Wolves soon to sign Leigh Griffiths
Wednesday 26th January 2011, 2:00PM GMT.
Wolves will complete the £150,000 signing of Dundee striker Leigh Griffiths tomorrow.
The 20-year-old will sign a two-and-a-half-year contract to become manager Mick McCarthy’s second capture of the January window, after last week’s £500,000 capture of Adam Hammill from Barnsley.
Seen as one for the future, the club wanted to have a longer look at the slightly-built forward after concerns over the player’s medical.
And Griffiths, who had a trial at Albion under Tony Mowbray, has been training with Wolves for the last 10 days after a fee was agreed with Dundee’s administrator.
McCarthy said: “We’ve had a look at Leigh in training and he’s certainly a good finisher.
“It’s clearly a big step from the Scottish First Division to the Premier League, but Leigh has a good goalscoring record up there and has plenty of potential.
“We have been successful with signing young players who have gone on to develop and make an impact and Leigh has a chance to fall into that bracket.
“We are very pleased to have added him to the squad.”
Griffiths today admitted he is “absolutely delighted” the move is going through.
He said: “It’s not every day you join a Premier League club and I’m buzzing.
“The manager said to me when I came in that he was going to look at me and see how I did and I’m just pleased to have done enough. I know I’m not walking straight into the team here.
“I’ve got to bulk myself up and work hard on the training field and then if I get my chance I must grab it with both hands.”
Fans will have to wait to see Griffiths in action, however, as he starts a two-match ban carried forward from his time in Scotland.
But the former Livingston hitman has a record to suggest he could be a hit at Molineux.
Griffiths has scored 10 goals in 20 games for the Scottish First Division outfit this season and a total of 29 in 56 appearances for Dundee, with a career record of 53 goals in 108 in league and cup outings.
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Way to go MM, shoot for the stars…
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I wish he had been a left back or midfield creative but one for the future I guess. I wonder if we will get Robbie Keane back on loan [Hope, Hope,Hope] to get the goals to keep us in the Prem for the lads future?
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Got a mate in Dundee who goes regularly to Dens Park and he says the fans there really rate Griffiths, although he can be a bit of a hot head. Descibed him as “our wonderkid”. Probably won’t see him until preseason friendlies, but, you never know.
Now get ready for the usual abuse from the mob who cannot seem to differentiate between what they demand this season and investing in the future.
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thats all we need a striker from the scottish first divison.
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Whilst i firmly believe a good strong centre back and left back are needed this is a good signing.Something that the bigger clubs have been doing for a while now identifying young talent and snapping them up before others do.
At the price paid both of this window’s signings appear to be good value for money.
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good post cudly dudley, just wait till the half glass empty brigade get hold of this article.
one for the future, utw. wwfc 2 stoke 0.
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A 20 year old kid, looking to learn and develop his game in the Premier league, and without even a photograph of him in a shirt Wolves fans are negative about him…
Never ceases to amaze me.
I have friends in Dundee who say this kid will be very hot property soon, although he has a bit of a “Scottish Temper”.
here’s hoping he develops well!
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Looking at his picture,I see he is wearing the Scottish under 21 shirt,so he obviously has talent.He is also “slightly built” at 5’9″.Just how tall is Rooney?
I along with other Wolves fans realise this current team needs strengthening.Personally I believe the current team is only 3-4 players from being a Great team,that can go on to win honours.Why these weaknesses have yet to be addressed,is beyond me!
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Number 6 True Wolves & 3 Cuddly Dudley
I will start for you.
We were promised this season we would go for quality not quantity would you not agree this is not what we have been given. Secondly surely we should be giving some of our bright accademy players a chance first or am i just moaning. This player is Division 1 of the scottish league we have players playing on loan at much better places.
We were promised the “quality” due to the appaling transfer dealings of last year, where we signed lot’s of players but predominantly played the championship winning side. I know a Bolton fan who raves about Mark Davis now who did he used to play for????
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Thing is we dont really need one for the future. We need one (or two) for right now!
