As the cold winds chasten a lifeless Molineux, the smoking transfer deadline day should be every Wolves fan’s rescue remedy.
But in keeping with every other facet of this miserable season, our club is at its comatose worst, flipping over the ‘closed’ sign, switching off the lights and imploring those clocks to strike 12.
Wolves' transfer strategy in two words: Mark Fotheringham
Such a strategy underpins a stadium ‘redevelopment’ and an inexorable plummet to the Premier League basement, so is anyone remotely surprised that we’re not even shopping in it?
Some might call it spin, but after delving a little deeper, the spin appears to have eat itself entirely when dissecting our pitiful transfer policy, which ranks as one of the most insular in living memory.
According to Mick McCarthy himself, players will not be approached or even considered if:
1. They are on more money than current squad members. Source: E & S; 27.01.12: ‘McCarthy believes Wolves are unlikely to have a situation where a new signing is on far more money than the rest of the dressing room.’
2. They are foreign. Source: Mick McCarthy direct quote; 25.01.12: “If you take anyone from abroad, you really are taking a chance on them because they don’t settle in straightaway.”
3. They are early to mid 30 year-olds. Source: E & S; 26.01.12: ‘But at 34, his (Kevin Davies) age and his £35,000-a-week wages count heavily against him fitting into Wolves’ long-established ‘young and hungry’ policy.’
4. Mick can’t get rid of current deadwood in his squad. Source: E & S; 27.01.12: ‘McCarthy can’t guarantee him (Mame Diouf) regular football with three senior strikers and Sam Vokes on the books.’
With all of these quite preposterous reasons for not entertaining the notion of purchasing any player with a modicum of Premier League skill, I trawled the official Fantasy Football League to dream an impossible dream.
It was there that I saw the endless list of player names, in much the same way I see a Thomas Cook holiday brochure or the latest issue of Autosport.
Around 95 per cent of players literally unattainable for those four points above, which are absurdly inapplicable to Pardew, Rogers, Lambert, Hodgson, Pulis, Hughes, Coyle, O’Neill, Jol and co and solely plausible to Mick McCarthy.
Hypothetically, had our scouts actually identified Vorm, Krul, Assou-Ekotto, Kompany, Skrtel, Vermaelen, Cabaye, Tiote, Silva, Djeko, Nani, Sessegnon, Odemwingie (etc, etc, etc, etc) at their native clubs before moving to England, we would consider NONE of them for the idiocy already outlined.
The only players we could be linked with, taking those four points into consideration, might be Steve Morison, Danny Graham and one or two others.
But they would never consider leaving Millwall and Watford for us these days, when the far more progressive cities of Norwich and Swansea lie in wait.
To hamstring our survival chances yet further – in another self imposed brainwave – no youth players from our own academy will be considered either (see Elliot Bennett and Mark Davies, not to mention Danny Batth, Scott Malone and David Davis.)
With strategic thinking like this, is it any wonder the Sky Sports presenters are boycotting the WV1 region on transfer deadline day?
And is it any wonder we are taking SPL and Cypriot league journeyman Mark Fotheringham on trial and an alleged interest in some Fleetwood Town striker that nobody else has heard of?
With the senseless, skewed spin that is reserved solely for our club, I’d literally expect nothing less.
Spot on. As I’ve said myself before the three M’s are so good at the spin because they even believe there own nonsense.
I know the papers love the rumour mill but if 10% of the suggested players had actually come then we would most likely have been in the clear this season.
How dense have you got to be not to see that we have an untenable wage and transfer policy. No one is suggesting going to outlandish wages but when you pay the lowest wages in the PL you can’t expect to attract the rising stars or more importantly proven players. Let’s be honest we have wasted millions on no name Scots and foreigners and signed relegated Championship players, who is suprised at the current situation it was clear to see day 1 of the season when we stumbled past woeful opposition and thought we would qualify for Europe!!
Stroll on, survival seems like an unattainable dream at the moment
Two of our target according to the rumour mill is Lovenkrands and Leon Best.
Lovenkrands is a danish international which has 3 goals in 5 starts for Newcastle. I think he is real class and he has a couple of seasons left in him.
