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Michael Brown is on Wolves’ radar
Wednesday 12th January 2011, 10:45AM GMT.
Wolves have revealed they pulled out of the chase for Middlesbrough defender David Wheater – but admitted Portsmouth midfielder Michael Brown is on their radar.
Wheater is set to join Bolton for £2.5million imminently as a possible replacement for £15million-rated Gary Cahill, who is expected to leave the Reebok Stadium.
Wolves were one of several clubs interested in Wheater – who is out of contract in the summer – with Villa, Stoke and Everton.
But the Molineux hierachy are unconvinced of the value for money of the player and whether he is better than what they have.
Manager Mick McCarthy said: “I think you’ll probably find he’ll end up at Bolton and that will be great business for them.”
Centre-backs Jody Craddock and Steven Mouyokolo – the latter who is the same age as 23-year-old Wheater – played 65 and 45 minutes respectively of yesterday’s behind closed doors friendly against Leicester yesterday, which Wolves won 1-0.
McCarthy added: “Jody and Steven played yesterday so I’ve got those two, Richard Stearman and Christophe Berra, so I’m not in desperate need of a centre-back.”
As for Brown, who turns 34 later this month, McCarthy admitted he is under consideration as he looks again after missing out on Steve Sidwell, who slipped his grasp to join Fulham.
The former Manchester City, Tottenham, Fulham and Wigan midfielder, who played against Wolves in the 2003 play-off final for Sheffield United, has a clause in his reported £34,000-a-week contract triggering another year at Pompey if he plays one more game.
Portsmouth boss Steve Cotterill admits they can’t afford to pay it.
McCarthy said: “I’m aware of that. I was interested in Sidwell and I nearly had that deal done.
“So I was looking at that position. But I won’t confirm or deny Brown.”
But McCarthy denied reported interest in Reading striker Simon Church.
He added: “There’s nothing happening with that one.”
But the Wolves boss confirmed he is seeking Premier League experience.
He said: “It’s really got to be somebody that’s played in the Premier League with the spine of the team.
“You might get away with a wide player or a young full-back, but I don’t see them around.”
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Michael Brown??
great lets waste some more money in the january transfer window!
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If Michael Brown is the answer, then I dread to think what the question is
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I’m afraid this is the club under the 3 m’s all over.
No ambition whatsover. £2.5 million is out of our price range. Worse still, McCarthy isn’t in desperate need for a centre half. Well, it’s just the 25,000 fans that are desperate then.
Brown, why on earth do we want a 34 year old? Is this part of our ‘young and hungry’ policy moxey, or is part of ‘building for the future’ policy?
Personally, i think its part of our ‘Bargain Basement’ policy , which puts us in the same league as Blackpool.
Well, after much excitement it looks like another damp squib of a transfer window.
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We been here before with rubbish old players looking for 1 last hit in the prem on big wages. 2003 springs to mind!!!
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Here we go again,Not in desperate need of a Centre Back,of course not we only have 4 championship CB’s here.Mind you MM stated recently that we do not need a LB as we have Ward and Elokobi who can play there.Mick have you studied our defensive frailties recently,2 goals or more being conceded on a regular basis,NO Quality in the Defence at all.According to Sky we are set to sign Shittu at the end of this month,God Bolton showing ambition Wolves showing complete lack of it.All around us teams are desperately looking to sign established Premiership players whilst we continue with the bargain basement strategy.
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it seems to me MM has decided that Henry is not the answer and is looking for a quality hard midfielder. Wouldnt that be nice!
I trust in him to get it right.
Come on you Wolves.
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No! What a waste of money for a player who is past his best.
Henry is fit again but in his absence we have done ok and Milijas is finally showing his quality, we also have Edwards, Jones, Guedioura, Foley and Mancienne – whom are all better players then Brown!
We only want quality premiership players. This is as pointless a signing as Marcus Bent!
If this guy is signed and replaces Milijas then Mick should be sacked on that decision alone. Hopefully we have other options.
O’Hara or Jenas on loan from Spurs?
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Why not Alan Smith from Newcastle?
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if you dont understand football then dont make comments. Brown is a decent player, world beater? no but he gets stuck in and is a box to box player. he does the ugly things that allows other players to create.
i for one will think he will somthing to the table, we are in a relegation fight and we need fight,experiance, bottle. Brown ticks all so if he comes give him a break
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How many players would you take from the Blackpool team to put in the Wolves starting 11???
