Welcome to Wolves Matheus Cunha

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I thought the comment was about you not finding anything offensive… I was equally as shocked.

Ah, so it was an unprovoked attack, and by you too.

Just shows how "thick skinned" I am, I don't even notice when I'm getting stick.

 

[Carsy]

“Sometimes people forget the age I am because I started early,” he says. “I had to improve too quickly at Wolves. People expected one thing and sometimes forgot my age because of the price. When people come from other places or to take pictures they say, ‘I’ve seen you for many years, you must be 25 or 26 now’, but I have to say, ‘No, I’m only 22’.”

“Everything around me in my life was too quick,” Silva reflects. “The idea was to stay two or three years at Porto and play some games. But in football I didn’t control some things and, in that moment, I couldn’t do anything.”

“It was very difficult because playing in a team like Wolves you don’t have the ball all the time, so you have to suffer and play counter attacks. Some times the centre-backs and midfielders would play the ball to me to hold it up, but I was not so strong. I was up against players like Kurt Zouma and Thiago Silva (when Wolves played Chelsea) who were big and strong. I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is a big level’. I was putting too much pressure, but I had to manage that in my head.”

“I came at 18 to the best league in the world and with all the noise around me. I feel like I didn’t have time and space to make mistakes. Everything had to be perfect. I think I’m different because of that, so I have to live with it. But I like to live with that pressure.”

“The year I spent with Nuno was really good,” says Silva. “He was the coach who empowered me and, from the first day, he was very honest with me. He said I had to wait for my opportunity and to trust him that it was going to come. He always gave me the words to keep me happy.

“Sometimes, when I didn’t play, he came and spoke to me. I give him a lot of credit as he knew I was young and away from my family in a different country. He always had that love for me so he was a special coach for me and I am happy to see him doing well (at Nottingham Forest). He is a very good person.”

“When you go through those moments you have to try to find something to turn around the situation. I was not so strong so I had to see what I could change to be better. If you are not good mentally your body is not going to be good on the pitch, so I started doing some things with a mental coach and working with a nutritionist and personal trainer.”

“You can stay in a bad moment or you can look at it in a new way and say, ‘OK, I am not blaming things for not going the way I want. I’m going to look at myself and change the situation’. Sometimes it is important to be alone and find ways to change the situation.”

“Now I am more of a man and more mature.”

“Over the last few years I don’t put that pressure on myself,” he adds. “I like to appreciate the small things and enjoy the small things day by day.

“I have to live in the present. The noise around me before… I don’t read nothing now. I know what I can bring to my team.”

Nothing wrong there really. The whole thing was an embarrassing shit show.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thing is we heard all this "I'm a new man now, my time away made me grow up a lot" stuff 18 months ago.

And we gave him the #9 shirt, played him and he looked like a shit 14 year old. Again.

 

[Carsy]

Thing is we heard all this "I'm a new man now, my time away made me grow up a lot" stuff 18 months ago.

And we gave him the #9 shirt, played him and he looked like a shit 14 year old. Again.

Just PR drivel isn’t it, can’t really expect him to say much else. Even 18 months ago hardly going to say ‘yeah I’m young, grown ups bully me’ etc etc

No idea how he’s performing now mind apart from a quick google search. He’s fairly irrelevant to us now apart from hopefully recouping a little bit back.

Just a stupid signing all round

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't think we'll get anything. No-one is going to pay us a fee and match his stupid wages, so it'll be one more year out on loan then his contract will run out.

I knew nothing about him when he signed. I paid £10 to watch a stream of a League Cup tie to see what we'd bought. Appropriately enough that too was a stupid purchase that I immediately regretted.

 

[AndyWolves]

Thing is we heard all this "I'm a new man now, my time away made me grow up a lot" stuff 18 months ago.

And we gave him the #9 shirt, played him and he looked like a shit 14 year old. Again.

He still behaved like a dick as recently as Rangers.

 

[AndyWolves]

That said, I love for him to grow up a bit and do something in the game so he's not just remembered as a monument to Jeff's hubris

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't think he has the ability.

