It says it all a clueless Manager and clueless players who will take us nowhere.

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The Fans are being robbed blind we have recieved over £100million in Sky alone and spent less than £30 miilion when you take into consideration players sold,wheres the money gone.

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I am not sure either of the two players are Premiership class,looks like Wolves are preparing for a period in the Championship.It
also suggests the type of defender/midfielder needed by Wolves is not going to happen.

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Its smoke and mirrors, having had two years
in the prem these are the experienced players they sign.Its called mushroom management, you keep mushrooms in the dark,and feed them a little S–t now and again.

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I feel a rant coming on! What is the point in building a new ground when we are not prepared to build a team which is equipped to stay in the premier league. Is this just a building project for Morgan or what? I thought we were a football club where what matters takes place on the pitch.
Someone tell the players to put a sock in it. Every week it’s “we are good enough to stop up” well how is that? We are bumbling along at the bottom with the occasional flash of hope mixed with the dire, and heroic failure.

Complacent bombproof Mick, how can we not need something extra in the team. We are not good enough, end of. You won’t need a new stadium when we are pulling in 15000 in the championship. I really don’t know what’s going on as it doesn’t make any sense.

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Just when my day was looking bright…

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I just wished people would realise that WE don’t know how to run a club and whatever you make think the 3 M’s do! A good example is where has the £100million form Sky gone? We have only spent £30million as no one at the club gets paid wages and the new stadium is free. I think the 3 M’s have split it and they have also bought Stephen Ward and all of Mad Micks love children new houses/cars/boats! I don’t mind people having opinions and , in fairness , sometimes I am swayed by them BUT come one lets get real NONE of us know the first thing about running a football club.

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Don’t you normally try and sign your best assets up for long periods of time? Don’t think this applies to either of these two, must be rubbing their hands all the way to the bank..

Stearman – potential is there but he’s not PL yet.

Henry – Not a very ambitious player for not a very ambitious club.

I suppose these will be our new signings, the timing of this announcement is no co-incidence.

Too many people out of touch at Wolves IMO

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Let’s imagine Wolves had signed John Terry and Rio Ferdinand. On Saturday McCarthy would have left them on the bench for 88 minutes then brought them on in place of Doyle and Fletcher.

We were losing and McCarthy only made 1 substitution. We had Pinocchio(Dave Jones)and Vokes on the bench, why not try and change things because the eleven out there weren’t achieving anything. And what happened to Mujangi Bia, was his crime daring to shoot from outside the box?

Everything that comes out of Molineux seems to imply they have settled for Championship football next season.

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No 1 Wolfhound. You said it all, well done. Bulletproof and stitched up just about says it all. Perhaps you could have added something about being less than honest with the people who pay the wages, the fans. I am not getting any younger and although I always want Wolves to win I also enjoy watching the best teams and players. The people who run this club are doing their best to ruin that for all of us. Shame on them all.

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i am sick and tired of the lack of ambition at this club nearly every week you get mad mick come out at the end of every game and say bad defending. does nothing about it week in week out. then says that we do not need a defender. we got one of the worst defence in the league. as for are midfield mad mick puts a midfielder who can not pass the ball forwards . there is only one place we are going and thats down with W B A and the BLUES because mad mick thinks that the team we got can keep us up .

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Truth, The truth on the Sky money v spending will come out soon when the financial results for our first season is announced.There is nothing wrong with making a profit ,but we will never establish ourselves as a Premier team if we don’t compete on player’s wages.They are overpaid we all know that,but if you don’t pay the going rate you don’t get the quality players.Stoke seem to have got the message,and one assumes their management team think they know how to run a football club as well.It is ok talking about being a yo yo club,but that is based on one big premise:that you can get promotion out of the Championship quickly.As we should all know, that is easier said than done.

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Mr McCarthy I have a question for you. IF the players you have, are, in your considered opinion as good as the players other teams have got, why are the Wolves wallowing again in the relegation area, exactly as they did for most of last season?

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This is smart business for me.

Stearman is a 23 year old centre-half who granted needs to add consistency to his game but has been fantastic during certain games this season (recently Chelsea at home, Liverpool away). Remember all the mistakes Ferdinand made as a youngster? He is learning in the harshest environment there is, but the improvement is there for all to see.