How many would you have said that of last year?? probably none.
Not every name has to be a “big” name signing, someone who can come in and improve on the sytem we have.
Having said that, Robbie Keane would be nice :)
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Can we shop at Waitrose for once instead of Lidl please?
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2) If the answer is Michael Brown. Then the question surely has to be…
Who could Wolves sign on an overinflated wage who is past it, and not good enough to get into their team?
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If Wheater will be “a great bit of business” for Bolton then why are we not going for him?
Is a 34 year old Michael Brown the best we can hope for?
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I can only assume that if he were to be signed it would be as a back-up to the existing midfield players. At 34 he’s hardly in the young and hungry category.
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Not in need of centre halves? This is where MM you may fall on your sword! Here is an assessment of our centre halves:-
Craddock – Nowhere near good enough when he first came but has bot better with age. Experienced, reads the game well and scores vital goals. Our best centre half but in his last season and how will this injury affect him?
Berra – Solid enough but lacks pace. Good in the air but has a tendency to grapple and hold players. Will give penalties away eventually.
Stearman – Class sometimes, can play football and has pace. The problem is that he switches off, makes clumsy mistakes and tackles.
Mouyokolo – Injury prone and yet to see him have a good game!
Here is another headline
Millwall defender Shittu welcomes Wolves interest
Comment – I bet he is and we are desperate if we went for him instead of Wheater because he is cheap!
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Why mention the playoff final??
We won 3.0 and Michael Brown was rubbish.
Get Charlie Adam and please stop getting outbid by the likes of Bolton and Wigan.
THEY ARE NOT BIGGER CLUBS THAN WOLVES.
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Rich5Wolves – The answer to your question is 1. Charlie Adam. The rest of them no thanks.
So, I’m not sure what point you are making. Also, I personally think Blackpool will be struggling very shortly. In fact, I’ve put money on it. So again, I’m really not sure what your point is. Unless, you agree with me that we are competing at the same level as Blackpool in the transfer market, which is pretty sad really.
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After reading this article i am slightly relieved!!! As I posted yesterday I dont think Brown has what it takes for the prem anymore,
reading between the lines it seems as though Brown is an option if we cant get our main
targets in (whoever they may be). Sidwell was obviously first choice but got away. So I would suggest that MM is looking to bring in a left back and an experienced center mid fielder.
Stephen Warnock would be my choice at left back for a bid of 3 million, center mid maybe Alan Smith on loan,or, is Sean Davis getting much of a game at Bolton.
Does anybody else have any suggestions for these two positions???
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What on earth is going on. We drop out of the hunt for a very good, promising central defender who in my opinion is better than what we currently have.
But are going after a very average midfielder in Brown. YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH- BONKERS!!
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Wolves have been linked with a shock move for Bayern Munich’s 32-year-old German international striker Miroslav Klose.
Now thats more like it!!
You can stuff your Brown and Shittu. Who do you think we are.. Walsall?
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Why do so many of you ‘fans’ think you have so much more wisdom than a manager who has had nearly 20 years of management experience at all levels including a world cup; a chief exec who again has 20 years experience at his job; a chairman who has already spent around £30 million and has plans for a £40 million regeneration of the ground and surrounding area???
What is wrong with everyone of you moaning, typically negative Wolves supporters? This is not the 1950′s and we aren’t the club you think we are (yet!). 2003/4 aside we have been out of the top flight for over 20 years. This recent inclusion into the Premier League is only a part of our regeneration as it’s going to take a lot longer than 2 or 3 seasons to establish ourselves.
Why would David Wheater come to Wolves and not Bolton? Bolton are doing well at the moment, but they have been in the Premier for a lot longer than us.
It’s OK suggesting who we should be going for, but if they don’t want to sign for us we have to go for the players who will.
UTW!
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Well if wolves dn@t want to spend money on buyinf a player the surely look as some decent loans. Jamie o’hara is just starting full time training again and Redknapp wants him back fit maybe he would be tempted to let him out on loan. Would be worth ago and can’t be any worse than mancienne who I wud be tempted to let go of! Jonathan Woodgate is looking to go out on loan, I know arry has said he wud prefer for him to go to the championship but wud be worth an enquiry and armand traore from arsenal. Somthing tell me the Klose rumour is just a rumour!
