting 11 next season, nor would at the back end of last season to be honest, you have to give credit where its due, he played in a championship WINNING team, so show the lad some respect. I think some of you lot on here think it was our right to win the league coz we had a good start I can think of about 3 seasons in the last 15 when we have challanged for automatic promotion, one of them, last season we lead the league from start to finsh & all concerned deserve a massive amount of credit for that.
Secondly you state that 19,000 season tickets is “nothing”, a month & a half before a ball is to be kicked, I’d have a good bet that there is no more than 10 clubs in the country that have sold more.
I mean whats the matter with you????
You aint stopped whinging since we lifted the trophy are you getting any or something???
You sound like you’ve won the lottery & lost the ticket.
FFS chill out & let the club go about its business.
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I see Blues are looking to bring in an additional 4 more players. NOW THATS AMBITION! MORGAN TAKE NOT, AT LEAST THE BOARD RECOGNISE THERE OWN TEAM WOULD STRUGGLE IN THE PREM, WOLVES ON PAPER WILL STRUGGLE IN THE PREM.
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19,000 is nothing…..
We had 50,000+ at the Sherpa Van in 87
It took Ferguson ages to build his team, ditto Wenger.MM as only been in the job 3 years!
Rome was not built in a day!
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you can smell the bitterness in wolvesmod, bob wolfs and malta wolfs posts, cant you?
all season long they said MM would balls promotion up and he didn’t. all season long they smashed Ward, yet his only real bad game was sheff utd at home at xmas. all roads lead to collins and ward with these albion fans. bore off will you ?
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Actually Tommy Smith is a first rate player and was 2nd in the Actim index only to Ebanks Blake followed by Kevin Doyle (3rd) and Stephen Hunt (4th), I think 1 million plus for someone of his calibre is a bargain and would make a superb substitute winger – wishing stephen all the best!!
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Ive been going home and away for 23 years lad sorry didnt realise you are Wolves number 1 fan..
All im saying is these players are not good enough for our squad so why keep them?
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i can assure everyone the academy is as good as the best, some of the lads there are quality. Thats measuring them against current premiership teams. some of the reason why they dont develop is because too many muppet fans expect success week in week out.What do you expect MM to do, try and win or have moaning mirtles on his back.Kids need time to develop, not everyone starts growing at the rate required, some are late developers, but the talent is there.
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Number 8, Tom…
I know we are on here to talk about Wolves, and their signings (or lack thereof, which by the way, doesn’t concern me) but I just need to take a few seconds out of my day to show you how correct spelling and grammar can make you look like less of a bumbling idiot…
Here is how your post SHOULD read:
Why are u posting this? We dont care, just sign some 1 for god sake! Birmingham have signed 6 people already and have said today they want to sign at least another 5 players! Is it me or do we look a joke? Morgan is saying that we’ve got the team to handle the premiership, I’m sure Birmingham have got the same good players in their team as we have. They may have a few better than ours and look how many there buying! At this rate Birmingham are staying up and Wolves are coming down! All because of us being so cheap again! Hasn’t MOXEY (For god sake, call yourself a fan? You can’t even get your own CEO’s name right!) learnt nothing from 2003?
There…Now I feel better!
I am liking the Kilgallon link as well, really rate him as a centre back.
I have Faith
Up The Wolves!
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An absolute disgrace he has never been given a chance he will come back to haunt us just like Davies.Ward will be outclassed in Premier he has no pace and Keogh will spend all his time on his backside. ONE BIG JOKE.why don’t you unload them.
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37) Yet again you have out done yourself….
laughingwolf said: Jun 25th, 2009 at 11:29 am We are a newly promoted club who do not pay ridiculous money like some so we have certain limitations. However as we have found out in the last 3 years you can pick up some quality from smaller clubs or fringe players from other clubs if we get the 4 below were be somewhere handy:
Kevin Doyle or Jason Scotland
Joe Ledley
Ronald Zubar
Shaun Davies
Loan:
Macheda
Aaron Ramsay
majority championship players. And lets be honest you have a team full of em at the minute. I was at the Stoke accademy with Karl Henry and he tells me your thinking of putting a cheeky bid in for Chris Eagles.