And what short memories some people have – last season Karl Henry was being talked about as one of the best defensive midfielders in the Premiership and even being sounded out for England. He didn’t have the best game on Saturday (along with Hunt, Jarvis, Doyle, Fletcher and Zubar), but let’s remember he’s been out injured for 2 months and this was his first PL game back. Yes he passes the ball sideways, but have a watch of the likes of Carrick, Mikel, De Jong etc and you’ll find the majority of their passes go backwards or sideways. Keeping possession is vital at this level.

The club has a ‘young and hungry’ ethos which everyone should be aware of now. 2 young lads playing for their home-town club, I think that is great to see.

Would you rather we didn’t extend their contracts and let them walk for free?

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LOoks like we are keeping our powder dry for the time being. If we stay up, fine; if we go down, fine, because the fairly youthful nucleus should remain for what should be a successful championship season. Above all, don’t break the bank and get into a debt spiral.

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Why are these contracts being sorted out now when they could have waited until we know what league we will be playing in next season?
There are 6 days left of the transfer window where all efforts should be spent on signing at least 1 quality defender.
It’s no good coming on at the end of the season and telling supporters “The club is in a healthy position financially”.
If we go down there will be more cash wasted on proping up players wages on a Championship income and parachute payments.
As we all know in domestic life there is such a thing as Manageable Debt which can be enjoyed without worring about it.
Investment is key.

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It just goes to show the contempt the Management has for the fans.This club is showing no ambition whatsoever,give us a good team and the new stand will be paid for without fail.For gods sake get rid of McCarthy and get in O`Niell or big Sam now and we might just stay in the Premiereship,with this idiot in charge we have no chance.

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I can only agree with my fellow fans who will interpret this move as confirmation that Wolves have NO genuine belief we’re staying up; NO chance of ever buying a decent centre-half and NO ambition.

Still, as long as Wolves’ business plan means doing everything on the cheap, what can we expect? No offence, but if Stearman is the answer for the next few years, what was the question? The mind boggles.

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An extract from football Historian website:-

Then in 1979 Wolves purchased 71 terraced houses on Molineux Street and knocked them down as well, to make way for a £2 million luxury grandstand.
This massive complex was equipped with 42 executive boxes, eye catching red plastic seats – which contrasted splendidly with gold fascia, and was capable of seating 9,500 spectators.

Then look what happened from there onwards…..

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I’m not normally one to moan…but……..Stearman??? He is not a Premier League class defender. End of! Henry? True there have been a few decent performances from him but it shouldn’t be a few…it should be ALL! At times there have been some of the best passing and attacking periods of play that I’ve seen from Wolves in a long time. But not once have I seen a decent defensive performance for one whole game. So start at the back and shore up that defence. And when we have midfielders who can receive the ball from the defence and can then play in the strikers Doyle, Fletcher and SEB can do the rest. Here endeth the moaning.

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37. Jones will be jumping ship, just as he did at Derby, my friend. When a very match-unfit Henry can displace Jones, the writing’s on the wall. Bye, bye….

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McCarthy as we know has a real problem, which may be cured if he went to Spec Savers.

The comments about Henry are laughable in the extreme.

His comments on signings are however consistent since the start of January, so we had better get used to:He won’t get the sack, we will go down, we will not build a new stadium. and the club will keep mugging the Customers. Happy 2011!!!!!!!!

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Dear Idiots,

At the end of each season, the final standings loosely match the average attendance/capacity of each team.

For example, Man united win the league most of the time and they have the largest capacity. The teams that go down ‘generally’ have the smallest capacities.

So…… the higher the capacity, the higher the revenue, the higher the league position. Granted it is not as plain and simple as that case by case (newcastle went down, leeds went down etc etc) but ‘on the whole, this is the formula to success.

Maybe some wolves fans need to except that for the time being The Henrys and stearmans of the world are the kind of players that we need to BACK so they can TAKE US TO THE NEXT LEVEL so that we can attract overpaid donkeys like sidwell?