I like to be positive and half full, but this just makes me doubt what we are aiming for :(
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Jimmy Murray wasn’t the biggest centre foward , but he was an excellent goal scorer. Give the kid time to adjust and learn his trade, and learn how to play in english football who knows we may have another Jimmy Murray UTW:
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Who knows? May turn out to be a good signing.No one else is in for him,which is a not an encouraging sign.My betting is he will go the same way as Pat Buckley.John Teasdale and Charlie[?] Muldrew etc.Especially worrying if they think he is not strong enough.Let us hope the club have something up their sleeves before the end of the transfer window.It would certainly give us a boost.I do not like this scavenging from other clubs who are in financial trouble,the main criteria should be a footballers ability not the financial state of the selling club.
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Football is a business. We may not like it but it’s a fact. In business you look for staff at all levels whether it is an apprentice, a qualified engineer or even a CEO. This article is not the place bemoan the lack of purchases for experienced players, use another article. A lot of people criticised the purchase of Hammill but he did more in 10 minutes on his debut than Hunt or Jarvis did in the first 45. Yes he fluffed his chance but at least he got in a goal scoring position which is more than can be said for Doyle or Fletcher.
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lol you lot are mad, he didnt even play in the SPL he played in scottish division ONE which is the same level as blue square (1 below league 2 for all you brainboxes), no SPL club were interested in him and NO OTHER clubs at all, so you are seriously deluded, buy ”ones for the future” in close season not now, we need players for NOW to help us stay up, this player looks like a little dumb chav with a short fuse, wooo! ACE
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Got agree that we need players for now and not the future or our future will be in the first division,we need a centre half Berra is shocking and we need a left back we do not have any of any quality and we definitely need a allround central midfielder.If we do not sign any players of quality in these positions we wll be relegated.
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Could be a bit of a kevin Davies for us, doubt he’ll get us 20goals a season but defenders hate playing against him!
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Don’t panic about the defence. Griffiths will have transformed into a left back before the season is out.
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Give this young lad 10 minutes with Clipboard and his ears will be ringing with the amount of pointless instruction.
Signing a 5ft 9 striker sounds promising – he’ll fit in well with our other small strikers that can’t win the long ball in the air that is our trademark.
If we go down, Mick and Jez have to go.
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I am sure he will score goals against Donny next year
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Getting ready for championship football. We’ll have Keogh back next
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Bobwolf – with fans like you who needs the tesco’s as enemies, i don’t know why you & your ilk don’t go away & support someone else – I use the word support lossely because you certainly don’t give Wolves any support at all
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I got this mate in Wolverhampton right.
He reckons we should be looking to sign
DEFENDERS!!!!!
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As this kid has played at under 19 and under 21 level for Scotland he must have some ability. Whether he develops into a Premiership player is another matter, but you never know. This is a low value speculative punt which may pay off in a year or two. I wish him well.
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9.14.17.18.19. thankyou for proving my point.
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Well we knew the depressed brigade would be out! I am sure they will come on apologising when he is woth £10 miliion in two years, just like they all did last season when they all got it wrong about us being relegated. Uuuuurrrmmmm, perhaps not! Short memories can be very useful sometimes can’t they? Just a quick one about Mark Davies, if we would have kept him he would have upset half the squad and they would have left, he had SUCH a good attitude you see! I await “I wish all the squad would go , they’re rubbish” comments now.
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Give the lad a chance. He clearly has potential. At that price we can’t lose – as someone said we are a business, we’ll get our money back one way or another. Yes, I’d like one or two known quantities to arrive to bolster our current campaign – but we have to think long term as well.
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Cuddley Dudley spot on. Truth what a great read…. give the lad a chance!!
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Regarding Mark Davies, who I liked and was sorry to see leave, just check how often he has made premier leadue starts this season. Although highly rated by Bolton (rightly so), it’s not as many as you might expect – 6 I think.
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Thank goodness that there are some people on here with a little common sense and have the long term interests of the club at heart.
When have we been in a better position in the last 30yrs?
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Ok lets see the signings we got with previous Premiership experience:
Hahnemann
Doyle
Hunt
Jones
Fletcher
Mouyokolo
Look at these signings then the ones we signed from lower leagues/foreign clubs (Jarvis, Zubar, Milijas etc). Who do you think are the better players ?. (BTW this is not me trying to make a point, its just getting other peoples opinions).
