04 Aug 2017 21:00:37
Wolves 3rd choice kit launch tomorrow at half time. And there's a rumour there will be a new signing revealed as well. Source gold/ black youtube.
04 Aug 2017 21:32:23
Abel Hernandez? Bewedley Wolf?
04 Aug 2017 22:13:00
Don't be saft. You think sky wouldn't get hold of our deals or at least one of the Tims. Not going to whip out Andre gray at half time ššš.
04 Aug 2017 23:57:09
Already spent 60 odd quid on my shirt kind if wishing I don't like this supposed 3rd kit. Woukd also be annoyed if there is a signing because y bit play him against a team like Boro!
05 Aug 2017 00:02:50
Maybe they're going to announce a huge signing in the morning, in the new kit, have him in the squad and ready to play in tomorrows game, ambush Middlesbrough with something unexpected.
Right now might be like Christmas Eve. Is there a present tomorrow?
05 Aug 2017 09:47:10
Even if we had a new player up our sleeve we would hardly announce him on match day. We need to totally focus on our opponents today and give our all.
05 Aug 2017 10:20:42
Yep, it would unsettle the team and game totally, and set us up for a fall.
It's understandable why people are so exasperated though, we haven't had an effective striker since Afobe left, this is now toward the end of the fourth transfer window since he left, it's still not sorted, and as Leicester showed, we're not converting our chances that we've spent so much money creating.
And, a striker, and the right one, is critical for supporting. I've been a striker supporter, rather than midfield etc, since I first knew what football was. I supported Kenny Dalglish before I supported Wolves.
05 Aug 2017 11:29:51
God let's kick a ball first then see what else the team needs. With service this Italian chap might be a great poacher and score a few on the counter. (Yes I called him Italian not Brazilian due to his parents)
05 Aug 2017 11:55:37
im not bothered whether we sign a player today tomo or next week. I will be 100 percent behind the lads today regardless. one thing tho. please someone stop ulf bangin on bout afobe. or brand. or edginess. ed? there has to be a way to stop ulf posting anything with those words in haha.
05 Aug 2017 12:06:59
I was really looking forward to Bonatini but apparently he hasn't had a full pre-season, only played 18 games last season, is probably not match fit so we may not see him for a few weeks? I hope that's wrong and he plays, he looked great in his vids.
05 Aug 2017 14:09:08
Bonatini is starting :-)
05 Aug 2017 14:13:52
Bonatini starts, had a pre season with wherever he came from.
05 Aug 2017 14:28:16
Ulf, you're getting depressed again. Fear not, Bonatini is starting today against Boro. Hope that perks up our brand! I'd sooner win today though.
05 Aug 2017 14:49:21
Tiquinho Soares, Brazilian striker from Porto. Fee in region of Ā£6m tho may be loan initially. Announced this coming week.
05 Aug 2017 15:07:23
DAS is he any good?
05 Aug 2017 16:37:33
Didn't someone mention Tiquinho Soares a week or so ago? I've heard that many players linked with us this summer that I've forgotten whom I've researched and whom I've never heard of.
05 Aug 2017 17:13:59
lol, 1-0 win with an opportune goal and shutting up shop by moving it around, just like I predicted.
See, I'm always right :-)
Hurray for Bonatini. Now we need to sign Afobe to back him up.
05 Aug 2017 17:47:36
Re DAS, I think another Mendes Continental / Foreign player as our second striker, would make the team too disconnected and unreal. Strikers are a talisman role, we're on verge of becoming team Mendes rather than Wolves.
05 Aug 2017 17:50:34
Your always right God I've heard it all now.
05 Aug 2017 17:39:55
I would love to see Abel Hernandez wearing the gold and black and with 1 year left on his contract anything is possible. I do think a price tag of Ā£7m-Ā£10m is more than we will want to pay at this stage. As for marketing miracles let's just focus on the exposure of becoming a successful championship club with genuine premiership aspirations. COYW!
05 Aug 2017 17:44:07
Elegantwolf,
Good idea. Could we booby trap his keyboard to self-destruct if certain words like brand and/ or Afobe are typed? I'm sure he will register Afobe as a trade-mark brand if we don't stop him soon. I can see it now, a scowling Afobe in every newspaper advertisement looking moody at the camera as if to say, don't mess with me. Or, someone could come up with a new Oxford dictionary definition for "doing an Afobe" meaning, buggering off when a better offer comes in.