Much Love, thank you and goodnight

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So a new contract for the Crab and Captain Rash-Tackle.

This follows our policy of giving long contracts to useless individuals;

- Collins
- Ward
- Keogh
- Elokobi
- Mick
- Clipboard
- Jez

Where is the Premier League experience and quality that we were promised?? No sign of it, just poor excuses for players like Fletcher.

Jarvis and Doyle starting to look disinterested due to having to play with Mick’s favourites and a pathetic defence that Mick is happy with!

And why does Clipboard need to give 10 minutes of instructions before getting a sub on!!!

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No 29. No im fully aware it was Chris Evans who took him to Bolton , but it didnt mean we had to let go of one of our ‘best young prospects’ just because MM couldn’t handle him having an ‘opinion’ just like all of us on here have? Davies was going through alot of injury and personal problems at that time, but everyone who watches Wolves knew the lad had got ‘talent’ but it was MM ego which lead to his leaving Wolves. The lad was never given a decent run of matches when fit,MM surrounds himself with ‘yes’ boys and if you have an opinion of your own as a Wolves player you tend to rot on the bench if your lucky or be shown the door asap? UTW:

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Guy’s
I read all the posts, and the plight of Wolverhampton wanders can be summed up in one paragraph
Running a football club is a business, and to be successful in business there must “Planning, Sound Management, and Quality Product “
These main elements are lacking at Wolves

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Karl the crab Henry . Terrible player couldn’t unlock is own front door .

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41 – I’m glad you’re not my accountant, as any accountant with a basic knowledge of the job would know that full accounts are filed at companies house, along with a (presumably clean) audit report, which means that all figures ave been indepently verified, and therefore, we haven’t been fed the figures they want us to see

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so…. just put me straight on this one, we should not extend contracts to keep the sell on price at its premium we should let the contracts run down like dave jones ???
it dosent mean anything toppinh up contracts , remember neil collins?????

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I agree with a lot of what’s been said but I would argue with the notion that we should get rid of Jez & Mick when we go down. There is no better pair to get us back up. The players are only fair Premiership players (forget the histercal rants from fools) but very good Championship players, just what will be needed next season. And who knows, we could just fluke it…

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50 TomWolf – a lot of sense in what you say. Mick is a “yes” man – we’ve seen many players pass through Molineux during his tenure, Van Damme being the latest and Dave Jones next. They’re players with opinions which don’t fit with MM. Karl Henry is a yes man and despite his hard work, he is a very average midfielder. The biggest problem we had on Saturday was his negative sideways or back passes and continual calling for the ball when he was actually not in a good position – yes, he probably wasn’t match fit, so then why play him?? I lost all faith in him when he was asked by the football club my seven year old nephew attends to present the end of year trophies and replied “How much are you going to pay me??”. I obviously want us to survive for a third season in the Prem, but I am losing faith. We got well and truly turned over against Liverpool who had obviously done their homework. We are a one-dimensional team under MM and TC and I’m afraid that players like KH fit snuggly into that regime.

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56 Well that is where you are totally wrong!!! If you trade as a partnership the accounts dont have to be filed at Companies House and if you have an offshore private business registered elsewhere the accounts dont have to be filed in the UK either.Make sure you know what you are talking about before you come on here criticising people who are merely voicing their opinion.

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Dear Lord does nobody in power at Molineux dispair likw the fans do????
MM keeps saying he is happy with the squad and that we have enough to keep us up!!
Then at EVERY post match press interview he bemoans that the “team” made a couple of mistakes that cost us the game!!!
Which is it then MM????
Yes we have players coming back but I do not think that without further quality at the back we will stay up. Whose to say that we won’t get a few more injuries/ suspensions in the next month or two?
We have NOT BEEN GOOD ENOUGH SO FAR – SO MICK WHAT IS NEW FOR 2011 THEN!!!

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64

He does, you don’t.

We trade as Wolverhampton Wanderers (1986) Ltd

See that, Limited company, not a partnership (lol) & not offshore??? & they are posted on companies house, so have the courage of your convictions & go & have a look, let us know how you get on, eye???

Or do you want me to forward the link to the website as well??

