Joleon Lescott eyes a Wolves return
Friday 29th October 2010, 12:30PM BST.
Joleon Lescott has left the door open for a shock return to Wolves if he is frozen out at Manchester City.
The defender, reportedly unhappy after being dropped for the 3-0 defeat to Arsenal last weekend, would seriously consider a comeback should he have to quit Eastlands.
Lescott could face Wolves when City travel to Molineux tomorrow but has found chances limited this season and has made just five Premier League appearances.
And, with Kolo Toure and Vincent Kompany ahead of him, the former Wolves star admitted he would be keen on a Molineux return if he failed to net a regular City place.
Lescott, who made 235 appearances for Wolves before a £5million switch to Everton in 2006, was at Molineux last night for the annual Wolves academy dinner and still holds an affection for his former club.
He said: “If the situation was right I would always come back. Wolves have been a massive part of my life.
“I plied my trade there, I’ve got a lot of very close friends behind the scenes and if the opportunity was there I’d definitely come back.
“I’m a City player and I’m fully focused on them but if the situation changed then I’d love to play for Wolves, I’d always love to play for Wolves.”
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Mick,go and get him.Don`t mess about.What a signing he would be.
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Blimey.
I think he would need to consider a 95% wage cut first.
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NO CHANCE! We couldn’t afford to buy him or pay him!
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your always welcome here
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The classiest defender I’ve ever seen in a Wolves shirt. Mike Bailey could well receive my esteemed accolade though. Sign him up I says. I do I says!
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CLEAR OUT ALL THE DEAD WOOD AND GET HIM IN….
We’d have to get rid of 10 players to afford his wages though!!!
Ward, van damme, edwards, bent… There you go Mick, there 4 players already you could get rid of to cut the wage bill down… I’ll throw in a fiver a week also… Saying that. i’d employ Ward to clean my house, thats about all he’s good for… Maybe he’ll go back to ireland and play up front, remember thats why you bought him here…. And if I have to spell it out for you Mick, WHY HE CAN’T DEFEND!!!!!
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Sorted. See you in January then Jo.
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LOL are you lot kidding?! He was on stage infront of 300 people at moli, what do you think he is going to say? ”No I don’t want to play for wolves” He earns 90k a week at city and cost them 22million… NOT GOING TO HAPPEN GUYS
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Yes Yes Yes please that would his return would be awesome.
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Yes Please !!!!!
Only get rid of ten players Wanderingwillo? Surely you can do better than that. I dont see Wolves that often, apart from Sky’s
Football First, but I could name ten without pausing for breath. We all want our team to be the best but our current squad isnot up to it.
Now Lads, please go and prove me wromg
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Would be amazing to see him back in a wolves shirt, but unless he ran out his ontract theres no way we could afford to buy him. Still im sure if city bring in another defender, a loan may be a possibility. Als with Lescott playing allot of his games for city and everton at left back, im sure he would sort out our little dilema. All we would need then is keane to come back and we would survive comfortably. we can dream.
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the anoying thing is that if wolvs didn’t buy so many useless players (or loan them) then we could potentially have 2 or 3 really good players on our books.
Last season we shouldn’t have tried a number of players (castillo, tall guy who couldn’t head a ball, the french lad, that other bloke who looked like a rats arse…) Those wages and transfer fees could have been put to better use on a BRITISH lad who was proven in UK football.
This season we’re stuck with a striker who has been rejected, or moved on, from just about every club in the country (bent) Van Damme (says he doesn’t want to be here) Edwards (crap) Craddock (sorry mate, but past it 3 years ago) Berra (again, not good enough) elokobi (don’t even get me started on this useless bloke)…
Football is such a simple game… buy players who will improve the team not ones who add to the squad. Mick should learn this asap.
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wouldnt be able to afford his wages but mcarthy should go get him on loan in january
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Will have to be a loan then, but have we used all our loan options up with Mugangi Bia, bent, and Mancienne ?
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I wouldn’t read to much into a throwaway comment like that to be honest! A legend in the mould of the Mighty Keith Curle.
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Get him on loan for the rest of the season in January along with Robbie Keane, lets get the re-union going!
Also see if we are one of the seven clubs that Paul Scharner can leave for free for!!!
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Go get him and Keano. C’mon Morgan, get some real class in and ship out some of the dedward, sorry deadwood! Let’s show some real ambition!!!
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8. Bellamy went to Cardiff so they were not loaning him to rivals, Wolves can hardly be considered rivals.
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go and get him in january!! him and mouyokolo could be awesome together
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Sorry Guys, this article and headline has been completely taken out of context, I was there last night and whereas he did say that he loved playing for Wolves and might one day look at the idea of coming back, he was fully commited to city and trying to get his place back in there side, he even said that where he always hopes Wolves do well he hopes that City beat us on Saturday. Not exactly a statement of someone wanting to come back to the Club.
Unfortunately this is an example of a newspaper making a story out of something that isnt there!!
