Wolves eye Pompey double raid
Thursday 25th March 2010, 11:59AM GMT.
Wolves are eyeing a double raid on Portsmouth after the Premier League opened the transfer window early to allow stars to be sold to ease the club’s £60million debts.
The Express & Star understands yesterday’s decision to allow administator Andrew Andronikou to sell players outside the window has alerted manager Mick McCarthy to resurrect the two deals the club were outbid for by Pompey for last summer.
Defensive midfielder or centre-back Aaron Mokoena is thought to have turned down a move to Molineux at the time, while winger Tommy Smith is believed to be the other target.
Mokoena, 29, signed a three-year deal after being released by Blackburn, while same-age Smith – a McCarthy capture for Sunderland in 2003 – signed for four years for £1.8million from Watford.
The Wolves boss revealed last month they were outbid by Portsmouth for two players and both of these have the Premier League experience the club tried and failed to get last summer, through Mokoena’s four years at Rovers and Smith with two at Watford.
McCarthy said at the time: “We had a player in my office and wanted to sign him, but we couldn’t match the deal being offered down there.
“Then another one we were trying to sign and we were negotiating with also ended up at Portsmouth, on a deal we wouldn’t be prepared to give him.”
Should Wolves agree anything, Pompey would insist the players are loaned back to them for the rest of this season.
Both Mokoena and Smith started last night’s 5-0 home defeat to Chelsea, while Smith scored his first goal for the club in Saturday’s 3-2 win over Hull.
Pompey are all but doomed after their nine-point deduction for entering administration, but Wolves may still need points to avoid the drop when they go to Fratton Park for their final away game on May 1.
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We should be aiming higher if we stop up and leave these type of signings to smaller clubs like west brom.
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This should lighten the mood even more between the fans. Why oh why.
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Don’t want them, money grabbing merceneries. Let them go down with portsmouth!!
And what the hell were the FA allowing pompy to offer them these mega deals when they were obviously skint??
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Why bother.
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Great get them in i rate both of them, Mick known what he is doing and what with Pompey going down players will come to us now i think it is really good news! Up the Wolves!
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O’hare please
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As a personal preference I think Dindane and O’Hara would be better choices though they are of course on loan and not Pompey players. Only other one that might be worth a look at is Belhadj (sorry if the spelling is wrong !!)
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Lazy journalism yet again, this is old news
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I sorry but i wouldn’t touch either player with a barge pole, Mokoena didnt want to know us before all he wanted was to get as much Money as possible he’s another ‘gun for hire’ who goes to who pays the most money, he’s not interested in Wolves, doubt he even knows where Wolverhampton is even.Has for Tommy Smith he’s gone backwards in the last two-three years and is no better than Halford/Surman etc, if we stay in this league and its still IF yet, then next season we should be able to attract far better players than either of those two mentioned above. And should be looking for a better class of player who’s had 3-5yrs PL experience. Besides can anyone tell me WHO they would replace in our team at present ?. Lets keep what we’ve got and wait and see where we are next season before buying new players. Hopefully we will still be in the PL, and playing like we are i think we will. GOOD LUCK FOR SATURDAY LADS. UTW
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I think they would have been good additions for this season however, are they better than what we have? I don’t think these are the types of players we are looking for; we need to build on what we already have and add more quality to the squad for next season. They would be squad players at best.
How about Sidwell from Villa, Carlton Cole from West Ham, Bentley from Spurs or Piquionne from Portsmouth (Parent club)
As soon as we’re safe we need to get busy so we don’t get left behind
UTW
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Wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole!
Surely, if we stay up, we should be going for players of better quality then Tommy Smith and Aaron Mokoena. Their incentive was money the last time we tried to sign them, and we don’t need them type of players at Molineux.
Up the Wolves, 1-1 on Saturday.
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Imagfine this is just more express and star page filler. Smith is a good championship player, nothing more and not the kind of calibre we should be going for, Mokoena may be more like it. Feel there are much better players at Pompey to be had though.
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Smith might be a decent signing.
