Wolvesoffside does a Michael Owen Brochure.
By: Toby | July 10th, 2009Ah well, everyone else is doing it.
Thing is, it requires a certain dislike for the player, which means I couldn’t really think of anyone from our squad that a) I didn’t like or b) would want to push out of the back door all the much. So my mind cast upon the one and only Denes Rosa, who we released mid season, only for him to find himself clubless once again, so if it helps him in any way, I’ve made him a “brand values” sheet for him to send ahead of himself to potential clubs.
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I know these will get old someday, but not yet. Has own car. Nice.
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And your point about him being bald?
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I’ve heard Bald men are very fertile, a bonus for any team signing him.
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Good save. I can vouch for that in my case.
So, with all the signings so far, where does everyone think we will be in the table? Top 4? Top half? Bottom feeders?
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To Answer Tim
I cant help feeling that we need a strong midfielder and a defender still, obviously the lad from Chelsea would’nt do any harm!!!
If we get those i think we will be between 10th and 16th needing 1 point to be safe with 4 games left. So we will stay up partly due to being good enough and partly due to three teams being even worse then us.
You dont need 40 points to stay up any more and often 35/6 is enough so 10 wins plus the odd draw and were STAYING UP I TELLS YA.I will commit to saying 14th Tim!!!
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14th? Well, I’d be very very happy with that. I’d go for last day survival if you offered it me though.
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So here’s a thought. I know it’s radical and you guys will laugh it out the door.
Why don’t they give newly promoted teams one years grace before they can be demoted?
That seems to be needed in order for a team to have a real chance, regardless of the competence of the management and ownership.
So if the three teams promoted finish in the last three slots their first year in the Premiership, the next three teams are the ones demoted.
Otherwise, it seems rather predictable.So that’s my suggestion for fairness. I’ll let you guys run with it and see if you can’t get the policy changed.
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What percentage of the Premiership teams actually play within their budgets? Do all of the teams that finish in the top “15″ lose money each year or get subsidized by their owners?
With all of the transfers available, Mick should be able to piece together an average, at least, team if he has the same money available as the other teams, shouldn’t he?
What is the reason for the newly promoted teams having so much problems improving their rosters? Is there just not that much talent around that is eligible for transfers that year? Do players not want to sign with newly promoted teams because they assume they are going back down soon?
People say Wolves is a “big club”. What do they mean by that? Fans support wise? History wise? Stadium size wise?
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Wolves are a big club Tim because we’re one of the founding sides in English Football, in the 50’s and 60’s we were considered one of the best club sides in the World, teams from around Europe came to us to “have a go” that’s why the Champions League was formed, because we were so good we were declared by the press as “the champions of Europe”. Our side nearly made up the entire English national side at one point.
From that point we’ve always had our history. If you look at the stats of overall competitions, we’re the 9th most successful team in the history of English competion with 13 trophies.
We’ve just been living off that success ever since. In essence it’s the same way that a club like Liverpool is bigger than Blackburn, dispite Blackburn winning a Premiership title and Liverpool yet to do so, it’s still a bigger club, Newcastle are bigger than Sunderland etc.
You can say a lot for a club’s history.
Also you have to look at where the club is going as a whole, with Steve Morgan at the helm we’ve got a sensible, English backer, I think many players look for stability as well as a pay cheque these days!
I’ll add more to that, but I’ve got work!
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A few years ago i would have backed Tims idea about not getting relegated in your first year but I have a feeling that the gap is more between top half of the premier and botom half of the premier then between the premier and the championship.
Both Stoke n Hull survived last year and I fancy both Birmingham and Wolves to survive this time round because I think apart from maybe 8 teams all the others could go down.
Is anyone afraid of Wigan, Fulham, Hull, Stoke, Birmingham, Burnley, Blackburn, Bolton, Portsmouth or sunderland.
STAYIN UP I TELLS YA!Assuming all goes to plan in the Championship we may see Newcastle and Midlesborough come up and stay up again so although it used to be true that you came up n went straight back down again maybe it has changed a little now.
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So why can’t Mick buy a team that would finish in the middle of the table? Do the middle table teams have more money or are the players just not available (or those available just not interested in moving)?