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true wolves
I believe i gave constructive comment which you refuse to debate.
Is this because you know i am right, i bet if they told you that white was a better colour for a home strip you wouldn’t have the intelligence to question it.
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Why do no Wolves fans see how clever this is. What if we do go down this season.
We’ll win the league a lot more convincingly than we did last time if we do.
That would give time for Hammill and Griffiths to develop even more. There is nothing negative about being in the Championship.
A lot of proper football, rather than Fabregas tripping over his laces or Torres crying because he can only score when he’s practically rolling it over the line…or Rooney shouting abuse at his own fans, happens in the Championship.
I’m not saying I want us to go down. Playing the Manchester Uniteds, Chelseas, Arsenals is fantastic…but what i’m trying to say is…Mick is the best manager we have had in a long time.
Look at Kightly (if he wasnt injured), Henry, Edwards, infact a lot of the team were lower league players bought cheap who became pretty good players under McCarthy.
Wolves have rolled a lot lower than 19th in the Premier League before…and we are there after playing with pride and playing pretty well, (most of the time).
All our team needs is experience. A decent left back would be good, but other than that, if we keep all our good players, we’ll be a lot higher in the premier league within 3 or 4 years.
You have to remember also, this January window is rubbish. The best left back that has been available is Wayne Bridge, and look how he played in his first game for West Ham. Zubar left back would be fine until the August window.
We can stay up. But negativity isn’t going to help the morale of our team. And if we go down, it’s not the worst thing in the world.
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This kid may indeed be “one for the future” and could prove to be a good signing in years to come.
I love and support my club and will renew on the early birb regardless on the clubs current league position.
BUT it is painfully obvious that we need a quality left back and a box to box run through a wall central midfielder like Alex Rae or Colin Cameron. Someone who can put his foot on a ball and run forward with it.
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Looks like wer’e getting ready for the championship next season!
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Will probably got straight in at right back then!
Champo here we come!
And also Stearman signs a new contract and now thinks he will be playing for England one day! I want some of whatever they are taking at the Mol! I got a pay rise but i’m not going to be the MD in six months!
This is turning out to be the worst transfer window since we signed Steve Claridge and Robbie Slater in 98!
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Obviously it doesn’t hurt having a spare striker under the age of 21, given the 25-man squad rule. He probably won’t get a game this season, but if we were to lose a couple of our main strikers with injuries, he could prove an exciting back-up option. Good thinking Wolves!
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AJC 1989 (32) have you been drinking?.What makes you think if we go down we will come back up? Look at Boro ,Derby to name but a few.You might also see,despite what MM says, there is a fire sale of our better players.Be in no doubt relegation would be a disaster,with attendances down and further economies having to be made.Thats why our attempts at getting players in are so disappointing.
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WTF & Y?
if thats not a “i know were going down & i know my best strikers will do one so lets prepare for it” signing i dont know what is!
Anyone else get the feeling our club doesn’t mind going down for a year or 2? thats the vibe im getting with our january business!!
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all wolves do is snap up good young players they say they are for the future but they only hope to gain in the transfer market weve been doing it for years sign these players and in a fews years reap the rewards lescot keane and when we go down this season jarvis
greedy board and chairman
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Good luck to the lad, we have a good history of bringing young players in from other clubs and turning them into very good players.
For the next two games we need a settled 4-5-1 which turns to 4-3-3 when attacking, we need to go out and frustrate Bolton and Utd:
Hahnemann
Zubar
Craddock
Stearman
Hunt
Hammill
Jones
Henry
Milijas
Jarvis
Doyle
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Can he play Left Back??
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before the clubs adoring butt kissers start on my previous comment, im all for buying kids for the future! but we have some very good kids at moment and have done for years! but they never ever get a look in!