Not sure about Mokoena though to be honest.
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Surely, if we are going to have any Protsmouth players we should go for Belhadj and O’Hara? Both are young and would significantly strengthen us in positions we need – rather than these two who simply wouldn’t!
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Hope this is a joke, we need quality players to help us push on next season not more bench warming squad players
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Dont particularly think these will improve the team substantially. Hopefully if we do get them, we can get them on the cheap though. I would have been more inclined to sign Belhadj if anybody. This shows the reasoning why we didnt sign allot of players in the transfer windows though. If you end up upping your bids to outbid other clubs, you will just end up in portsmouths situation. Would have liked to have seen some more players signed but not at the risk of doing what portsmouth have.
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Don’t forget we can’t actually play any players we do sign until next season. It’s going to be a struggle to convince these player to come us until we have confirmed what league we’ll be in next year.
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Are they any better than what we have got already!
Now that we look more than good enough for another season in the premiership then we should consider quality players only in order to qualify for a top 4 champions league place next season (ok, I’m getting carried away after that world-class performance against the Hammers)!
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Express and Star please get your facts straight. The ruling on Pompey was they could sell players but they could not leave until the end of the season so Pompey wanting them loaned back to them would not be an issue. Anyway dont want either player…. Dont do it Mick.
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Oh, Mick, please raise your sights JUST a little more in the summer, PLEASE……….
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What is this nonsense/rubbish players. Strenghtening? Sign O’Hara
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if/when we stay up these to players wont be good enough. we have better already. we need to improve the team. once safety is confirmed im looking forwad to some big signings in the summer
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I’m not convinced by either of these players.
Mokoena could be OK but isn’t any better than what we have and Smith is a definite no-no. Keogh and Foley are better player plus with Kites to come back!
It might be worth having a look at Nadir Belhadj or John Utaka but other than that, I’d leave well alone!
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E&S nothing to report so they drag up and make up superficial stories! I doubt now MM will want these players because if they havent dont the biz for Pompey why would they think they would do the biz for Wolves. Also Wolves are not guaranteed Prem football next season so I doubt Jez will be looking at players until we know which division we are in!
If there is 1 player we should try and snare is O’Hara but granted he is a spurs player.
But I am sure right on cue Laughing Wolf will give us his list of players who we would not have a chance in getting lol. Abit similar to St Louis lol.
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One player i would like to play for us next season no matter what league were in is Jamie Carragher, at 32 and years of PL experience he would be an ideal CH and Captain. I accept he’s to old to play FB, but i believe his best position as always been at CH. He leads by example he goes in hard but fair in tackles and wins 95% of them, he communicates well as a captain too, and with his experience playing at the highest level ALL his career and playing in the European/Champions League Cup he would get the Respect of every player in the squad, and hes got a good few years left in him in the Pl yet, has it appears Raffa doesn’t fancy him anymore as he speaks with the wrong S word its ‘Scouse’ and not ‘Spanish’. And if he turned out as good as the last CH we had off Liverpool ‘Crazy Horse’ ( Emlyn Hughes )who helped us reach our highest position 6th and win the League Cup in his time at Wolves, he would be a ‘Top Signing’ UTW
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What a load of rubbish! Loan them back???? They are not even allowed to leave the club until the summer! E&S sort it out go tell the baggies they are signing the rest of the squad, they will believe it!
Be a tough game on sat but I think we can snatch it 1-0!
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Even though i dont think these two players would be too much improvement, maybe tommy smith on the right wing might be a slight improvement we shouldnt judge potential signings. As i remember, at the start of the season, when we were signing Doyle, the majority of you were slating the signing and saying he was no better than ebanks blake, how wrong you were then. Let things unfold as this story is just rumours as far as i can tell at the moment.
Also O’hara and Dindane are on loan at portsmouth and therefore would not be eligible for sale until the transfer window and from their respective clubs, tottenham and lens i think. As for the money grabbing mercinaries comments, who isnt in this day and age of football. If you think we will sign someone with premier league experience and who isnt in it for the money, your probably sadly mistaken.