05 Aug 2017 17:45:13
I posted about a month ago we were looking to loan Jota, happened.
Last week I did say the other name I was given was Soares but it was either him or Jota, not both. If our primary targets are out of reach then why not.
Fee 15m.
05 Aug 2017 18:28:23
Ulf if "team mendes" wears the old gold and black, takes us to the prem and makes us mid table I honestly don't give a monkeys! How do you manage to spout such bollocks?
05 Aug 2017 18:29:57
Re Mathmo, I hope you mean Afobe.
Re Wolves till I die, I'm right about Wolves. A super brand waiting to happen, up to now our identity is perfect.
You can't stick an aerial on a Ferrari, no matter how useful it is, you may as well have a Honda.
05 Aug 2017 19:14:03
Today's game was always going to b tight Saiss and neves dominated midfield I think the striker will b foreign announced mon or Tuesday.
05 Aug 2017 19:21:13
Afobe isn't coming back, I'm sorry Ulf we took the Ā£8m profit and now he is gone.
05 Aug 2017 19:22:08
Just back home from watching brand Wolves market their wares successfully. Funnily enough there was a Ferrari and a Honda in the car park.
05 Aug 2017 19:36:57
Ulf you are wrong in saying team Mendes as it is about connections. Not all signings are Mendes clients.
The club has come along way since 12 months ago.
The professionalism of the club has risen and the brand is being rebuilt after years of dogma, stagnation and complacency!
Albeit the brand is for commercial and making us a force worldwide when we are promoted. The other issue is making wolves a desitination for the best footballers. That is something the club and council have to work together to achieve.
On the flip side I will enjoy the ride and look forward to seeing nunos ideas on making the team stronger and developing a wolves way.
Interesting we made the strong contenders for the league look ordinary they had 4 strikers on but our defensive system worked wonders one shot from bandied on target and 3 half chances Britts 2 and braithwates headed.
Can still see some players been brought but this was done without helper Costa nor Ivan! UTW
Also Saiss and Neves looked immense! Please be like that consistently! ššššš.
05 Aug 2017 20:04:36
Cosistency is the word. with cav. costa to come back eventually. one more striker is needed. to complete the squad. but you might think this trivial. but before the game. I was amazed at the warm up we did on pitch. it looked totally profesional. compated to what I've seen other seasons. and it paved way for a similar match performance. forever wolves.
05 Aug 2017 20:38:43
Re DAS, if I was a rich footballer at Wolves, there'd be a Alfa Romeo Disco Volante in the carpark :-) In orange.
05 Aug 2017 19:58:50
Re Howler17 - and spent the money on Mason and Zyro.
Re Anewdawn, we have a promotion winning team if we can sort the other striker, because it's a long season.
But still, Wolves is only a sleeping giant because it has a perfect heritage and identity, which makes it real. If it becomes too much of a construct, they'll lose that, which is the clubs greatest asset. It won't be a giant anymore than they can keep peddling it, just like any other club. There's loads of successful constructs, real is what's rare and worth supporting. Them keeping it real will determine how much support the club will achieve, whether we'll grow real supporters or just glory hunters. A small amount more money now to get the right striker, that can become us, to keep it real, is an investment that will pay off big time later.
05 Aug 2017 20:50:03
Nuno stated they will bring in more signings I don't really want Afobe back as some on here r saying we should b aiming higher we have got the money to buy better.
05 Aug 2017 21:23:20
Orange? I always thought Wolves colour was old gold. Silly me. Your knowledge of my club is clearly amazing.
05 Aug 2017 22:45:26
Why Afobe, being blunt he's a waste of time, as are you, brand, brand, brand who gives a fck.
Soares is, as I mentioned an alternative option.
I am not interest in you, your ideas of brand that you keep on about,
do us all a favour and find another site, you are boring the sht out of us all.
05 Aug 2017 22:37:53
Luton beat Yeovil 8-2 the last team to score 8 on the open day of the season was wait for it wol who beat man city 8-1 in 1962 I do remember that.
05 Aug 2017 22:49:17
Yes our new signing is Jody craddock lol.
06 Aug 2017 00:42:42
Yes, but Alfa had an excellent orange, that is like our gold. I guess maybe they let Ferrari have the red.