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9 – Couldnt agree with you more. I was starting to think i was the only one who thought that brown would be a useful addition to the squad. Adding some experience to the midfield would be a very good move at this stage of the season and although brown aint no world beater, his commitment cannot be questioned. he has lots of premier league experience and is tough in the tackle. i would be more than happy if this one went through.
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when henry is fit, and with milijas and managers favourite edwards and converted midfielder foley available im thinking he will be 4th choice at best, maybe coming on in the final 20 mins when we are hanging on to a lead or point , a bit like we used mancienne at times, so his wages and contract should reflect this,if we have to pay him 34,ooo a week id say no, but at 15,000 he would probably not be a bad replacement for mancienne
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So the latest reports have us interested in Stoke’s Whelan and Faye plus Portsmouth’s Brown and Millwall’s Shittu. Whelan at 27yo could be a good signing (?) but Faye, Brown and Shittu? Faye is almost 33yo, Brown almost 34yo and Shittu 30yo and how do players of that age fit in with the so-called ‘young and for the future’ policy which McCarthy has adopted up until now?
The big question is, why are we being linked with these type of players when their futures at Molineux if signed, would be very short ones?
Although we have a fairly young squad in age at present, we surely do not need to buy 30yo+ players who would have no long term futures at Molineux and would not add much to the squad and whose salaries could be better employed on younger players on 5 year contracts not 6 months or 12 months. – PL experienced players are needed to strengthen the squad but these players? – No thank you!
Wolves MUST raise their sights and sign experienced PL players in the 25 – 27yo bracket and pay the salaries they will command and although they will be higher in most cases than Wolves pay now that’s life – as the old saying goes, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!
The Premier League is a costly level of football but then on the reverse side, the rewards are extremely high. Sitting in the lower reaches of the PL provides a decent payoff come the end of each season but then the payoff in the upper reaches is significantly higher and that’s where Wolves should be aiming for.
Now before all you Wolves fans start screaming out ‘… but we must balance the books and not go spending money we do not have …’ etc., I realise that and I know we have done that before with disastrous results but scrimping and saving and looking for bargain basement deals will not elevate Wolves any higher in the PL than we are already and do Wolves fans really want their team to spend season after season fighting relegation?
McCarthy has brought in Fletcher to add to Doyle and Milijas, who after his time of adjustment is proving well worth the money he cost. Now IF we can only bring in 2 midfielders and possibly 1 or 2 defenders then we should be in a strong position to move away from the relegation area and make our mark in the PL BUT the buying of ‘past it’ or cheap players is NOT the way forward!
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Why not wait a couple of years,his wage demands will be lower then.Why not bid for Robbie’s boots ,they could take pride of place in the new museum.Go on Jez surprise us.
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Guys Guys
Please why do you think everyone wants to sign for Wolves? I will love to know what some people are thinking about for a start in answer to number 8 Alan Smith? the reason we don’t want him probably because he is on 60k plus do you really want him on most probably double the best paid player in the squad ! good one for morale that is.
Also in regards other targets gossip etc Wheater goes to Bolton club in the top 7 or to Wolves bottom 4 bit of a no brainer for Mr Wheater me thinks !! Yes we all would like some name players but get realistic until we are an established mid table or above team they ain’t gonna want to come.
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Don’t need a centre half? Well somebody at the back is not doing their job properly against the other relegation threatened sides in the Prem, who is it?
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This is amazing. It’s the latest punchline to an ongoing joke that started with the signing of Marcus Bent – and boy, what an impact player he has turned out to be – make no real attempts to compete for the signature of someone who might actually do us some good, and to throw into the mix, for good measure, a Reading striker who scores a goal every six games and some bloke from Exeter that nobody has heard of.
