Wolves thwarted in drive to boost squad
Thursday 26th January 2012, 11:00AM GMT.
Wolves were today facing more frustration in their attempts to strengthen their squad before the transfer window shuts next week.
The club has made tentative loan enquiries for Manchester United forward Mame Biram Diouf and Bolton veteran Kevin Davies.
But both have failed to get off the ground for different reasons.
Boss Mick McCarthy has been an admirer of 24-year-old Diouf, whose last football was in the Carling Cup on November 30, for some time and has had him watched regularly for United’s reserves.
But he can’t guarantee him regular football with three senior strikers and Sam Vokes on the books.
Now Brest and Hannover could be set to lure the powerful 6ft 1ins forward, whose last Premier League football was a 17-game, three-goal stint at Blackburn last season. It is understood contact was made with Bolton to find out Davies’ situation.
But at 34, his age and his £35,000-a-week wages count heavily against him fitting into Wolves’ long-established ‘young and hungry’ policy.
It is understood Wolves would have only considered a loan deal for the veteran, while Bolton are keen on a sale to get him off the wage bill permanently. Sources say Sunderland are now favourites to land him.
There also appears to be no chance of Stoke powerhouse Kenwyne Jones coming to Molineux.
Another player linked with a move to Molineux, Michael Mancienne, will not be returning for a fourth stint with the club. Several reports at the weekend said McCarthy was considering launching a loan move for the Hamburg utility man, especially with Karl Henry starting a three-match ban.
But senior sources say there has been no contact with Hamburg for the former Chelsea player, who had loan spells with Wolves in the three previous seasons before a £4m permanent move to Germany in the summer.
But Henry’s suspension does almost certainly mean that Nenad Milijas, who they were considering allowing out on loan, will now be staying at Wolves this month.
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Totally underwhelmed and angry.Message to Board- if thats it dont bother lets go down with a whimper shall we, because if this is all we can get then we are doomed.
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As always, it’s about how keen you are to secure Premier survival, Wolves. Every player has his price (or wages) and every club will listen provided the offer’s right. Why worry about expenditure when we’re on the brink of losing multi-millions, should we get relegated?
Nothing I’ve read surprises me in the least.
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What cheapscate morgan is we are down allready i think never mind as long as thick mick gets the sack
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None of this matters though because wasn’t the “JOB DONE” ages ago??
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Well that’s that then…… Relegation bound! Something is going on…… Wolves cannot say off the field projects are having no effect on ability to buy players! MM has wasted money in the past buying untried players in the premier league. We need quality to come in and make an immediate impact! We have not progressed in 3 years. Something needs to change! Wolves don’t have any ambition and watching games is no longer a joy! I think SM might wake up when ST sales are at there lowest!
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kevin davies
u havin a laugh
it goes to show how much the brass care about our club as for early bird mr moxley
shove it
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Im not convinced we need another striker. What is clearly evident is the need for a quality defender. Whens the last time we actually kept a clean sheet. It pointless bringing in new attacking players if were having to score 3 or 4 goals to counter our leaky defence.
I dont really understand why the defence are worst than they were last season, but personally, I think its down to our lack of pace in the centre of defence. 1 top quality defender could solve our problems and allow us to start picking up more points.
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It’s almost like the 80′s all over again. We built a new stand then and went all the way down to division four. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again.
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Mick looking at ‘powerful’ strikers.
Why does the word ‘hoof’ spring into my mind?
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looks like relegation chaps
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comments,1/2, dont worry, chaps, before next tues deadline, wwfc will bring in , left back/centre half/ and striker. dont let articles like the above cloud your views as newspapers always rely on negative stories to get a reaction. utw.
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If we had made a change months ago, we would be sat with someone like Martin O’neil leading us forward.. Look at the job he has done with Sunderland, that could of been us.. But No, people would rather stick with Mick who has not won a match in God knows how long, this run seems to have gone on forever.. Wolves have played a bit better of late, but we have forgot how to Win, we are toothless and heading for relegation. I cannot see us getting more than a point from Liverpool, QPR and the WBA match.. All I can see is worse times ahead.. No one of any quality will want to play for us now.. We are stuck with useless buys such as that eggert Jonsson, anonymous players who cannot win matches.. We have enough of them already..
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Why no mention of Livingston’s Fotheringham who has had a trial?
Isn’t he our potential saviour?
And what about the new electricity sub-station we are building – may be that will provide the spark we need?
Alternatively we have run out of ideas and / or (oddly) don’t seem that bothered about staying up
That’s how it feels anyway
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lol it does amuse me.. The Wolves PR machine always links us to so called ‘Big Name’ signings and we all know we will never ever save them.
Once the transfer window is shut we’ll hear we tried to sign Tevez, bring Beckham back from LA Galazy and so on. It happens every year.
I can’t believe that the E&S are still spouting this ‘Young And Hungry’ line too. We all know it means ‘Cheap and Average’.
The Wolves board has never shown any ambition. What is clear is that Mick has more often than not identified lots of what I see as potentially good players but the Board never ever back him . They are always too old, want too much money, wages too high e.t.c.
I’m not sure how we are supposed to survive paying peanuts and bringing in average rubbish. You get what you pay springs to mind.
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But he can’t guarantee him regular football with three senior strikers and Sam Vokes on the books…! He can’t be that good then can he, if Doyle and Vokes are ahead of him…
Championship manager
Championship club
Championship players
Championship preperation.
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Looks like hope and pray guys as with Morgan and Moxey sorting the “funds” we wont get any one decent! All this stick Micks getting and hes probably there wanting to take us to the next level and we have these 2 jokers paying peanuts! WAGES GET YOU QUALITY! YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
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Everybody, just calm down, its all speculation, paper talk etc…most clubs are in contacts / watching many, many players all season long, only a small number ever come off, even Man Utd, Chelsea etc miss out on players, over transfer fees / wages etc right down to Wolves right down to AFC Wimbledon!!!..it still amazes how many fans say spend spend spend?
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As a club who have survived by the skin of their teeth for two seasons running, i find it a total farce that we can’t compete with others who have only just come up. There needs to be investment from Mr Morgan. Essentially, i agree with our wage structure-but i think it needs revising as players for improvement come at a price. As a fan, i get confused to where, as a club, we are pushing for. Again, i don’t think we have been brave enough in the transfer market-hopefully i’m proved wrong.
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No surprise. Within reason, if you want a player you get the player, simple. We are hopeless and I for one am getting seriously disillusioned with this club and its ‘policies’. We are gonna go down with a whimper at this rate.
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No surprises there then, not convinced they had any intentions anyway after the tripe that has come out of the Mol lately. We badly need quality players anyway not the usual MM bech sitters. Badly need a win but can’t see one at the moment despite having everything crossed.
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Mark my words,back Adlene Guedoiura to play and he will do the business for us die hard Wolves Fans,Play him for the next five games and he will score at least 3 goals helping us with 10 points from 5 games!!!go on mick play him!!
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Is it realy a suprise that none of these players want to move to us unless of course you were desperatd
Would you want to join a sinking ship,knowing that unless your face fits or have blue eyes your not going to get a game
A club that wont get a new manager because he will cost to much or heaven forbid might want a reasonable amount of money to buy a half decent player and pay his wages and Im sure most of the present players don’t want a new manager because most of them will be history.
McCarthy says he wants players who will make an impact in the premier league well he’s not bought many up to date so what will change i wonder no a lot i fear.In other words the directors will be quiet happy to go into the championship perhaps nearly filling their new ground and paying championship wages whats the sayinig pay peanuts and etc etc all in all a club with little or NO AMBITION
Ive been a supporter of this great club through thick and thin for nearly 68 years and have seen it all or so i thought
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to quote Alan Hansen, “Its all about quality at this level”, and this my fellow wolves supporters, is why we are in the bottom three.
personally i think the 2 ‘Quality signings we got are part of the reason. roger i need half the season to get going Johnson, ( ok hes playing ok now but is it to late, ) and O’hara who was injury prone when at spurs, which was the main reason he didnt hold down a first team place there. Cant see us doing it a third time but you never know, if we do stay up serious investment needs to be made, theres no way the current squad is good enough. Doyler looks like hes had enough so sell him, body language in brum game says it all, head down, truding about looks totally fed up.
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lost for words , Carver Wolf totally agree with your e-mail
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Get Nicky Maynard in NOW, before Wigan sign him !
Remember who we will be playing last game of the season????
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Sick of all the excuses, sick of not winning, sick of Mick, sick of Moxey, sick of Morgan, sick, sick ,sick.
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Please Morgan get rid of Mick and Clipboard now b4 they waste anymore of your money the lad from Man U no better than we have now and Davies to old and Jones wont cum to us plus he on a good contract at Stoke and Mancienne has never been any good just another Championship player see we have missed out on the defender from Man City gone to QPR least we have sum of Micks targets from Scotland to sign cant wait happy days ahead
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What an odd comment about Diouf, ie “couldn’t guarantee him first team football.”
1) Neither can Man U.
2) If you can’t guarantee him first team football, then why bother in the first place?
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Absolute joke that is! What happened to the club talking about needing Premier League “nous and experience” – then we turn down one of the most experienced strikers in the Premier League because he doesn’t fit in to the “young and hungry” policy?!
We’re an absolute laughing stock, and it’s down to Mick and Moxey. Both of them need to go if we are to progress ANYWHERE!! Sick of having such a spineless chairman. Mick is the worst Prem manager based on those who’ve managed over 50 games in the Prem… and STILL Morgan cannot see that the man is inept and has gone as far as he can?!
We’re going down with him in charge. Mark my words.
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Well done the 3′ms cause of your lack of ambition im now gonna follow the mighty Rangers with my mate Mr P hunter
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The club is a laughing stock for the Pl. Always trying to do it on the cheap. I heard they went in for Tevez but were only willing to pay him £20 a week! Going down the Moxey way !!!
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So we can’t get Mame Biram Diouf cos our three senior strikers and sam Volkes would keep him out the team ??
Would that be the strikers (minus Fletch) who can’t score ?? Would Doyle really keep a decent goal scorer out of the team ??