06 Aug 2017 00:47:24
mathmo, I spent most of my posts defending what I'd said rather than keeping on. It's not up to you to decide. And I'm not interested in you either, or your opinion, so let's leave it at that :-)
06 Aug 2017 00:49:42
Re DAS - your club? I was born in Wolves, my family have been in the area centuries. It's my club too thanks.
06 Aug 2017 08:17:34
Face facts we're never going to be a massive club for the simple reason our town sorry city is too small a club has to be in London or Manchester, Liverpool even Birmingham doesn't have a top club Wolverhampton is like Leicester or Leeds or Bristol so lower premier or Championship is our level.
Brand Wolves is like Brand Foxes or Brand Rams or Brand Seagulls we should form a zoo league lol.
06 Aug 2017 08:31:20
Ulf - I was born a couple of streets away from Cold Blow Lane where Millwall's former home, The Den, was and my family have lived in the area for centuries. Doesn't make me a Millwall fan.
06 Aug 2017 09:48:26
Window wolf-
Re; wolves/ Wolverhampton not being a big enough city for wolves to be a big club- the city isn't huge but the catchment area is. Must be one of the biggest in the country. from Stafford to Birmingham and Shrewsbury to Tamworth there is no other big club. That's a huge area, probably as big as London. And if I remember correctly was the reason why Morgan decided to buy the club because the potential is huge.
Might be wrong.
06 Aug 2017 11:18:59
Edthewolf1 - you are spot on. However I think we have to accept that the so-called 'big' clubs rely heavily on expensive foreign star players and as such if we were ever to be in the position of trying to buy someone from say Real Madrid and the player had a choice between London and Wolverhampton to move his family to I don't think we'd get him.
06 Aug 2017 11:44:19
DAS- agreed.
It's doubtful we'll ever sign a 'top top' player. We'll probably always sign the potential world class like Neves.
Although saying that, money talks-look at Boro with Ravenelli (sp) and Juninho. with respect Middlesbrough isn't the best area!
06 Aug 2017 12:32:57
Re windowwolf, Edthewolf1 is right about geography, and that is critical, because a vast amount of Wolves catchment potential isnāt local urban / working class, itās suburban, rural and middleclass. The club wasnāt an urban working class only club in the 1950ās, if it was we wouldnāt have had the support and success we had, SJH wouldnāt have come back and bothered. It was inclusive and classy, thatās our heritage and potential. Moxey saw us as local urban, said our objective should to be like urban working class Everton (when the correct comparison was glam Liverpool FC) he had it completely wrong.
But thereās much more to it than that. Was in a New York Times article reviewing Mendesās Wolves project, Moxey didn't find a buyer, Fosun employed classy clever Peter Kenyon as their adviser on which English football club to buy, and he recommended Wolves, because our heritage and brand potential makes us sleeping giants, in a way Moxey couldnāt comprehend.
I said all this when Morgan put the club for sale, while we were waiting for a buyer before Fosun showed up, predicted a buyer exactly like Fosun whoād put us back at the top of the game, because the brand is worth it, and I predicted theyād change the clubs regime / mentality in exactly how they are doing. No one agreed, said I was a WUM, that weāre no different to any other provincial club, and are working class urban. Fosun and what theyāre doing prove thatās wrong. What Wolves has is real, very rare and canāt be manufactured. We have the unspoiled credentials to be another Man U.
I get slagged off for talking brand and potential, but itās a vital part of the club, itās already the reason Fosun bought us, going forward, being true to it, keeping its integrity, optimising rather than conflicting it will dictate how well regarded and supported domestically we can be, and therefore to some extent also in China, and it will all impact our revenue and success. This last signing, as the striker, will likely define the image of the team, the success it achieves will become part of the clubs heritage. I donāt doubt Fosun will achieve football success and get us promoted, thereās more to it than just that, image matters for a club like us and for where we're ultimately headed.
06 Aug 2017 20:51:18
ULF no offence bud do us all a favour and stop going on, some of your posts are ok then you start dribbling rubbish.
with nuno and his staff with all there experience go win this league 3 year plan to get us in europa league the future is bright and the brand is wwfc.
{Ed001's Note - he joined West Ham a few days ago, so not Javier Chicarito Hernandez.}