Buy players for the future when you have players on the pitch playing every week that are good enough for the NOW!
surely that should be the priority?
i sometimes think im alone in a big bowl full of old gold numpties with you lot! the club never does anything wrong in some of your eyes, thats not being a “real supporter” thats being a complete blinkered idiot!
try being a little realistic
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Robert Perry, you do realise that Derby & Boro, when they went down were carrying the baggage with them of doing what many Wolves fans appear (judging by these pages anyway) to want Wolves to do.
Derby had a spell of a few consecutive seasons in the Premier League and overspent trying to keep pace with the league. They went down and struggled with that debt. Despite promotion back up they were still carrying that debt with them and it’s still something they are struggling to get back from.
Boro after relegation panicked & sacked Southgate when, fairly early in the season, he hadn’t taken them top of the Championship for an immediate return (although if I remember right, he was around the play off places).
They are two great examples of why Wolves shouldn’t over extend ourselves on wages & fees and why the board shouldn’t panic over the managers position.
Also, whilst there is never a guarantee we would bounce straight back (if relegated), at the moment, our board refuse to do the 2 things than undid the 2 clubs mentioned above & so to that extent, we should be in a far stronger position than them.
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spot on kentish wolf
up the wolves
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Look at the season so far. We have had horrendous injury problems from the first week of the season in my opinion only Villa have had worse.
We have a game in hand over West Ham and Wigan. WBA have one win in 9 and one of their senior players come out and slated the squad to the media last week and both them and Blackpool who soon lose teir best player will be down there mark my words, their bubbles have well and truly burst and at a time when our players are slowly starting to return.
Once SEB, Mancienne, Edwards, Guedoira, Craddock, Kightly and Henry are fully fit and Hammill settles in you watch us go above Albion and make considerable ground on Blackpool on the coming months.
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Give the lad a chance geez. NO.14 remind me again what league did we get Kightly from? oh that’s right Blue Square premier league.
I wish people would give the players a chance before slating them.
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Optimistic Wolf
You got me reaching for the Champers, I am convinced mate
UTW
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i really have no problems with signing players for the future, as long as we sign players for now as well.
it’s clear to 99% of wolves supporters that we need improvments on several positions, yet we here the same old “we’re happy with the squad” “these lads have it in them” im sorry, if we dont sign we will be relegated!
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Got to be realistically enough to accept that we cannot pay the price that the big clubs are paying for young talents and even betweem them they are making the highest bidder to secure Chamberlain from Southampton. And also we have to accept that these lads will not sign for Wolves and therefore we are forced to look elsewhere in the hope we find another Matt Jarvis and Kightly. There will be always gems here and there and it is what M.Mc Carthy is doing. We must not do the likes of Portsmouth,Leeds and surely West Ham if they are relegated will find themselves in big troubles. I think what S. Morgan wants to do in redeveloping Molineux is to give the club a platform in terms of future revenues and the City of Wolverhampton deserves a 50,000 capacity stadium. Why should we be afraid of that when you see Sunderland and other clubs have a better capacity than us. They are trying their utmost best to improve the club in various parts not only just on spending on players. I don’t think it is reasonable to pay £24m on Bent when he cannot command a place in the England team. These are incredible things that you see many times in the transfer market. Even if we have to face relegation, we can manage to follow the same path like Bolton and Blackburn who got relegated two or three times before,and they return to get a stable position now. As the manager explained on the Wolves’ web the other day it is so difficult to find palyers. Hope all the Wolves fans have taken note of that with these frank explanations and show the patience required.
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31)Spirite Wolf Why would anyone want to debate anything with you ? You’e insulting people without justification before any debate has started. Why don’t you become pen pals with 42) Crowfish. He’s another one who thinks ‘cos he hands out abuse that he’s right !
Good point 3) CD, but, although you don’t mention signings made before deadline, I really think we should have been in the market to strengthen our defence. It appears from what MM says it’s unlikely, but, that may just be a smokescreen.
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32. well said mate!!!
welcome Leigh, hopefully these moronic “fans” haven’t made you regret your decision to come here yet!
MM has a talent for spotting decent players, with no premier league experience, who go on to become really good players.
