Wolves ready to pull plug on deals
Thursday 23rd June 2011, 11:05AM BST.
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey is ready to pull the plug on major deals if they are not closed soon.
Efforts to bring defensive targets Roger Johnson and Matt Mills to Molineux have hit deadlock, with both Birmingham and Reading unwilling to drop their demands into line with what Wolves are prepared to pay.
Yesterday, chairman Steve Morgan warned clubs must ‘get real’ over their demands.
And Moxey has now revealed Wolves have sounded out other clubs so they can still strengthen their defence if they miss out on the pair.
Moxey said: “We have got feelers out to a number of clubs. So we either start getting serious now or we move on.
“We are now telling clubs to make a decision. We need to get things done and what we’re saying is ‘if you don’t want to do business, we’ll forget it and move on.’
“We’ve done one deal for a high-class midfield player who, from the vibe we’re getting within the game, will be regarded as a very astute piece of business.
“We’re also delighted to have signed a quality goalkeeper who will provide the right competition.
“But we need to concentrate on other, more pressing areas now.”
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It’s obviously going to be tougher to sign players like Johnson and Gardner because there is much interest from other clubs. Clubs like Birmingham are inevitably going to want as much money as they can get from these players
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Dont give up you clown! We need these sorts of players to gives us a better chance of staying up this season and possibly pushing for mid-table. Stick at it guys. Come on!!!!!!!!!!
WOLVES AY WE
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Add a quality centre back, possibly 2!!! We could be mid table next year!
On their day: Jarvis, Hunt, Fletcher, Doyle, O’Hara are as good as any players in their positions in the bottom half of the table.
A new look defence is very much needed.
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101 in negotiation! come on bham & reading, you have to play ball.
lets not stall to get bids in, lets do business.
has anyone heard of clubs being interested in any of our players going out?
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the trouble is here that u have too small clubs askin stupid prices for their players, Moxey and Morgan are trying to be patient but theres no point if they cant be reasonable
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Fair play to 3M’s why be held to ransom for someone, move on and then see how their price tags deteriorate, i have full confidence in the way this club is moving forward and respect for all at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
WOLVES AY WE !!!
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Fair enough. Clubs know that Wolves are a very well run club with no debt. We should not be held to ransom. £7m for a 28 year old and £3m for an unproven Premiership is about right. Play ball or move on to the likes of Bassong or Yobo, for example!
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Agree entirely with the management on this one but would keep Vokes. Still think he’s one for the future…….
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Good on you Mox…We have offered good money for these players and one has never played in the Prem so is always a gamble..
These are good players but not worth going over the odds for the Greedy clubs.
If other clubs are stupid enough to pay this that’s up to them.
We are Wolves!!
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This ‘take it or leave it’ stance will not get us the players we want, not so early on in the closed season. While I understand the club will not be held to ransom over their top targets I think that we have offered just about bottom level of the players price bracket in the £7M & £3M for Johnson & Mills respectively, we would probably have more joy if we were to up the bids fractionally, I don’t mean break the bank and go all silly, but a final effort on each of these players, £3.5M for Mills and £7.5M plus Berra for Johnson, give them a take it or leave it ultimatum on those deals and we’ll possibly tip the balance in our favor. Losing out on these players for the sake of half a million or so is lunacy ! If we’d have been willing to pay the right money in the first place we’d already have Johnson and Scott Dann! Come Moxey and Morgan drive a hard bargain by all means but let’s get these deals done!
Up thd might wolves!
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If the shoe was on the other foot, and we were looking at selling off our major assets, then nobody would complain about dragging it out to try and get the best price possible.
The transfer merry-go-round is only just starting. Our problem is that Vile, Sunderland, Newcastle and Blackburn are all awash with cash from sales. Whilst they are clearly more established teams in the prem than us, this has to be seen as our competition rather than the newly promoted sides.
With our public comment that we are in the market for a couple of centre backs and prem quality players being somewhat short in supply, we run the real risk of trying to be a bit too forceful and missing out on what we really need.
Fingers crossed anyway.
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Obviously with the current financial situation Birmingham want as much as they can get for the players.
However these players were in a relegated team and although looking good in this team – are they significantly better than what we have? AND who else is going to buy them play in the Premiership or the Championship???
Remember two years ago some of us would have paid £4M for MM……. and eventually he did not even go for £2M.