The answer is YES – if your manager is Mick McCarthy…. I vaguely remember when we would pick young players who came in hungry and wanting to impress but now he can’t drop his favourites and we get the same tired excuses week after week – “put a shift in” – “played well” – blah blah…..
Wonder if these “senior” players will stay with us when we go down…..
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Defence,Defence,Defence,Defence…
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They could always try for Michael Owen. If they tell him we’re handy for Ludlow and Cheltenham he might be interested..
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Come on, never mind the blind faith, WHY would anyone WANT to come to US??
No one from the Premier will, will they.
No one with ambition will either BECAUSE the club lacks ambition and leadership.
I’m not convinced the Moxey Morgan partnership have faith in the manager either so they won’t give him real money.
Unfortunately, because of their dithering it is too late to get rid of MM, so to give us and the team a chance, CHANGE HIS COACHING STAFF NOW.
Everything needs freshening up ASAP.
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Nothing new, just the usual dithering that we could from our beloved football club during every transfer window.
ALL MOUTH AND NO ACTION!
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shows morgan is not a wolves man has red and white in his blood not gold and black come back sir jack
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Another wasted transfer window goes by..
Our championship team will soon be playing in the right league!
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After the end of last season you might have thought that he club had learnt a little… IF and its gonna be a big IF we survive this time you have to ask yourself will it be different next season?
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Manncienne was at the Villa match on Saturday.
Not that this is good news!!!
Also very interesting that all of the above isn’t based on quotes from the club.
So we can just assume that it’s a slow news day regarding Wolves at the E & S!!!!
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SAME OLD SAME OLD
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There are two ways in which you can react to the above article.
A negative way would be to respond by saying that Wolves have failed again to sign three players on loan. A positive way would be to recognize that the club are at least trying to bring in extra recruits to bolster the squad.
I would be surprised if the three named above were the only irons in the fire. Usually the last couple of days before the transfer window closes are when most business is done.
However, it looks as though Wolves have finally accepted that Milijas is simply not good enough.
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I think that we need to look around the lower divisions and find another Michael Kightly or Steve Morrison. There’s a few Hednesford players more than capable of scoring into double figures before the end of the season to secure Wolves premiership status.
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Makes me mad!!!!
Young and hungry?? Who? who have we got that is young and hungry? So we are gonna pass someone over who has scored on a regular basis at Premier league level consistently for the past 7 or 8 years for………nobody?
You make my blood boil at times MMM.
Our most consistent performer for the past 5 seasons has been our oldest player, Jody Craddock.
Man Utd have just recalled one of their oldest players in Scholes but thats not good enough for us to consider. Squads are about a mix of ages and abilities. I’m more and more disillusioned with this approach time after time.
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this just sums up our club. theres just no ambition to drive thi sclub forward its as though there trying to do it on the cheap!. for god sake spend some money, i dont want us to get bankrupt just spend what needs to be spent to keep us in the league> PENNY PINCHERS!
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Ye Olde South Bank has hit the nail on the head. If you are serious about getting players in, you will!
With only 3 and a half months of the season left, paying over the odds particularly for a loan player is surely worth it if that same player makes all the difference and saves the club from relegation?
Still Wolves being Wolves, they always want to bring in a Ronaldo on Joe Public’s wages and we all know how many players fall for that one.
Still, keep on trying Jez, we all know how hard you are working to bring in that 1 player before the deadline but I will not be holding my breath, for as certain as night follows day, Wolves will either not bring anyone in at all or at best bring in a player who will make no difference whatsover – My money would be on no one!
When the transfer window has finally closed, we can expect the usual comments of why no one was brought in and I see we already have 1 comment to prepare us for the inevitable.
So as you were boys, no excitement in the transfer window for Wolves fans.
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Nothing to see hear, move on to the next press release!
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Wolves’ plan is to go down.Sell Fletcher Jarvo,Henners,Doyle O’Hara and Hunt.That may raise £ 25-30 million.North Bank is then paid for.The parachute cash used for wages,academy,and Lego to build 55 homes for rich people.After 5 years in the Championship,we will spend 2 seasons fighting relegation,then sell best players for profit and take parachute money .Good business sense,but not good if you are a football fan.
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‘But at 34, his age and his £35,000-a-week wages count heavily against him fitting into Wolves’ long-established ‘young and hungry’ policy’
..If you enquire about Kevin Davies..exactly what else are expecting to be told??
‘Err Yes he’s 23 and he’s on £5k a week’
Surely either No news or badly reported.
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What a joke this once great club is becoming. I for one will not be renewing my season ticket. No ambition what so ever. Disgusting
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Not suprised from this tin pot board who wants to come to this club who’s any good we r doomed the ship is sinking match by match with mad mick and clipboard at the helm
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We’ll never achieve anything whilst we stick to this stubborn mentality. NO – we dont want our club put in danger by over spending BUT you DO have to invest (in the correct areas). If all you do is try to buy players on the cheap you will rarely get the quality you need and so will be perenial strugglers. Top / good quality player WONT come here for nothing and championship players just dont cut it.
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Oh well we cant attract any decent players but we got 55 luxury houses being built how many teams can say that ?
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Defence,Defence,Defence…
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Same old same old same old sick to the back teeth of the 3 Ms lame exscuses. Here’s an idea 3 Ms bugger off.
I bet this Diouf guy is much better than Doyle and knows where the net is too.
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WOLVES THESE DAYS ARE AS PREDICTABLE AS NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY.
THERE WILL BE NO NEW ARRIVALS AT MOLINEUX COME JAN 31 WITH MESSRS MORGAN AND MOXEY PREPARED TO LET THE SHIP SINK WITH MM AT THE HELM.
THEN THEY HOPE HE WILL GUIDE THEM BACK TO THE PREMIERSHIP AFTER ANOTHER SEASON IN THE PREMIERSHIP.
WHAT A STATE OF AFFAIRS AS THE CREW HAVE NO AMBITION AS THEY TAKE WOLVES INTO A TUNNEL WHICH IS DEVOID OF A LIGHT AT THE END OF IT.
SAME OLD EXCUSES AND AS FOR A YOUNG AND HUNGRY POLICY JUST WHERE IS IT?
YES WOLVERS ARE DOOMED AND POOR OLD MICK WILL SEE US AT THE FOOT OF THE PREMIERSHIP, THAT IS A FACT COME MAY TIME.
BUT IF WOLVES LOSE TO LIVERPOOL. QPR AND ALBION IN THEIR NEXT THREE GAMES, THE MOLINEUX FANS MIGHT WELL FORCE THE USELESS TRIUMVERATE OUT OF THE DOOR.
BEWARE, MORGAN, MOXEY AND MM IT CAN HAPPEN.
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Is this man serious stating that we have 3 strikers on the books and Volkes on indefinite loan…We have one striker of any worth and that is Fletcher, so I would suggest Diouf could well be guaranteed regular football.
If I were McCarthy I would be looking at loaning out both Doyle and Ebanks, as neither are playing to the standard we are looking for, and time in a Division 1 or 2 side would be good for them
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Its all just spin to make the fans think they are trying to get players in. Wolves will not sign anyone else and will go down with a whimper.
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It’s not rocket science!!
If the Manager thinks the squad is good enough to keep us up then try and strengthen but don’t take risks or pay over the odds to do so!
If he doesn’t think we’re strong enough, then financial risks will have to be taken balanced against the cost of going down.
It seems to me from this article that we’re not sure whether the squad’s good enough and therefore not sure whether we need to take any risks.
Dithering at the top….a sure sign that we will go down!!
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Davis would be a good signing will always score goals n Maynard he’s about more useful than Kevin Kyle when was here maynards rubbish how about John carew (spelling) or sharpe
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Well ,what a surprise. If you pay the wages the players will come,pure and simple.I wish Morgan would sell up and try and take over Liverpool.I am fed up of his penny pinching,must make a profit at all costs, attitude.Just look at the financial situation of the clubs we have recently purchased players from. Hearts(couldnt afford to pay the players wages). Blues had just got relegated and were skint. Hull,Reading and Burnley ,the same.They simply are not prepared to pay the going rate for players and are relying on other club’s misfortunes to try and get players on the cheap. What makes me so angry,is not the fact we are in a relegation battle,but the fact that the people running our club dont seem bothered if we do go down.
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Its no surprise that MM can’t get players, why should they come to Wolves and accept that they will not get a chance unless his favourites are injured or suspended.
We have players already who he has signed but can’t get a game.
Mark DAVIS is playing well at Bolton but MM could not manage him or GLEESON and got rid of them.
Unfortunatly he will stick with his favourites despite the fact that they have not delivered, thats why we are doomed.
The next youngster he will get rid of is DANNY BATTH who is a class central defender but he prefers BERRA.
The other problem how many clubs have asked about our players for loan or sale? answer ? NONE.
MR MORGAN I thing that tells you why he should go he has spent your money on sub standard players.
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NO DRIVE! NO AMBITION! NO IDEA!
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Do any of these dumbo’s at our club have any idea what they are doing? Previous failures that have been here on loan. Overrated failures that cannot get in their existing team. Over age failures that other teams want rid. What a b***dy shambles the club is now. Remember McGhee doing exactly what they are trying to do now. What happened to him? He got the sack. Try it Mr Morgan and restore the faith. That is if it is possible. Every year same old, same old.How much lnger do we have to put up with this perpetual drivel? Enough is enough as far as I am concerned.
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Reading all this drivel from supposed wolves fans just winds me right up! It seems half the people on here simply haven’t got a clue! becoming an established premier league club doesn’t happen over night, especially when your trying to do it the proper way (not it debt) If your looking for immediate success support man u or man city, otherwise you need a reality check!!
If you lot want to see us do a Leeds or a Pompey then keep banging on. About our lack of ambition, what a load of nonsense, we are the 5th biggest net transfer spenders over the last 4 years, and were doing it without racking up debt, not to mention developing the training facilities and the stadium!! And people are saying moxey can’t do his job? What on earth are you talking about?
NEWS FLASH Wolverhampton isn’t a glamourous city with a glamourous reputation, so it’s far harder for us to attract quality players, how often have we lost players to London clubs? As for calling for Mcarthys head?? That’s just impatient hot heads talking nonsense, he is the most successful wolves manager of the last quarter century plus, you don’t get teams promoted to the prem and keep them there 3 years on a shoe string.