I think its a bit unfair to be knocking the lad before he’s even started – wait till we’ve seen him a play a few times before passing judgement ay??
bring on Stoke saturday & lets get back to winning ways! im so sick of reading the negativity on here – its depressing – keep the faith in our lads to escape out the bottom 3, just the same as we did last year – it can, and WILL be done!!!
wolves till i die!!!!
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PLEASE READ! ……….
Stop moaning!
Non of you have ever seen this guy play for one, For example Jarvo game from gillingham and he turn out alright. Leigh has a fanctastic goal scoring record even if it is is the scottish second. His still young and think for 150k its a bargin, shame his contract is only 2 years
Also stop thinking wolves should be signing top first team players, We are a team which is in a relagation battle so if we are going to sign a player at the moment, we would be paying well over the odds for them and their wages would be massive.
So stop moaning and support the team
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I come in peace (well sort of)…..Reading a few comments and in all honesty I got bored after 2 or 3 How can people judge a player when the majority have never seen him play. 150k is in these mad times is virtually free and if your lot pay the wages we pay he aint on a lot…. He may be one for the future he is 20 years old for god sake at least another 12 years of pro football left in him.You have to start building at some time or other…If he comes on in the last 10 mins of the last game scores and keeps you up will you all be slating him then I think not…Just hope the Vile go down think its there god given right to be a Premier league team!!
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crowfish – if you feel all alone in your views, that says something of you not everyone else…………
Its an opporunity to buy a good youngster at bargain price. Why not??
Dont think its replacing someone we need for 1st team as it isnt. £150,000 isnt breaking the bank is it????
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We’re probably scared to play the kids we have as the crowd will destroy them if they don’t get a hat trick within the first 15 minutes of the match. We’re not exactly famed for our patience at Molineux are we?
If we but kids thats wrong and if we buy established players they are “too old”. No one at Wolves can do right for doing wrong,,, oh thats unless they keep us up,,, just like last time.
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29 TonyMo
“When have we been in a better position in the last 30yrs?”
er last year, some time around April when we did not look dead certs for relegation as we do at the moment because we can’t flippin defend!
All those people on here bleating give the boy a chance – nobody isn’t giving him a chance for heaven’s sake but unless our wonderful leader tries to convert him to a CB or FB (not beyind the realms of possibility I grant you given his track record of playing players out of position) Griffiths IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE OUR DEFENSIVE PROBLEMS!!!!!!
FFS only MM could moan about our lack of killer instinct and blame that for our result against Liverpool when we conceded 3 flippin goals!
Stevie Wonder could see that our problems are at the back not the front but oh no, we have Moyoukolo playing now so all our prayers are answered – we obviously don’t need any defenders.
This is the Premier League, we have conceded 41 goals so far, only Chelsea, Man U and Arsenal have scored enough goals to have given themselves a positive goal difference against 41 goals conceded!
OUR PROBLEMS LIE IN OUR DEFENCE NOT OUR STRIKE FORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yes sprite wolf, i do not have the intelligence to question the club, if they told me the colour of the homestrip is white and not old gold.
and yes you did make a constructive comment,
and yes i refused to debate it because i choose not to.
now make sure you have a go on the lottery tonight.
utw
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You guys are the worst bunch of moaners ever! This signing has nothing to do with other potential signings. If we can’t get other players it’s not because we decided on Griffiths. He’s a bonus.
Bob: “If we go down, Mick and Jez have to go”.
Man, you’ve being saying this ever seen they’ve been at Wolves, you ****!!
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“We have been successful with signing young players who have gone on to develop and make an impact and Leigh has a chance to fall into that bracket.
Hello, would someone like to mention anyone else who´s had an impact since we´ve been in the Prem.
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I’ve seen this lad play a few times and he looks good. he has got a great 1st touch and an eye for goal. He isn’t afraid to shoot from distance and has a few tricks up his sleeve.
I can only see him coming off the bench for 20 minutes or so for the near future.
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same said about friend,keogh,vokes?load of tosh.need quality and experiance now!!doomed for bad things us.got to accept it!MMjoke and waist of space,punching above his weight in this leauge!!!
