Welcome to Wolves Emmanuel Agbadou

[Alan]

“I'm a fast player. For a defender, my body is very weird sometimes"

I like him already

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Nice jumper and glasses combo too

His fit here, god damn

Watch out, Nelson, there’s a new crush on the squad

 

[Wolf of Ashford]

Pleased this has been done reasonably early in January, would suggest that at least some preparation for this window was being done before 1st Jan........ which is a pleasant surprise!

 

[1986]

Is he allowed play on Saturday ?

 

[nimrod]

hopefully a great purchase and not the only one!
Good luck Emmanuel.

 

[Lycan]

Got to admit I wouldn't normally be enthused about paying €18M for a nearly 28 year old defender who has never played at a level higher than mid table Ligue 1, who I'd never heard of before and seemingly comes with almost no hype or competition for his signature. Unfortunately, considering the situation we have at the back where we have 3 positions to fill and can only usually count on 1 of the current options being vaguely up to standard in any particular game then this was probably the type of signing which needed to be made.

I think long term we've probably overpaid and I'd expect him to have the same kind of middling impact that signings like Jean Ricner Bellegarde have had. In the short term, I think it was laid bare against Forest that we lack pace and physicality across the back line so he will clearly improve us in that regard. If he can do things like actually contest a lofted ball over the top rather than just sticking his hand up and jogging back, actually try to head the round white thing away from our goal when the opposition kick it into our box from a set piece and try not to score too many own goals then that would be good too.

Hopefully it's not the end of our business in this area and this is the start of an overhaul of that position rather than being seen as the solution to all our problems. Regardless of what Hobbs & O'Neil thought, four CBs for two positions was never going to be enough, we now have an extra space to fill and there are huge question marks over the original 4 centre halves to say the least.

 

[Sniffer]

Agree with all that bar the middling impact of Bellegarde. If that’s middling I’d hate to see what failing looks like.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yes, that's all fair. He'll have been well scouted by all PL clubs and we are the only one who appears to be interested. I don't have high hopes he'll be a very good PL ch, I do that he'll be better than the ones we have. Probably a similar price and quality as Dara O'Shea just without us knowing him

 

[sycophantia]

Obviously one of the most important things is what we call him, it appears he prefers Agba.

 

[Del Woppio]

Aggers it is then

 

[Jinky]

Got to admit I wouldn't normally be enthused about paying €18M for a nearly 28 year old defender who has never played at a level higher than mid table Ligue 1, who I'd never heard of before and seemingly comes with almost no hype or competition for his signature. Unfortunately, considering the situation we have at the back where we have 3 positions to fill and can only usually count on 1 of the current options being vaguely up to standard in any particular game then this was probably the type of signing which needed to be made.

I think long term we've probably overpaid and I'd expect him to have the same kind of middling impact that signings like Jean Ricner Bellegarde have had. In the short term, I think it was laid bare against Forest that we lack pace and physicality across the back line so he will clearly improve us in that regard. If he can do things like actually contest a lofted ball over the top rather than just sticking his hand up and jogging back, actually try to head the round white thing away from our goal when the opposition kick it into our box from a set piece and try not to score too many own goals then that would be good too.

Hopefully it's not the end of our business in this area and this is the start of an overhaul of that position rather than being seen as the solution to all our problems. Regardless of what Hobbs & O'Neil thought, four CBs for two positions was never going to be enough, we now have an extra space to fill and there are huge question marks over the original 4 centre halves to say the least.

Please don’t compare him to Bellegarde. Bellegarde is shite

 

[Jinky]

His fit here, god damn

Watch out, Nelson, there’s a new crush on the squad

I wonder what the responses would be like if someone said that about a new signing for the woman’s team…

This isn’t meant to dig you out, Alan. It just seems like an odd thing to comment on.

 

[Mel Evo]

“After the journey he’s had he’s still incredibly hungry”… noted my wife after my train was diverted via Long Eaton due to a signal failure in the Nuneaton area last night. I got a jacket potato rather than €18m. But I only have to kick the seat in front of me when Doherty next waves his player through on goal, rather than leg over and sort it all out.

 

[Alan]

I wonder what the responses would be like if someone said that about a new signing for the woman’s team…

This isn’t meant to dig you out, Alan. It just seems like an odd thing to comment on.

It would be slightly different, IMO. I’d also probably say there’s a difference between complimenting someone’s fashion sense and declaring them a “crush”, as opposed to saying something like “those thighs, damn”.

As it is, I’m less than no threat to a professional footballer, and that’s where a lot of the dynamic changes for me personally. Agbadou is the one with the power and would be in reality, as well.

I do appreciate the vigilance tho!

Johnny called me out for Nelson crush comments a while back; if it makes folks uncomfortable I’m happy to wind it in, much as I would be sad to not make googly eyes at some of our players.

 

[Leigh Griffiths' Hairline]

Excited about this signing. It's good to have a proper commanding centre half for once. Event what we need.