No team gives us a hiding, and on our day we match anyone, not to mention the run of abysmal luck we’ve had, this is time to pull together and SUPPORT as supporters should.
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My season ticket depends on the next 2 results and who we bring in.
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GOOD GOD are we Wolves fans fed up of the same old transfer window total and utter MASSIVE lack of AMBITION shinanigans. If only the management would spend some time just reading some of these comments from FANS to understand the huge frustration surrounding this football club. This is the Barclays Premier League and you just CANNOT achieve anything by trying to get by on the cheap. Yes we have survived by the SKIN OF OUR TEETH on two occasions, but it’s not good enough. Morgan claimed that ‘we will make sure we don’t go through that again’. Well guess what Morgan and co? It’s pathetic, utterly PATHETIC; we’re let down time and again, fobbed off with the same old shambolic excuses every time the transfer window slams shut. What a way to go down. Ambitious club? Don’t make me laugh. DISGRACEFUL Wolves, DISGRACEFUL!!!
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21. I think Adlene Guedoiura is still trying to find the Birmingham player he was supposed to be marking last week. He cost us the game and I dont think Mick will take the risk again…
Actually Big Mick is stupid enough to play him so why not!
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Poor article, not worth chip paper.
Get a settled back four that would be a start.Foley,Jono,Berra and a new left back, that we have needed for about 5 years.Ward and Elokobi they aint full backs.Ward does his best but it aint good enough.
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I would just like to remind the Wolves Board that young and hungry players ie Sam Vokes and Mark Davies before him never get a chance to play for this manager.
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Well, thats it then is it?
I do agree to some extent with the ‘young & hungry’ approach but at this stage and with our position whats needed is old & experienced. We need players who can do a job between now and the end of the season, it doesn’t matter how old they are.
If we need to pay more then lets do it but make it a short term contract (till end of season) with the proviso that if we stay up there’s a bonus and we may sign them longer term. If we go down, no bonus and no long term contract.
Be certain that if we do go down players will go; Hennessey, Johnson, Jarvis, Fletcher for definite and if they keep fit, O’Hara, Doyle, Hunt and Kightly. We won’t be left with much of team then!
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47 Annay- did you mean here?tut tut…
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i think we should go for pugh, pugh, barney mcgrew, cuthbert, dibble and grubb..
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Defence,Defence,Defence…
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Mr Morgans comments from last season may come to haunt him ! ” we will NOT be in this position next season ” not only are we in the same position we look odds on for relgation at the moment ,please please prove me wrong Mr Morgan and loosen the purse strings to enable M M to buy us out of trouble !
suffering / disillusioned / sucicidal North Bank season ticket holder, who WILL despite the bad vibes still be there next season no matter what divison we are in It`s in my blood sorry guys
U T W
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I’m fed up with the excuses and lack of ambition.
What it shows is that over 3 seasons in this division, we as a club have a substandard scouting and transfer policy. It all about cheap and nothing about quality.
Every january transfer window the club ( Moxley and Mick) make the same excuses and blame everything but themselves and make no headway at all.it has become an embarassment
Mick has said he’s looking for “impact signings”and doesnt want to sign foreign players because he thinks they will take too long to adapt to the english game.
Yet he will happily sign johnson from a poor scottish league . I wonder how long it will take for him to adapt, if at all ???
bolton, wigan, QPR are all strenghening their squads and taking calculated risks while we stand still.
Does Mick really think that players like diouf or Davies would come to Wolves to sit on the bench behind SEB and Doyle??
Speaking of impact signings wasnt Robbie Keane available?? and didnt he make an impact.
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So if Kevin Davies is 34 and is on £35,000 a week, but helps us to stay up, won`t he be worth it? Everyone knew, at the start of the season, we needed new players. Everyone except Moxey and Morgan! Bet Steve`s got his ticket for Wembley!!!
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its always about money,thats why we cannot actract class players.Moxzey ,the sum is dont spend go down its simple .
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21. Agree entirely. If Frimpong is fit, Guedoiura playing alongside will offer more forward momentum than Henry ever has. I feel Adlene has been trested harshly – must have had a falling out with Mick. Even if he did play the 3 games in place of Henry, scores 2 goals, you know that Henry will be straight back in.
Can’t believe Hammill hasn’t been used more, especially when Jarvis fades out of the game (as he did for most of the 2nd half v Villa) If we end up selling Hammill to Wigan or Blackburn then that sums up our complete lack of ambition. Championship here we come!!
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Please everyone stop attending games until either Moxey and/or Mick is gone!
It’s clearly the only way we have a chance of survival.
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I thought ” young and hungrey” was ebanks blake gamer tag
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its always about money,thats why we cannot actract class players.Moxzey ,the sum is dont spend , go down , its simple .
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I really can’t be bothered to write about which players I would like to see come in/leave in January, so……
As a Wolves fan for 20+ years, after all the hype that gets spouted out about managers and players has died down, I pretty much learnt to expect very little from Wolves (even when we got promoted under Dave Jones). Like pretty much every club, we have brought in some good and of course some total DROSS over the years. However, that really did all changed for me when we came up as Champions.
That 1st season in the Premier League was better than I expected and I thought that although it would be tough, we would push on from there – which we kind of did last season when you look at points tally. But now….what on earth is going on? Let me state, I would never expect us to be in the Top 10, but this relegation fight from pretty much the first kick of every season, just tires me out.
I just don’t have any ‘good feeling’ about this season – there is just nothing there. I also feel that the management is very much affected by something and that is showing in most of the players. For me, its like the old times again.
Since we have been in the Premier League, I haven’t been up as often as I like but I usually get to see Wolves about 4 times a season. But this season, I just can’t face driving almost 400 miles in a day to see what is happening to my team. In fact, its an effort to even watch Wolves on TV. So my final point is:
FFS SORT THIS OUT!!!! AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!!!!
That’s my lot! Sorry to sound A LITTLE NEGATIVE (!), but I am clearly not the only one.
of course though WE ARE WOLVES!!!
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Its the same every year! yawn yawn yawn!
We miss out on players who could really improve upon what we have, we take meaningless trialists on board who have no impact & just bulk out our squad with more mediocre tat!
Wesign cheap sub standard players that never get a game and just rot away, take there wages & go stale (griffiths, eggy)
I find it mind boggling that our club thinks we are ok as we are!
Mind you …. if the above players mentioned are indeed true then i strongly doubt MM’s scouting skills! so i wouldnt trust him with a penny!
Typical Wolves!
Get ready for all the hardwork to be undone when we drop to chumpionship!
mind you, won’t it look posh! lol
Nothing like doing things backwards!
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Mick who are you trying to fool we have ONE striker at the club.
Fletch
2010-11 19 apps 12 goals
2011-12 14 apps 9 goals
ver last two seasons:
Vokes 7 app 1 goal ONLY A LONE PLAYER
Blake 26 app 10 goals CANNOT GET IN SIDE.
Doyle 41 app 10 goals
SPOILT BY Mcarthy one up front at home strategy he is fed upo of being kicked I do not blame him.
He is deluded give the player a garanteed 5 game start to prove himself or we are doomed he has to go!!!!!!
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48Mr Prudent
You know it makes sense.
All the other Happy clappers are waiting for miracle.
Sorry state of affairs when Onuha has just chosen QPR ahead of Wolves.(Purely wages i guess).
Desperation is upon us. What say you?
TAXI
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Talk about deja vu, i’ve got that sinking feeling that we experienced in the 80′s, board thats indifferent, manager thats clueless & an incomplete ground to witness the shambles that has become WWFC. The only people happy with this management are the Albion fans who remind me on a daily basis what a fine job McCarthy is doing in destroying my beloved Wolves. Oh well lets hope we can stay in the Championship next season.
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After twenty years of support and twelve years of having a season ticket I’ve had enough. Not just our club, but clubs up and down the country. Football is dying people. Stinking rich owners, TV rights, inflated ticket prices, overpaid players, disloyal players, the removal of tackling, poor referees… the list is endless. Fold away your shirts, throw away your scarfs and move on.
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I agree with 70, Dave-O.
Mark Davies,Surman, Bennett..those names tell the story. Vokes has never been given a run. MM won’t take a risk, and prefers the same old muscular, play the percentages football. Boring and dispiriting. And we can’t even defend!
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An open letter to Mr Morgan and Co
For the FIRST time in many years I did not goto a match at Molineux, the FA Cup replay, .
The reason I did not go , is because I can now longer put up with the awful displays that are being served up, to those wonderfully loyal and passionate fans , by the present Wolves team and management, week after week. It not really surprising when most of them were in the Championship, three seasons ago. I wonder what position this team would be in the Championship now?
When again, I read in the paper, the excuses that are being made for the Wolves not being able to sign players I despair. Have we really sunk to the level where, we can no longer compete in the transfer market, either as regards the fee or wages, with other similar teams?
Something has got to happen this January, Mr Morgan, or I fear that you are going to lose the fans, who have so far stuck by you and the team. But when we read that our manager has got a really FANTASTIC £4.5 m war chest what does that say to the fans??
Just a few observations for you to consider:
A recent poll revealed that you are high up in the rich list for this Country, well if you don’t want to spend your money at the Wolves, please GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A CHANCE!!
Every Wolves fan I have spoken to would rather have a moderately successful team, than that white elephant of a new stand. Many remember what happened when a stand was put before buying players in the past.
Have you really got faith in MM or does he stay because he is prepared to work to your financial constraints??
No wonder you have opened up the ’Early bird’ to almost everyone. Are you so afraid of the reaction of the fans if we have another season battling to stay up with no signs of any progress?
It’s got to change Mr Morgan or I fear that all the goodwill that you have built up will evaporate and that new stand is going to look very empty next season.
Shrewsbury Wolf
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i;d love to know what happened after the Villa match on the third game of the season because it all went downhill from there, i go home and away but i couldn;t careless if i ever went again this season, if we could get a bit of passion going and a bit of fight we might start to turn things around but i think it might be a bit late now but we can hope!
UTW
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No surprise there then! Same as last year, however the money that McCarthy has wasted not surprising.