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if cardiff can loan bellamy from man city then wolves can loan lescott from man city.
finally mick has the chance to sign a quality centre half. its only took 6 or 7 attempts.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
On loan maybe, but how much of the £26mn they paid for him would Man City be prepared to right off in a sale?
Thats 26mn !!
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Oh good grief.
He signed a 5yr contract just over a year ago, for an estimated £90k/week. That’s about 3x the top salary paid at Wolves (and incidentally, about 3x what Everton were paying him).
Plus, of course, Man C would want to recoup most of the transfer fee, rumoured to be £22m.
He’s a top lad – and he’s being polite to his old club. That’s all. It’s a non-story.
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18, city also pay half of bellamys wages which works out at 20grand, half of 90 grand is 45 grand plus a loan fee, wouldn’t fit into our wage system we have? My wife was there last night (she works for wolves) and even she said the place was packed, it was q & a and he got asked the question ”would you ever come back to wolves” he is hardly going to say no is he, come on be realistic! We need to go for players who would actually join us, re the loan limit, it is a maximum of 2 loans from other premier league clubs, we have used 2… BENT (birmingham) MM (Chelsea)
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Dream on !!.
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Just delete all the other posts – no offence and keep No 23 Grey Wolf who sums it all perfectly!
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Wolfie…True, he is only saying the obvious…but why would he even turn up to a Wolves event if there wasn’t any truth in his statement.
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WOW GO ON THE 3MS LETS GET HIM ON BOARD!
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Ward a defender, what next,he cant defend ,cant read the game ,too slow,reckless and sloppy ,apart from that he is brilliant ,not
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Wolves seriously need to consider this. £10m in January? Why not? Surely we could pay him £40,000 a week. this is what the club needs!!!!
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27, it was an academy dinner, he came through the youth ranks at moli same as keano, also matt murray was there i guess as another little farewell and they are pretty close mates, though i would love to have him back!! Won’t happen, if we send BENT back to Birmingham in Jan, we can loan another player from the prem, iam thinking a defender or decent midfielder, Good luck for saturday boys, sky sports prediction have us 2-1 winners
UTW
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is it april the first? as for keano his best days are well behind him. 5 years ago maybe. sentiment wont help us progress in this division!
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WHEN A PLAYER OF HIS CLASS HINTS HE WOULD RETURN….
… THEN JEZ NEED TO SELL HIS GRANNY TO GET HIM BACK HERE ! SIMPLES
FIRST ON LOAN
THEN AN AGREED FEE WITH MAN CITY PLUS CONTRIBUTION TO WAGE DEMAND
15 MILLION WOULD GET HIM HERE I THINK
If we paid 3 for Berra then 15 for Jo would be good business imv
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BUT…. i think his comment was when he was surrounded by wolves at this bash so might be taken out of context so dont get your hopes up
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Alright Mick! Bring or son home! He’s crying Wolf! He knows where he was truly loved! And I promise you! After him! No fans cry will be heard well not over the cheers and applause! Hope and pray to see you in the Gold n Black!
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That would be brilliant if we got him. WHO’S A LITTLE? HE’S A LITTLE!
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Number 35 what you on about? Mark Little was rubbish
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Yes he would cost a lot of money but who cares he would sort out our defence for years.
Definitely woth it. Go gewt him Mick
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Wonder if we could get Wayne Bridge to come with him as well?
Our defensive problems would be sorted then.
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“if the situation was right”says lescott.
That means 60grand a week!!!That in returns NO WAY!
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LOL Mark Little!! Shocking player, him and lescott have only ONE thing in common, hard man scars
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Get him in on loan, it’s a no brainer. Oh yeah,MM THE MANAGER SO WON’T HAPPEN THEN!!!!!!!!
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90,000 a week you think he could at least get his shoes re-soled at Bilston market.
The only way I could see him coming back is if he has a real fall-out with Mancini and they subsidise his wages for a loan till the end of season, after which time he will go to Liverpool.
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this is a wind up ,besides if we signed lescott mccarthy would play him on the wing ,cause the bloke hasnt a clue what hes doing ,his buys a pants ,van damme dont want to be here ,fletcher on the wing ,ward a foreward at full back granted hes not good enough,karl henry kicks anything that moves cant play mind lol ,leave gibson to get it right he will get rid of mad mick then bring a good tactician in ,
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Laughingwolf,
Joleon was only pulling your collective leg. He knows wolves couldn’t afford him, even on loan.
Even E&S was sucked in according to this headline.
JtH.
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Forty posts and only one uses Joleons name. That’s what I call uncouth. JtH
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Lescott playing for Wolves again??, i think he’s out of our price range.TBH. When he’s 35 and his knees have gone, then maybe..
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Wouldn’t be able buy him for anything less than 15 million pounds.
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Its obvious why he wants to join after todays game – we’re the better team! haha
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Would have Joleon back any day and for (almost) an money – maybe dreamworld, but couldn’t give a stuff.
WE ARE WOLVES!!
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Would be so funny if in the final year of his contract he decides to walk and we sign him on a free. By then we could probably afford a much higher wage if we are still in the prem. Has happened before.
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