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59 Liverpool Wolves,No one expects us to compete with the Liverpool’s of this world just yet.However as we are the 11th best supported team in the premiership,are debt free,have money in the bank,How come we cant even compete with the Blackpool’s Bolton’s Stoke’s etc of this world.
Hark the answer i will hear is Fulham,Bolton,Wigan, Stoke etc are established Premiership sides,Yes but how did they become established,because they spent on QUALITY not Championship players.
As i pointed out yesterday the team finishing bottom will receive £50Million therefore finishing 17th would give us more than that plus a guarenteed £50 Million next season.
Does it not make sense therefore to bring in some quality defenders before next Monday’s deadline to at least give us a fighting chance of survival.
MM’S insistence that we do not need any new signings is hardly bore out by our record over the last 23 games is it,3 Clean sheets,Conceded 2 or more 15 times,Most losses.32 or is it 33 defeats in 61 matches as Wolves manager hardly inspires confidence in the Management’s ability to secure a third succesive premiership campaign does it?
Finally to all of the punters suggesting that we would make an immediate return if Relegated Thats probably what the fans of Burnley,Hull and Pompey were thinking,Not that easy is it.

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Grace,as a practising Chartered Accountant for the past 25 years I think I am qualified to express an opinion on this matter.Dont be so naive to think that all businesses who trade in the UK file their accounts in the UK.If you read the financial press it has just been reported Barclays Bank for example have over 200 offshore registered companies.Try finding those accounts at Companies House.

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if M M thinks this defence is good enough to keep us in the prem then he shouldent be driving with his eyesight

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Maltawolves – Bolton have established themselves but getting £93million (& counting) into debt. They lost £35 million last year and are still spending this year. Fulham at last couple were well over £100 million (& counting) in debt to Fayed.

At some point that money as to be paid back in one form or another…… so how far into debt would you push Wolves in order to match the likes of Fulham & Bolton ?

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72 Robert Perry
Your wasting your time trying to talk logic to some of these idiots who would,nt know a balance sheet from a shopping list.

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Liverpool,Which ever way you try to reason around it the clubs mentioned have survived longer in the Prem than we have.Wigan may well fall from grace this year and if they do i think it will be a long time before they rise again.Anyway it is Wolves i care about and not other clubs.
Regarding your theory on not spending now to stay up but spend £20 million if and when we come back up,where is the logic in that.
By bringing in the the right quality now and stopping up would show to players that Wolves are a viable proposition and heading in the right direction.Of course we all realise that spending will not ensure our premiership status,but not spending will in all probability take us down.

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Liverpool, Apologies – if and when we come back up,Should have read if we stay up,got a bit carried away.Mind you we spent £18 million pre season but unfortunately none of it went on experienced premiership quality.

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76 Kentish,As i have already said we are debt free and have monies in the bank,I am not advocating spending rashly aka Villa but there must be players out there better than what we already have certainly a decent LB that would not cost the earth but would benefit the club by retaining its premiership status and the cash rewards it brings.
As an example Jolean Lescott on Loan Wages £70k per week.Roughly 20 weeks of the season left =£1.4 million.Not bank breaking but may be worth £50 million.It’s only my opinion but one that a lot seem to agree with,this defence is not good enough to keep us up.My goal/dream is sustained premiership football however if you are happy to become a yo yo club then so be it.

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The truth is McCarthy wont buy another defender because it would put Ward out of the team.I would have thought that McCarthy would have learnt his lesson by now with Neil Collins who made mistake after mistake it seems the Fans could see it but he couldnt.On another note his inability to get on with players cost us Mark Davies who looked the best Bolton player on the pitch last night a much better midfielder than Henry.

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Maltawolves – we are debt free, we’re debt free because of the way the club is run & long may that continue.

There are 2 problems with your Lescott example. Firstly, it papers over a crack. Come the summer, having paid out £1.4 million, plus extras to solve out left back problem, Lescott would go back to City & leave us having to spend more money trying to plug the gap again. The second problem is, there is no way, unless they buy again this winter, City will let him go. He’s an important part of their 1st team squad as cover for left back & centre back.

