Wolves worst signings

[PuntsWolf]

After another masterclass from Hwang and Trincao. I want to see if I’m just being very short sighted/reactionary.

Has there ever been worse signings for Wolves? (assuming we trigger Trincao, Barca have us by the ball now so I think we will so they pay for Traore).

Johnson and O’Hara spring to mind. But not a single person would have been against them at the time. O Hara had a good loan spell and Johnson had a good season and we didn’t have the luxury of ‘try before you buy’. In hindsight it was obvious why he did well at Blues (deep line, good GK, decent DMs protecting) and obviously sometimes signings just don’t work out.

Cutrone another. The scouting on that one is truly horrific.

I think Hwang and Trincao trump all these though. Are their any worse?

 

[Lycan]

£13M on Hoever. Thirteen million fucking pounds.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Robert Taylor

 

[Tuco]

Robert Taylor

This puts in into context for me. We're 8th in the Premier League, we've seen a lot worse.

 

[Jabbawolf]

£13M on Hoever. Thirteen million fucking pounds.

£13-14M seems our sweet spot for having our pants pulled down.

 

[Johnny75]

Paul Blades, Darren Ward, Frankowski, Roussel, Gladon, Mason, Atkins, Helan, Holt, Sagbo, Pennant (fuck off Jez you cunt), Dowe, Leon, Eastwood, Small, Zubar the list is as long as Mr Tickle's arms.

Now we can comfortably add Cutrone, Hwank and Trincao to that list.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Cutrone, Claridge (cunt), Simon Coleman, Valejo, Frankowski,

(nice, weird mixture of old and new there...)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Kevin Ashley when £500k was big money (especially for us)

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

In summary, there are A LOT of worse signings than Trincao and Hwang. Hwang has actually won us some points this season. Many of the above could barely complete a pass, let alone score goals in the Prem.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Paul Blades, Darren Ward, Frankowski, Roussel, Gladon, Mason, Atkins, Helan, Holt, Sagbo, Pennant (fuck off Jez you cunt), Dowe, Leon, Eastwood, Small, Zubar the list is as long as Mr Tickle's arms.

A lot of those cheap and on loan. Signing Hwang is like watching Pennant be garbage and then still paying £5m for him.

It’s truly one of the most baffling piece of business I’ve ever seen. And I don’t even think I know one person who thinks differently!

 

[Tom Hark]

Frank Nouble

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

A lot of those cheap and on loan. Signing Hwang is like watching Pennant be garbage and then still paying £5m for him.

It’s truly one of the most baffling piece of business I’ve ever seen. And I don’t even think I know one person who thinks differently!

Frankowski, Roussel, Atkins (who got better) and Eastwood weren't cheap, not relative to where we were at the time and what clubs around us were spending.

 

[YoungWolf]

Cutrone will go down as extremely poor value for money

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Directly replacing Alex Rae with Olofinjana. Sake.

 

[The Bear]

Paul Gladon

 

[Nando]

Tongo Doumbia.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Frankowski, Roussel, Atkins (who got better) and Eastwood weren't cheap, not relative to where we were at the time and what clubs around us were spending.

Of course not, hence why I said “a lot” not “all”.

Rousell wasn’t bad on paper, scored a few goals in the PL. Frankowski had success everywhere he’d been and the fee wasn’t big. Eastwood also a decent record and reasonable fee.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Tongo Doumbia.

Similar to Hwang in that we pointlessly made the deal permanent ages before we had to. He'd already started to play like shit.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Tongo Doumbia.

Yep that’s up there. The resemblance is uncanny!

Bright start, fucking terrible, spend loads of money still for no reason.

 

[Tony Towner]

Spiers did a piece last week on historic costs reflected by football inflation. Corica was £15m.