Yes we do need 2 or 3 defenders but it has to be the right guys at the right price……… and they have to want to come and play here.
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I think this is the right approach, and deserves praise.
We have an astute chairman in Steve Morgan, and are one of the few clubs not disappearing down a black hole of debt. We shouldn’t be held to ransom and be forced to pay over the odds for players – it’s a dangerous game to play.
A voice of sanity in what has become a money-mad sport.
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Jez this is now our third season in the top league and if we are to kick on to the next level and attract better players to our club we need to pay that extra million or two, we all know where we need to strengthen if we dont i can see us struggle again.
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why not look at Carlos Cuellar from villa, top flight cb and would get him at the right price, and give croddock bionic opp lol
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With you all the way on this – The money offered is sensible for the types of players – Im sure there are many other players available to fill these slots and I think it is important to do the business as soon and as swiftly as possible to get a full pre-season in with the squad than hang around playing bidding wars and risking in the end not getting the player and then having to snap up cheap last minute scraps
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Sounds like we’re hunting on the cheap again…
We need Premiership quality signings or face another relegation fight – these types of players do not come without a high price. O’Hara is a decent start but 2 centre backs are needed. Left back is less of a priority with Elokobi and Ward willing to put in a shift.
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I agree that we need a couple of defenders, I think our midfield is a match for any outside the top six, what I think we need is one more striker a bit different to what we have, one with bags of pace, like a Martins he was on loan at Blues last season and probably would have kept them up if he was not injured or a defoe/owen type of player ( and yes I know we would not get either of those two just that sort of player )
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What gets me is some fans rave about johnson, for me he is nothing special and the money blues are wanting i’d walk away now and get wes brown from united he has played his entire career at premier and international level and would do us for a few years and at 3 mil worth it i reckon.
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Is it transfer fees or is it wages? Could be both!! Knowing Moxey he’ll still try to get them on the cheap. I agree that clubs are getting greedy on fees & we need to be prudent but you need to covert the fee/wages paid, to the revenue created from Premiership safety. It seems silly to jeopardize our status for an extra £500,000 or £1 million that could secure the deals (if we really want them that much!)Come on Mr Morgan, dig into those deep pockets, let’s see some action.
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what is all the stress about if reading and birmingham wont drop there price or meet us half way ..STUFF THEM there are plenty of players out there for alot less money…moxey and morgan…dont be held to ransom by these other clubs..
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i would pay 8 millon for johnson i wouldnt pay anything fot mat mills dont think hes all that good i would pay 7 millon for bassong and then get chelsea player on loan at left back and close the cheque book two quailty centre backs johnson and bassong i bet we will get upson and dunne instead
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i dont think we should pull out of the johnson bid because, as far as i know, we are the only people who are seriously interested in him and have put offers in. and he is a top deffender n we desperately need centre backs
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i would pay 8 million for johnson 7 million for bassong i bet we will get upson and dunne
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number 18 above….what I think we need is one more striker a bit different to what we have. eeeerrrrrmmmmm
Do you mean one that can score a goal?
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This is absolutely the right stance from the club. We don’t want another situation like we had a couple of January windows ago when we spent the whole month chasing Hunt, only for Hull to lead us on & eventually not do the deal anyway.
We’ve offered good money for these players if reports are to be believed. At some point you just need to draw a line under it & move on. If somebody else wants to hit £10million + for Johnson then let them.
Big Bad Telford Wolf – I get the point you’re making, but I think it may be little naive to think that these deals are being “deadlocked” for the sake of £500k. It’s also not as easy as saying, we’ll throw in players x, y & z. You couldn’t blame Berra for not fancying a stint in Blue !!
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WWFCrob johnson isn’t a top player he’s a relegated player with a rubbish team.
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Johnson is quality, anyone who says he isnt is deluded. Dann is in my view slightly overated, certainly at the price they are asking.
Mills would be a great signing.
The club know to go forward we need a better defence. Morgan says watch this space, im waiting to see who we will clinch. Exciting times ahead.
I would rather slightly over pay on Johnson now and underpay or wait on a second player later. He is well worth securing.
Get your 5 year deal in there Mox and tie him up, that way he will either be with us his whole career or indeed worth something if we sell later :)
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Forget Johnson, overpriced for the player he is.
Go back to Spurs and bid for Bassong and Kaboul, they would likely be cheaper and better players in my opinion.