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I hope this is paper talk. Both players are not good enough. One thing we need to learn from last summer is that we cannot buy on the cheap. Milijas and Zubar are decent purchases and Doyle is the shrewd and class buy. We need to be looking at £5 million+ players and pay better wages.
Morgan has the money there and when we stay up we are guaranteed the TV money also.
We have not got to be silly and won’t be with Pie and a Pint Moxey overseeing things!
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Tommy Smith would be a decent signing but only as back-up. If we do stay up we need to bring in quality players that will improve the first team such as Stephen Hunt, Robbie Keane, Jamie O’hara, Jimmy Bullard, Chris Eagles etc
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If we sign these two players, does this mean that they would not be allowed to play us on the last away day? Due to us now owning the registrations?
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no thanks, why would we want to sign a C.B from the worse team in the league?
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Ragster #11.
You hit the nail on the head; why did they sign for Portsmouth. Their incentive was money, pure and simple. That’s not the kind of player we need in the dressing room.
Although i doubt there’s any kind of substance to the rumours. E&S always struggle to fill the back pages during the midweek lull so they take a whisper, expand on it and then try to report it as fact. Shame on you.
UTW.
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Firstly, Some of you seem to have forgotten O’Hara is a SPURS player and cannot be sold by Portsmouth.
Secondly,Wolfeyusa. E&S HAVE got their facts straight. Pompey cannot just sell players and then continue to play them, they would have to be loaned back, not a problem, but, legally a necessary procedure.
Actually this also allows the new parent club to invoke the option of not allowing them to play should there be a fixture between the two clubs (which might be the case should we take either of the two mentioned players).
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We were looking at these players, very much doubt we still are. Poor effort at publishing a story with old news!
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Why on earth should we give an interest free loan to Portsmouth. Save the money and get some quality in the summer.
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Tommy Smith would be a decent signing but only as back-up. If we do stay up we need to bring in quality players that will improve the first team such as Stephen Hunt, Robbie Keane, Jamie O’hara, Jimmy Bullard, Chris Eagles etc
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Hope this is just slow day journalism, they wouldn’t get in our team at the moment let alone next season, 2 journeymen who have hardly set the world alight wherever they have been. Let these money grabbers rot at pompey !
Don’t do it Mick !
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No thanks. If we stay up we have to spend and bring in top players, quality not quantity this time!
A few others like Doyle! How about another bid for Keane?
Pompey rejects don’t fit the bill. The only decent player there is O’Hara and he’s from Spurs!
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IF we’re playing Premier League football next year then I’d like to think we would aiming a little higher when it comes to new signings. O’Hara would be a great addition, though there’s going to be a few clubs interested in his services. Wheater and O’Neil at ‘Boro, Liam Lawrence of Stoke and Matt Derbyshire who’s playing in Greece would be good additions too.
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Ok can someone tell me what is wrong with the two players coming to wolves? They could help us next season to beat the drop i mean from what i have seen they both look good come on if they come cheer them on!
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NO WAY!
These two wouldn’t deserve to sit on the bench. We need a winger – Okay, lets go for Chris Eagles instead of Smith.
We might need another midfield enforcer, but why not spend a little on Mancienne or better yet, go for Marvin Elliott again.
There are so many better options out there.
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Just the type of experience wolves need to go with
the young and hungry players. What a wonderful
start to team building. Get them in.Jth.
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Please mick dont even bother to sign the pair of them to old not good enough to wear the shirt plus they didnt want to no first time round and smith isnt a premiership player just a average championship player and why should we help pompey out they do my head in with that bloody bell when they come down hear
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There is only one player at Pompey that we should consider signing. That is O’Hara.
If the others are so good why are they at the bottom of the premiership?
As far as Smith is concerned he is another E Banks Blake. Good for the championship at best.
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I would like to see us get 5 players this Summer and stick with the policy of young British/Irish players for the most part. I’d love to see us get Wheater to be the long term replacement for Craddock, O’Hara, Eagles (When Burnley inevitably go down) and Derbyshire from Olympiakos. Then some left back and the squad would be full of quality!
