Welcome to Wolves Tommy Doyle

[Dinowolf]

Welcome to Wolves Tommy

 

[BillyDee]

He might get a bit distracted around Halloween...

 

[The Bear]

The issue is where does he play. He's not an advanced attacking midfielder, he was more of a deeper player at Sheff Utd, while Berge and Mcatee got forwards ahead of him.

With Lemina, Gomes and Cunha making up the central three, who does he replace?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

With Lemina, Gomes and Cunha making up the central three, who does he replace?

Whichever one is suspended

 

[Lycan]

The issue is where does he play. He's not an advanced attacking midfielder, he was more of a deeper player at Sheff Utd, while Berge and Mcatee got forwards ahead of him.

With Lemina, Gomes and Cunha making up the central three, who does he replace?

Squad game. Lemina/Gomes/Boubacar/Doyle is good midfield depth. Hodge as 5th choice if Reed doesn't come in.

 

[Jinky]

We’ve taken up the option to sign him permanently. I know others aren’t completely sold on him, but I think he’s a good squad option & at the agreed price - it’s a no brainer.

 

[Tony Towner]

As you say a no brainer at the price. I think he could go on to have a reasonable career as a mid to lower PL player in a team who set up to maximise his strengths and hide his weaknesses, he reminds me of Will Hughes in that sense. I don't think that will in a GON Wolves team though the identity of which seems to be about timed pace and intensity in and out of possession

 

[Del Woppio]

Yeah he's clearly far from perfect for how we want to play but at <£5m it would have been braindead not to sign the kid for depth and flipping in a year or two

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Bargain at that price. Tidy player, good squad option and should make a decent profit if we sell him on.

 

[Sniffer]

I like him, think he's a good player but echo the thoughts of other regarding his suitability to our starting set ups. Not really mobile enough to be played to be as a starter in a 2 man central midfield, not quite creative enough as the spare man in a 3 in games where we are expected to have more possession, and Traore is already ahead of him in games in a 3 where we aren't expected to have the ball.
He doesn't let us down when he plays though and is a good squad option.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Strange that we've announced it today?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Strange that we've announced it today?

Could be any number of reasons

- Something like appearances/our finishing position/whatever triggered the clause

- Might be we can now put it into this year's PSR calculations so there's more room next year (Cunha went into 22/23 despite not officially joining until 1 July 2023)

- We have nothing better to put out there and it's broadly speaking positive news

- Someone else had shown an interest and we just wanted to head that off

Not unprecedented either, we announced Helder Costa and Raul before their loan was up, possibly Jota and Jonny too from memory

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786321369027825729

 

[AndyWolves]

Floor raiser rather than ceiling raiser, to borrow from gully on twitter

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Tbf our lowest ranked CM a year ago was Joe Hodge. He's not a floor, he's the earth's core.

I do like Doyle, but there's a lot of work to do with his defensive game. Can't be letting players run off you so easily, especially if you're playing deep. There lies the road to becoming Kevin McDonald.

 

[AndyWolves]

I think that's teachable / learnable so hopefully something he adds to his game. He seems like someone who is willing to listen and learn too.

 

[Johnny75]

I think that's teachable / learnable so hopefully something he adds to his game. He seems like someone who is willing to listen and learn too.

Sometimes players are limited by their physical ability.

He strikes me as one of those types of players.