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Got to applaud Steve & Jez on this one.We don’t want to end up like Leeds or Pompey paying over the odds for 2nd rate players & then going bankrupt when things don’t work out.
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Telford I would love to play you at poker!
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Indeed – these football transfers are becoming a joke. Stick to your guns Jez, and lets move on if certain clubs start to piss you around. We will not be held to ransom by ay club. If we offer what we think is a good rate for a player then let them decide what they want to do. If they don’t like it well we move on as you have indicated. We will not and should not be bullied into any deal.
More irons in the fire please!
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Although other teams have made a lot of money from sales, they are all in debt (and should be more concerned with strengthening in different areas to us) – this has to be paid back some time!
We are in a strong position as a buying club, there are plenty of other players out there, including a lot on Bosmans’s.. The sooner the dealing can be done, the better!
Now it’s up to the selling clubs to get real or risk not being able to cash in!!
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22) Apprently the young Chelsea lad wants to come to Albion and who can blame him
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personally i think 10mil for johnson is well worth the money! he is top class! and also if we did do a double deal for gardner i could see that being a snip and 15mil! these are the type of players suited to our style of play!! get em in!
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And then what?
Problem is we are in for players like Johnson, Mills, Gardner that are wanted by other clubs. I don’t blame Blues or Reading for wanting top dollar, it’s business, we’d be the same if the situation was reversed. Agreed we don’t want a Dutch auction situation, but if these are the players we want, our top priority, then we are just going to have to be patient and negotiate. In fairness Blues are going to have to sell anyway so that in itself will bring a focus to doing business with them.
In the meanwhile I console myself with the thought that the centre half partnership for most of last season was Berra and Stears, which was good enough to bring us to 32 points from 30 played, before we hit the wall eight games prematurely.
Gardner midfield would be interesting though, or Huddlestone, maybe….
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Stu Langford so what about hunty?? he was relegated with hull! and hes a quality player
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Whoever we bring in needs to be adding something to the squad and needs to be exposed to a full preseason training program. Our team needs to hit the ground running this time around and the first couple of games gives us a chance to make a good start.
Some of the figures being floated for Johnson, Mills etc seem overblown given their age and experience. it’s the world we live in and points to the Club putting more effort in identifying young talent and bringing them through a sound Academy program. We should pay a premium for top coaching to improve our reserve squad. McClaren is not everyones cup of tea but what he did for Middlesborough has generated a lot of talent. If that can be achieved in a backwater like Teeside why can it not be accomplished from the second major conurbation in England????
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This is how transfers are done nowadays – we have made genuine offers for 2 playes for probably slightly less than we are really prepared to go – Birmingham have put a totally unrealistic price on Johnson and Reading are getting what they can for an unproven PL player – both offers are rejected as is always the case with any first offer – now we do a bit of cajoling the press to put it out that we won’t be held to ransom and the 2 clubs need to think on, now we will hear again that the players involved have attracted interest from a number of clubs trying to force Wolves to up the offer or carry out the threat of looking elsewhere…. we will almost certainly now go back in with a slightly improved offer and if that’s not accepted by the clubs involved do what we say and move on. You should never make more than 2 offers otherwise it looks like you’re a bit desperate unless the player is an absolute world beater , – we are of course assuming the players involved actually want to come to Wolves -
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Can see their point of view but I think we should increase our bids SLIGHTLY: £4 million for Mills and £8 million for Johnson and THEN look elsewhere. Personally I would like to see a Mills/Bassong CD partnership, but we’ll wait and see.
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We have not had a good record of buying players in the last few years you can all think of names that have come in a blaze of glory to disappear very soon afterwards the most successful ones have been those who want to play for us who buy into the team ethic who see the club as not an easy money ride for a few years what i would be hoping those we do offer and maybe buy will be ones with commitment in the long term the issue of how much is paid for them is for the club to decide as this is inherent in the contract details the value for commitment will be the hardest to evaluate the obvious ideals of J O’Hara are out there in the open i would expect any new players to follow them
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At the end of the day though and I think everyone will agree with me on this one. Better to increase our bids a bit then spend years in the wilderness of the fizzy Pop league visiting tumble down shacks at the likes of Doncaster!
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Wonder if Lescott fancies coming home instead of playing in Man City reserves?
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Hope these guys aren’t going to put praise for a “good” deal, before Wolves need for a good centre back. Nearly cost us dear (£60 mill or so) last season.