I am going to put forward a theory now that may be unpopular with some, but we need to start getting our squad exactly right at the start of every season because the mid-season transfer window screws us. Why? Because why would a modern footballer with a bank account full of cash even want to come to Wolverhampton in the middle of the season to help out in a relegation struggle? The city is depressing enough as it is (The Newhampton being the exception) and when the Wolves are struggling, the whole place gets the blues. Who’d want to move into that, when you can be down in the capital or up in the vibrant north-east? It’s no coincidence that our foreigners either take an age to bed in (Milijas) or just do a Van Damme / Maierhofer and decide that Yates’ at throwing out down and the mangy ducks of West Park are not for them. We live in a depressed, depressing city, why would anyone commit to us, apart from the likes of Bent and Brown?
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9 – Spot on mate, just the sort of player with attitude we need when we play Spurs, Arsenal etc. How the hell else are we going to get Prem expierience if we do not look at the little more mature players.
By the way if Owen Coyle thinks Wheater is good enough then so should we -If MM thinks that he is no better than we already have we ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE – What happened to the Van Damm money – what was it now mmmmm around about £2.5 mill – oh that just happens to be the fee for David Wheater!!! Theres a surprise!!
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Alot of talk of getting in Charlie Adam from Blackpool – Good player agreed BUT we wont bid above or the same as Villa due to a CEO who maintains his stance on not ‘bankrupting’ the club not doing a Leeds blah blah
The club deals alot in ‘smoke and mirrors’ and the more gullable amongst us fall for it time and again!
Imv I would prefer to simply have a left back that is capable of doing the job – a priority that has been a concern since we were promoted
Ade Guediora (sp?) was a good purchase and brought in on loan last season BUT again the lad still struggled to get games in the Prem – Would any new additions be treated the same way by MM and if so what purpose would they serve if these additions could not challenge or be allowed to challenge for a place in the team?
As a club we wont be allowed to go beyond our wage structure due to an obsessive OTT attitude by Mr Moxey – the same overcautious attitude when driving a car causes accidents
Imv I also believe that MM would struggle with anyone above the calibre of what we currently have due to lack of man management skills and before anyone quotes me on players that we ‘went in for’ but didnt get – just bear in mind that we didnt get them and this seems to apply to most so-called attempts Funny thing is the likes of bottom club West Ham bring in players like Wayne Bridge on loan – Why cant we do similar? Is a season long loan for 2 or 3 real quality players really going to bankrupt the club or reduce the size of senior management bonuses???
We hope for far better!
Up the Wolves!
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PeteNuts – You really are Nuts arent you??
These footballers don’t actually live in Wolverhampton, they just play for the club.
You’ve got Birmingham a stone throw away where most of them live, and the glorious shropshire and south staffs countryside for the rest of them.
If you think a premier league footballer is going to be walking his missus around West Park then you really have lost the plot mate.
Incidentally, have you ever been to Salford, or East Ham, or Highbury or pretty much any other football ground ? They ain’t in the picturesque middle class areas you know!
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To me if we look at the last 7 games MM is perhaps right. we are missing a centre midfielder that can do a job perhaps until the end of the season.
I know we have struggled at centre back and i’m the first down MMs throat but give the guys credit for recent performances.
For me a left back and centre are our priorities to survive this season.
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27 Totally agree
Something I have been saying for a while
Why would these named players come to Wolves as opposed to established premiership sides
We could bankrupt the club I suppose then perhaps some would be happy
Not the greatest fan of MM but I think the board are good at running the club
WE are not a big club and players would prefer to go elsewhere
Not sure about Brown but It is understandable for Wheater to go to Bolton
How do we know who they are talking to at the moment or what deals have been agreed
WE dont
Lets give some credit to how the business is run and get realistic about targets!!
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After some bad results the manager is often criticised for making poor signings on here.I would like to point out that Mick identified Cahill as a target when he was at the Villa.We were also linked with Carroll and Adam just before the window closed in Aug 2009.It seems to me that our manager can identify quality players,the problem is closing out the deal. We then end up with second ,third or fourth choice.Easier said than done,but that is the problem at Wolves.
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I am disappointed about Wheater and, as I stated yesterday, I am not at all keen on adding Brown. For me, he would be another Quashie – someone we have on board but find at the end of the season we haven’t used very much. But, I also feel I should rein in my thoughts until the end of the window – and see who we actually do sign, jf anybody.
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This is just another re-run of last January’s Transfer Window fiasco and we all know how that finished up!
WHY DO WE HAVE NO IMAGINATION WHEN IT COMES TO BUYING NEW PLAYERS BECAUSE IT IS ALWAYS SO PREDICTABLE AND JUST ANOTHER PUBLICITY STUNT!