Leon Best is not in his best form but since he moved to Newcastle, but he has 10 goals in 28 matches. Which is an average 1 goal every third match. He’s one for the future. Pardew has also used him on the left wing.
Foley could move the opposite way, which will weaken our squad defensively, but we have cover there in Stearman, Zubar and Henry
And Doyle could move to Everton. A good move for him and for Wolves, and maybe for Everton if he fits their style of play.
Lovenkrands WAS a Danish inernational.
His legs are gone, and he’s below average now…
And this is coming from a fellow Dane.
well stats talk: 3 goals in 5 starts
Yes, but he generally plays in wide positions where we already have Jarvis, Kightly, Hunt, Hammill and Forde competing for 2 places. I don’t see this one happening without one of those leaving.
Karlir, I envy your optimism and will commend you for always speak the positives on this blog.
But recommending Løvenkrands on the basis of 3 goals in 5 starts and completely disregarding all other facts on this players I think is taking it a bit too far.
Løvenkrands is not a striker but rather a winger and he was a decent one but as Casper points out he is on the decline. He was lightning quick but is losing that fast and if you look at his injury record, it has not been very good recently.
Further, he is 4th or 5th choice in Newcastle and has shown nothing in the PL that would merit a starting spot in our formation. He is simply not good enough at this level and he is considering returning to Denmark at the end of the season.
I do not know a lot of this Best but he is not very high in the pecking order at Newcastle and to me it sounds like another average player who has not at any point proven himself in the PL and I believe we have had enough of this kind.
Besides – we will play 4-5-1 so Mick can fit in Henry so why would we need another striker? And if we absolutely need to buy one, it should be one who can play on his own up front. Like a Kevin Davies.
The fact we are being linked with shit strikers just confirms McCarthy still wants to play 4-4-2, despite the fact we have two good wingers. Sadly, I think we are going down.
We need players that fits into several tactical strategies. Nobody criticised 4-4-2 after the two first matches. It can be useful to play with two strikers if the circumstances requires it.
I don’t think the players we are being linked with are better than Doyle and SEB, that’s the point. If we signed Lovenkrands or Best would you play them on Tuesday? I wouldn’t have Lovenkrands on the bench!
Aside from right-back, it’s the last position I would strengthen. We’ve scored in each of the last eight Premier League games and won none of them! But Mick will buy a striker then wonder why we’ve gone down.
Granted, 4-4-2 served us well in the first two games, but what about the subsequent matches since then? We clearly don’t have the players to win games with that system, so McCarthy should consider bringing in new faces that can be accommodated in a 4-5-1…which he won’t.
Happy happy joy joy. Cheer up, Ben! Maybe now’s the time to take up another interest – indoor bowls perhaps?
Here’s some good news for you – Doyle’s on his bike to Everton.
Lovenkrands would be a good signing i reckon.
Come on Dave, I know my glass always looks a number of measures emptier than yours, but you must get the point I am making?!
Those four points in the blog are lines that have been idly trotted out in the last few days, to presumeably justify why we are not going to buy any player of remote quality.
Can’t they just be honest for once? Honesty, I am told, is the best policy after all.
Not down Waterloo Road it isn’t though, where the very antithesis is used as truth, so often in fact, that we all just swallow it and shrug our shoulders.
What do you think of the points made about why we are not entertaining the thought of buying any players with any quality?
As for the bowls…Leave them alone! I find it all quite meditating and love a bit of finger bias!
I hear you Ben!
I don’t think that our lack of activity is remotely surprising though – come on, we all know that we’re not gonna splash loads of cash on players! That’s been clear for a couple of years though.
I agree about this Fotheringham speculation, it’s like another claridge or kevin kyle-type signing. Smacks of a bit of desperation, I think. None of the academy players you mention are really up to it, save Mark Davies, which was a major f*ck up at the time (still don’t understand how that happened).
I think you’re a bit over the top with the negative hyperbole but hey, i suppose that’s what a blog’s for.
We’ll stay up this season – we’ve got some excellent players and we’re due a good run. Those fixtures in March will be where it’s all decided.