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BIG BAD TELFORD WOLF – How do you know what weve offerd? any figues on this website or any other for that matter is pure speculation, for all you know we could have offerd the 7.5 and 3.5 that you think is fair.
As for your comment about offering the right money in the first place we would have had them. We did offer the right money, and dann was ready to sign, but Birmingham payed over the odds on his wages and got him. Now look where both clubs are financially and in the league. We were right not to offer all our players wages like Birminghams, otherwise we would be in as much trouble as them.
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Totally agree with Moxey and Morgan. Take your time still nearly five weeks to go before we start playing any meaningful football and it’s good to let everyone know that we will buy but don’t take the pee with the money you are wanting for player’s.
Keep going with the deals but always work with an eye elsewhere.
We are Wolves!!!
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42 Staffs Wolf:-
The fizzy pop league is now sponsored by Npower & Doncaster now play in the Keepmoat stadium built & opened in 2007.
Historically speaking it was due to the overspending that Wolves almost went bust in the early 80′s. I know Jez as his knockers ( myself included in the past ), but I’d rather have the club run like this, then to end up in freefall & almost dropping out of the League.
As for tumbledown shacks, did you ever go to Ayresome Park or Burnden Park?
Not pretty sights!
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Anyone who is having ago at moxey and morgan for this stance needs there heads looking at! Alot of people on here keep saying that wolves are hunting on the cheap again but they have offered very good prices for the players that aren’t even in the premier league and are showing a desire to leave. We definitely don’t need to be held to randsom for them. Only thing I am surprised at is that neither berra nor mouyokolo have been offered as part of the deals
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Go back to Birmingham and make a new offer for Johnson, a player we really need.
if they won’t take whatever you are offering, say 7 million, offer them $ 4 million and Kevin Doyle in exchange for Johnson.
Based on what everyone says on this forum, Doyle is supposed to be worth $10 million or so, so that would be the $ 14million asking price….
We need Johnson much, much more that we need Kevin Doyle who I believe will struggle to hold a first team place this season, and he could join a Championship outfit like Birmingham, where I am sure he would fit it.
In that way everyone would be happy.
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When are we going to announce the names of the players we will be divesting this year, so that we can afford the inflated prices and wage bills for the likes of O’Hara, and Johnson if we get him
Surely top of the list will be Karl Henry, a player who will be a lot happier in the Championship, Berra and or Stearman must be in the firing line, and I believe that Ebanks-Blake has to be on a knife edge unless he pulls him finger out, with Foley only a 50/50 chance to stay.
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How we can come out telling teams to get real when Moxey and Morgan have said that we will not sell the likes of Doyle and Jarvis on the cheap makes me laugh.
So if we get a bid of 8 million would we sell Jarvis or would we be getting real ?.
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Wer’e in a scary position at the moment, wanting to sign our targets but not wanting to pay over the odds, chances are we could lose out, or we could have what we want !! We the fans are probably more nevous than the board, coz they know exactly whats goin on and who alternative targets are, whereas we have to rely on rumour and tabloid title tatle. So like the 3 M’s lets hold our nerve.
Come on Me Babbies
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Baggie nobody can blame him he obviously lacks ambition if he wants to got to the Baggies
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49jaundice eye
Agreed.
7-8M for Johnston is a lot of money for a non international with 1 good season behind him.
Deal including Doyle would suit, as either Doyle/Fletcher are going to be extremely unhappy at nr of games played this coming season within the system to be played. As for SEB+Kites splinters in backsides i assume?
Bassong a mercenary, Leascott will join wolves for one last payday no doubt.
Are there any youngsters coming through?
WBA bloodied a few young lads at the end of last year why cant the Wolves do the same.
Keep the Faith.
Taxi
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Neither Reading nor Blues really want to sell Mills or Johnson; so what does Moxey expect. This public digging your heels in won’t help speed up the deals. I’d tell Jez to do one. It’s the transfer market not a gift to Charity. Surely saying nothing to the media on this is better. Quietly moving onto other targets and getting there ahead of the others may have been more prudent. Any way you look at this it’s a slow news day story.
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@#49 – What on earth are you on about? Why would we want to sell Kevin Doyle?! He would never struggle to get into our team, he practically runs the show. He is no championship player, thus the reason why we are trying to get him a new contract. Numpty!!
