Wolves sign Christophe, he Berra be good.

By: Toby | February 2nd, 2009

Wolves have left it late to make their impact on the January transfer window, and in my mind have made a very good move in acquiring Christophe Berra on a four and a half year deal, which is a large lay out for a player, who at 24, looks like he may well be with Wolves for the foreseeable future under this contract. He joins us from Hearts, where he enjoyed the captaincy for some time from the 2007/8 season, and from what I’ve been hearing from Hearts fans, they’re sad to see him go, and rated him as a player and a gentleman. I think he fits the kind of player we need at this stage in our season, and indeed regeneration as a club, while at 6’3” he’s tall enough.

Moxey’s view on the signing –

“There was certainly a time when it didn’t appear as if we would be successful in securing Christophe’s signature, but we stuck to our guns and ultimately managed to complete the deal at the price we wanted”

“With all that finally done and dusted now we can look forward to seeing him play!

“Christophe is a strong and physical defender who Mick has been keeping tabs on for some considerable time – indeed we initially tried to sign him last summer.

“Not only was he an influential captain up at Hearts, he is also a Scottish international, and having just turned 24 possesses the same sort of drive and ambition to succeed as the other members of our young and talented squad.”

I look forward to seeing a partnership between him and Stearman develop, hopefully that leaky defence of recent weeks can be plugged in a similar vein as when Mancienne was bought in on loan, that changed our season, we looked great at as good at the back as in attack, ever since his return to Chelsea we’ve remained potent up front yet comical at the back.

So here’s to Berra!

Good luck lad!

Tarra-a-bit!