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Whilst i have no problems with buying players for the future, lets face it none of us no how this player will turn out until he is given a chance, but what about the players for now? I cant understand why mick keeps saying we are going to be fine and we will definatly stop up? He doesnt even seem to mention in any of his latest articles looking for defenders? We have been in the bottom 3 pretty much since the end of september so surely he must know we need reinforcements.
We are seriously lacking behind in the transfer market and only blackpool and baggies seem more incapable of attracting players than us. Scott dann injured for birmingham last week, guess what sign curtis davies within days. Mick jez take note.
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Laughingwolf,
History of Bringing youngsters in and making them into very good players!, You mean like Ebanks Blake, ( bench warmer. Vokes, ( Bench warmer ). Keogh ( Got better under Jones at Cardiff ). Henry ( When is he likely to improve ). Haven’t time to name more.
Tell me Where do you get your information from?.
JACK the HAT.
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come on mick,while blackpool and wigan have smaller budgets,a manager like holloway tactically is far more adept ,the lack of big signings will ultimately cost us relegation this time round ,credit to villa,spent the money ,knew what they were getting,staying up ,7 wins from 12 games almighty ask,minus arsenal /man u game of course,mediocre players in several positions,what happened to jvd transfer money?
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63, Jack the Clown (On our page again)Off the top of my head a list is below. We could instead decide to try the Albion route, sign a guy who struggled at Wigan last season pay him way more than he is worth and let him have a clause to say he can leave if one of seven clubs come on for him? A Graham Dorrans who demands 4 new contracts to stop big spending West Ham getting it but can’t make the grade at this level? Stephen Reid fails a medical at Celtic after turning Albion down but goes back when another club oesn’t come in for him? 1 win in 9?
Stearman
Kightly
Keogh
Henry
Jarvis
Foley
Edwards
SEB
Doyle
Fletcher
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Not sure what all the fuss is about really -
MM says the squad vis good enough to stay up!
N ot sure either what has suddenly changed as we have had the same squad all season and the table does not lie!!I know we have had more than our share of injuries but we may get more in the next 5 months!
Why have we not replaced Van Damn? Does this mean that we never really needed him? If the answers is no, why did we spend £2.5 mil on him (I know we got it back) and lost a large chunk of money to his signing on fee and his agent (twice).
We need mature(not old) Prem players at centre back and left back!!
Even curtis Davis preferres Leicester to us!!!
I know he is not mature but he is far better at centre back than Berra & Stearman!!
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To all,
I am not a happy clapper and not a moaner, just a honest fan with an opinion.
Lets hope that the recent signing’s do turn out alright and prove an asset in future. So to all the new additions good luck and seize your chance when you get it.
What is blatently clear for all to see is that we Wolves fans have been lied to and led down the garden path by Moxey and Mick.
We were promised that we would buy Premier league quality and Experience and that has not materialised so that leaves a vast majority of season ticket holders frustrated at the clubs apparant lack of ambition. And don’t call Fletcher, Mouyokolo and co prem quality or experienced.
We also have the bizarre spectical of Mick rueing our poor defending, virtually all season and then not even attempting to address it when we have the chance.
I am not saying go out and spend loads of money on players, but surely we could have a good look at loaning players in, just to survive. If we don’t they go back to their own clubs, at least then the board can say we tried our best.
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32…what have you been drinking because i would like some…so you think that if we get relegated we will automatically win promotion, tell you what if your so confident go and put your life savings and house on a bet at your local bookies…How dare you slag off fabregas, Torres and Rooney all world class footballers who play for world class football clubs not like your mighty wolves who have spent the last 30 years in the lower divisions.But yet,you praise the likes of kightly whos never played in the premiership and a donkey called Henry who only knows how to pass backwards. I think you are a blinkerd deluded wolves supporter, who has been out of top flight football to long and has never seen quality.Has the likes of karl henry won, world cup winners medals, champions league medals, premiership medals.!!!
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40…can you tell me and the audience what young players we have brought in from other clubs and turned them into good players..!!!
And what is your definition of good, what do you base it…!