With no movement from Morgan on a new manager unless McCarthy changes tactics with the squad available then we will be relegated, with the constant defensive formation we are handing the initiative to the other team
I find it laughable when talking about another striker when he will not play two strikers that we have.
If we are going to play wingers we need two in the box, a midfield that passes the ball quickly to the two up front, SEB should be given a run of games as Doyle is a spent force after McCarthy’s senseless one up front.
After the expected apology from Henry I see our illustrious Manager continues his blind faith with him, so much for competition.
His comment re he has done nothing wrong and hasn’t made many mistakes, what about 3 Red Cards, 58 yellow and fouls caused 430.
He is and will always be a liability.
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Post Number 7..
Berra has pace, he has been one of our most consistent performers over the season, other than the mistake for the penalty against villa, he has been top class.
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Totally agree with number 7
we need a centre half, just a good old fashioned stopper. Somebody who can stay on their feet, head a ball, tackle like a man and inspire some confidence in a very good set of players. That’s all…..please…..just a centre half !!!!!
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Are you having a laugh, can’t guarantee him a game with 3 senior strikers and Sam Vokes.
These are the same strikers in which only Fletcher can score.
Morgan, Moxey, MM you’ve yet again let the fans down, whilst you ought to be ashamed, you won’t be because you’re even too incompetent to be ashamed.
Championship here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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65 Jay
What bloody shoestring ?? Look at facts rather than parading this tired appeasing clap trap The manager is out of is depth and all that cannot see that are sadly deluded.
It all part of a business plan and we are just assets.
Mr Morgan is a businessman not a supporter
I assume you will post support come what may I after 55 years or folowing this team will not spend one penny more keeping the regime in post
I cannot believe given the results we are such a tame toothless tribe of teddies
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where did all these big promises go to in the summer we were told got a good team we will finish mid table no more relegation scrap this season well who ever thought that should come out and tell us fans why its gone so wrong a pack of lies and so far no deals in the transfer window everybody else is getting players in not us the penny pinching im afraid has gone to far steve morgan wants to think of all the money he is going to loose when we get relegated
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65. jay, completely agree, mate, but 95% of posters on here cant afford to go to matches so base thier opinions on edited tv highlights,biased birmingham radio,or biased sky matches.
the other 2% are gloating,wba/vile/blues/walsall(Walsall??) fans.
the other 2% are the ones who refuse to go to matches untill,mcarthy/moxey/morgan go.
that leaves 1% who are true fans who will go and support the lads in old gold, despite poor results. utw
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If Mick keeps us up this year he should get a Knighthood lol need to win 7 out of 16 maybe……….. but won 2 from 20 lol hmmmmm
We were great against Villa first half. We are so close to having a half decent team. A couple of strong additions would make a big difference. Unsure about the manager and how much he is pressing the powers that be for them though. If Harry was in charge he’d be bashing the door down of Moxeys office!
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If the club insists on buying untried premiership players, and players from relegated teams, we were always gonna be in trouble. They come from relegated teams for a reason, they aint good enough !
Taxi for 4, going to anywhere, just not here please.
UP THE WOLVES, but not for long I fear :(
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#65 – Jay Wolves
Stoke were established by their third season without spending a massive fortune. How? With a game plan that they stuck to.
The training facilities and new stand won’t mean spit if we’re in the Champignonship next season and given that we’ve only won 2 out of 22 games so far this season, the idea of finding eight wins out of the remaining 16 games looks highly unlikely, meaning the trapdoor will open up and through we go.
I admire your loyalty but in this case it’s completely misguided. Wolves are in a very bad position and confidence is drained – in all areas.
We either need new coaches or a new manager with fresh ideas and a magic wand. I honestly believe the players we have are good enough to keep us up but not how they’re being played. Mick appears to be a rabbit in the headlights and his contradictory hyperbole does nothing to inspire confidence in anyone, least of all me.
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Did you know I have seen the plans for the North Bank ? At the flick of a switch,it turns into 94 luxury apartments,complete with parking and a field to walk your dog.
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The news continues to be depressing. No quality players coming in (apart from Frimpong)and no squad players going out. MM says he is not changing anything and continues to believe that the team is playing well when the results prove otherwise.I have watched Diouf play a number of times and i cannot see that he was going to be our saviour.And it time for Kevin Davies to drop into the fizzy pop league!!!
Doyle, Hunt, Milijas and Ebanks-Blake are proving to be enormous let downs this season. Johnson has proved to be a very average performer at best.Kightly had a fanatastic 20 minutes or so against Villa and promptly disappeared in the second half.
The Wigans, QPRs,Boltons and Rovers appear to be making progress in building their teams and yet all we get are excuses as to why no one wants to show up at Compton!!! Sunderland have gone to another level and actually now play real football under a Manager who knows what he is doing (unlike Steve Bruce!!!).
I will support the team no matter what but i am under no illusions that this could be a disastrous run in. There is nothing to hang your hat on at the moment and it is difficult to see where the points are going to come from. Liverpool will be ready for us now that they have a Cup Final to look forward to and after being trashed by Bolton.
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OK so we cannot get any players in and it looks like the Championship League is our venue for the next couple of years, or maybe more, so let us accept this.
The Board and the Manager also appear to have done so, as it seems.
So let us look to the young lads to provide the drive. Give them the experience as soon as the position becomes hopeless.(The way it’s going it will only be a few more weeks) Change the Manager so that the promise these lads are showing is not blighted by McCarthy’s kick and rush football.
Start afresh, let Moxey take his money and depart.Morgan will back the kids as he has spent a fortune making the Academy one of the best and will want to prove its worth.
A clean sheet throughout.
Remember….. Out of darkness cometh light.
Just a change ot tack and thought as we are stagnating at the mopment
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Jez to Mick: “Call up Sir Alex, ask him if his horse is running Saturday and find out the name of a young player thats really good that noone’s heard of, I will then tell the E&S we were after him”
Mick to Jez: “Will do Jez, would you like another pot of tea?”
Charlie
ATLANTA WOLVES
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Like all Wolves supporters I am not happy with the clubs present situation. From day one I have been suspicious of Steve Morgan and how a dedicated Liverpool fan in his fifties can suddenly become a devout Wolves fan overnight. People told me that I had got it wrong and for some time I accepted this but since the announcement about the luxury houses at Compton most people I know think that he is only in it for his own ends. So come on Steve stop relying on Jez to do your spin and give an interview to the Express and Star to allay our fears.One person I would like to defend is Terry Connor. Terry whether you like him or not works extremely hard for our beloved football club and I have never known anyone more dedicated to his job in the 58 years I have supported the club. Criticise him by all means if you want to that is your right. But to keep poking fun at him with clipboard commments is not on as far as I am concerned. I wonder how many of you would say it to his face in a one to one situation? Up the Wolves things can only get better cant they?
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I have not written anything on this board before but have read the reviews. I am a season ticket holder and go to all the home matches. I appear to differ to most of the people on here, in that I think we are actually playing well. Against Villa we should have gone in at least 3 up at half time. We lose 2 holding Midfielders after half time down to 10 men and lose the match (shock). We have drawn away with Arsenal and Tottenham and were unlucky against Chelsea. Yes we would all like to see £10m players, but it’s not going to happen. I keep seeing sack Mick, who for ! and who else would do better on our budget. We wont go down it will be tight but we will still be in the Prem next year… keep the faith and chillax…3Ms have it sorted.
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Don’t Know where no.65 gets his tablets,they must work really well.Serious note can’t see who would want to come to Wolves at this time,badly led,severe lack of quality and any direction plus,in the bottom 2 without any obvious escape.hope against hope I’m wrong,but think its too late now.
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71 but we will have our new captain Ward, and his dad
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65, Jay wolves
Some of what you say is correct, but you contradict yourself. In paragraph 2 you say we are the 5th biggest net transfer spenders over the past four years, then you go onto to praise MM for keeping us up for the past 3 years on a shoestring! Which is it then, lots of transfer money or hardly anything? You can’t have it both ways in your critisism of the other fans comments. The plain truth of the matter is, we should have been improving slowly yet surely over the last three seasons, when in fact we have done absolutely nothing (if anything we’ve gone backwards) especially over this season and the last one. We managed to stay up more by luck than anything else last season, and now we are going the same way again, if anything our position this year is even worse. In short we are going nowhere, and it will continue along these lines until changes are made. These changes have got to be in either the playing personnel, the Manager and his assistant or the owner. The premiership is an expensive place to be, you cannot do it on the cheap, sure you may get away with it for one or two seasons, but after that there’s only one way your going to go (ask Reading, Portsmouth, Southampton, Burnley etc etc). Nobody wants us to break the club by breaking the bank, but we should at least be able to compete with the likes of the Stoke Cities of the premiership. We have a number of good premiership quality players here, but we can’t buy a win for love nor money, why is that? Its not about poor Refereeing decisions (though they certainly don’t help) it has therefore got to be poor tactics and the footballing methods honed on the training grounds, which is entirely down to the manager and his staff. As for the owner, well if he won’t loosen the purse strings a little bit more and review our wage structure, then he lacks ambition and is quiet obviously happy to be a chairman of a non premier league club (remind Moxey he therefore won’t be able to hob nob it with all the other premier league chief Execs, that might just panic him into doing a bit more about our position!)
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Why are the 3M`s giving us all this crap.I am not so sure about another striker but I am sure Kightly is doing ok but Jarvis goes on some lovely runs but can`t cross a ball,England International,I don`t think so.The defence needs a partner for Johnson badly.We could have gone for Onouha but the 3M`s found out they would have to pay him,so endeth that lesson.”YOUNG AND HUNGRY ” we are after,sorry 3M`s all you get for what you want to pay is “YOUNG AND crap”.Morgan if you can`t do any better,sell the club amd Mick we know you can`t do any better so go now and take clipboard with you.The fans don`t deserve the lies you dish out about wanting new players so GO,GO,GO.
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Feel flat and totally frustrated with this situation.