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Never mind all the debate whether Stephen ward is good enough, have you seen who we want to sign… Tommy bloody Smith, why???
Typical MM player, average championship player, shocking!
Yet we’re offloading a promising young lad in Gleeson.
I’ve tried to remain optimistic over our summer targets but if morgan says we’re only signing 6 players, if we were to sign smith and surman, that would leave 2 more signing’s. We need at least 2 defenders, a midfielder and 2 strikers.
Oh and back to Stephen ward, not the most gifted player but did a job for us last season that i’m grateful for, we could’ve had Matt Hill all season!
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Watch him at Telford and threw a ball that had gone out at the time. He was a good person. He’ll do well and will come back to haunt us.Its a shame.
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I’d love to be living in the Midlands so that I could buy myself a season ticket… but I cannot believe how many miserable, negative “fans” Wolves seem to have!!
MM will not play a youngster if he feels they are not good enough. He will not keep a player just *in case* they come good. He helped us win the Championship and yet you grumpy old gits think you all know better.
So Alex Ferguson and Man Utd are absolute rubbish because they let SEB go?
You lot would find something to moan about if you won the damn lottery!! Wolves are Premier League – s m i l e ! Let the people employed by the club do their thing and wait to see what happens rather than spending your lives voicing an opinion that will have absolutely no bearing on things!!
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He was a class player when he played for us on loan last year. He is far better than Keith Andrews was when he played for us and Gleason is just 20yrs.
Keith Andrews singned for MK Dons for free and sold to Blackburn for £1.2 million
Stephen Gleason ? Sold for £2 million+ I bet.
See you at the friendly @ Stadium:MK you better get some practice in on how to use our roundabouts.
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At 20 years old i think we should at least be thinking about loaning him out again,,a mean look at ebanks-blake 3 years ago no one heard of him,,now hes the best striker outside the prem and will be a key player for next season,,weve loaned gleeson out for 2 seasons and hes been ace.I cant see mkdons paying 1mill+ for him so why sell him when we can loan him out and have some one else pay his wages for a while?From what ive seen of this lad you can not nock his comitment at all and if he keeps that ambition all hes gona do is improve.
Personally i would like us to be getting rid of collins,d.ward,shackell,potter..
loaning the like of gleeson,vokes and keogh out
moxey and morgan said theres gona be a total of 6,7 signings so some one has got to make way or theres gona be quite a few players that are gona be unhappy next season.
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Gleeson has been unfortunate and wish him all the best. Personally I would have kept him on loan for a few more seasons until he develops.
I suppose Jez forgot to add a “sell on clause”.
What does baffle me is the hell is Neil Collins still with us. Useless !
Stephen Ward I thought played well last season especially out of position.
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yet another young player leaving,what is the academy for? little, jones will be next then there was davies. m.m nether played any of them why?? it a bad joke.
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The thing is with Gleeson is that he is tiny.
Not saying he aint a good player I haven’t seen enough of him to form an opinion, but MM likes to have acouple of 6 footers in the middle of the park, that’s why we saw very little of Mark Davies, I’m not knocking him for it, if thats how he wants to set his team up its up to him, he’s done alright up to yet.
But that’s why Gleeson is being allowed to go & I would imagine the lad just wants to play fotball & move his career forward
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like i said be patient and you will see,we are moving onwards and upwards, July 1st.
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58,Alex Rays Butler,Read my psots correctly before you make your comments.I stated that Steven Ward played OK when i came over last season,But like a lot lot of other people am worried about his capability in the prem.Regarding MM I never said he would balls up promotion.I am a wolves fan through and through but i have a right to be concerned when so little activity is taking place in the transfer market.You obviously do not like people to have their own opinion just one that agrees with yours.
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Don’t think Doyle is coming
We should have a pp at the young Swedish kid Berg, His finish against England was quality!!!!
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