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He very well could build a team that could challenge for mid table, but you don’t do that in the first season. You aim to stay up in the first season, that way if you do go down, you haven’t signed a team full of players on a wage which you can’t support on Championship TV money rights, if you do manage to finish mid table, then that’s a bonus and if you do stay up you can then go on and build on your squad, and push on.
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So it has to do with the uncertainty of how the team will perform as a unit as much as anything else?
The unpredictability of results.
How much have they actually increased their wages so far?
Don’t they get a 60 million pound benifit from being in the Premiership or something like that?
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You have to remember, even one mishandled season in the Premiership can cost your dearly. Take the example of some teams that were once considered great Premiership sides who over stretched themselves in the Prem, Southampton and Leeds, Leeds were in the Champions League, but they got there by using money they didn’t have, when they went down, they money from the TV right went, and they were relegated twice into the third tier.
While Southampton didn’t over spend to the same degree, by outlaying money in the Premiership in a season when no one thought they would go down (themselves included) long term plans were ruined when they did.
When you look at sides in the Premiership, the good ones, the self sufficiant ones could bounce back from a Relegation, keep most of their players and come right back, the bad ones, well, they’d struggle. I’m thinking teams like Sunderland…if it all goes wrong for them next season, it has the potential to do some real harm to them, they’ve spent in excess of 30 million in the last two seasons alone and it only just assured them survival on the last day last season.
I’d take Wolves’ reserved judgement anyday.
You see when a team goes up they hear these figures of 60 million and want to see 40 million pounds worth of players on 20 million pounds of wages, it just doesn’t happen.
Sure, we may well spend about 20 million on players, 5 million extra on wages, but the extra money will go into the infrostructure of the club itself, we’ll do something to the stadium, I’m sure of it, we’ve already got world class training facilities, something which is already attracting the top players, when you read the blurb to our last few signings they often sight the “set up” at Wolves as the key to the reason that they signed, they can see that we’re a club that are building something great here, with the right manager, which I believe we have we’ve got a great shout.
Did you see that we’ve signed Walsall’s youth team scout/coach, that’s another example of Premiership money being used to strengthen in areas off the pitch, we’ve got very talented youth (they perfomed brilliantly in the Milk Cup this year, and Zeli Ishmail has the potential to be World Class)
Watch this space Tim, we’re going to give this league a damn good crack, and even if we don’t manage it this season, we’ll have it all in place to come back stronger next time!
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http://wolves.theoffside.com/team-news/zeli-ismail-wunderkind.html
There’s my post on Zeli if you’re interested, it’s got a video of him banging them in for fun at the Milk Cup, the kid’s going to be huge one day, our former Youth Coach said himself he could see him being the first 100 million pound player.
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Toby, wouldn’t that fear of relegation affect most teams near the bottom of the table? Do they never spend what they can afford through Premiership revenues due to the fear that they may be relegated?
At what point do they decide they must spend more to be competative with the upper echelon of the league?
If half of the teams, fearing relegation, don’t spend what they can afford to, then of course the league will be unbalanced.Posted from
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I’d rather they spend more money trying to stay up and if they do stay up, then they can improve the building infrastructure.
What’s the big deal in waiting a couple more years for improved toilets or whatever they are planning to fix. You’ve lived this long with things as they are.Posted from
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How much in per season salary commitment have Wolves taked on this summer than if they remained in the Championship?
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They’ve probably already added another £90,000 a week already at a complete guesstimation. It’s a lot for a club like Wolves to add to their wage bill to be honest.
If you’re seeing Promotion as a green light to blow the budget and bring in players over our wage structure, Wolves aren’t a team that are going to do that, and I don’t think we ever will be, unless we get sold to an United Emerates Oil Rich Billionarre.
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How much is that per season?
What is the budget supposed to be for a team bringing in all that extra revenue?
I’m not saying they should break the bank, just that they should spend enough to ensure they are nowhere near the bottom of the table.
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I think realistically we’re in the end stages of our spending this transfer window. Maybe 2 or more new faces, but that’ll be it for us.
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