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Did anyone think anything different ?. The fans have consistently been fed public relations rubbish for years.There will be no new signings and at the end of this season SM, JM and MM will promise to get us out of the Championship for the next season and lead us once more to the promised land. However,they should be aware that Sir Jack and Jez Moxey told us that for years and look how long it took and now Steve Morgan has made the same mistake as Sir Jack by not investing enough in the squad but I wonder if like Sir Jack he will admit it. A lot of the fans believe that Steve Morgan did us a favour by buying the club, irrespective of the terms of the deal but I wonder if that is still the case.
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PLEASE DONT LET MANCIENNE BE OUR NEXT SIGNING ,NOTHING PERSONAL ,WENT TO SEE HIM PLAY ONCE AT THE MOL ,HE GAVE THE BALL AWAY TOO EASILY AND FAR TOO MANY TIMES,TOO LIGHTWEIGHT AND NEARLY GOT BLOWN OVER BY THE WIND ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS,JUST NOT GOING TO BE ANY DIFFERENT TO WHAT WE GOT NOW ,IN OUR POSITION WE CANT AFFORD TO EXPERIMENT
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76 lol yeah bet he has his Wembley ticket.
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Can anyone honestly believe that this team will beat liverpool based an their performance last night? They will be out for our scalp to get all three points next week. If anyone does think we are able to comfortably beat them have a word with yourself!
Some great posts on here and i agree with the consencous of opinion that the Pol Pot owner is living in a world apart from what needs to be done. He is only interested in concrete and steel, showboating photos of the stand that wont be filled next season!
A deluded man surrounded by other wooden heads at this club.
Kevin Davies! Your havin a laugh Mcarthy! Here we are yet again being spoon fed bull from the Mol spin doctors, we can’t get this player, we can’t get that player, oohhh it’s too difficult! bleet bleet!
Spineless buffoons! Young and hungry? Cheap and cheerful. If Pol Pot is as cheap with buying players and trying to cut corners on the cheap then what does it say for his building work?
They could raise funds by selling either Doyle and SEB or Vokes maybe?
But like every transfer window opportunity we will end up with noone only fine sentiments and tales of woe which pretty much sums this club and owner up. Will not be renewing if we get relegated, wasted enough hard earn cash on this tripe!
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65. jay totally agree with your post. when wwfc avoid relegation again with or without mcarthy, the folks on here will be back next august after 2 games saying the same. utw
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Kevin Davis wouldve been brilliant for us in my opinion. Him and Fletcher wouldve been a struggle for any defence. I honestly believe that if we got him we would stay up. But apparently increasing the likely hood of Wolves’ premier league survival is not worth £35,000 p/w. Cheers Morgan.
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No chance of any new signings now!
Morgan will spend the money on a big day out at Wembley watching his real club.
Err.. Don’t forget to take our Gold&Black off Steve, your scally mates won’t like it!!
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The only way we can get back at this disgusting board is to stay away hit them in there pockets lads
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all this is down to a chairman that gives it large but really has small pockets probably smaller than a scotchmans also the coaching staff same old same old goalkeeping coach practices kicking ball at cross bar for twenty minutes and five minutes to catch a ball i wonder why we let so many in and terry connor and tony daley couldnt coach kids under five they are useless practice holding onto ball and moving into space would be good instead of everytime we kick off straight back to hennessy and big kickup field straight to the opposition to come straight back at us you useless jokers get gone !!!!
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what puzzles me why doyle,elokobi,henry were not placed on the transfer list on jan 1 to generate funds for 1 major signing,by the time the summer comes doyler confidence will be so low ,not sure if well be able to sell him for a profit anymore,he simply just can hit the net,mick defending henry is a disgrace it sends out the wrong message saying get sent off ,i will still select you when ban is over i bet if fletch got sent off 6 months a go mick wouldnt choose him again
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This lot have worked on the probability of relegation this season, God knows why, but only a complete idiot would not see that the Barnsley Brawler is woefully out of his depth (great half time team talk on Saturday Mick). On the assumption that multi-millionaire Steve Morgan is not an idiot, there must be a plan.
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cant guarantee any striker a game because we play 4-5-1 and have fletcher, we cant play 4-4-2 because we arnt good enough with our 2 out and out wingers.
stuck with what we got im afraid because of limited tactical knowledge from the bench,
just gotta hope we can get fletch, jarvo, kights, ohara frimpong and henry on the pitch at the same time, and of course foley and ward to save mick swapping the hole back 4 around to fit stears in.
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If you are not prepared to pay for wages or signings, is’nt the idea to bring in untried (cheap) players in for them to improve?
What Norwich and Swansea have done is identify players that will improve then (this is the good bit) actually coached them to improve!
We have no players that have improved, no outfield players that anyone wants (Fletcher aside) and no players coming through!
This is because we have a manager with the tactics of a conference manager and one coach that is obviously not good enough as its all going backwards.
Morgan you either need to bring in players who can do it, or bring in coaches who will improve them at the moment we have neither and you are ruining the club I love.
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Well, if ya didn’t laugh you would have to cry. What a shambles this once great club of ours has become. Laughing stock of the footballing world….
Cheers Jez, cheers Mick
But mostly, cheers Steve. No more ££££ from me lads.
Oh and 81. It’s ‘hungry’ not ‘hungrey’ I take it you went to the same school has jack the hypocrit (look it up)
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nothing new here then,..im as fed up as the rest with the blatant lack of investment on the field,…but dont forget we can only name a 25 man squad so for every new face a “favourite” might have to be sacrificed!.
Mark my words, in the Liverpool game you wont see Adlene or Ned taking Henry’s place as any other manager would, but it will be Foley and then other fav Stearman can go to right back,…Foley is a good right back but he isnt that effective in the middle.
I stated on another thread, Morgan will not sack MM at least until weve played his beloved Liverpool and lost, then he can get rid with the safe knowledge the transfer window will have closed.
what really worries me is that the club dont even seemed bothered about appeasing the fans worries regarding strenghtening and relegation, but dont worry we will all have the crap for the early bird renewals soon,..maybe if we all tell them where to stick them if might help,..also I feel we have been brilliant in our support during the matches since it got a little tasty when we played Swansea,..but maybe it time we started voicing our concerns where it counts..”match days at the Mol”.
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Nice photos of the empty new stand, Steve…
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What we are prepared to pay in fees and wages dictates the nature of our club. As such, we will never compete with the obvious “big boys” and (if we can stay in this league) we will probably always be hovering around the wrong end with only the occasional sortie up to mid table in a good year, if we have one. If we can stay in this league …. It’s a depressing outlook and I don’t like it but I’ll always be a Wolves’ man, whatever. I’d rather we remained more or less solvent but it is very trying being involved in a relegation scrap for the third year running and people’s frustrations are understandable. It is like constantly picking at a scab – the wound doesn’t get any better. Hey ho – UTW.
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wolver are a bad joke no ambition at all now
bring back sir jack.
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This is not the time to be throwing in the towel. Yes, it does look dire, indeed, but a lot can happen with sixteen games to go. I am expecting one surprise signing to come before next Tuesday. Who, I don’t know. Moxey and Wolves do work on the sly, so we’ll just have to be patient!
Last, we can get ourselves out of this mess. Craddock is back, and Kightly is now an everyday player, almost like a new signing. Zubar ready to return, too. Then, in about a fortnight, look, it’s O’Hara returned to the fold!
Hang in there, we can get out of this!
UTMW!
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Dann
Ridgewell
Gardner
Nolan
Noble
Zamora
Hooper
Forrest
Whittingham
Bassong
All would improve the quality of the squad…
In fact if he could stay fit i would go for Michael Owen… thing is he cant stay fit can he???
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Here are a few observations on these posts so far:-
Berra has been carrying Johnson all season.
Karl Henry stupidly got sent off – So what! It happens all the time.
SEB not good enough? How do we know? He has never been given a proper chance. 10 goals in 26 games is some tally. Remember, he almost single handedly won us promotion.
Everyone having a go at Morgan – You put £30m plus of your own money in!
Kevin Davies can’t get in the Bolton team anymore.
Oh and we do have a ‘new signing’ – His name is Michael Kightly.
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Defence, Defence, Defence. Where are the defenders? We can’t keep a clean sheet! Am I missing something? Strikers, midfielders but no new faces for the back line? Are the 3 M’s watching the same games????? We need more competition at the back. Give me strength.
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Boss Mick McCarthy has been an admirer of 24-year-old Diouf, whose last football was in the Carling Cup on November 30, for some time and has had him watched regularly for United’s reserves.
But he can’t guarantee him regular football with three senior strikers and Sam Vokes on the books
WHAT A JOKE!
Three senior strikers only one of which can actually find the back of the net, and Sam Vokes who is usually out on loan somewhere or other with about as much chance of making the 1st team at Wolves as i have.
This team that MM has assembled is an absolute shambles, it’s basically the promotion side plus a few players from other relegated/Failed Premier League clubs. If by some miracle they stay up this year then what will be different next season. If Wolves go down it could take years to get back up as we all well know. So much for Morgan/Moxeys grand plan to take the club on to the next level, we can’t even sign some decent players or seem to get anyone through from the youth set up which seems to be nothing more than a production line for clubs in the lower leagues when it turns out they aren’t good enough for Wolves.
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110 O.G.W.M
Absolutly spot on mate!!!!!
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it will be out on a press release on wed morning that we tried to get tevez,ferdinand,ronaldo,van persie and messi but they dont put a shift in also we had kaka on trial but he wasnt young and hungry enough!! lol
in all seriousness if we do go down which is looking as if we may as i cant see many worse teams at the min how many of the players that mm is showing loyalty to will stay??
hennesy= gone
johnson=gone
berra= gone
jarvis=gone
hunt=gone
hammil=gone
kightly= probably go
o hara = gone
fletch = gone
doyle= gone
not being a moaner but these are facts people.
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firstly lets blow a few myths away.
1.morgan is’nt going to the league cup final, as he will be in newcastle after the game, sorting out some contract details with the summer target who has been identified to propel us up the premier table next season.
2. everyones assuming liverpool will beat us, after they got away with a dodgy pen decision against city.
the same liverpool players were embarrased at bolton only last saturday evening, where championship side wwfc got a point.
3. the liverpool players with the final in mind , will be scared to get injured against, wwfc, so if, frimpong,and co can get into the early doors, we should win, unless berra does something stupid , again. utw
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Wolves fans it your not happy dont renew your season tickets stay away that only way supporters can get the message over people can write on hear all there want morgan dont read this as long as he making money he is not bothered what you write.