I’m not being critical of you directly, but it’s very easy to say we need a left back, it’s much harder to go & find one that is in budget, available, good enough, right mentality & wants to move to us.

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I think Mick is 100% right – you lot are NUMPTIES.

The negative drivel you keep spouting shows how little you know about football.

Try Happy Clapping its a much more positive way of life…..

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89 – I fear you’ll receive a backlash from the ‘perfect’ fans on here who think anyone expressing a contrary opinion to theirs is tantamount to treason. You’ll probably be told: “Good riddance”, mate, or something similar. It won’t occur to them that being a TRUE fan sometimes involves criticising the very club you love, painful as it is. No, in their eyes, being a ‘Yes Man’ and accepting any old dross (and at a high cost to the wallet!) is somehow acceptable because they’re ‘Uber Fans’ who have nothing to complain about. Ever. Never.

Well, reading a post like yours says plenty about the pain and disechantment you feel. That’s genuinely sad and reflects, in all probability, the feelings of many of us. I don’t think anyone of sane mind expected Wolves to tear-up trees this season, but we did (quite rightly) expect a better fist of things. To say we’ve been lead up the garden path with big, bold talk from the Molineux bigwigs is no understatement. If anyone is happy with our (almost inevitable) limp-wristed relegation, then fine, feel content. However, there’s a difference between sound, progressive management and crazy, inept meddling that defies belief. I think we’ve witnessed the latter.

What a pity when a fan of 57 years’ loyal support feels so distanced from the club he loves. Just a shame that nobody at The Golden Palace will be listening. Mind you, what’s new? You have my sympathies, pal…I’m only a newbie of 40 years support.

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Cash Cow, a definition – “a cash cow is a product or a business unit that generates unusually high profit margins: so high that it is responsible for a large amount of a company’s operating profit. This profit far exceeds the amount necessary to maintain the cash cow business”

Does anybody actually, really & genuinely believe Wolves “generates unusually high profit margins” ?! if we do anything above breakeven we will have done really well.

Putin A Shift – i don’t for one second doubt your loyalty in following the Wolves for 57 years…… but is this era really worse than the 80s ? is Morgan really worse as a chairman than the Bhatti’s ?

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Kentish,We are debt free because Sir Jack wrote off the debt and sold the club to Morgan for £10.00.
Morgan has profited from the monies earned by the clubs promotion and subsequent sky payments.
With regard to the comments regarding Lescott,Yes of course he may have to return to City at the end of the Season but he may have saved the club in excess of £30 million (difference between £50 million for staying up and the parachute payments)therefore leaving more revenue to sign new players for 2011/12 season.
It appears that we have the money ready to pay for a new (not needed) stadium but not for the quality players required to maintain our status.Does 1982 ring a bell.

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89 – Just a couple more points. You said: “Never before have I felt that the club does not care about the fans like I feel now”. The only other time I recall was under the Bhatti ownership. That was a nightmare, though I’m NOT drawing a comparison, of course, because there isn’t one.

That said, the club at present is almost sterile and devoid of supporter empathy as compared to Sir Jack’s tenure. The old chap may have got a lot right (and wrong) on and off the field, but nobody could question his passion. Today, I think many fans feel distanced from their beloved club. I know I do. Such is the price of Premier League attainment and the riches that go with it? Or is it the back-slapping ‘Old Mates Club’ of the Three M’s that’s responsible? Either way, Wolves have lost that certain ‘something’.

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Kent Wolf, Just an important historical point,Harry Marshall did not want out.We were relegated and there was a Board coup.Deadly Doug Ellis took over as Chairman and in a matter of days he pulled the plug and called in the Receiver.The Receiver sold the club to the Bhattis,despite a rival consortium headed by Sir Jack and Harry Marshall being in my opinion far better suited to run our football club.