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If Charlie Adam is available, go get him Mick he’s a proper play-maker. Young Johnson from Man City would help as well if fit.
Don’t forget to find us a proper left back for when George isn’t available.
Do January on the cheap and we will be relegated for sure. Brown, Bent etc is the road to nowhere.
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And the reason that Wheater,Keane etc wont come to Wolves…Were in the bottom 4..SIMPLE! Mad Mick has spent 40million and were still in a dog fight…if he had spent wisely and we were mid table then im sure we would be more a more attractive club…Mad Mick only has himself to blame.
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15 BRW LOFFINATWULFS yet another quality player turning you down for a BIGGER CLUB ?no that cant be right can it ?
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The type of player that would suit us midfield would be Charlie Adam not Michael Brown surely a club of our stature could afford him.
We still ship goals in at the back and Stearman and Ward have been the main culprits so that has to be a priority CB and LB.Im glad to hear that MM says he only wants players with Prem experience thats a step in the right direction.
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I agree with most of the comments on our central defence…but we do actually have a young, strong centre back with top flight experience, including Champions league experience. Yes, monsieur Zubar played centre back for Marseille…oh and i just saw tha the Hoff is scoring a goal every three games too
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Brown at 34? Church? What the hell is going on? “We don`t want players who are not better than what we have? So,we don`t go for Wheater,and McCarthy is rellishing the return of Henry?This just about saye it all.So much for the “we aren`t here to make the no`s up but we want to be a force and aim for Europe bit” When are you going to do something for the fans Mr.Morgan instead of leading them on?Under this regime No Future,No Ambition,just one big con.
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To be honest got bored half way down of all the typical negative comments, Brown is a decent player with Prem experience which will help in the second half of the season, we need midfielders who can get stuck in and pass well to compliment our attacking flair, more seen this season. Christ sake you moan of the style seen with Henry, grow up!!!
Get realistic I want our club to survive in the PL but more importantly for life, we cant afford £60k a week players.
O’Hara may be available as I saw him training yesterday on tv.
More interesting was the last paragraph of this piece about
“You might get away with a wide player or a young full-back, but I don’t see them around.”
Rumours are Hamill is on verge so could there be a young LB also on the cards??!!
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Knowing our penny pinching bunch the only reason we are interested in Brown is so that we can do a deal that involves Greg Halford going the other way. It’s about time we set our sights higher than we are at the moment, if we fail so what, someone will say yes eventually.
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20.wewowolf.
Reuters got their lines crossed.
Yes it was Wolves,but it was Wolfsburg(also their nick-name).
To replace Edin Dzeko.
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We will never attract a premiership player with the current thinking put forward by the board.Is it any wonder we are not selling out for some of our bigger games.Championship players are not the answer.It seems to me the club are quite happy to offer the fans an annual battle with relegation from the premiership together with early exits from the two cup competitions.Quite frankly I am of the opinion the club lacks ambition and the fans deserve better.
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here we go again……2nd rate players wanting to come to the wolves…….we must have a brilliant pension scheme……………….
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I thought we were supposed to be signing Michael Johnson on loan,looks like Leicester are about to get him says it all doesnt it.
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39) another one without facts. MM has not spent £40 mill in the prem, nowhere near! Are u just another one bitter that he sold freddie eastwood??
Brown isnt a bad short term signing at all to add some experience and steel to our midfield.
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STOURBRIDGE WOLF is the Guru-talks sense Davies is a nothing player Wolves need to look younger and fork out more Dosh–Interresting Who does want to Join us–CD
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@ 32 RichWolf64
Thanks for being the first to bite.
It’s not the pubs, the houses, the nightlife or the culture, it’s the air of post-industrial depression that hangs over the place like a shroud and colours the entire place. It’s the reason our fans are seen, at times with some justification, as the dreariest moaners in the top flight. Wolverhampton is not a good place to be right now.
