Wolves 3-0 Leicester: Verdict Thread

Elephant Pyjamas · 2025-04-27T16:10:17+0100

AndyWolves said:
A three of Neves, Andre and Gomes would be beastly. Neves as the CDM and Andre & Gomes everywhere else.

It could work as a 532 or 433

Maybe next season...

Deutsch Wolf · 2025-04-27T16:13:49+0100

Love the current pair but sorry, not even close to Neves and Moutinho.

It shouldn't be the case for someone who has had a 20 year career at the top end of European football and nearly 150 international caps, but Joao Moutinho is ridiculously underrated by Wolves fans who for ages seemed desperate to get rid of him.

Best footballer I've ever seen in a gold shirt, likely the best I'll ever see.

Dire Wolf · 2025-04-27T16:24:51+0100

Deutsch Wolf said:
Love the current pair but sorry, not even close to Neves and Moutinho.

It shouldn't be the case for someone who has had a 20 year career at the top end of European football and nearly 150 international caps, but Joao Moutinho is ridiculously underrated by Wolves fans who for ages seemed desperate to get rid of him.

Best footballer I've ever seen in a gold shirt, likely the best I'll ever see.

I think you're making a straw man argument here, no one is under-rating Moutinho. He was majestic on the ball and an integral pat of our success under Nuno. Nobody is saying he wasn't.

Deutsch Wolf · 2025-04-27T16:32:42+0100

Of course people underrated him. Halfway through season 2 you were starting to get ludicrous comments along the lines of "his legs have gone, probably time to move on".

André is fantastic, he is nowhere near Joao Moutinho.

jd1981 · 2025-04-27T16:37:17+0100

“Didn’t score enough goals” was the other accusation I heard a lot also.
Sounds a bit corny but I often had to pinch myself we had a player of Moutinho quality playing in our side considering 3 years earlier we had the likes of George Saville and Tommy Rowe in there.

Squeak · 2025-04-27T16:43:29+0100

Deutsch Wolf said:
Love the current pair but sorry, not even close to Neves and Moutinho.

It shouldn't be the case for someone who has had a 20 year career at the top end of European football and nearly 150 international caps, but Joao Moutinho is ridiculously underrated by Wolves fans who for ages seemed desperate to get rid of him.

Best footballer I've ever seen in a gold shirt, likely the best I'll ever see.

I'll back you up on that. Football intelligence is over looked and under rated. You don't need to run 10 miles a game if you can read it. I'd also agree he was the best I've seen in my lifetime of following Wolves. Just so much class and an ability to see the game like no other.

prawnking · 2025-04-27T17:23:33+0100

Can't speak for the wider fanbase, but as I've said before, Moutinho didn't float my boat as much as many others on here, so I don't think he was universally top rated by everyone?

YoungWolf · 2025-04-27T17:41:29+0100

Deutsch Wolf said:
Love the current pair but sorry, not even close to Neves and Moutinho.

It shouldn't be the case for someone who has had a 20 year career at the top end of European football and nearly 150 international caps, but Joao Moutinho is ridiculously underrated by Wolves fans who for ages seemed desperate to get rid of him.

Best footballer I've ever seen in a gold shirt, likely the best I'll ever see.

I’d argue he’s the best any Wolves fan has ever seen.

Elephant Pyjamas · 2025-04-27T17:43:50+0100

prawnking said:
Can't speak for the wider fanbase, but as I've said before, Moutinho didn't float my boat as much as many others on here, so I don't think he was universally top rated by everyone?

He controlled the tempo of games on his own.

Deutsch Wolf · 2025-04-27T17:46:33+0100

YoungWolf said:
I’d argue he’s the best any Wolves fan has ever seen.

If you're old (70+, minimum) then you'd have seen Billy Wright and you could say that Robbie Keane has 68 international goals which in UEFA nations is equalled by Gerd Müller and only topped by Miroslav Klose, Harry Kane, Ferenc Puskas, Robert Lewandowski, Romelu Lukaku and Cristiano Ronaldo.

prawnking · 2025-04-27T17:46:39+0100

I'm not saying he wasn't a very good player for us and generally, I just didn't love him as much as, say, Neves

Tony Towner · 2025-04-27T17:50:05+0100

He was the best player I'd seen on a Wolves shirt until Neves' final season. The way he left does leave a sour taste in the mouth irrespective of his thoughts on Shi and Lopetegui. It was disrespectful to the fans who would have liked to give him a great send off.

Deutsch Wolf · 2025-04-27T17:52:49+0100

Tony Towner said:
He was the best player I'd seen on a Wolves shirt until Neves' final season. The way he left does leave a sour taste in the mouth irrespective of his thoughts on Shi and Lopetegui. It was disrespectful to the fans who would have liked to give him a great send off.

I doubt De Burgh would have brought him on for a cameo anyway. He didn't with Raul. The chino wearing, weird blinking fucking prick.

Alan · 2025-04-27T17:54:13+0100

Moutinho wasn’t done any favors by Lage trying to play him as a de facto #10.

Deutsch Wolf · 2025-04-27T17:55:15+0100

Alan said:
Moutinho wasn’t done any favors by Lage trying to play him as a de facto #10.

That was Lop (and tbf he sort of did ok at it)

I hate Lage with the passion of a thousand burning suns but that wasn't him

Alan · 2025-04-27T18:09:25+0100

Ah, my bad.

ROVERT47 · 2025-04-27T19:01:17+0100

I’m old 71, I think I saw Billy Wright I was very young, Moutinho is/was comfortably the best player I’ve ever seen in a Wolves shirt.
I’d love to see him back at Wolves in the future in some sort of capacity.

pagey · 2025-04-27T19:52:15+0100

ROVERT47 said:
I’m old 71, I think I saw Billy Wright I was very young, Moutinho is/was comfortably the best player I’ve ever seen in a Wolves shirt.
I’d love to see him back at Wolves in the future in some sort of capacity.

Love to see him here again, but please don't employ him as set price coach, his corners were woeful.

Carsy · 2025-04-27T21:01:00+0100

Deutsch Wolf said:
You referenced it last week or so mate, I know Bully is not the best educated, he's obviously pure Black Country which brings its own negative (unfair) connotations, but let's not write off everything he ever says because he's from Tipton and got a bit of stage fright on Question of Sport 35 years ago.

I think you would be daft as a striker not to listen to him a little bit, and look at the journey he took, bed factory and two nights training at Tipton a week to Albion (a top flight club at the time), it's an object lesson in never giving up and always looking to improve yourself if you're a young kid who's been told they're not getting a pro deal. I know the game is different now to what it was in the 1980s, but the life lesson is the same.

Helped with some academy kids at Compton a few years ago. Was flabbergasted to see how little they listened to him. Bully was all about get it out your feet and put your foot through it when you get the chance. All the lads wanted to do was try and score the perfect goal, side foot galore.

I guess at that age you always think you know better I guess….

Still can say bully i have saved 100% of penalties bully had taken at me. I stat I will happily take to my grave

Lupo · 2025-04-27T21:04:17+0100

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