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89,alot of people feel like you,me included.I am a season ticket holder and have supported the club for 45 years and feel totally ripped off so how do the executive box holders and those paying through the nose for president club packages etc feel?When we have the worst defence in the division (after West Ham)and the manager then goes and buys a winger then its obvious something aint right at the club.Like you I dont trust Morgan an inch.I would very much like to know how much he has actually spent out of the original £30,000,000 he was required to put into the club

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We are preparing for championship football!!Hamill who looks a good prospect,this kid from Dundee(prospect).
Not one major player with”Premier experiance”to bolster our very average if not poor Wolves team!
We ave to face facts that the 3 M’s are all in ca-houts and will pick up nice bounuses regardless!!3 POINTS!
1.Why have we not replaced VanDAMME 2.5 MILL?
2.Why have we not offloaded keogh.
3.Why cant Macarthy see Berra and Stearman arn’t good enough!I teach kids to header away from goal when clearing the ball,not straight down the middle for players to smash wonder goals!!!
Two words describe my feelings with WOLVES AND Mcarthey “VERY DISAPOINTED”!

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These two contracts for Henry and stearman for me some up the wolves we are a championship minded club with championship standards on and off the pitch. We are a club who have NO AMBITION apart from wanting to build a 50,000 seater stadium which I think the money should be put into improving the playing side to give us some sort of hope of not being relegated. I think I speak for a lot of fans how can we not put that kind of investment into PREMIER QUALITY PLAYERS LIKE WE WERE PROMISED MR MOXEY & MORGAN AND NOT SPENDING £18 million on players who alright try but are NEVER THE QUALITY WE REQUIRE TO SURVIVE.

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Dear Mick,
I have been a life long wolves fan,
I too understand you were in your day a centre half! However, i do not understand that you watch your daily training sessions, matchday games and think whilst drinking a glass of vino at the evenings, Christophe and Richard are the best two centre half’s we have and i believe they will do a grand job and keep our defence tight to stay in the Premier League!
Get real, we need a new pairing at the back, drop your son in law for George or replace them both two!
At worst, play Zubar and George centre half! Give us half a chance,
If Curtis Davies can go to Leicester? Why not us? 6 days to go until the window closes, get a grip and sort out the defence!!!
Regards
Mr Well Peeeed Off!!!

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87.
Spot on! Wolves are owned by Bridgemere Group.
They have no interest in Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.
Meaning yes, they will develope the Mol at no expense to themselves but at the expense of the club and their supporters as a whole.
Their interest lies in Wolverhampton and the future development of the city, boasting how they redeveloped Molineux as a showpiece for gaining an unfair advantage on contracts for further developments.
The money is staying in the bank to further Mr. Morgan’s portfolio and for him and his companies to benefit.
He has invested nothing in our club and I suggest he takes his business nous elsewhere.

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We don’t even have the ambition to stay in the division – let alone bring in quality players. I listened to Jez on radio before the Liverpool game and thought we was arrogant, complacent and lacked ambition for the club, team or fans ’..we are united..’ ‘..we are a team..’ ‘..we are in it together, no matter what..’ ‘..no matter what division…’
Then I saw the game – we lacking passion (which you cant often say about MM teams), there was no plan – which is often true of MM teams, and we played negative, hit and hope football. MM raves about Jarvis – teams let him go wide because his crosses are aimless. Henry can only go side and back – leaving the backs or keeper to hoof it. The forwards get no quality service – only balls lofted into a packed area. The opposition however ran with the ball (yes Mick – it is allowed) passed crisp balls into the slots for forwards to run onto – its easy really. We took a demoralized poor Liverpool side and gave them fresh hope. We started with our fans cheering and ended with half empty stands and the opposition celebrating in the Steve Bull – again.
Then I heard MM on radio & TV, bemoaning the lack of killer instinct and mistakes that cost us. You pick them Mick – you coach them and you choose the tactics. We just pay……
Lets get some passion and ambition back – starting at the top. These are the same players who beet ManC, Chelsea and Liverpool. Lets get some quick ‘quality service to the forwards and stop booting 60 yd balls up the pitch – its Championship football

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95. A Baggies supporter saying “I am not knocking the Wolves” Thats a first then.
As Victor Meldrew said ” I don’t believe it”

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And another thing, Henry, walks straight back into the team and makes no impact except a negative one – good Captain material…in a Muppets World!!

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105. With this lot at the helm I don’t think it will STOP there. 1984 and all that beckons. Biggest Mistake Jack made selling to Morgan and employing Moxey.

