Ex-Wolf Watch

[NicholasG1973]

He would have cost the same as Munetsi.

 

[Lycan]

A generational talent? He’s grown into a good player but that’s a little much IMV.

Talk to Thierry about that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1899756948314087569

 

[Kenny]

 

[The Bear]

He looked good enough to try and sign permanently even if Nuno didn't play him much due to the Neves/Moutinho partnership.

It would have been an ideal succession plan for either of those two leaving, but wasn't he homesick and wanted to go back to Portugal any way?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

He would have cost the same as Munetsi.

#obsessed

We've already had plenty worse signings than Munetsi.

 

[Alan]

Talk to Thierry about that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1899756948314087569

I mean, sure, but as we know from Steve Bull, having been a great player doesn’t always mean you’re right about that stuff.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He looked good enough to try and sign permanently even if Nuno didn't play him much due to the Neves/Moutinho partnership.

It would have been an ideal succession plan for either of those two leaving, but wasn't he homesick and wanted to go back to Portugal any way?

No, that was Pedro Gonçalves (who looked nothing special at all in Academy football)

 

[Lycan]

I mean, sure, but as we know from Steve Bull, having been a great player doesn’t always mean you’re right about that stuff.

You can't just dismiss every ex player's opinion because Steve Bull is a bit dim.

Tbh, just watch Vitinha more. He's everything that's good about the Beautiful Game. I know the kind of footballers that you love to watch, if you're not raving about Vitinha it's probably because you haven't seen enough of him. He's poetry in motion.

 

[Lycan]

No, that was Pedro Gonçalves (who looked nothing special at all in Academy football)

That was all rumour as well, never confirmed anywhere reliable as far as I can recall.

He was also completely misprofiled at Wolves. We played him in a double pivot in the academy, he's an inside forward/second striker.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He was also completely misprofiled at Wolves. We played him in a double pivot in the academy, he's an inside forward/second striker.

Oh yeah, no doubt. Just saying you'd never have picked him out as someone who'd go on to do so well.

Players get miscast as Academy level quite often, Scholes was more or less a striker for United's youth teams, Bale more or less always at LB at Southampton, loads of others.

 

[Alan]

You can't just dismiss every ex player's opinion because Steve Bull is a bit dim.

Tbh, just watch Vitinha more. He's everything that's good about the Beautiful Game. I know the kind of footballers that you love to watch, if you're not raving about Vitinha it's probably because you haven't seen enough of him. He's poetry in motion.

Alright, set aside Henry.

The point is not who Vitinha is now, it’s whether he would have gotten to it had he not ended up at PSG (or, really, anywhere but here). All the talent in the world more easily flames out than becomes a wildfire, and environment has a ton to do with that.

You can’t convince me that Lage wouldn’t have severely stunted Vitinha’s development.

 

[Alan]

Also, I love watching Marshall so far, and I don’t know if there’s a single top flight midfielder in the world that is more Vitinha’s opposite.

Watching Vitinha is certainly a treat these days, no doubt.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Also, I love watching Marshall so far, and I don’t know if there’s a single top flight midfielder in the world that is more Vitinha’s opposite.

Ha, absolutely!

 

[Carsy]

He looked good enough to try and sign permanently even if Nuno didn't play him much due to the Neves/Moutinho partnership.

It would have been an ideal succession plan for either of those two leaving, but wasn't he homesick and wanted to go back to Portugal any way?

Can understand why he wasn’t getting a lot of game time, afterall neves and Moutinho were first choice. Feel nuno could’ve given him more game time though, part of succession planning at a club.

I guess the thing is managers don’t necessarily see the long term picture now, it’s all about the now. Managers leave clubs to regularly for majority of forward thinking.

He looked a talent when he played, should’ve signed in, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. Weren’t to know he’d turn out how he has, and he may never have turned out how he has if we signed him permanently

 

[Carsy]

Also, I love watching Marshall so far, and I don’t know if there’s a single top flight midfielder in the world that is more Vitinha’s opposite.

Watching Vitinha is certainly a treat these days, no doubt.

There is something exciting about watching chaos. Don’t mind Munetsi, we’ve had worse

 

[Del Woppio]

You can't just dismiss every ex player's opinion because Steve Bull is a bit dim.

Tbh, just watch Vitinha more. He's everything that's good about the Beautiful Game. I know the kind of footballers that you love to watch, if you're not raving about Vitinha it's probably because you haven't seen enough of him. He's poetry in motion.

It does say a lot about how people like to see the game I think, and that's not to say one is better than the other, it's just interesting what different people see.

Like I love to see poetry, artistry, a pained, tortured player weaving his soul into his work, and Alan likes runners

 

[Tony Towner]

It does say a lot about how people like to see the game I think, and that's not to say one is better than the other, it's just interesting what different people see.

Like I love to see poetry, artistry, a pained, tortured player weaving his soul into his work, and Alan likes runners

Pace and power

 

[Stan Hullis]

Like a Kenny Jackett wet dream.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Alan would have been so confused by Seyi

 

[Jinky]

Always loved Vitinha and was extremely dumbfounded that we didn’t sign him - if I could be bothered to trawl through the forum to find proof, I would (but I’m not). Ridiculous that we didn’t sign him at the price available.

Then again, I always thought João Teixeira looked like a world beater when we first signed him, so ultimately, what do I know?!