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O’Hara is the only player that Portmouth (Spurs) have that would be an improvement on what we already have.
SMITH / MOKOENA – NO THANKS!
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Is the idiot already at it again?Two players who obviously go for money and not loyalty and another ex-Sunderland cast off.O`Hara would be a far better buy but Mad Mick can`t see this. His choice of player is someone who is cheap and useless as previous buys have shown.Hopefully, though,we shall have a competent Manager in charge and not this idiot.Mr.Morgan,take control we don`t want another season like this one,the fans certainly don`t deserve that.Lets see some ambition for a change.
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We allready have to much rubbish here,we should have a good clearout before we buy anyone and the two players mentioned are no better than the rubbish we allready have im not sure i would trust thicko to buy anyone.
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Ye i would get Chris Eagles he is good marvin Elliott no way we need Prem players no CCC players that will be no good, Why not try to get Babel Liverpool I think he would help. Mancienne you will be looking at about 6M so will Jez paid it i think not. UP the Wolves!
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Yet again were still going for rubbish players! Same old same old with wolves. There’ll never learn!
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just paper talk! I believe mick has learnt his lesson when it comes to signing championship players to play in the premier league!
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Leave these pair alone. We definately need a quality left back. Re-sign/buy Mancienne and go for Jamie O’Hara (loan). If Hull go down then Stephen Hunt will be up for grabs. Eagles from Burnley would be another good buy. The board need to get the cheque book out because next season, the league will be stronger. Don’t want to do a Pompey but I feel we need to buy quality in certain areas of the team and off load a few who haven’t cut the mustard. Still on a high from the West Ham game. I reckon we’ll give Everton a rough ride too.
UTW
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No way should we go back for these players! They turned us down once so why should we help Portsmouth out who offered them salaries way above what they could afford when we were first interested – and we all know the rest of the story!
Leave well alone Mick, there will be bigger fish to catch when our PL place is confirmed!
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If we signed any of them we would be condoning the fact the FA changed the rules as it suited them and Pompey….All Premier Chief Exec’s should turn there backs on this opportunity if for no other reason than principal. If we finish higher up the league than our present position we would have a chance of attracting a better quality player than either of these two……and if anything did go ahead with interested clubs and a loan back was to be done, what would happen if an injury occured??????
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40) When Pompey played Arsenal Mokoena was booed by his own fans and is clearly not liked. Smith has only just got into their side. How can these two be better than what we have got and should go out to sign.
Hopefully Kites will be fit next season but someone like Eagles would be good!
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Talk of Keane again now but isn’t he as bad as these two as he turned us down aswell to go to Celtic! OOOPPPSSS Robbie that backfired! I also remember people on here saying that the alledged attempt to sign Keane was a publicity stunt even though Keane himself admitted he turned us down. Some scam that was buy the 3 M’s…. Sack them! Joke by the way. Onwards and upwards!
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Thanks but NO thanks, 2 average money grabbing players, we should be aiming higher than these 2. I’d take Kevin Prince Boateng and Tal Bin Haim stright away, they would both add real quality to the squad.
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Let’s not get to far ahead here. Assuming Wolves stay** in the Prem, other players of better quality will take a closer look at us
this time.
We do have some tradeoffs on our bench if needed which could help our cause.
MM/JM will have more going for them this time around**,also,what the lads do in their last seven games will impact our buying leverage.
Remember Newcastle dumping last year !!.Duff,Butt etc,all wanted big money,
what did they do ?
When Wolves went up last season all I wanted
was for them to stay in the Prem.If we are
succesful,then we start a new campaign.
Three/four good signings could do the job.
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Belhadj is a good shout, by no means the finished article and can play left back or on the left of midfield. The two players singled out today, smith and mokoena, aren’t as good as what we have at the moment. So why bother. We need 3 or 4 players who will improve us not just add to the squad. UTW.