Thumb peg, finger peg, love it.
Hope you’re right mate. Would love nothing more. I am not sure about the academy players not being up to it though. All they can do is do well, and it sounds like they do precisely that wherever they go.
Then it all levels out and they get stuck in the mud of an Edgar Street pitch. I don’t think we give them the best possible chance of breaking through. Certainly not Davis, who actually tweeted this very point when we signed Eggert Jonnson – a player who isn’t even as good – only to hastily remove the tweet.
As for the bowls…I grew up watching Tony Allcock. Legend!
Nice one Ben,
I’m flabbergasted to be honest. I lay in bed last night and spared a thought for our team on a day that the FA Cup passed me by and said out loud “Fuckin useless”. At that moment in time the wife was making her way up the stairs and said “who you speaking to?”
I wish it was something else but it was me pondering our transfer window activity. I didn’t even realise I’d said it out loud…. which was a lesson in itself…
What is happening? It all seems so sickly sycophantic at the club. There’s a fine line between the board being seen united and being almost robotic in the answers to key questions, and as you have found, hypocritical because of it.
Most of the bottom 7/8 have shown that they are capable of staying up. Bar 30 mins against Villa, we really haven’t and the points show it (is it 2 wins in 20 now?)
I, like our Mick, is hoping that Lady Luck will help us because this transfer window or our transfer policy certainly won’t.
Of course, Jez Moxey knew all this 3 years ago when he said that the club had researched the link between wages paid by clubs and their final League position. He told us, to nobody’s surprise, that the clubs which had the lowest wage bills finished at or near the bottom of the League.
Our constant battles in the bottom 4 or 5 should be no surprise to him then.
This is of course the real reason they stick with Mick. They feel he is the best manager to handle average Premiership or Championship class players, where skill is secondary to hard work and putting in a shift.
I have always assumed that Steve Morgan’s policy would be spend as little as possible on transfer fees and wages at least until the ground is developed when, in theory, there will be bigger attendances. BUT what then? Will they continue with this policy or will the purse strings be loosened?
Of course with the ground development being on hold where does that leave us?
I think we can assume that we won’t be getting anyone else in this transfer deadline, unless there’s any weight in the move to get Best from Newcastle…
If so, then the best-case scenario for us if for Frimpong to continue the positive influence he has had in the midfield and for Jonnson to be a surprisingly valuable asset to the squad as well – he’s still a relatively unknown quality to me, as he’s only been in the two Birmingham games, which weren’t exactly ‘edge-of-your-seat’ thrillers…
Coupled with Doyle returning to form (seems like a long shot right now) and Kights and O’Hara coming back also in good form, then maybe we can finally start picking up the points we need to survive… God knows we need it right now!
That’s the best-case scenario, but to be honest I can’t see all of that happening… would be great if all that did happen though!
Stop changing your handle, are you Hamlet, Hamsterlet or son of Yorick?
Excuse me! I prefer it if you don’t associate me with that bastard, I am obviously better than him in every single way possible!
Really, you insult me Clive!
Good, then the day has not been a total waste!!!
Wolves are where we are because of mick and terry conner! Both are championship at best! Both are behind in the times! To say mick doesn’t want to take a chance on johny foreigner or over 30′s is because they wouldn’t fit into micks bottom as easy as the usual muppets he likes! That’s why we have a one dimementional team thats got similar players to back it up! To do well you need to blend diff types of players and diff types of people! Other wise when the grafters graft can’t win you the game the lazy skill player will lift them with there one of talent! But then mick would to have the skill and guile to deal with those players but he ain’t! Which is why we end up selling them to rivals and watch them blossom!
That’s some exclaimation!
How many of you posters had heard of a M kightly before mick singed him and how many said what the hell what have we signed here?
Well said Lonewolf! I would take Lovenkrands over Doyle and Blake any day now a day
He’s an experienced goalscorer – not dried out yet. That might be what we need! Leon Best is a strong goalscorer with an eye for a goal, a player with potential! Look em up in youtube
I don’t know what planet you rate Lovenkrands a better goalscorer than SEB or Doyle but it can’t be this one. Lovenkrands has played in two serious leagues in his entire career – with Schalke and Newcastle, and he has 15 goals in 90 games. His best season was the last one with Newcastle and he scored six. SEB scored seven. It would be a joke of a signing.
