Wolves Banter Archive January 13 2014

13 Jan 2014 19:33:11
Not wolves related, but well done and congratulations to Cristiano Ronaldo on winning the BALLON D'OR. What a player he is 62goals in 52apps for 2013. We can only wish for a player of his quality. Maybe we have the next Ronaldo in Eusebio?

If Eusebio Bancessi is a tenth of the player Ronaldo is, I will be happy

I'd be amazed if he was that good although we have a good history of producing good players

14 Jan 2014 13:29:36
Do you think so? We produce maybe one world class player per decade. Keane and Lescott were probably the only ones in the last 20 years.

Very true, we don't produce as many prem quality players as the likes of Southampton and Liverpool etc, but we certainly bang out a fair few good enough for every level of the football league

Wouldn't put Lescott as world class. Best defender we have produced for years though. Now keane is exceptional look at his record for Ireland - 60 odd goals in 130ish games.

Imagine if England had somebody with that record.

I think Lescott is very underrated though, may not be up here with the best of them but certainly good enough for the England and Man city team sheet. Surely he's better than Demichelis? Bit unlucky in respect to England team, as I though he played excellently pretty much every game he played, unfortunately, Jagielka and Cahill have formed a great partnership and pushed him out a bit

16 Jan 2014 09:02:17
When Lescott left us he was one of the most wanted defenders in the country, and that was despite being injured for ages. Soon after he was called up by England. By English standards that probably makes him world class. Only Rio and Terry as defenders might claim to be ahead of him during that time.

If he moved from City to e.g. Villa he would play every game and get more England caps.

Interesting to wonder how well Keane would have done in an England shirt. Would probably have been prefered to Crouch and Defoe. Imagine a Keane/Rooney strike partnership?

Euro - Robbie wouldn't have got in the England side. Remember we had "the golden generation"

13 Jan 2014 17:36:36
Dunno about the rest of you, but even though we aren't massively clear at the top, I'm genuinely excited about the future of this team. We have some excellent players in our squad, most of which are you as well. Not only that but we're buying players that are actually better than the ones we have for a change, that doesn't usually happen at wolves. For me, this is a great time to support wolves and I can't wait to see what we can achieve with the likes of Henry, Jacobs, Dicko, Evans, McDonald, Doherty, Batth and possibly Griffifths.

Regarding transfer rumours, I would love to see McGregor, Maguire and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas come in, as I think all 3 would add something to the team. I would also like to see Sako, Foley and O'Hara leave the club, along with maybe Doyle, Griffifths and Siggy, but I'd definitely prefer those last 3 to stay. Doyle's a player I've always liked, Griffifths has untapped potential and Siggy really has something to prove/offer us as a centre forward and I think he could do it given the chance. But, saying all that, I don't think I'd be too angry if none of it happened, disappointed maybe a bit, but not angry, because we have already made some excellent signings in this window and that could be enough, who knows?

Werewolf

Siggy surprised me think he can play far better than we have seen this season, can't understand why he isn't playing better

13 Jan 2014 15:24:09
is there anybody out there that we are not linked to?

It makes a change though to have real rumours. if only we could of been like this in the prem

13 Jan 2014 10:11:15
Just when we have morale spot on with players who put in a shift why oh why would we want an attitude player such as Leon Clarke who rarely puts in half a shift?