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bob wolf so you think elokobi and ward could fill the gaps, what an idiot you are remember them last year total rubbish
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Quite rightly Jez Moxey is upping the ante with the respective clubs. If you take the dialogue that is mentioned in this article at face value, it is no more than simply putting presure on B’ham and Reading.
Negotiation is all about compromise, unless one side has no other option. I believe that B’ham is in a far more perilous financial position than Reading, and maybe forced to reduce their asking price nearer to what Wolves (or others) are offering.
Reading are in a better position to hold onto Mills if he signs a new contract. If the player decides he wants to move on, then this may well prompt Reading into a deal.
In any event it would be naive to think that there are’nt alternatives which Wolves have in mind, which maybe better than Johnson and Mills.
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47; Partially agree with you but ask yourself this; where has the money gone?
Leading up to ‘Relegation Sunday’ we were being told that staying in the Premier League meant getting circa £45m; we’ve been there 3 years thats £135m; plus we get full attendance every week.
We haven’t spent that so if a player fits the team profile and MM thinks its the answer to our defensive problems then pay what’s being asked before someone else does; don’t buy someone else because he’s cheaper.
I’m proud of our financial stability but its time we moved up to the next level.
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34) So he wants to have a season of struggle then? No chance of finishing above us next season!
Johnson is not Brum’s best centre half – Dann is! That is why they will probably get £5m more for him. Ask any Blues fan and he was nowhere near as good as the previous season. I reckon £8m tops and pull out. We do not want Dunne or Brown, though, instead of and Matt Mills is a gamble.
Someone on here mentioned Martins. Apart from the Wembley tap in, what a waste of space he was!
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Good you have a back-up plan if they dont wanna sell to that price. Very nice approach, if they want more for Johnson then move on to others..there are plenty of quality footballers in the world, not just Roger Johnson if thats one of the player in mind..
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# 51
You are very much missing the point here.
Wolves are solvent–The clubs we are dealing with are not.
We have no requirement to be selling players. We do have a requirement to buy players.
Hence we are bargaining from strength.
We will get the players we require in the end because clubs like brum are desperate for the cash!
Up The Wolves
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i absolutely agree . we should not be held to ransom by these smaller clubs. not because ones not good enough to stay in this league and the other not good enough to get in it but we have seen how important the pre seasons can be for individual players and critical for the gelling of those players within the team . who ever they are they need to be sorted out quickly and be done
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Excuses, excuses I have heard it all before. Moxey do your usual thing ,buy from The Championship,or someone from abroad who we have never heard of before, and then see them take six months to get used to the premiership.
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If the clubs don’t want to see at a reasonable price, and yes there has to be light at the end of the tunnel in the negotiation, then move on. It’s good to hear we will not be held to ransom, and that we aren’t pinning our hopes on just a couple of targets.
£3m for Mills rejected, he is only 24, but yet to be proven at premier league level…
Villa want £3m for Cuellar, who is experienced at premier league level, and also in the champions league from him time at Rangers…
Surely for £3m he’d be a good deal!?
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Look,most of us have been in this situation in our own lives for instance when we want to buy a new car. We narrow down our choice to 2 or 3 different models,set ourselves a budget and attempt to buy our choice at the price we’re prepared to pay.
We go to the showroom and extract a price from the salesman.It’s too high so we attempt to talk him down whilst he tries to talk us up.It’s called negotiation.Hopefully we can reach an agreement at not a lot above our budget but if not we walk away and go for our second choice and the process starts all over again.
Eventually we buy a car,granted not the one we originally wanted but a new car all the same and invariably better than the car we previously owned.
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This is all tactics to hurry Birmingham and Reading along, I’m confident we will get our men! I personally feel that Birmingham willbe the next ‘big’ club to go into administration. I have no faith in the owners at club at all. If I’m right, then it’s no wonder they are holding out for more money… They will drop the price eventually when nobody is interested
Maybe offer the same price that has already been offered with a clause which ensures an extra payment of £1m if we finish above 15th AND Johnson plays at least 30 games???
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WW Fan for Life – err…….. the money has gone on running the club whilst retaining a relatively modest profit.
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@31 Peter .. Granted I’ve never had much of a poker face! But then again I’m not leading the negotiations!
@45 Mick will sAve us ( I hope) your right I don’t know what we’ve officially offers but neither do you my friend, I’d say the express and star would have a better idea than any of us seeing ad they are probably in daily contact with the Wolves press officer.