But that is a complete non-argument and misses the point, as we were embarking on our second season under MM in the Championship without a pot to piddle in with Sir Jack trying to find a buyer when we bought MK.
(incidentally, Sir Jack financed the £25,000 for the Kightly buy and the £100 odd grand for McIndoe as Moxey said we couldn’t even afford that!!)
We are now in our third season in the Premier League having been promised we would never be in the position we were on May 22, by an owner who is one of the richest men in Britain, having got the club for a tenner.
Signings should have been sorted weeks ago and before we dropped into bottom 3.
Now we look desperate and clubs inflate prices.
Pathetic.
is this just a moaning site cause this is all you are doing, lets get behind our team and not put them down
We are Wolves fans, we are born to moan.
Getting behind the team is a given. I do it all the time Aaron. In fact, nowhere in the blog does a player get stick, apart from Fotheringham, who I’m reliably informed is shit.
It’s the club’s snivelling transfer justification I moan at – something you’ve not commented on!
Fotheringham was booed by Norwich in a relegation season in the Championship. He’s 28. I’m sure we were just doing the guy a favour but I’d still prefer us to just tell the bloke to get lost.
Lovenkrands can’t be any worse than SEB or Vokes, and Best seems decent support for Fletcher, but I can’t see either move happening.
We have a double edged blunt sword situation.
On one side, we have an inept manager and useless trainer, coupled with scouting staff who are as much use as tits on a nun.
The whole lot collectively have no clue as to good players, training methods in the twenty first century, and are bereft of any tactical nous whatsoever.
The other blunt edge is the hierarchy, Morgan and Moxey, who have no footballing experience, as ex players, refs or managers, and therefore cannot or will not recognize that the management side of the sword is crap.
Just as a good manager can see the potential or lack of in players, so a good owner should know what he has or hasn’t in a manager.
I still maintain that our current squad of players is good enough to get us out of trouble, but those above are not capable of overseeing the recovery.
Liverpool are there to be beaten on Tuesday, they must have a reaction from their cup exploits.
I watched QPR go out of the cup without a whimper, not a sinlge good attack until 5 minutes into stoppage time, so they are quite beatable, and then we have the shit, where all bets are off, and if we are not up for that one, then bollocks to the lot of them!!!!!
FOMM
Absolutely spot on mate,
This has been quite possibly the most frustarting of times for me as a Wolves fan. The complete inactivity has been so annoying when we all know how badly we need some new blood. People can crow all they want about the current squad but the fact is, and has been proved over the last 2 seasons, that our only hope of survival is if 3 other teams perform worse than ourselves and get relegated ahead of us!! To continually watch other teams around us do what they can to improve their situation in this window while we sit back due to the 4 points mentioned above is an insult. While i don’t expect us to splash the cash on a par with QPR, i would expect us to at least show some interest. Why are they getting the likes of Taiwo on loan when we do nothing. Show some god damn ambition!!!
We’ve been in the Premier League for 3 seasons and still we try and make do with the majority of our 1st team being the same players that were with us in the Championship. I’m not saying that we should have sold everyone the second we got promoted but it has been painstakingly obvious that areas of our team need strengthening/improving. Buying unknowns from lower divisions/Scotland for peanuts will not always cut it.
I sit watching Sky Sports News holding my breath in the hope that maybe, just maybe, this is the day that Mcarthy has proved me wrong.
Frankly, i’m getting all to sick of Mcarthy proving me right!!
Always tickles me when the ‘measly’ wages we’ll only stump up is mentioned.
Am I the only one who remembers Moxey quite rightly making the correlation between wage bill and league position? It’s almost like he knows the truth but it’s not in his best interest to follow it.