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Tell me if I am wrong but Portsmouth are being let off a number of premiership rules. If they, shall we say sell 5 players and loan them back they will have 7 players on loan which is against the rules. Also say Wolves sign these 2 players and loan them back surely as stated in the premiership rules those 2 player will not be allowed to play against Wolves as their contracts will be held by us. On the second point I bet you this rule will not be adhered to and they would play against us. All this just because the premiership does not what to deal with a club going bust and having to deduct points from the “big 4″!!
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hope this is just a bad joke,as we have 35 plus average or below average player now, which we can not get rid off do not need any
more.
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I know Doyle is a great player for us but I would like to praise Jarvis also. He doesnt get the praise he deserves sometimes but he runs himself into the floor and has really shone the last 5 games.
As for this Portsmouth story, who cares.
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I agree with trying to steal some of the pompey players but surely not these 2. The only player there who I would sign is hreidarsson. Then there is piquionne, o’hara and owuso obeyi but these 3 are all on loan from other clubs. If we can get the necessary points to stay up though these are the minimum sort of players we should be trying to sign. Robbie keane may be available again as there is no way celtic have the funds to keep him on 65-70k a week.
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Mick once wanted them. Pompey can now sell them. Its pure E&S speculation that we are still interested.
I think the only way Mick would have them back on principle is with a much reduced pay deal from whatever Wolves first offered.
Anyway, if we stay up we will hopefully be looking at 5-10M & 10M+ players only.
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Let’s secure Prem status first, this is just a distraction,Pompey’s problem not ours.
Two tough games coming up – may still be on the same points tally as we are now with 33 played – then see what the table looks like.
Regarding this article, like Hunt, these guys had their chances, we must move on. Eagles sounds interesting though, and the Carragher suggestion from Tom Wolf, #25. Now I’m getting distracted.
Points on the board please before anything else, starting this Sat and that will be a real bone to chew.
coyw
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MM has been turning my opinion on him over the past month. If he goes for these two individuals I will be back on the war path. The 3 M’s have got to kick on if we stay up and that means signing some quality in key areas come July/August. Please dont let us down this summer!!!!!
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Absolutely NO NO NO They are not good enough to take us forward and certainly don’t fit in the young and hungry mould. Money orientated they are responsible with other money grabbers for Pompey being doomed before the points deduction was applied.Look elsewhere Mick for players who want to be at WOLVES.
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The only Pompey players that I’d take are:
James, Belhadj, Yebda, O’Hara, Boateng and Piquionne. Smith looked class against us earlier in the season on the left-wing, but we need to aim higher tbh.
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O’Hara is on LOAN from Tottenham so Pompey can’t sell him and we can’t buy him.
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I hope we don’t go for either….we don’t need them and we’ll beable to achieve a better standard later when we stay up.
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Coven Wolf- I agree mostly with your.
Robbie Keane- IMO He WILL be a wolves player next year IF we are a premiership club.
Jimmy Bullard- Mmmmmmm Class player if he is fit- Worth a gamble probably
Stephen Hunt- I reckon he wanted to come in January and I reckon we could get him for cheaper than what we offered then
Chris Eagles- Two footed winger to add some depth to the squad
Jamie O’Hara- No Thanks
Aaron Mokoena turned down a move to the club in January… Why should we give him a route out of there now…
Guardiara… Sign him up permanently.
Craddock and Hannemann new 12 month contracts
Mujangi Bia back to belgium, Mancienne Back to Chelsea and Hennessey out for a few million
Gary O’Neill from Middlesborough.
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well, first off smith, done nothin at pompey so why should that change next season if he came to us?? and then there’s money grabba mokewana leave him alone mick! he as already proved he is not interested in wolves.for once in your life mick, listen to the fans leave these deadheads alone!!! if you want anybody from pompey, try dindane he is the only player you should be lookin to nick. we are all aware that in this day and age the board need to be shrewd, but for god sake aim higher!!! we are almost across the finish line and the board and mick should be compiling a nice long list of targets… lets try havin a go at who we think is good enough for the mighty wolves. hunt, eagles,n’zogbia,sidwell,dindane and lastly, my big one and personal favorite…….robbie keane. go on mick bring him home!!!!!!!!!