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60.farmer ted, they think that if they shout abuse and shout louder they are right, he said he wants stability yet has not said apart from buying defenders, how this would be achieved.
he also said the club can do no wrong in the happyclappers eyes. what great crime have the club commited? made promises to buy quality instead of quantity? and the realists are upset?
a bunch of little cry babies. moan and whinge no wonder coronation street and eastenders have so many viewers.
i choose to be positive in life and get slated for it. big deal. wwfc forever.
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Crickey
It’s unbelievably exciting this transfer window isn’t it? £650k on not one, but two players! I honestly think these two boys will make all the difference and help us to maintain our championship status next year, after the inevitable relegation of this year and the customary jumping ship of all the good players to who else but Blackpool.
Oh dear.
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Who cares about a no hoped striker from Scotland. We need defenders you muppet mick!
Dint understand why we are not signing quality defenders! But the excuses will start from Moxey I.e my phone was red hot blah blah! What a joke wolves board are. Championship football next yr it’s going to happen and we r stuck with mental mick!
New stadium yer having a larf!
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The JVD transfer money proberly wasnt near the 2.5 Mil we paid for him but WE will NEVER REALLY know due to the stupid “undisclosed fee” moxey n morgan insist on !
Wolves board may well keep the buisiness side running smothly but on the P.R side, they DO NOT TREAT THE SUPPORTERS FAIRLY.
i LOVE my club, my whole family does, but we all think we have lost that special connection since SIR JACK bought in moxey sold up.
As for our signings, good invest, very buisiness like, but where´s that PROMISE gone about learning from last year and this time signing QUALITY PREMIERSHIP PLAYERS ?????
Nothing, none…. in 2 years in the prem, we havnt bought any…. not even 1 !!!
And looks very likley we wont be in the future
THIS FOR ME IS A REAL ISSUE, QUESTION IS WHY ?
- Mick McCarthy, too stuborn, knows best, poor track record as a prem manger.
or
- Jez Moxey, penny counter, bought in on big bonus to make the club financialy viable, GREAT at saving us money but does lack that “he who dares” mentality
or is the problem further
- Steve Morgan, to be honest we dont see enough of him too judge, only see him when liverpool play, great eye for a bargain but lack any PASSION for Wolves. But maybe he see´s himself selling Wolves, once he does his NEW STADIUM on the cheap.
The 3 M´s come end of season will be either LEGENDS for keeping Wolves up on the cheap & things look great ahead
or
get LYNCHED for failing to match the PREMIERSHIP SUPPORT & history with PREMIERSHIP PLAYERS again and risk years playing FIZZY POP football.
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Well done McCarthy and Morgan our rivals are running scared now! 500K on a Championship player and now 150k on a lightweight Scottish first divsion lad. I hear York City have a very promising Irish winger who used to be on Sunderland books!! Makes sense!!!
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Does anyone remember Jake Cassidy from Airbus Utd or summit at the start of the season….. didn’t we beat off the Baggies & a few others for his signature …. so what happened to him, he was scoring goals for fun in one of the Welsh Leagues… wasn’t Sam Vokes one for the future he was also scoring goals for fun at Bournemouth…. what happened to him?? That’s right it need a bit of time for miracle management to coach the goal scoring ability out of them before they get a start??
What has happened to all our other promising Academy players…. Malone as a LB, Danny Batth CB, Mendez-Laing, Hemmings, Izzie … what in earth is happening up there to suggest these players might get a chance to prove they are better then what we have… surely the LB position could be served well by Malone..
Oh well lets hope they spend the next week coaching out Adam Hammils ability to score goals!!
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number 3 yes good luck to the lad,but i hope you can understand most wont be interested in him bearing in mind the state of the team NOW!we are being managed by a moron,the players are exceptionally poor,new contracts for dross,without doubt the worst team in the league,whats to get that excited about a lower level scottish striker who probably has a 40 percent chance of being good enough to play premiership football.roll on the championship and lets hope they can ENTERTAIN at that level.
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rumour has it that when Sir Alex Ferguson released SEB from Man Utd. He said to him, you will be a good player in 3 years but I need a player who is ready now.
Hamill and Griffiths are great potential signing for the future but what about now Mick?
If you signed these players in addition to players who can made a difference to our relegation fight no problem but you havent.