We pay amongst the lowest wages = we’re going down. Jez knows this but will spin it his way so me make a profit and he gets paid a bonus up to 10 times that of a CEO of a similarly sized company.
http://www.expressandstar.com/latest/2009/03/19/we-wont-do-an-albion-moxey/
My favourite quote –
“if you draw up a table of the average over three years of where teams finish and then correlate that to their wage bill, they’re going to be very well aligned”
Too wordy to be made into a banner?
Who do you think has a smaller wage bill than Wolves?
I reckon Swansea, Norwich and probably West Brom?
Swansea and Norwich definitely. Not sure about West Brom, think they are probably quite similar
Yeah, but the point has been made. In fact, moxey and mccarthy are made to eat their words on a regular basis. This can only be attributed to poor PR, or complete incompetence. I reckon its both.
See the comment by Nemo at 4.24pm above.
Methinks Morgan is only waiting for Hayward to pop his clogs and he will sell the club for whatever he can get after all he has now retaken control of Redrow so no interest in WWFC.
No ambition,no will,want to do it on the cheap…Wolves all over..Morgan is only bothered in building houses and land banking..greed!!..no wonder liverpool fucked him off..Moxey the fat worm is slippery as they come..going down and fast…
Ben well said mate,BUT what do we do, all we do is moan the only way they will listen is for
us fans to DO something about it,all the blogs we write goes on deaf ears all we’er doing is
getting ourselves frustrated and pissed off by whats not happening down the mol,just remember when we get to the end of this shite season and we’er down you can recollect and
wish we’ed had the bollocks to had done more to save the situation,ie,McIdiot he’s been the
major problem here and not forgetting the greasy fat controller them combined have been the ruination of our season.
Transfer targets Leon best imo would be a great asset quick and knows where the net is if he
can stay fit..but you know as well as i do its all talk they won’t be doing any business me thinks.so a BIG FOMM.
What can you do John?! I will keep going, keep cheering them on and hope that we turn it all around. In the meantime, ill think long and hard about a season ticket renewal because after years of buying one, I can’t justify another 500quid when I feel so out of touch with the 3Ms and my intelligence so insulted.
Not renewing is the only course of action that will actually make Moxey listen.
But i will pay up again despite all of this, as I’m a sad twat.
So in conclusion, there’s nothing you can do if you’re like me!
Agree on Best BTW, thought he was better than Ba at Molineux and impressed me massively. Can’t see it happening myself
Ronaldo Good; Messi Better; Leon Best.
Leon Best isn’t s good as Messi or Ronaldo
I know ben, I’m like you been season ticket holder for many years and still going back for more of the dross the three m’s dish out to us long suffering wolves fans.
If i did#nt go i would miss it so i’m in the middle of a rock and hard place if you get my drift.just wish we could do something more so they would listen so pissed off than iv’e ever been at mo.But it looks like we’er just got to grin and bare it m8.
Can’t say I agree with that, Ben. Despite suffering another abject season with Mick at the helm, few, if any, supporters have actually called for his head during matches. If fans fail to show their displeasure at Molineux then why would Moxey and Morgan even entertain the thought of sacking McCarthy?
I’m not saying Mick will be dismissed as soon as the crowd turns against him. But it will certainly make Morgan and Moxey realise that fans aren’t happy.
First of all Ben, three of your four points are quoting the Express and Star, who just make stuff up as they go along.
People are going on about our lack of transfer activity, but newsflash people, hardly any other clubs have spent money this month. 20 million compare to nearly 200 last year. Not forgetting that we have made one of the signings of the window in Frimpong, who is a fantastic talent.
As for not signing foreign players, I agree that we really should be looking out there and investing more in our scouting network. But, Assou-Ekotto, Kompany, Skrtel, Vermaelen, Silva, Djeko, Nani, are you shitting me? Forgetting the fact that some were bought before we were even in this league, you seriously think we could ever have bought some of these guys. It’s like saying we missed out on Messi because we didn’t scout in Argentina, damn you Jez ‘satan’ Moxey we could have had the best player ever if it wasn’t for you.
Our squad is good enough, the players can do it. Kightly, Foley have returned to the team (at long last) and Frimpong has had a good impact (and O’hara still to come). Right now, I think Mick has let us down quite a bit but he seems to have finally got a system and team in his mind. It’s not all over, yet.
