• Welcome, guest!

    This is a forum devoted to discussion of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
    Why not sign up and contribute? Registered members get a fully ad-free experience!

Summer 2022 Transfer Window

I don't think there us a queue to sign him so will be here for 12 more months.

Clubs that have been interested have moved on

Spurs - wanted him as a RWB. Covered now
Barca - wanted to see if they could troll a club and a fan. They did. Doubt they will try that again, mainly as Adama will be wiser.
Leeds - now signed wide players.

Now i have said that, he will probably be sent out on a loan and we have to pay the club he joins a fee.
 
Just out of interest, how many games did we win after Adama went out on loan? How many goals did we score? Wondering if the whole 'he's a threat that creates opportunities for others because defenders are scared of him even though he's shit' argument carries any kind of weight at all?

I'm wondering this, because there is no doubt that as a team our form dipped from February onwards. Pure chance and coincidence?
 
Dire Wolf said:
Just out of interest, how many games did we win after Adama went out on loan? How many goals did we score? Wondering if the whole 'he's a threat that creates opportunities for others because defenders are scared of him even though he's shit' argument carries any kind of weight at all?

I'm wondering this, because there is no doubt that as a team our form dipped from February onwards. Pure chance and coincidence?
Click to expand...
That's what we in the biz would call "spurious".
 
Because we were utterly shite going forward the whole season. That part didn't change when Adama left, it stayed the same.

It was defensively that we went to crap around that time.
 
Dire Wolf said:
Just out of interest, how many games did we win after Adama went out on loan? How many goals did we score? Wondering if the whole 'he's a threat that creates opportunities for others because defenders are scared of him even though he's shit' argument carries any kind of weight at all?

I'm wondering this, because there is no doubt that as a team our form dipped from February onwards. Pure chance and coincidence?
Click to expand...

We stopped taking the half chances we got in matches and started conceding goals at the rate we should have done based on the chances we gave away. The way we played was completely unsustainable over a season, nothing to do with Adama, chance or coincidence
 
Dire Wolf said:
Just out of interest, how many games did we win after Adama went out on loan? How many goals did we score? Wondering if the whole 'he's a threat that creates opportunities for others because defenders are scared of him even though he's shit' argument carries any kind of weight at all?

I'm wondering this, because there is no doubt that as a team our form dipped from February onwards. Pure chance and coincidence?
Click to expand...
We won 4 of the last 5 games before he left. He didn't start any of them
 
But if opposition defenders and midfield players can push up knowing that there was no-one capable of getting in behind them it surely creates pressure on the defence? We know that Adama was most likely to spanner any chance into the crowd but maybe that threat forced defenders to play deeper? Having that freedom to get further up the pitch builds pressure for our defenders, does it not?
 
Dire Wolf said:
But if opposition defenders and midfield players can push up knowing that there was no-one capable of getting in behind them it surely creates pressure on the defence? We know that Adama was most likely to spanner any chance into the crowd but maybe that threat forced defenders to play deeper? Having that freedom to get further up the pitch builds pressure for our defenders, does it not?
Click to expand...
8 goals, 13 assists in 123 league appearances for us.

Very threatening.
 
Prior to leaving Traore made a few good substitute appearances and I’m pretty sure we’d have picked up more points if he’d been available from February onwards. Probably not a lot but enough to get us an 8th place finish. I know that he’d have contributed more at Anfield where there were acres of space than Hwang did, though whether Lage would have used him is another matter.
 
Last edited:
Alan said:
8 goals, 13 assists in 123 league appearances for us.

Very threatening.
Click to expand...
And that disproves the point I was making how? I'd already said we know his end product is generally shit. But defenders aren't going to just push forward and let him run in behind them because they know that are they? They'll defend deeper. And because of that our own defence is under less pressure. Unless everything I've ever watched in 40 years of watching football has been my imagination.
 
Alan said:
8 goals, 13 assists in 123 league appearances for us.

Very threatening.
Click to expand...
Didn't you know him being on the pitch means defenders are simply scared?

It still makes me laugh people believe this rubbish.

I mean how can players be scared of a player who simply just doesn't do anything when he has the ball?
 
Dire Wolf said:
Just out of interest, how many games did we win after Adama went out on loan? How many goals did we score? Wondering if the whole 'he's a threat that creates opportunities for others because defenders are scared of him even though he's shit' argument carries any kind of weight at all?

I'm wondering this, because there is no doubt that as a team our form dipped from February onwards. Pure chance and coincidence?
Click to expand...
Fbref.com has this kind of data, but just remember that correlation doesn't always equal causation
 
Johnny75 said:
Didn't you know him being on the pitch means defenders are simply scared?

It still makes me laugh people believe this rubbish.

I mean how can players be scared of a player who simply just doesn't do anything when he has the ball?
Click to expand...
I'm a stats guy as some will know; to me it's just incontrovertible evidence that he doesn't do the thing an attacking player must do: score or assist.

That's the sport! It's not about who can make their marker run more, or who's got oilier biceps or any of that. You gotta put the ball in the net.

X's and O's. Meat and potatoes.
 
Alan said:
I'm a stats guy as some will know; to me it's just incontrovertible evidence that he doesn't do the thing an attacking player must do: score or assist.

That's the sport! It's not about who can make their marker run more, or who's got oilier biceps or any of that. You gotta put the ball in the net.

X's and O's. Meat and potatoes.
Click to expand...
I mean there is an argument for how you move those X’s and O’s around much like Pep and Klopp do but Adama diesnt fit that mould.

Teams actively let him have the ball in his own half or by the touchline as they know he doesn’t do anything with it.

And the last thing Adama does is run onto through balls. I think I’ve seen him do it 3 times in a Wolves shirt.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top