You’ll probably find that most of the players live in places like Perton Ridge, Codsall and Tettenhall, by the way – lovely places all, essentially dull and airless unless you like rabbits and squirrels. And when you’re using the proximity of Birmingham, Britain’s “number two” city in every sense of the phrase, as a selling point in our favour, I’m afraid you’ve already lost. But I can concede one point to you – a few strolls around Ironbridge Gorge on a Sunday afternoon and Jelle and Stefan might have stayed. Sadly, not to be…
(PS. The “use PeteNuts’ username against him” tactic is a TERRIBLE cliché, darling! New material in order, I think!)
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We’ve been heavily linked to Adam Hammill and Habib Beye to the point where they even been reported as having signed. So why no mention of these transfers. And why nothing on our link to Miroslav Klose?
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no ambition, Mick out, Ripping off the fans, i beleive these are the comments from last january when we signed guedioura. Those fans soon changed their tune. At the end of the day, i seriously doubt Mick is considering Brown as a replacement for anyone, but as a backup in case we get the injuries that we have had earlier this season. I dont mind a bit of prem experience as i think were lacking in that department, and if he helps develop some of our younger players in training, in the dressing room or on the pitch, i dont think it will be a bad signing.
I would like to see a left back come in, but our results have improved just before this transfer window, and if we can have a second half of the season where we slightly improve on our first half we should stay up, and i personally think we will finnish the season stronger.
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We can go on n on, MM WONT change his defence, he’s stuck with the same squad of defenders for the last 2-3 seasons, he said a few weeks ago we were after a Right-sided CH, now JC/SM are fit, he’s saying we’ve got our 4 CH’s back and i cant see Wheater or other CH’s being any better than my 4? Same with our LB position whether we like it or not he WONT change from either Elokobi/Ward if either of them are fit they will ALWAYS be first choice LB’s you could name 3 or more players who could possibly do a better job, but MM will ALWAYS stay loyal to those 4 CH’s and those 2 LB’s. As for David Jones leaving im not bothered one iota he’s not as good a player as he thinks he is, he constantly gets himself into trouble by holding the ball to long going round n round in circles, he forever passes to players who are either marked or have a defender nearly up their arse. So let him go Milijas is a far far better midfielder, go for Jenas as a replacement. UTW:
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52 – PeteNutter
I think you are just a dreary bloke to be fair. Hence your downer on the city.
And yes, defo using Brum as a selling point. Not too many better places to live in the UK that are close enough to commute for a premiership footballer.
Your argument doesn’t quite wash when the ‘dreary northern city with suburbs dull and airless unless you like squirrels’ known as Salford nr Manchester , attracts some of the best players in the world, or indeed the fine but rundown city of Liverpool.
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@ 56
“PeteNutter” now! You’re on fire! What next? PeteNutty? PeteNoNuts?
Yeah, the thing about Manchester and Liverpool is that they’re not especially picturesque but they happen to have three of the highest-paying football teams in the flaming WORLD in them right now, you plank! You’d be surprised how much drizzle-tolerance £150’000 a week can buy! They also have vibrant nightlife and culture, whereas, by your estimation, Birmingham has… good connections for local commuter services! Oh, be still my pounding heart!
And me, dreary? Matey, you need to get yourself to the Newhampton sometime and see me carousing and saluting the many majestic possibilities of the coming night! I’ll even shout you a pint of the real ale you almost certainly drink. PeteNuts is nice like that!
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52….you should get yourself a life, and look around…If you think wolverhampton is depressing then take a walk around, Wigan,Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Salford,Stoke,Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Sandwell and London.Not the nicest of places to walk through.Its wages that attract footballers, not the team they are playing for.Your own robbie keane will tell you that one….
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i remember mick saying that its hard to attract players when your at the bottom end of the table.damn west ham must have the midus touch then huh after what ive being reading today.sadly with other teams around us getting better players than us we could up back in the championship.as for shitu guess the name says it all and has he been playing at all i dont know.i would prefer upson myself but as everyones being saying no ambition keeping the money to expand the stadium yea right cokoooooooooo.
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whoopee Michael brown, no pace,not a great passer and a poor record for getting booking for ill timed challenges mainly because hes too slow.
I can see financially why cos hes cheaper, than Sidwell, Bentley etc, but what are the football reasons? He is competitive and loves a challenge and looking at his record he was captain at fulham and did well at spurs.I can see why he’s a target but he is 34
yes he played in the prem but tiote(newcastle) and malumbo(baggies) show you get really good young competitive midfield players who can quickly adapt to the prem.
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