I just think if Mick has identified these as his top targets ( which he obviously has some time ago) and Moxey and co have agreed to try and land them then 3 weeks into the closed season is a bit soon to write off any chance of signing them cos no agreement has been made yet? And then what I was saying is maybe a final offer ever so slightly higher than what has already been made might just seal the deal? What’s wrong with that?
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JB-56…I agree with 49-jaundice eye with regard to our super hero, kevin doyle.
Take a look at what is happening at Wolves and then have a real good look at yourself.
Wolves have just signed Jamie O’hara ( the future) for 5 years, whereas, kevin doyle( the past) languishes on 2 years at the moment.
Yes we all read that Wolves are attempting to shore up doyle by extending his contract…its not going to happen.
Wolves want to shore him up to increase his possible transfer value on the market, there is no way doyle will lock himself into an extended contract while he is not first choice striker for Wolves.
Watch this space, along with the likes of Karl henry, kevin doyle I predict will display unrest before the start of the season and be up for grabs.
Wolves will want what they paid for him at least but I believe that will be unlikely considering the ‘ordinary’ season he had with Wolves. He, i believe will go back to the Championship where he will excel in lower grade football.
when one watches the like of steven fletcher, a true striker, how can you compare him with such a player, and now jamie O’hara, poor kevin doyle is very much on the outer.
watch this space for the news
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Boingboing – It doesn’t work like that for many Wolves fans on here. They’d walk into a car showroom with a budget, then feel like they had to spend over that budget or else it would be a sign of a lack of ambition !!
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66
What a good post!!!
Half of these on here would have Wolves be the next Leeds, Portsmouth etc etc!!!
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are you an idiot? doyle is still our best player and to even suggest that he may be going to the championship is a joke. he is a premier league player without doubt and it would be great if we can get him tied to a new deal. in what you call an ‘ordinary season’ he still played a vital role and was 2nd in player of the season votes
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64 Robert Perry. As we look forward to a 3rd successive season in the premier league, and financially sound, I certainly hope Moxey does his usual thing.
Because it is the RIGHT thing.
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70 – obviously many things are a matter of opinion. However if your opinion is that Kevin Doyle is not a top class footballer then it is not worth reading.
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Why should other teams answer you? You made an offer, they have refused that offer. Isn’t that enough of an answer?
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As Mick has said, the players have two values that have to be met. What the buying team wants to pay for them and what the selling team is willing to accept to sell them.
I don’t think Birmingham have gone cap in hand asking Wolves to buy any of their players so stop making stupid comments, Jez and Steve.
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Kevin Doyles a striker – A striker who dosnt score, he holds the ball up well = Great whoopee, why dont we improve the rest of the team instead with the money from him so we dont have to rely on a non scoring ball holder uppper?
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Johnson & mills would be excellent players for us I’m sure,at the right price,but the way things are going we won’t get either & settle for second best from our feeder club,sunderland. Come on me babbies utmw.
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73 you are spot on.Doyle is one of the few players we possess who is premiership quality.72,Grace NO true Wolves fan wants us to go the way of Leeds etc.HOWEVER we have been very lucky to stay in the premiership the last two seasons and we need to invest in quality players. I am sick and tired of people criticising the likes of myself who dare to suggest the club show no ambition whatsoever and are frightened to recruit experienced premiership players.
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Some of the Wolves fans on here are total buffoons!
i) Kevin Doyle PLUS £4m for Johnson? What? Doyle is a regular International for an Ireland side that is currently more successful than England and a well respected manager like Trappotoni thinks of him as one of his first choices. Blues would have to give us money!
ii) Kevin Doyle is no better than a Championship player? Yeah right!
iii) One of the reasons that we are strengthening the defence and possibly midfield is so that we can play two upfront in most games and Doyle and Fletcher are our best two, with SEB waiting in the wings!
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Has anyone on here actually seen Matt Mills play? No,neither have i, but hey sign him up anyway. I`ve seen Konchesky play and he`s definately better than BIG George.
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Sorry disagree, 1st year we stayed up comfortably & last year we got 40 points, which, as we all know has only failed once to retain premership status & most years is good enough 15th – 16th spot.
As for showing no ambition last year we spent £18m & will probably spent a similar amount this year which for a club of our size, does show ambition, also for the first time I can remember the club actually have players that have a resell value.
So in terms of ambition who would you like to see struting their stuff around Compton this pre-season??
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