Hi Louie. Of course, many of those names were made to make my point, but it is a valid one: namely that we won’t buy any foreign players as Mick said so. (see direct quote)
So if Messi was available for 500k because Guardiola felt like it, we wouldn’t get him as ‘foreigners take too long to settle in.’
If you think I am taking things too literally, then you must also think that Mick McCarthy shouldnt spout such nonsense in the first place.
And anyway, how much did Hangelaand cost when Fulham bought him, for example.
Just because Mick is stuck in a timewarp like that bloke I’ve been watching off ‘the Hotel,’ it doesn’t mean we should stop aspiring to bring in an Assou- Ekotto or a Kaboul. They are out there. Agree on Frimpong though, but a bit desperate to pin our survival hopes on a 19 year old (and Kightly being fit all season)
Hate to disagree, Louie, but the best player EVER was Pele.
I’ve with you Louie. Come on me babbies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here we go, the Express and Star has “made it all up” argument. I’m sure they get a few things wrong, Louie, but do you seriously think the paper just fabricates everything? If that were the case, Tim Nash wouldn’t be allowed to step foot in Molineux, let alone interview the players and management.
Saying only £20mil has been spent this Jan window compared to £200mil last year is moronic. The window hasn’t closed! £85mil of that was spent in the last 5 minutes last year on two players and I’d say probably another at least £50-60mil on the last day.
Shit loads will still be spent with us at the bottom of the list.
Apparently there has been 20m spent in this window compared to 225m last january (although there is still couple of days to go).I am not a fan of spiralling wages,transfer fees or admission charges and it looks like at last some correction is going to take place.
On the back of the cup match i heard Villa and Arsenal fans calling for managerial change,even a Man U fan phoned to join in – there are a lot of disgruntled fans out there !
Thats the context now to our leader – next couple of games could decide his future he has stuck too long with a strategy that hasnt worked at Premier league level,basically, get it wide and get it across.I cant see where the needed victories are going to come and i think he could be gone before the end of Feb – which judging from this blog will be a relief to many though it will still leave us facing an uncertain future.
But our club is the only one in the Premier League that calls its own punters ‘mindless idiots’ Colin! I presume Arsenal and MUFC fans are not mindless idiots, numpties or nuggets too? Southampton fans also booed their team off at St Marys after only their 2nd home loss in over a year!
Fickle Wolves fans were obviously on day trips to London and Southampton!
Hi Ben yes that was an unfortunate thing for the club to say but it might have made an excellent blog ! My point was that most fans in the modern game now have expectations that cant realistically be met.
In the third paragraph i acknowlege Mick Mccarthy is on the point of failure.
I agree Colin, think you’re bang on. I just used your valid point to have another ,whinge! I like you, can’t see where the next wins are coming from. We live in hope!
Actually I will, like most Wolves fans, be disappointed if we are relegated.
I expect it, but hope it will not happen.
The economy is in the doldrums, Redwood & football included, & it did not need a shrewd economist to see that about November, round about the ‘numpty’ incident, we needed a new manager, to survive.
We didn’t get one and in the immortal words of Carole King:
“Its too late baby now its too late though we really did try to make it……”
Its as though Moxey & co feel that their words are never going to be quoted again. I mean, they just make it up as they go along and we’re all damned for raising an eyebrow or two about the inconsistencies that follow.
E.G. Moxeys claim post Jan 2010 window that -
“We asked about Robbie Keane and I spoke to Tottenham on a couple of occasions,” said Moxey.
“We knew what his wages were and we would have done that but he wasn’t going to come to us. Almost every loan at this level also comes with a really hefty fee, but we would have pushed the boat out to get Robbie.
And those wages by the way were reported to be c £70000 week!
So he’d have us believe after the event that we were up for it then but now c£35000 wk for K Davies or A N Other doesnt fit our model!
Lies, lies and more lies from the bloated oaf!
I never believed we would see any money spent in Jan. I don’t think there IS any money.
