Dave Edwards: Matt Doherty leaves Wolves as a club legend

He made nearly 400 appearances and during his two spells at the club, he’s had a lot of success and made Wolves his club, which you don’t see often in modern football.

A lot of credit has to go to Doherty and the football club for having such a strong relationship over the years.

It's a shame he didn't get the chance to say goodbye because he deserved a send-off but it wasn’t to be and I hope he gets to play at Molineux again at some point in his career to get the applause that he undoubtedly deserves.

The journey he has had is incredible. He was fortunate originally to play that friendly for Bohemians against Wolves as they put a lot of kids into the match and he had a good game against Matt Jarvis, who was one of our best attackers at the time.

That was enough for Mick McCarthy to sign him for just £75,000 and when you look at what he has gone on to achieve, he has to be pound-for-pound the best signing in the modern era for Wolves. It was unbelievable value.

He was a little rough around the edges when he first came in. I don't think he knew how to be a professional footballer and physically he struggled a little bit, but what he did have was this incredible anticipation of being in the right place at the right time and understanding football in a much more mature way than his years.

Being one or two steps ahead all the time, knowing when the ball was going to end up, it's not always something you see from a right-back.

We used to always take the mick out of him in training because he would never be in that right-back position. When we were doing five-a-side or any sort of possession drills, he'd always be popping up in the number 10 role or in the box trying to score.

We started to see it on the pitch as well. He was an important player already, but it was when Nuno came in that the penny really dropped for him.

With some help from Nuno's support staff and other people at Wolves, he understood that he needed to change his lifestyle a little bit. He was a little bit naïve before with diet and nutrition, but we then saw the weight drop off him and saw him turn into a real athlete.

Combine that with those super skills that he had and he turned into one of the best wing-backs in the Premier League, which was phenomenal.

He had a terrific Championship season to get promoted and the first season in the Premier League was incredible for him. That system that Nuno played really suited him.

He’s a better one-v-one defender than people think, but the numbers he got going forward were phenomenal.

He had his move to Spurs and Atletico Madrid and returned to Wolves to find a very different team to the one he left, but overall the journey has been brilliant for him.

Wolves have played such a huge part in his success and playing for and captaining his country came from that pre-season game back in 2010.

He's got some amazing memories and was involved in such big moments, such as the late winner against Man City at Molineux or the FA Cup semi-final header at Wembley.

Even when I was still at the club, in my last full season, he scored an absolute banger against Fulham - and I could name many more!

He’s had a fabulous Wolves career and I’m sad to see him go, but he definitely leaves the club as a legend. I wish him the best in whatever his next move in football is.

Meanwhile, Wolves have officially signed Ladislav Krejci permanently after his loan spell.

That was a formality but it does give Wolves a little bit of protection that if he is going to leave, it will be for decent money and they'll at least recoup what they paid.

I really hope that he'll stay on and be a big part of this Championship season for us because the quality he brings is far superior to the level of the Championship.

I wasn’t surprised to see Angel Gomes leave the football club. It didn't quite work out for him in a Wolves shirt.

It was a difficult situation for him to come into, being in that relegation fight and he never quite found his position.

He was in and out of the team and never got that run of games that he was craving.

It's a shame it didn't work out because I really had high hopes for him when he came in.