He can wang on all he likes about how he's young but the reality is that he's 23 soon and averages around 1 goal every 5 games (and most of them are in Belgium, Scotland and the Netherlands). Harry Kane always gets stated as a late bloomer, when he was 22/23 he scored 25 Premier League goals in a season (having scored 21 the year before).

 

[Lycan]

Liking to tell everyone how grown up and mature you are isn't a very grown up and mature trait really.

 

[wanderer89]

Ah, so it was an unprovoked attack, and by you too.

Just shows how "thick skinned" I am, I don't even notice when I'm getting stick.

Love you x

 

[YoungWolf]

7 goals (and 2 assists) in 17 games in La Liga for a 22 year old in a relegation battling team is pretty good tbf. He’s definitely increased his value. I don’t think it would take much for us to let him go mind

 

[Kenny]

I don’t think it would take much for us to let him go mind

Can we buy him?
Yes...God please take him
/saga ends

 

[Lycan]

7 goals (and 2 assists) in 17 games in La Liga for a 22 year old in a relegation battling team is pretty good tbf. He’s definitely increased his value. I don’t think it would take much for us to let him go mind

Yep, Strand Larsen got 13 in 37 for a similar side as a 24 year old last year and we're paying €27M for him.

Somebody will give us something for him in the summer.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yep, Strand Larsen got 13 in 37 for a similar side as a 24 year old last year and we're paying €27M for him.

Somebody will give us something for him in the summer.

Is Jorgen Strand Larsen on £90k a week?

I doubt he is.

 

[sycophantia]

Can we buy him?
Yes...God please take him
/saga ends

Hmm, not sure the saga will ever end, it will carry on long after he's gone in fact probably long after we've gone.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Is Jorgen Strand Larsen on £90k a week?

I doubt he is.

Probably 60 or 70 though?

 

[Carsy]

I don't think we'll get anything. No-one is going to pay us a fee and match his stupid wages, so it'll be one more year out on loan then his contract will run out.

I knew nothing about him when he signed. I paid £10 to watch a stream of a League Cup tie to see what we'd bought. Appropriately enough that too was a stupid purchase that I immediately regretted.

Football manager lied to me. Was dead excited about the signing but when you take off the tinted glasses, buying anyone, no matter the potential who probably wouldn’t be ‘ready’ for 3 years, as your record signing, affecting you signing other players, is just a silly decision.

I’m fairly sure we have a years option on him to? Might be lucky to get 10m as part of a mendes merry go round

 

[Sniffer]

“The idea was to stay two or three years at Porto and play some games. But in football I didn’t control some things and, in that moment, I couldn’t do anything.”

He needs to be blaming his old man who was quite happy to send him packing whilst ensuring they were all were set up for life. If his son’s welfare and development was his prime concern then he wouldn’t have let him leave. I’m sure that no guns were pointed at them.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

“The idea was to stay two or three years at Porto and play some games. But in football I didn’t control some things and, in that moment, I couldn’t do anything.”

He needs to be blaming his old man who was quite happy to send him packing whilst ensuring they were all were set up for life. If his son’s welfare and development was his prime concern then he wouldn’t have let him leave. I’m sure that no guns were pointed at them.

Imagine though...

Your son could be made for life at 17, or he stays, smashes his knee and that's it, career stunted or ended.

His dad mate the right decision for his kid overall, but not his career.

 

[Lycan]

Football manager lied to me. Was dead excited about the signing but when you take off the tinted glasses, buying anyone, no matter the potential who probably wouldn’t be ‘ready’ for 3 years, as your record signing, affecting you signing other players, is just a silly decision.

I’m fairly sure we have a years option on him to? Might be lucky to get 10m as part of a mendes merry go round

Thing is, generational talents do exist. Look at Lamine Yamal or even in the Portuguese League right now Geovani Quenda or Rodrigo Mora. Unfortunately, bigish lads who bang in goals for fun at youth level but then can't make the grade in men's football are far more common.

If we were paying that kind of money for the kind of impact a Lamal or Quenda can have even at that age it would've been fine but Silva was never going to be that.