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89. Putin A Shift

I agree that we have been mislead badly and the arrogance of the 3Ms is now beyong belief.

Not only are we called names, but we have our intelligence questioned every week by the excuses for yet more failure.

we can all see with our own eyes what is wrong, but the maanger buys 2 new attacking players! The man is a moron!

I haven’t yet reached Putin’s state of desperation, but I must admit that i am feeling very disillusioned by what is happening at the Golden Palace.

I don’t trust Morgan one inch. He is obviously in it for the money and I think that it will all end in tears for us Wolves supporters.

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93 Grace
You know how the saying goes “If the cap fits”

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I`m not a fan of McCarthy but he is expected to keep a team of championship grafters in the best league in the world with a wage budget that is one of the 3 lowest in the prem and feel slightly sorry for him.
Its a pity that our ticket prices arent the 3rd lowest to match our rubbish wages and the “young and hungry” policy is just an excuse for cheap and cheerful lower league rubbish to be drafted in.
Hammil may or may not be a decent signing but if thats the limit of our ambition we deserve to be relegated.
Brum bring in the likes of Bentley and we are salivating over scottish lower league forwards like Griffiths to keep us up.
Its pathetic stuff and I`ve got better things to spend my money on and wont be renewing my season ticket either.McCarthy doesnt deserve as much flack as Moxey and the lpool fanatic Morgan who have no intention of doing what is required to give us a realistic chance of staying in the prem.
The fact a championship clogger like Henry and Stearman (calamity collins mark 2) have been given long contracts like elokobi etc just screams mediocrity.I dont blame these players as they work their backsides off every game with 100 % commitment but Morgan/Moxey are expecting that to be sufficient to keep us up are they? …mugs

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liverpool bid for charlie adam – 4mil.
surely we should be bidding for this player too, maybe 4.5mil? is this not the midfielder that we are looking for?
i am sure that he would rather go to liverpool, but we can at least try to outbid them. . . . ???

common mick, sort it out mate.

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Maltawolves 96 – Morgan has profited very little, if at all, so far from the club. He sunk £30 million of his own cash into the club. That money will either be spent by the club, or stay in the club’s account, he can not take it back. The club has generated money from being in the Prem but it will be spending a huge proportion of that money already & I hope some money is being put aside as a contingency in case the worse happens. That’s not me being defeatist of accepting relegation, that’s me just being realistic and sensible about our situation. The board have to look beyond the next 6 months…… and I’m saying that with the 80s very much in mind.

I take your point on Lescott, but you missed the more important of my 2 points about him, that being that he’s not available, regardless of how much we’d be prepared to pay him, he isn’t available. Like I say, it’s very easy to pick a position, pick a player & say let’s get him. It’s very difficult to actually identify a weakness, then find a player who is available……. actually, I can’t be bothered to repeat myself, you know what I mean.

The club has shown in offering Sidwell £40k a week and in the offer put to Keane last season, that they are prepared to push the boat a little further for the right player.

Also, again, this is directed not specifically at you but in general to fans who say we don’t need the new stadium, I really hope Morgan & Moxey have got their sums right and we can afford it, judging by the time they’re taking to make the decision, it’s clearly not something being rushed which again, is a good thing. The new stadium will generate more income for the club, not just match day, but the corporate side as well. It also brings the fans closer the pitch. These are 2 good things for Wolves as a business & the fans as spectators. If the stadium generates more income, the club will be richer, allowing the club to afford bigger wages, to attract better players, to play better football & get better results so that the fans in their better stadium with a better position to the pitch have a better match day experience and enjoy a better, stronger club. & we could achieve all this with getting £100 million + in debt like some other clubs……… is that not a good thing ?!

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Stearman I can understand, but why give Henry a new deal?

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Kentish,it would appear that basically we are both singing off the same hymn sheet,premiership stability but differ in our views of how to acheive it.
Lescott is just an example of a way forward other players may be available whom we could realistically afford,Warnock,Konchesky etc.
Regarding the new ground as i posted earlier do we really need to completely demolish and rebuild or could we not cantilever cheaper option.
Finally as regard the £40k a week to Sidwell Moxey is great at giving out this information when we fail to sign players,but it is always undisclosed fee when we do.

