Ex-Wolf Watch

[Jinky]

Didn’t anticipate the comment would illicit so much response tbh!

That's how I felt when I logged in 2 days later and saw the fallout to my David Moyes comment

Re; Adama. We'll always have that Man City away performance. Last game I ever got to see with my dad and those memories will stay with me forever. Also, Adama seems like a top bloke too, so difficult to dislike him.

 

[Kenny]

For me Adama isn't a player that falls into the hate section of our ex players. Just hugely frustrating most of the time.

The Spurs game at home showed what teams thought of him though. Never seen a team have their players take it in turns to be the one to foul him. Even had Kane back in the full back spot to pick up a yellow for cutting him in half.

 

[Derby Wolf]

He was an in the flesh YouTube compilation some stuff he did you kind of thought how the hell has he done that. Two that stand out for me were a piece of skill right on the touchline on the opening day of 21/22 at Sheff Utd and the other was the assist for Donk Vs West Ham when we lost 3-2.

Many times though the Sheff Utd moments were inconsequential in terms of actual G/A just individual brilliance so ultimately you're a winger with limited goal involvements.

He rattled plenty of teams though, Spurs, Bournemouth in lockdown etc.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

There is an unbelievable 20 seconds or so v Liverpool at home too (?) he then proceeds to smash it out of play.

A number of nearly moments too, that run v Villa would have been one of the best Wolves goals ever, but he slammed it into Martinez's chest.

There was also a lot of appalling finishes after he'd put it on a plate for people. Like Donk header v Arsenal that fell to I think Neto instead, so Donk gets the assist instead of Adama who did all the work.

His assists v City at home for Raul (where he bodied Mendy) and again for Raul against Liverpool were fucking outstanding.

 

[Jolemai]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1879452337464602844

 

[WVWolf]

I think a lot of attacking players suffer under Nuno, so I wouldn't use numbers to dismiss Adama.

Even now, Hudson-Odoi seems to me like he is having a good season, and he has two goals and two assists. It's worse than Guedes in almost 3x the minutes played.

I remember when there was a lot of hype about Neto and debating how good he was, and people would point out that average players like Matheus Pereira and Jack Harrison would have double the goal contributions he had (I think it was the 19/20 season)

We all know what Adama couldn't do (although I do think his 'bad' crossing is overstated) but what he could do made him one of the most exciting players I've ever seen at Wolves and someone I would genuinely enjoy watching. He could beat players with ease and that's one of the hardest things to do in the game.

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

I’ve played with and against players that have had good professional careers and I have never really worked out why some did and others didn’t.
Years ago dedication and application seemed to be the common denominator but latterly that appears to play a lesser part with players with questionable attitude and hearts the size of a pea often ‘making it’.
If you’re good enough you’ll always be good enough but I suppose I do still like a Dan Burn (referencing the other thread) who appears to have got where he got on shear attitude alone.

Played many a Game, with Phil Gee, wentnon to play for Derby County.
Also played many a game with Mark Sparrock, who was at Wolves with Andy Gray.

Phil was quick and had an eye for goal, he had a fantastic bit of Luck thanks to Steve Essex, and David Nish. He had application by the truck load

It's the same now
You can have all the talent in the world, but you need extra it's not enough to just be talented you need a massive Heart, huge Self Belief and a massive work ethic.
Just getting that first trainee at 16 takes work that not many people kmow about.

Imagine being at Work from the age of 6, and every week someone turns up for 6 weeks to prove they are better than you and if they do your let go, that is what happens every week in academies right through the world.

even then at 17/18/19 etc you have to dedicate your life

Mark on the other hand was a close friend of mine, he had all the talent in the world, and we often joked if he had 50% my application and work rate, or I had 50% of his talent we would have made it.
He would go out on the piss turn up.late for training, put 50/60% in training and never played higher than West Mids.

Someone at Wolves Academy once told me when I was Scouting it's 60% Talent 40% application and 10% luck