January Transfer Window, 25/26 Season

[Alan]

I’ll remember him as the latest player I like and hype to have go horribly wrong! Really I should just wish the worst on our signings, they’d be more successful.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think it was perfectly reasonable to expect Arias to be better than he has been.

His pedigree was good, he had just played well before our eyes and his former club loved him.

 

[YoungWolf]

Sure there are mitigating factors, but all the stats guys said when we signed him that he doesn’t actually do a lot as an attacking player. that’s turned out to be very accurate.

 

[Jinky]

Surely getting rid of foreign players frees up space for foreign players if we’re analysing beyond the general freeing up og space overall.

It was more that the two new signings are both homegrown, as would Adams be, who we were clearly after. It was a general observation about our targets more than anything.

 

[Alan]

Sure there are mitigating factors, but all the stats guys said when we signed him that he doesn’t actually do a lot as an attacking player. that’s turned out to be very accurate.

Don’t you pull stats out on me you logical fuck

 

[Dire Wolf]

I’ll remember him as the latest player I like and hype to have go horribly wrong! Really I should just wish the worst on our signings, they’d be more successful.

Next signing, Alan:

"Welcome to Wolves, I hope you suck".

 

[Templeton Peck]

Port Vale away in '89 is the most I've ever been worried about my safety. Not because of the other fans, although it did go off afterwards. I didn’t put my feet on the ground all game and in hindsight it was a couple of months before Hillsborough

Preston away shortly after Hillsborough was bad too.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

reduce the size of Angel’s head a little?

I mean I'm not sending it in to get an A in art you know..

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Arias at 27 will never adapt to European football, South American football has been to ingrained in him.

 

[Law's Bus]

Until 1974, Wolverhampton and Stoke were both in Staffordshire, so it was an intra county rivalry, one in the south, one in the north, and people in the middle were split (including the town of Stafford). That's why the rivalry is probably a generational thing.

In 1974, a new county was created to incorporate many large towns and cities in the West Midlands region, including Birmingham (historically in Warwickshire). Confusingly, they called the county "West Midlands", which is also the name of the region that it and the surrounding counties sit within. Wolverhampton is in the North West of the "new" county, meaning the focus became inwards (east and south, towards Birmingham) rather than outwards towards Stoke and Port Vale.

Actually...

This isn't true, despite it being the received wisdom and what you'll read on the likes of Wikipedia.

The historic counties still exist - so both are still now exactly where they were - Staffordshire. What changed in 1974 was the adminstrative layer created in 1888, so the former councils all got swept away and new ones created - some with confusingly similar names, but legally very different. What people don't realise is that at no point has Staffordshire County Council held any powers in Wolverhampton, nor in Hanley (and Stoke-on-Trent after its formation) - they were both County Boroughs, in administrative terms, counties of themselves essentially. Of course, this is still the same today - Staffordshire CC have zero powers in either place.

 

[Tredman]

Count yourselves lucky on that front.