Morgan’s not going to dip into his pocket, that’s quite clear. So that leaves money generated by the club of which I think the majority must have been spent on this re-development.
It’s a lovely thing to have a bigger, better Molineux, but when everyone can see us sliding ever closer towards the Championship I do wonder what the point is?
Optimists like Louie will say that there is plenty of time left for us to turn it around. I hope they’re right and indeed we should retain some belief in the team, but it IS hard when there are so few positives.
I am still of the belief that the best signing we could have made this month would have been a new manager and coaching staff, who would then have time to make some signings, loan or otherwise, to change the squad a little. But alas, it’s not to be and we’re heading into the second half of the season with it looking like an almighty relegation scrap again.
Why doesn’t anyone get onto Morgan – he owns the club for which he paid 30 mil and is now worth 80 mil?
Why doesn’t he spend some of his OWN money, I will tell you why HE IS A LIVERPOOL SUPPORTER AND ALWAYS WILL BE. I bet if Liverpool score he will have to sit on his hands to prevent jumping up to celebrate the goal
Oh, I think he’s also guilty of not doing enough to improve the team, but as an owner who has a tenuous affinity to the club at the best, of course he’s going to be more interested in making money.
Improving the value of the club by putting money into developing it is sure to be a more certain investment than paying out for players.
It is true that staying in the Premiership will guarantee tens of millions of pounds of TV revenue, but even if he did shell out for players they still wouldn’t be a guarantee of staying in the Premiership. I think that even if he did allow Mick to buy some more players we wouldn’t attract top class players for many reasons that have been mentioned already, making it even less certain of an investment.
Basically, it seems clear to a lot of fans that the management appear to want different things to the rest of us.
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One thing that puzzles me is the complete lack of vitriol aimed towards McCarthy during matches. Are most supporters attending games still pro-Mick or is there a growing number of dissidents that haven’t yet found their collective voice?
Whatever the issue, Mick ain’t going nowhere unless supporters show their displeasure either by calling for the manager’s head or refusing to attend. It really is that simple.
I think it might be Morgan that cops the flack if we lose tomorrow – on deadline day after spending little money. If that happens, he’ll probably do what most people high up in companies do when they are criticised – find (and sack) a scapegoat.
You are Morgan! You are Moxey! You are McCarthy! YAMMM! You are the men-in-charge!
Clive of Houston wrote:
“I still maintain that our current squad of players is good enough to get us out of trouble, but those above are not capable of overseeing the recovery.”
Although even recovery (with mere survival) isn’t really good enough—we need progress—right on, Clive!
Hell, Clive! People like you and me are behind the players—that’s why we criticize McCarthy!
Wolves’ non-activity in the transfer window has been pathetic, but the Wolves players would be near mid-table with a positive manager who valued constructive football. We’re letting skilful players like David Jones, Mark Davies, Elliott Bennett and Andrew Surman go to rivals, where they look better than many of the players on our bench. The signing we needed to make in December was a new manager! It may be too late for a change now, and I’m not calling for Mick’s head again until May; but, if Morgan acted, I would not be upset. If he doesn’t act in May, unless Wolves show clear improvement on last season’s 40 points, then it will be Morgan who is the main problem.
Lets have a premier league table for the number of players out on loan. We must be top of that! I wonder does Moxey get commission on the revenue generated by other clubs playing our loanees wages, included in his bonus calculation.
Instead of going to Bramall Lane on Sat, I got my weekend football fix at the B2net stadium on Friday night watching Chesterfield play Bournemouth. Our ex player Malone didn`t feature, while Zubar`s younger brother played right back for a very well drilled outfit with one of the best away records in Div One, and one of that leagues form sides.
Enjoyed the home sides 1-0 win, and boy didn`t they have to work hard for that, with much last gasp defending. As for Davis, he impressed me in the preseason friendly at Walsall, and again on Friday when he put a real shift in, as a holding midfielder. He is very combatative, puts his foot in and wins his headers. He`s got a bit of pace, not exceptional but enough, and when the game opened up he can spot a forward pass, picking forwards making runs and passing into space.