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Wim gooin down and anybuddy con see that boys. Dow bovver wersting ya money on secund rert rubbish Morgan. Serve it for league one cuz Willenhall Tarn mite sell us a few good players if we need um. Cor wait to av ten seats to meself next year cuz I like avin sperce dow yow?
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Been watching Wolves 35 years and can’t believe i’m saying this, especially as we are in the top flight for a change, but i have never felt as depressed watching Wolves as i do now. I missed a couple of games recently and to be honest it didn’t bother me at all. Years ago going to a Wolves game meant everything.
I have decided not to renew my season ticket next year simply because it’s a lot of money for something i just don’t enjoy anymore.My dad packed in a few seasons back and he hardly ever even watches games on tv let alone ventures down to Molinuex. It not all Wolves but football in general. The league is a waste of time only a few teams can ever win it and the Cups are just something to put out weakenend teams in and get knocked out early so that the league can be concentrated on. Basically teams like Wolves are playing for nothing.
I’ll probably just pick and chose a few games when i’ve got nothing better to do, lets face it they’re not exactly gonna sell out to watch this mess.
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COME ON MORGAN AND MCARTHY TIME YOU BOTH GO FROM THIS CLUB BEFORE YOU PUT US BACK IN THE 3RD DIVISION YOU AINT GOT WOLVES IN YOUR BLOOD IVE BEEN HERE SINCE I WAS A LAD BACK IN EARLY 70S. YOU HAVE NO INTERESTS IN WOLVES AND NEVER HAVE ITS JUST A JOB TO YOU. SO DO US ALL A FAVIOUR AND BOTH GO ..
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to be honest wolves are going down quicker than the concordia or the rms titanic did 100 years ago,mick, moxy and morgan out now, simply we going down, i am bored of the excuses, action neede now and not on the stadium either
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Albion fans must be wetting themselves at this.
And lets look at their lot, nothing special but they pick up the points !!
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As I live n Germany I don’t get to see many matches however, I’ve seen highlights here and the full game against B’ham just after Xmas. I’d sum the team up as follows:
World class keeper whose kept scorelines respectable numerous times – destined for one of the top 6 PL clubs,
Matt Jarvis – a bit like Robbie Keane when he played for us – fast, skillful and a completely different class to the rest of the team,
Steve Fletcher – a very good striker who’ll no doubt justifiably leave when he can,
As for the rest, I’ve seen better quality football in the 3rd Bundisliga here! Wolves are slow, unskilled, lacking ideas. I’d think twice about going even if the ticket was free!
Transfer window shuts next week, MM stays on, Wolves playing in the Championship next season. In short, same story as always just different characters. Very sad!
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Why on earth would Bolton allow a player to go to Wolves at this stage of the season? It is as crazy as Hammill to Wigan. It’s a relegation scrap and I expect no favours from anyone in it.
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Any fool can run around and give 100 per cent. What we need is top quality footballers. But you have to be prepared to pay for them.
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Listen all, I am here in peace just to saythe following.
Somebody should copy all of the comments above and send it to your chairman to read out at the next board meeting and if they are so stupid as to not respond in some way to what you lot are saying about YOUR club, then you should all protest as a unit and arrange not to attend 1 home game.
We aren’t exactly lighting up the prem, but at least i feel like we are creeping slowly forward and i am (hopefully) confident we will survive this year and move a little further forward next year.
The time for talk is nearly over, you need to have a collective protest, that is the only way you will change what they are doing to Wolves.
Good Luck
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We must have the most negative fans in the world,I.Q. not the best,believe whatever rumour is printed provided its negative,we are having the best run in 32 years ,club financialy sound and lots of forwarding planing for future cop on morons,you need to take your prosac
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does it really matter if we sign anyone, mick has the habit of signing players for positions then still playing our championship player in the posistion.when you look at our team, hennesey,foley,berra,ward,kightly,jarvis,henry,milijas all regulars and they are the players that got us up 3years ago, we have seen signings since then but they never play. because 80% of our players are championship standard at best thats where we are going. you want be in the prem then you have to pay for quality players.
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Have you lot got a clue about football or life?
Or do you just go round panicking? Man up and support the team, From Hennessey to The tea lady.
Get behind them! We sing we score(Villa first half) We’re quiet and we lose(second half)
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The situation has now become a high farce. Clearly the management have no intention of:
a getting a new manager and assistant
b putting sufficient funds in to purchase quality players
All the happy clappers have been taken for a ride with the job done, mission accomplished nonsense which the more intelligent amongst us never fell for.
So it’s Championship for us next season and hopefully these bunch of incompetents will be playing to a near-empty stadium. Obviously, there will be some who will queue up for the earlybirds or pay £40 a go to sit there watching them play in the Blue Square league if it came to that.
With respect to Mr Morgan, I hope he is satisfied with his stewardship of the club because there are many who are not so enamoured of his efforts so far.
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Let’s be real! Football is a business and football clubs living above there means will eventually find themselves in financial strife, if they can’t balance the books. It’s all well and good spending big money on players but if the books don’t add up then we get ourselves potentially losing our football club altogether. Look at Portsmouth spent big money on players and now they face a winding up order because they can’t pay their debt they have created. It’s surely about sustainability. I love wolves with ally heart and like all wolves fans have seen some abosolute dross. Let’s not forget the glen hoddel eara. Mad mick has bought well at times and some haven’t worked out, that’s football. We should be backing our club to make sure we’re playing football for future generations to enjoy not just the hear and now! That means buying player which we can realistically afford. That’s why new stadiums are build because the gates pay the wages. What come first? The money to pay them or a debt that becomes unrecoverable? Utw!
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Disgusted at the lack of ambition. Moxey don’t even bother with the early bird letter because you can stick it where the sun don’t shine.
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Almost 20 million spent on developing the north bank, net result a 3500 increase in capacity.
We are about to sacrifice our Premiership future because there is no money left to invest in the team, and all for a small increase in capacity.
Just indicates what seriously flawed judgement we now have in charge at WWFC. Just to reinforce the judgement call, any other owner would have shown MM & clipboard the door many months ago.
Little of what is currently going on makes any sense, what an absolutely sad state of affairs there is at our football club!!
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133Lynn
Morgan should be investing in the team.
You seem to think that i ought stump up the money he has.
No. He invested with promises and for the glory and return he will get, and he is not doing so but for personal gain.
He is not a football man, and now knows not what to do, similar to the Venkys at Blackburn.
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Nice pictures of empty stand thats how its going to be. Did anyone ever think that Wigan etc would have more ambition than WWFC. Yes its difficult to get people to come to a relegation threatened club but why is it that Wolves cant do what others can. The reason is total lack of ambition by the club and investment by the chairman and a complete idiot in charge of players ie MM- the man who wont ever sign anyone with a ego that might be bigger than his so what do wr end up with, Fotheringwhoever on trial, a guy from Scotland who has as much chance of playing first team football as I have and the failure to resign Mancienne on loan ie the guy who is a cr** centre half and midfielder who struggles to get into a weak Bundesliga team.
My season ticket money isnt going to Wolves this year, if by any miracle stay up the same situation will be repeated next season, dire football and dire management. Shame on you Wolves -Swansea, QPR, Norwich, Blackburn and Wigan are all more progressive and bigger teams than we are now.
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Talk about lack of ambition! As a long time loyal supporter and season ticket holder who has waited many years and spent a significant proportion of my earnings to see Wolves as an established club in the top division, the Board’s repeated failure to invest in Premiership quality players is a sickening kick in the teeth. This, on top of the dreadful football on display at Molineux this season when the likes if Swansea and Norwich show what can be done without spending huge amounts of money, could be the last straw when it comes to naking a decision about renewing my season ticket.
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So where we be buryin’ the treasure chest Cap’n Morgan?
Cullis island me hearties. Aaaar
And set a bearing for Championship Bay Mr Moxley, while yer at it.
Aye aye sir.
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BOYCOTT THE NORTHBANK UNTIL THEY TAKE THEIR POSITIONS AT OUR FOUNDER MEMBER FOOTBALL CLUB SERIOUSLY !! BOYCOTT THE NORTHBANK BOYCOTT THE NORTHBANK BOYCOTT THE NORTHBANK !! 3M’s SORT IT OUT !!
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I am baffled by the comments in the article about the loan signing of Diouf: But he can’t guarantee him regular football with three senior strikers and Sam Vokes on the books.
if MM had 3 strikers all banging them in I could understand but as he only has 1 where is the difficuty?
As for the policy of recruiting ‘young and hungry’ this i just an anagram of ‘inexperienced and cheap to pay’.
Sounds like Mark Hughes on a mission for players and given the funds to do it. and what are we doing??
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TACTICS , TACTICS , TACTICS !!!! Can we have some Mick before the end of the season . Many thanks .
(Stay ) Up the Wolves !
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never mind the new signings, what we need is a new manager who will get the best from the players we have got.
if you were steve morgan would you really trust macCarthy to sign a decent value for money player who will actually make an impact in the starting 11 (rather than the usual squad player).
if you were a quality player would you really want to join Wolves in this transfer window.
it seems like morgans and moxey’s only strategy is to hope that we can stay up on a shoestring budget (i.e. that there really are three teams worse than us)and then to address the situation at the end of the season.
i sincerely hope that this gamble pays off and i sincerely hope that whatever happens by the end of the season i won’t have to watch another season of this excuse of a manager again and his awful style of football.
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I find it so funny that before the season the 3 Ms said it was an end to the relegation scraps. Yet look at where we are. It truely is comical. Although Morgan and Moxey both thought we would not be in a relegation battle they will not dare sack Mick when we are in one. It is truly laughable. I am not going to purchase a single item from the club or go to a single game until some aspiration is shown (i dont care how)! And god forbid if we get relegated this season i will not attend a single game or buy the new shirt. That is not because i’m a glory supporter, but purely because there is no way we should have been relegated. It is i protest to the currently poor decision making taking place at the club. FANS WILL TURN MORGAN AND YOU WILL LOOSE A LOT OF MONEY! ITS ABOUT TO GET UGLY!