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Warnock (Villa), Distin (Everton), Nelson (Blackburn), Carragher (L’pool), Hunt (Hull), Eagles (Burnley), O’Hara (Spurs), Walcott (Arsenal), Crouch (Spurs), Davies (Bolton). Realistic targets – well, most of them. Leave the 2 money-grabbers to go down! UTW
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McCarthy ..you dont need these players..go for scott parker & carlton cole from west ham & jamie ohara..dont waste money on these two..and while your at it dont go for hunt either from hull…
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It is too early to talk about signings for next season,let us get the job done first.One thing is for sure if we do stay up,it will be great achievement.I thought we had blown it by not making the signings in Jan.I dreaded the thought of a return to the Championship,and to spend at least another year with the elite would be absolutely wonderful.
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I love the way people who have been on here all season saying we are going down are now on saying what we should do for next season in the prem. Lets worry about this when we have more points than 3 other teams can get.
PS Keano back to the Wolves would be a dream!
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Why the hell should we be going after
(a) players that chose money over us, when they had the chance? Let them stew in their own juice – they are not worthy of joining our self-motivated, young and hungry team;
(b) players from a team that are ending up at the bottom of the league? One is a defender from one of the worst defences this season!
(c) players that are not, now, as good as what we’ve got?
Sod ‘em – they had their chance to come here and put two fingers up to us……….
We want to go forward now and IMPROVE the team with better player, not backwards with average/worse players!!!
There’s a big matter of pride at stake here also, for Godssake – Surely, we are too good a side now for these 2 mercenaries……
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we dont need these two players they are rubbish playing in a rubbish team go down pompey pompey go down and take that effin bell with ya
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no thanks to those two players mick…..but stephen davis and bougherra from rangers are quality players, also rangers are skint and would surely sell to us.. top players mick, especially davis, villa fans i know were gutted he left them.
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All in on permanents
Jamie O’Hara
Carlton Cole (one of the few who looked anything like the other night)
Nicky Shorey
Steven Hunt
Paul Scholes
Guerduia
Zayatte
Manncienne – Out
Halford – Out
Castillo – Out
Hennessey – Out
Mairhoffer – Out
M ‘Bia – Out
Shackell – Out
Keep SEB, let him get fully fit & a full pre season under his belt, he will come good.
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we should go for aruna dindane and sell vokes
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OK OK OK, get a grip. This story is from a hack who couldn´t find anything else to write about on a thursday morning. Euphoria is still rife after the Hammers made us look like the Old Gold of the fifties with a 21st century slant. Let´s not get carried away, we´re not home and dry in the prem yet but might be if we all get behind the lads against the Toffees come saturday. No more bitching please UTW.
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more money in the last window, wear the shirt with pride, not for what its worth,
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When Mick first came to us he inherited half a squad, with only a few weeks to go until kick off. He brought in some decidedly average players, strengthened in January and moved most of them on by the summer. I was expecting a relegatioin battle and we finished in the play offs (for only the 4th time).
Again, in the last close season we had just made the quantum step up to the premiership, he again needed to get more players in as the squad was far too small for the premiership. Again he has tried to strengthen in January, with less success this time, and will no doubt move on some of the squad players signed last summer, bringing in some quality instead – as he always has done.
Mick is not afraid to buy a player, and then move them on if he’s not 100% happy with them. Eastwood is a classic case in point. Who misses him now?
These two are a throwback to when we needed to pack out the squad for the start of this season. We have now moved on. Mick will have bigger fish to fry (unless we can get them at a rock botttom price & on relatively low wage).
In Mick I Trust…
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Mick i’ve been a doubter about the way you work but keep on proving me wrong chap.If i was to comment on anything it would be to bring a TOP class striker in (please come out of retirement alan shearer!). Also if you can persuade someone like paul scholes(remember Irwin and Ince), then we wont go far wrong.