On the downside he sliced a falling clearance from a corner hopelessly wide, and hit a free kick from the right straight at the first defender, so he may lack real premiership quality right now, but so does the bloke from Hearts from what i`ve seen in his televised games.
When Henry is injured or more like susupended, i`d have thought MM would have lost nothing by playing Davis as a holding midfielder protecting the back four. I know on the night the Spirites were bottom of that divison before the final whistle, but the standards in the lower divisions have improved year or year.
A Sheff Wed fan I know says our young centre half Danny Batth could play for any Championship side, but not sure about a higher level. The point is when do our development players get a chance, I see Winnall has been loaned out, but the report said he was 22 years of age. At that age surely he should be in the squad or on his way.
So in the absence of any quality signings that cost money, maybe the fresh blood could and should be from within. What about it MM?
Mark, I think Sam Winnall was 21 on January 19. But your point stands. You wrote:
A Sheff Wed fan I know says our young centre half Danny Batth could play for any Championship side, but not sure about a higher level. The point is when do our development players get a chance, I see Winnall has been loaned out, . . . At that age surely he should be in the squad or on his way.
You are a man after my own heart, Mark. Exactly! That is what I say about 22-year-old Sam Vokes—he should be in the match-day squad or sold. Surely some of our young players could be given chances in Cup games, like the ones against Man City in the LGCP and the two games against Birmingham in the FAC—how could they do worse? Mick does not bring them on or give them a chance when they are young enough to respond. Instead, it’s out sight and out of mind—send them off to Torquay, Plymouth or Inverness to be prepared to become Premier League players! My only response to that is: it’s probably true, they are more likely to be well prepared to become Premier League players in Torquay, Plymouth or Inverness than they are in Wolverhampton under Mick McCarthy!
Steve Morgan is talking bollocks? Morgan says he wants stability, but Wolves are in 19th place in the League. Wake up and smell the coffee, Steve! Teams in 18th place or below don’t get stability, they get relegation.
And after that? Either we come straight back up, which is called yo-yoing. Is yo-yoing stability? Or we stay down in the Chumpionship amongst the Chumps. Is that the stability Morgan wants?
Well, well well ……. I was really considering purchasing a Season Ticket during the early stages of this season, for the 2012/13 season. Difficult to justify as I live in North Yorkshire and also have to balance my work/life balance too. I am currently a TPS Member so see a minimum of 7 games. I am now, sadly, not only refraining from buying a season ticket, but I am also seroiously contemplating not renewing my TPS membership. I have been supporting the Wolves since 1969 (my first match at Molineux), and will continue to do so, but from afar!!
MM has done a lot for us, but I am now sad to say that I feel he can take us no further and should “move on” in May. A manager coming in now is too late to help us … he should have been replaced before Xmas so that an new manager could see what we are and improve in this window. I hope for hope sake that we “deliver” and remain in the Prem, but I am not confident!!!
There’s been some movement out AG, SV and possibly Hunt-surely we must bring at least two quality signings in- as those who have gone are on loans to end of season.
Question is do we trust the Mangement. This for me is the crux-Can we really trust them?
No one with any sense is going to come to Wolves.
We are lucky we got Frimpong and Kightly has returned…
Would you go and work for Mick McCarthy with Wolves in the position they are in?
I doubt it…..
We will sign no one other than Frimpong and the Scottish chap……
I wonder what scarf morgan will be wearing tomorrow gold ‘n’black or his boyhood team liverpool red ?.
Like someone said if we lose i hope we give morgan, McIdiot,moxey one almighty round of
boo’s.
Looks like losing two more squad player’s,so does that mean we will be getting two more in as replacements,or are we trying to save a few more pennie’s,the latter me thinks.FT3M’sO.
I see adlene has gone out on loan!! Yet again another hopefull signing sent packing,come to think of it,that’s happened a lot the last three years or so,gotta be a scouting issue here???? Also,how many managers has Terry Connor seen off since his time here?? Just a thought!!!
I’ve done enough crying, perhaps its time to start laughing… Muppet Mccarthy,Bwaaha aha aha ah aha ahahahah … wish I could be at that press conference when you try to explain away relegation, you fucking muppet…