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Alex, I was surprised at you calling someone an idiot,that is not usually your style.You are right of course about Ipswich,and you can add Reading.But what about Fulham,Stoke and Wigan ? Those clubs have made the step change in transfer policy needed to have a prolonged stay in the Premier.Even if Wigan fail this time they have given it a good run.

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Maltawolves – I’d agree, I think everybody on this page (apart from the Baggies !) want us to stay up, and everybody in entitled to their opinion. The problem is we as fans, know only a tiny fraction of the details that Morgan, Moxey & McCarthy are dealing with every day. I just can’t buy into the idea that if a player like Warnock, for example, was available, fit, in budget and wanted to move to us, McCarthy wouldn’t do the deal just so he can play Ward ! McCarthy has many faults, but he’s not an idiot !

Our discussion about the stadium plans just proves that point really, I have absolutely no idea if we can save money expanding as you suggest. None of us are privy to all the discussions & planning meetings about the best way to move forward on this project. Again, I just can’t buy into the idea that this project is just some vanity project for Steve Morgan or a way of passing business to his company or whatever else he has been accused of (not by you by the way !). The only thing I would say, is Morgan has said before this project isn’t just about the extra seats, it’s about boosting the stadiums ability to make money from the corporate side as well & moving the fans closer to the pitch.

I think it’s just good practice on Moxey’s part regarding the wages. Would it not bother you if you boss was making your salary known to anybody & everybody who wanted to have a look ?! I don’t think he should be discussing how much the likes of Fletcher, Doyle or Henry earn in public. But given the allegations constantly thrown at the board of not being willing to pay Prem wages, I think it’s fair game that Moxey can answer some of those by revealing we didn’t lose out on someone like Sidwell due to wages.

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re 46…..Dear Happy Baggie,

Thank you for reading my post. Unfortunately, your sarcasm is worthless as you are too thick to understand my post.

I was referring to premiership finishing position in relation to attendances ON THE WHOLE. Those three words allow for flaws in an overall assessment of the premiership. Numpty.

So, two things you should remember, idiot.

Firstly,the clubs you mentioned – sheff wed, sheff united, leeds, leicester – are not currently in the premiership, so they do not come into the equation. This season!

Secondly, I said ‘on the whole’. A select few clubs have been relegated due to mismanagement and poor decisions at boardroom level (newcastle, leeds, sheff wed)

I have a few teams for you here……

Wimbledon, Barnsley, Ipswich, Bradford, Watford, Oldham, Swindon, QPR, need more?

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alexrays butler and kentish wolves, very good articles by you both,

malta wolves and english exile , normally offer kneejerk type posts after defeats which normally this format: muppet out, morgan out, moxey out, and get in a manager who plays players who they both think should be playing for wolves( i mean when was the last time any proffessional manager picked players according to fans wish lists?).

i said on an earlier thread this week no matter how much anybody rants and raves , no club will win anything apart from the odd cup apart from man utd,chelsea,arsenal and this season man city, because to win trophies you’ve got to spend millions on the whole team and morgan and most club owners wont do that. utw.

IMO, i think we still have got enough games left to survive particularly after blackpool,wigan, both lost. were only 2 points from safety with 16 games left thats another 48 points to battle for and we need another 15 – 19 to have a chance of staying up. utw

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140,Truewolves i congratulate good performances,victories etc and critisize if i believe it is justified.
Unfortunately there are people who think that we should come onto a debate site and just agree with everything all the Mick supporters want.
Due to the financial constraints of the modern day world it is becoming increasingly harder for clubs to return from the wilderness,and i appreciate that MM’S hands are tied to are certain extent,but surely having conceded goals the way we are is it not too much to ask for some investment(and i dont mean stupid spending)in a couple of quality defenders who might just mean the difference between Premiership and Championship football next season.

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malta wolves , agree with your last point, and i meant 15 games left not 16, sorry.

and personally i’m not a mm supporter but try to back whoever the manager is and which ever player is trying to win games for wwfc.

utw.

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