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‘ calm down everyone’ said mr morgan,’ i’m pleased to announce me and gez have been secretly negotiating a deal for lionel ‘ a gasp from all the reporters in the room ‘ no way ‘ said one ‘ how on earth did you manage to do that? , ‘ well it wasnt easy ‘ said moxey , the deal is by far the most costliest since morgan took over and it is testament to our chairman that he has put his money where his mouth is ‘ fair play ‘ said another reporter , this will get the fans buzzing with excitement that lionel has signed for you how much are you paying him ?’ ‘ well ‘ said morgan ‘ he wanted a new wig every week and at least a set perm twice a fortnight ,together with sun tan sessions every other day ! ‘, confused the reporters looked at the 3′ms and said, ‘ thats odd for lionel messi to ask for those things dont you think ?’ laughing morgan says ‘ lionel messi you are having a laugh arent youi , we havent signed that lionel,we’ve signed lionel blair me and gez love him and mick thinks he has potential ‘ …………. We are a joke , morgan you and gez are a disgrace and mick thanks but go all 3′ms out !
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Re 70 Sam Vokes when given the chance has done well. Every time he gets on the field something hapopens ie a hand in both goals against Swansea and on countless other occasions. Why is he not given a run in the team as we only have one plaer who can score. It would also give us a chance of winning the ball from the hoofs upfield. I think Fletcher would also improve with him in the team
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Par for the course i guess with Wolves.As usual all the excuses.Wolves lack the ambition to be a successful Premier League club.They don’t deserve many of the great fans they have.As for me as an ex-pat living in NZ,it makes me wonder whether it is worth it getting out of bed at 2.00.am. in the morning to watch what is on offer.I do because i have followed the club for around 60 years.A ‘Cowshed End’ supporter in the 60s.I do also because for all their faults i still love this great club,but Morgan,Moxey et al,do not take us for granted!
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Trust me genuine Wolves fans if they call him Moxley, they don’t support Wolves.
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Summary of above article: “Wolves are too cheap to pay Premiership wages”.
I mean that really is the bottom line, isn’t it? Like it or not, the Premiership has become the playing ground of the wealthy. To play in it you have to be able to afford it. Wolves either cannot afford it or cannot come to terms with how much it costs to compete in it. How many times have we heard that a deal fell through becasue they couldn’t agree personal terms … but here’s the bit that hurts: another team comes in and does! (Apparently Diouf’s wages are not a problem for Sunderland!)
So as far as I am concerned, if Wolves being in the Premiership means season after season of scrapping in the bottom 4 to hopefully avoid relegation one more season, then I for one have had enough and quite honestly just may as well see them play in the Championship. At least we’ll see a few goals and win a few games.
Honestly, I am tired of this drivel. I don’t want to waste any more of my time on such mediocrity. There is a saying: if you can’t afford it then don’t freakin’ buy it! Clearly, we cannot afford it! So let’s stop wearing a borrowed, second-hand, patched-up coat at a ball where everyone else is in a spanking new Tux!
So the question for you Mr Morgan is can you afford to play with the big boys? Can you afford the fast lane? Can you afford to make Wolves successful in the Premier League? If not then let’s get the hell out of it and stop embarrassing ourselves week in, week out!
No more nonsense please!!!
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Why in HELLS BELLS is mad Mick chasing another forward!!!! when we need a centre back or midfield positions filled.
I am really fed up with the shite at the moment. Here in Australia we have to get up at 2am to watch the game live and after the last load of rubbish I feel its a waste of bloody time.
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V good post, I seriously have to question whether we are the 5/6th highest spenders, does that include the £2.5 m spent on Van damme, coz allegedly we got that back & it ain’t been reinvested in the squad, I think that was then ‘ring fenced’ for the WV1 bar in the new stand, coz that will help us stay in the prem!!!!!
And I also agree with the poster who thinks McCarthy will play foley in midfield against the scousers & that clown Stearman at RB, just to make us nice & balanced & for us to pass the ball from the back & through the midfield like we have recently, if that happens all frimpong will be doing all night is watching the airplanes on the flight path over the Mol, after what I saw against blues Stearman shouldn’t get near the first team again!!!
Onuha would have been a great signing for us & he fits our alleged bill, in terms of the profile we are looking for in a player.
All the teams around us are bringing in fresh players & spending on their squads, we ain’t !!!!!
C’mon Wolves board the faithful need you to give them something to cheer about, spend some money, make a change, whatever but do something otherwise watch our revenue drop by £50 m, good business that!!!!!
Losing the faith!!!
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I would rather us go down this season because as a wolves fan i don’t think we are moving forward as a club in this league. Get a new manager. Ian holloway??? Have a good season and come straight back up again. Look at what it has done with Newcastle in the past and west ham. Teams get to carried away in this league and we have this season thinking that Swansea and norwich will be rubbish. Take a look they haven’t. We would only sell the likes of fleather and that if they pay good money.
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Quite honestly I reckon any money spent now would be a waste. The whole set up at Wolves is towards playing an outdated form of the game, so much so, that if all the players of Barcelona were at Molineux they would be passing the ball back to the keeper from the kick-off and he would be hoofing it upfield, etc etc.
Putting on this show of supposed interest in the playing side is silly, the time for that was last summer, and should have gone hand in hand with a complete revision of playing methods and management.
I believe Steve Morgan will be successful but in a timescale to suit him and not necessarily the majority of fans,a timescale of maybe a decade.
A successful Championship side for a few years, with full gates (as befits a side winning now and again) incurring Championship level expenditures, may serve him every bit as well (maybe better) than being a struggling Prem side with brassed off fans, reduced gates, and over the odds wage bills etc etc.
That’s the only way I can rationalise the activities at Molineux following our survival last year – because if the events of May 22nd 2011 weren’t enough to kick-start a new approach nothing ever will be.
As things stand we will hear of more hard luck stories about players we can’t get, and in truth the money would be better left in the bank anyway. I feel sure both SM and JM would agree wholeheartedly!!
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Its time for mick to go, scooby doo has more of an idea than him. played really well in the 1st half against villa, mick has his 15mins chat at half time and we were useless in the 2nd half.He has know idea on tactics, keeps looking at strikers, dont think he realises that if you keep conceding 2 goals every game you aren’t gonna win many. As for Moxey and Morgan they are not football people so the 3m’s do the right thing and leave
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65- jay wolves
i see many including 101 -jakewolf have responded to your points.
what i wanted to say relates to one point you made about
“doing things the proper way as a club and being debt free”
I’ve had a look at the premier league club accounts which did not include norwich,swansea and QPR as this was done in june 2011
The fact is that ALL of the premiership clubs except for wolves are in debt.
Villa are 110 mill
WBA – 10 mill
Stoke – 10 mill
blackburn – 21 mill
what it shows is that this is a very expensive and competitive league. If you have ambition and you want to stay in the league, you need to constantly improve your squad and this means investing.
Wolves got 40 million last season from TV/Sky revenue and I cant see where that money has gone??
But if we dont have the funds available and want to progress as a club we have to borrow to get the players we want.
Why is being in debt such a dirty word???
After all most households are in debt in these tough times.
The important thing is having manageable debts that will not bankrupt the club.
Stoke have invested heavily season after season in quality players and comfortable mid table and have very small debts.
Wolves(Morgan,moxley and mick) need to watch and learn how its done.
But I think a lack of ambition is the main reason why we dont improve.
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Isn’t sad & a bloody disgrace that Championship Clubs are doing much more bloody transfer dealings than us – & offering £6 – 7 mil for players! Where as we have Eggert Jonnson (who) & this 28 year old Celtic & Norwich has been on trial. Are we the total embarrassment in the Premier League by choice – yes we are. Rumours about players of a ability we want on loan not being guaranteed a place in our team, so therefore they won’t come – well it just smacks of “up yours” to the supporters. Onohua is said to have gone to QPR for £2.5mil & £35k pw. So how hard did we really try. TBH I am totally over it after 50+ years supporting. I don’t expect Messi’s & the likes, but I would expect us to compete in the Transfer Window with the likes of QPR, Blackburn, Wigan, Bolton, Norwich, WBA, Swansea, Fulham & all Championship clubs. Come on Jordan Rhodes, Maynard, Bridge, Onohua, Hooper – just some players we could be going for – mind you we could be going for Benitez as manager too. No ambition = no hope & championship football. Sad, gutted, dispondent, disappointed, unhappy, angry, sick & so on on on
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175 Simon,couldnt agree more. No one wants the club to put its future at risk but IMO the board are frightened of the premier league.They are out of their comfort zone and genuinely prefer life in The Championship.Like you I just cannot see where the money has disappeared to and I am an accountant!!.Think about it. Morgan was required to put in £30,000,000 AND Sir Jack wrote off the money due to him. When other clubs are taken over that never happens as the outgoing owners are in effect selling their shares in the business.When you add 3 years Sky money into the equation then something is seriously wrong.
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2nd from bottom
Every transfer target we have identified wages are too high
Players injured, suspended & out of form
Manager has lost the plot
And the biggest story coming out of Wolves today is that Moxey’s PA has retired!!!!
Can you get your breath???
Says it all really!!!
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I don’t rate Berra – all I ever see is his arms round a striker at corners, he has no skill and has caused us problems. I don’t rate Stearman, he is not consistent and I am always waiting for an inevitable mistake that will cause us to concede. Elokobi may be massive and strong, but he is slow and clumsy….. I could go on – but our problems are evident and I have only addressed a few of our back line. What about our midfield? Henry the crab springs to mind. What about our lack of goals from our strikers – Doyle springs to mind. Now I have never ever been negative (at least I can’t recall being anyway)but as I live in North Yorkshire I am only a TPS Member – I was considering becoming a season ticket holder, but am afraid that at the end of this season, not only am I not going to apply for a season ticket I am also considering refraining from renewing my TPS membership. I have supported Mick for some time, and have respected him due to him bringing and keeping us up. However, I am now asking the question – Can he take us any further, the answer of which I feel is I fear not. I have supported Wolves for over 45 years now and will continue to do so, but probably from afar!
