The January 2025 Transfer Thread

[HanDoJin]

Can't not be pleased. We needed defenders and have have brought them in, one with CL experience no less.

Perhaps as pressing -what did the shite below us bring in?

 

[Langers]

Is Matt Doherty a useful player for a PL side in 2025 perhaps?

Not really, no

 

[Carsy]

TalkSPORT currently Simon Jordan saying he bumped into GoN and ‘without breaching’ any confidence mentioned some ‘interesting characters in our dressing room. Hinted Lemina was a bad apple and also made a comment on whether Cunha turns up to training early or late etc and he maybe is t the type long term who takes players with you.

Either GoN doing the classic ‘not my fault’ or some legs in it. Clearly true with lemina

 

[Alan]

Well you are being unnecessarily harsh there.

Rogers has been one of the best players in the league this season. Doc was smashing him from early on, it set the tone.

Maybe, agree that Rogers has generally been good (the weekend was the by far the worst I’ve ever seen him) but he really was all over the place for me, not in a good way. Fair dos to Matt not fucking it up, but equally I didn’t think Rogers gave him much to worry about.

 

[Carsy]

Not really, no

Useful, meh maybe competent as a back up/squad option.

No way should he be a nailed on starter which is what he had become

 

[Derby Wolf]

GON blaming everybody but himself?

So unlike him.

 

[Wolf of Ashford]

If that is true, then it was a massive roll of the dice from GON giving Lemina the armband. Hopeful i guess that it would keep him onside, but it backfired horribly

 

[prawnking]

TalkSPORT currently Simon Jordan saying he bumped into GoN and ‘without breaching’ any confidence mentioned some ‘interesting characters in our dressing room. Hinted Lemina was a bad apple and also made a comment on whether Cunha turns up to training early or late etc and he maybe is t the type long term who takes players with you.

Either GoN doing the classic ‘not my fault’ or some legs in it. Clearly true with lemina

Probably didn't help that GON has the air of authority of a urinal cake

 

[Stan Hullis]

"Lemina was a bad apple, so I made him our captain"

Prick.

 

[Alan]

Maybe Mario and Cunha were just the first to have the guts to tell him his tactics were fucking braindead

The dude doesn’t have a leg to stand on; his record is indefensible. Needs to shut the fucking fuck up.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Not really, no

If we'd signed a 32 year old defender as back up on a free who had never played for us before, we'd all be happy with his general performance.

This season he's scored a couple, been very committed, filled in various postional holes and played very well in at least 4 games (United, Spurs, Leicester, Villa), and been at least 6/10 in most of his others.

Haters gonna hate.

 

[Langers]

Haters gonna hate.

I don't hate him though.

I've just seen how often he switches off and makes very basic errors that no PL 'regular' should be making.

He's done a lot better as a makeshift CB than I thought he would - kudos to him for that - but the fact he's had to be a makeshift CB sums up the state of our squad this season.

He's one of several players who isn't good enough.

 

[Tony Towner]

If we'd signed a 32 year old defender as back up on a free who had never played for us before, we'd all be happy with his general performance.

This season he's scored a couple, been very committed, filled in various postional holes and played very well in at least 4 games (United, Spurs, Leicester, Villa), and been at least 6/10 in most of his others.

Haters gonna hate.

Tbh assuming Djiga is decent, the Doherty we have mainly seen (Forest and Chelsea aside) at right centre half is a reasonable back up for a lower table team. Still should be looking to move him on in the Summer if we can though

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

He's done a lot better as a makeshift CB than I thought he would - kudos to him for that - but the fact he's had to be a makeshift CB sums up the state of our squad this season.

Totally agree with that.

 

[Kenny]

TalkSPORT currently Simon Jordan saying he bumped into GoN and ‘without breaching’ any confidence mentioned some ‘interesting characters in our dressing room. Hinted Lemina was a bad apple and also made a comment on whether Cunha turns up to training early or late etc and he maybe is t the type long term who takes players with you.

Either GoN doing the classic ‘not my fault’ or some legs in it. Clearly true with lemina

GO knows the media game. He wants a job so just keep it out there that things were against him

- Players sold
- Replacements, if they arrived, not good
- Captain lost his shit
- Star player giving it the big bollocks routine
- We had to play all the good teams and then the crap teams turned out to be good as well

Some of its true but he also spent hours telling us Cunha was a key player and always wanted to be involved in tactics..."he calls me up at 11pm, great to have a player that invested"

He won't expand on his the dreadful run of results outside of who we played but his approach put us on the back foot straight away as he just said each week the equivalent to "yeah we will lose, just don't know by how much"

He gave up around the Everton game and his players responded in kind.

 

[1986]

Totally agree with that.

Playing for a new Manager , out to impress and ensure he sees out the contract rather than being told he was surplus to requirements .

Doherty's fundamental problem has always been that he is lazy and has a poor attitude a lot of the time .
It is true that he lacks footballing ability , but there are plenty of players over the years with that lack of ability who had a top attitude and loved to work hard .

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Playing for a new Manager , out to impress and ensure he sees out the contract rather than being told he was surplus to requirements .

Doherty's fundamental problem has always been that he is lazy and has a poor attitude a lot of the time .

So when his attitude is good (it has been since he came back, and was under GON too) it's because of a new manager and a contract?

He's got the contract anyway, if he is the person you say he is, he'd be sat in U21s not bothering.

Like i say, haters gonna hate.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Playing for a new Manager , out to impress and ensure he sees out the contract rather than being told he was surplus to requirements .

Doherty's fundamental problem has always been that he is lazy and has a poor attitude a lot of the time .
It is true that he lacks footballing ability , but there are plenty of players over the years with that lack of ability who had a top attitude and loved to work hard .

He is not lazy and does not have a poor attitude. That is just a trope. Pretty much every Wolves manager he has played under have used him to a greater or lesser extent which suggests application and attitude have not been a problem for any of them. He is not as athletic as Semedo or as technical as Ait-Nouri but he has always come across as a professional, never whinging to the press when he is left out. He made a career at the highest level coming pretty much straight out of junior football in Ireland. You don't do that if you're lazy and have a poor attitude.

Matt Doherty: ‘I’m quite emotionless, quite cold. People used to say I was never like that, but in my head, that is just the way it has to be’

Matt Doherty became a fan favourite at Wolverhampton Wanderers before moving to Tottenham Hotspur. It has always been a motivation to see how high he can go in the Premier League.

www.independent.ie

 

[Sniffer]

Didn’t he whinge to the press when he wasn’t picked for Ireland.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yeah, he also had what could be politely described as conditioning issues under Jackett.