I really feel we’ve been sold down the river but the 3Ms with their championship outlook and lack of ambition.
Are you telling me that we’ve looked all over the world and these are the best players we can find who we could afford???
This is about mick being too stubborn to see sense and Jez agreeing because hes a money and not a football man. The squad will give Mick everything and because of that he thinks thats enough.
Doyle and Hunt may remember the 2nd season in their reading premiership days when coppell chose to stick with same squad and not strengthen in the transfer window.When they got relegated he pointed this as one of his biggest regrets.
I’m happy after 38games to say I got it totally wrong if we stay up, but I will be calling for Micks head if we dont.
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hang on hang on.
what makes anyone even think good players want to come here?
we’re second bottom, dont pay extravagant wages and have a very shambolic lopsided squad.
Are we as fans that arrogant to think we’re an attractive option for youre typical premier league Merc?
this guy has been bought in to replace doyle and/or fletcher who will both want off if we’re relegated. Hammill has been bought in to replace Hunt who has a history of jumping ship when a club goes down.
i say good luck to both lads and i hope they can hit the ground running and help us out of the championship next season cos as it stands we’re not staying in this fickle, biased monstrosity of a division anyway.
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Surprise, surprise the moaners are at it again!
Anything to do with Wolves and they start up with their negative drivel.
Try Happy Clapping its a better way of life!
Good luck to the new boy.
UTW
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@79 Sir Billy
What are the central tenets of the church of the Happy Clapper? I am thinking that I may need some kind of spiritual direction in my life, there’s only so much joy one can get from the quiz machine at the Newhmpton.
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PeteNuts
On match day a typical Happy Clapper will go to the pub before the match and enjoy 2 or 3 pints discussing the lighter side of football with her/his mates, topics such as ‘are female linesman wearing tighter shorts than male linesman?’JOKE!!
After the game a Happy Clapper will not resort to kneejerk reactions in respect of the result of the game but will search for anything positive i.e the new bloke swung in some good crosses on Saturday.
During the week a Happy Clapper will read the posts on this site letting the negativity flow over them but through it all they will be up for more Happy Clapping come match day.
Beer and banter are the central tenets of the Happy Clapper.
Become a Happy Clapper its a better way of life.
UTW
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FordhousesWolf – Colin Cameron and Alex Rae, bit old now arn’t they :) lol Both good players for us, somewhere between too good for the Chumpionship and not enough for the Premiership, Alex was in the twilight of his career though when with us even though he was still awesome.
I am suprised we have moved for a midfielder in Sidwell and now kind of , given up it looks.
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@81
Do I have to pay you anything? Is it like Scientology, where I become better at it, the more money I spend? I’m asking because I may have to restructure my quiz machine usage and hot pork bap consumption on matchdays.
PS. I drink red wine – does it have to be pints?
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billy quiet back from under the woodwork talking rubbish again idiot
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From what I have just read from @84 it seems that their are very definite schisms in the church..?
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THERE are! Oh, the shame!
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@84 The plight of the Happy Clapper is a lonely a path!Moron.
PeteNuts – Red Wine is fine but hot Pork baps?? prawn sandwiches are available in Waitrose.
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Should I forgive @84 for he knows not what he does, Sir Billy?
Yes, but they are not Newhampton match day hot pork baps, the bap that endeth all baps!
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PeteNuts..I thought your church was the Newhampton you go on and on about it!!! thank god for Sir Billy , I’m also classed as an happy clapper so your not on your own…
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79 and 80 Sir Billy Petenuts
I have checked and there are no tenants in our local church, obviously got behind with the rent.
Unfortunately red wine like hot pork baps gives me the wind, so my neighbours in the Steve Bull become decidedly unHappy Clappers.
Can I say, praise the lord, that all you pessimists with you’re pint pot half empty and think we are going to get relegated. IT IS NOT THE FIZZY POP LEAGUE ANYMORE !!
Here endeth the lesson
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@89 Sue
The day that I stop banging on about the brilliance of the New H is the day that the Heavens themselves fall, Susan. So pray that my ardour is never dimmed…
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