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Excellent posts from GoWolves (169) and Silver Wolf (173) that say plenty about the reality of life at Molineux. This is the ‘Rich Man’s Table’ we’re dining at and it’s way more expensive to be part of than Steve Morgan probably realised. You either pay the going rate to be part of it, or you don’t. If you can’t afford it, don’t bother. If you choose the former, realise that the team must be the priority, not the ground. Hell, Molineux was only completed less than 20 years ago! Long term vision is admirable where expansion is concerned, but if it becomes a noose around the neck, then you’ve dropped an almighty clanger. Putting the cart before the horse was never a wise idea.
As a fan of many, many years, I’m heartily sick of hearing football being described as a ‘business’ these days. It’s a damned SPORT, ffs, isn’t it? Well, it used to be. That’s why us older lads were quite happy to stand on the terraces in all weather with crap conditions and outdated facilities. It was all about love of the club -our club- not some rich boy’s plaything. Entertainment came first, not ‘Fancy Dan’ stands, corporate hospitality and Pimms rather than Bovril. Fans would’ve stood with just a rope around the pitch, provided they were proud and excited by what they saw. Fine, football’s moved on since those days -but my desire for a competitive Wolves team and a Football Club that I can be proud of hasn’t. Look at the farce that is contemporary Wolves; look at how we’ve sold our bloody soul to be part of the stinking mess that is the Premier League, and look at how hoodwinked many of our younger fans have become, simply because they know no better. These supporters have been brainwashed into accepting second-rate fare, and all in the name of proudly boasting, “We’re Premier League”. Big deal, boys. Now, tell me how much you actually enjoy your football as measured against admission fee paid? Losing games should hurt and never be acceptable. Yet, constant failure is somehow regarded as ‘success’ -which says plenty about the league we’re in. What a truly sad indictment. It also perhaps tells us we shouldn’t be in it if we can’t afford it.
Nobody of sane mind expects Wolves to pull up trees during our embryonic years at this level, but come on, the Wolves Board have singularly failed to deliver on their promises. This season has become nothing more than shambolic and begs the question of just how competent the senior management is. Ungrateful? No. But I do take exception to our fantastic fanbase being taken for mugs. As Silver Wolf said, it Morgan may take us to where we want to be in ten years. Maybe even longer. However, the intervening years would have to be structured and not subject to wild guesswork, such as we’ve seen this season. Wolves may have pinned their faith in Swansea, Norwich and QPR being relegated (and many fans have, too), but I never did. It’s a funny ol’ game and you should never assume anything. As a result, we’ll look prize plonkers if relegated with that smart, new North Bank standing as testimony to Morgan’s folly. In fact, we’re already the butt of national jokes -and that hurts if you’re a proud Wulfrunian.
On the one hand, there’s grandiose plans for a super-stadium (albeit put on hold); on the other hand, we have a restricted wage cap that says only two things: No ambition plus endless struggle. Put simply, a near £20m North Bank versus a cheap purchase from Scottish giants Hearts. Another purchase for the ‘future’, then.
Wolves, you’re breaking my heart. Unlike some, I don’t live in a Gold & Black world where everything relies on ifs, buts, maybes and, worst of all, blind faith. Our great fanbase have invested their hearts, soul and wallets in their desire to see you restored to where you belong: the top flight. That you’re in turmoil and in serious danger of dropping through the trapdoor is all self-inflicted thanks to your propensity to make one rank-bad decision after another. Most appalling though, is your contempt for your ‘customers’ and the waffle that you sell us on a regular basis. It’s nothing short of deceit because it’s well known you do everything on the cheap. Yet you still expect us to swallow it, no questions asked.
You’ve lost touch with us fans. You’ve lost touch with yourselves even more so.
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The reality of what we have become has finally sunken in where I am concerned. My reasons for giving up my long held season ticket are known to regulars and had nothing to do with club performance – but to be honest, I am relieved not to be making the 300 mile round trip right now. I am pretty depressed about our situation and I note that a few regulars on here haven’t been posting for a while – I guess they’re feeling down as well.
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180, YOSB
Outstanding post mate.
Absolutely 100% in tune with my own sentiments.
Jez HAS sold our soul as a football club.
He is take take take gives and NEVER gives anything back, actually I’m wrong there, I do remember him putting on free coaches for a Friday night Sky game at Millwall about 10 years ago(?)…..but that’s it!
As you say, football has changed and I wholly accept that, but there are ways of going about it. I’m afraid however that I despise the way OUR club has gone and continues to go about it.
With endless marketing emails, texts and phone calls, booking fees, rip off catering, tps, gimmicky my wolves memberships,credit cards, early birds, corporate away ticket/breaks, sit down or else campaigns all constantly shoved down your throat…..and don’t get me started on the ‘spin’ that eminates from within the club on almost a daily basis…….I really just don’t feel PART of my club anymore!
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181 Solent Totally agree with you. I reckon my 800-MILE ROUND TRIPS to Wolverhampton will be coming to an end shortly. Transport, hotels, etc which come to c. £350 booked for the Baggies game, but I have an awful feeling that will be it. Are you listening to this at Molineux?
Go for a class manager in ex- Glasgow Rangers/ Scotland squad Walter Smith, who retired gracefully and most successfully at the age of 61, but who has also said recently that a challenge would be welcome. Do that and you might just save the season for us. Please at least have a few thoughts about this Mr Morgan.
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180 YOSB – Superb post, it says it all.
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Nicky Maynard….please?
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It’s lamentable. Nothing more or less than pure, inexcusable shi*te “can’t guarantee him regular football with three senior strikers and Sam Vokes on the books.”
Excuse me but does Sam Vokes get a game?
Does S E B score goals or the ruined Kevin Toyle?
I would ask what is wrong with this club, this manager, that they would even dare to issue such a pathetic statement to the press, unless they think that the fans would not notice.
Bhati time was humiliating enough, but please, not now, not after such an effort by Sir Jack to revive us. Don’t let us have to suffer this tripe and trash. Send us down by all means but only as long as it means the end of Moxey and McCartey and if ness, Morgan too.
Viva Los Lobos, we will come back, KTF.
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Your posts # 180 – 184, YOSB, Solent, 100%, Western Isles, Silver Wolf (and 173), make for worrying reading gentlemen – I think we’re loosing something here.
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Sue (72), no dear, it was a pun intended on the see,hear,speak ditty; But I can sea (sic) why you would not take it as intended;Have you missed me?
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187 – (Wolfshead) Yes, I fear we are, mate.
Don’t know if you heard Friday night’s Radio WM phone-in show (6-7pm), Wolfshead, but two Wolves fans made ‘interesting’ contributions. The first fan sent Radio WM a copy of the letter he’d addressed to Steve Morgan himself (with his season ticket enclosed, no less!). Hearing the contents of that letter was quite enlightening, particularly given that the fed-up fan had loyally supported Wolves for over 60 years and was a retired businessman himself. He made some points that could be considered similar to those posted above.
The second Wolves fan spoke live on air and stated that McCarthy had spent £40m on 20 players since gaining promotion (spending in the Championship being a quite separate issue). He then listed McCarthy’s purchases and pointed out that 8 of the starting 11 against Villa were part of our Championship team. Unsurprisingly, the fan questioned our club’s ‘progress’ and seemed quite irate at the state of the club. Such revelations clearly astonished Radio WM presenter Paul Franks because the guy seemed utterly bemused and at a loss to explain it. When a respected, seasoned sports journalist is left floundering, that in itself says plenty, I think.
If anyone fancies checking out BBC Radio WM’s website, the show may be available on their ‘catch-up’ service. If so, I suggest you listen.
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I know these are E&S newspaper reports and we will never know who are actual transfer targets are and what the club is actually doing to get them in, but forget about diouf as while wolves were dithering Hanover came in and he’s off to the german league.
We are still desperately short of a 4th striker, as we cant rely on SEB and Doyle for goals. Vokes is simply not good enough.
We also need another experienced central defender as berra, stearman and johnson are inconsistent and let in too many silly goals, every other week and thats why we are in the bottom 3.
Fringpong is the 2nd defensive midfielder we have needed for a long time to challenge henry.
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I heard that broadcast, I was not surprised by what was said; As for ‘Franksy’, he has at least in the past questioned the goings on at Wolves unlike his colleague ‘Rego’, who shall we say went from being a ‘cynic-supreme’ 18 months ago to having a ‘road to Damascus’ moment and is ‘Apologist in Chief’ for MM,JM and SM; His laughable contributions to the ‘debate’ include the parroted ‘too early to change manager’ from September 20th every week thereon in,then saying last week it ‘was too late to change manager’; His latest laugh out loud question(Thursday), ‘Wolves fans, do you think Wolves are in a relegation dogfight?’, you couldn’t meck it up!
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the be all and end all is..
Morgan and Moxey want to play with the “big boys”, but dont want to spend big boys money.
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Annay-No! well maybe I quite like the banter although a lot of what you say goes over my head, so you maybe right about me being a little thick(don’t tell YOSB he doesn’t like it when I say that) actually I’m not thick but I do tend to drop the odd clanger but didn’t think I needed a degree in English to support my team!
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YES 192,
AND AS LONG AS THEY HAVE A MANAGER DESPERATE FOR A JOB IN THE BIG LEAGUE (HE WON’T GET ONE AT ANY OTHER PREM CLUB) WHO WILL KEEP THEM UP BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, THEY’LL BE HAPPY.
HOW MANY TRUE WOLVES FANS AND POSTERS ON THIS SITE WOULD LIKE US TO BECOME A MONEYBAGS CLUB, LIKE CITY AND CHELSEA? JUST OUT OF INTEREST, WOULD POSTERS WELCOME QATARI INVESTORS, OR RICH INDIANS, LIKE VENKYS THINK THEY ARE?
I WONDER.
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JUST WATCHED Brighton see off Newcastle in the Cup. Great result for the Albion but apart from that………Leon Best….PLEASE……? No better than Toyler at holding up the ball, could be a danger, when the mood and moon was right but, otherwise, watch the way Brighton pla, y Messers Morgan & McCarthy.
Good job we’re not in the Championship yet, hey? Brighton look a far better prospect of footballs’ future than we do and they are sitting 10th!!!
We have a problem at manager level……any therapists out there?
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