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Oh dear, some talk of transfers and people start returning to dream land. Even if we do stay up doesn’t mean we are going to start attracting England internationals. Someone suggested Walcott, Warnock and Crouch. Its great to be ambitious, but be realistic. Even IF these players were to leave there clubs, there are more established teams in the league who they would go to. Start getting realistic or prepare to be disappointed.
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It is too soon to talk of getting more players as the season has not ended and maintaining PL status is still not confirmed.
As to the interest for Aaron Mokoena or Tommy Smith, I think if players did not take the first offer when given and see fit to join another for more money then the loyalty of the players when the chips are down will be questionable if they are in the team.It is best to look elsewhere to look for players to add to the quality of the team albeit for reasonable wage and transfer fee.
Wolves is playing with belief, determination and drive which is what it should be and playing as a team.
From darkness cometh light… Up The Wolves and 1-0 for Saturday against the Toffees.
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They ain’t no better than what we got
So leave ‘em at Pompey an’ let ‘em rot
Shoot up to Glasgow an’ talk to Keane
Get him back in before he’s a has-been
Now that Zubar’s shootin’ from the hip
We gotta stay tight an’ keep our grip
Want a squad player with ideas that are new?
Head down there an’ take a look at Kanu
We need defenders with a real mean streak
Instead of monkeys who’ll let the goals leak
If you pay peanuts you will get monkeys
Jailbirds wasters an’ washed-up junkies
So stick to our guns go for young an’ hungry
Leave out mothers jus’ lookin’ for money
Opposition now gonna get stomped on
You heard it first from Straight Outta Compton
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Oh God! Don’t say poor old Mick is going to have to perform another miracle next season with Morgan and Moxey ONCE AGAIN doing things on the cheap. If we want to push on to mid table or even higher then we have to get rid of those two bozos and get a committed back room in or all the hard work will count for nothing. Players of the calibre of these two would not improve our team but O’Hara might, if we could get him then great.
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Its just paper talk!
We should try for a few Portsmouth players though – Either Dindane or Piquionne, Tal Ben haim perhaps? Their best player is O’Hara but obviously he’s with Tottenham.
Not the players rumoured though, especially if we would have to loan them back because that Smith would only be worthwhile for the remainder of the season so Foley could switch back to right back.
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We can and should do better!
These two are not going to offer us anything extra.
Let spend the time and find a couple of decent quality PL players who can add to the team rather than just suck the budget dry while waiting to move on again!
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please please no to both
I work in a office of Pompey and Saints fans eventful at times to say the least
both were fringe players and only making the team noe due other players going
according to my pompey colleagues Mokoena is one of the worst players to wear their shirt
So NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to Both
UTW
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what a waste of money they would turn out to be. aim higher. dindane, o’hara or belhadj would be good signings but not them pair! i hear villa might be clearing out 2 or 3. steve sidwell included. he wudnt be a bad signing
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Any players we bring in must be better than those we have already otherwise theres no point. We have good players in most positions but when we are looking to bring in new players they must be better than the player we have already, no matter how good they are. This is how we will improve!
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i think pompey signed tommy smith in january didnt they? it looked to me at the time like they were preparing for life in the championship. tommy smith is a championship player and not a great 1 at that. and mokoena is simply a blackburn reject.
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I’d rather them go for someone younger like the young lad Junior who came on for West Ham in the second half than a 29/30 year old.
The team that beath West Ham the other night apart from 3 players was effectivly players that were in Championship squad.
youngsters on the wings and a bit of experience in the centre and some fresher legs at the back and someone who can put themeselves about a bit to assist Doyle.
Suggestions on a post card please
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Is Kightly all done ? I can’t believe only Stourwolf brought this up – there is no need for a desperation signing like Smyth (Championship calibre) when we have Kites and Keogh. Central defenders, a partner for Doyle and a midfield general are our priorities in that order. WOLVES 2 EVERTON 1.
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88…Straight Outta Compton….
You got the words
I got the music
Lets get together
and see the team click…….
Ramjit…….ahhhhhhhhhh
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