Wolves have bid for Johnson rejected

Ad mant Blues have slapped 14 million on Johnson as ive said before on another post , We cant be splashing that kind of money on players , especially as hes not worth 14 million , 6-8 is probably realistic for him , Wolves wont be hung out to dry for a player and ill back that all day long , if we cant afford a player we cant afford him , the only names any of us have linked has been Danns Johnson and Bougherra and we have been linked with 1 already , so if we cant afford him we wont afford danns either , we keep going on bout defence being our priority but none of you on here has mentioned 1 single defender other than the above ( Bougherra i mentioned ) that we should go for , names anyone ???????????????

Scarf so you would be happy Wolves start paying way above the odds for players and stupid wages just so we survive a little easier than last year but puts our club in danger financially , trust me Morgan wont allow it and our club is run RIGHT , yes we need defenders and McCartby is doing what we all want him too do in signing players of Johnsons calibre , but if the price is too much what can we do !

he wont be signing for wolves anyway, there are better teams in for him

Stearman gives more away than 3 other names you mentioned put together , he is our Titus Bramble ! , Ward came as a striker and proved he is more effective further up the field but the fact he can do a job on the wing or at full back means hes a valuable " young " squad player , I agree with Berra and hope he could be part of a deal to bring Bougherra to Molinuex , Villa are about to lose Young so players are hardly going to think Vile are a team looking forward ! , I dont think selling our forward players as Southbank seems to hint at is the way , why weaken another area by strengthening another , We have bid 6 million for Johnson which is a high starting bid which tells me there is a couple more million in reserve to add on , Bougherra wont cost much , neither will Upson to start off with so i would rather him concentrate on getting those 2 and spend what money is left on a left back , Warnock from Vile aint happy and he woould definately tick the box !

I fully agree about our great need for a quality CH to play alongside Stearman. While Stears did make a few mistakes when he first started playing after Craddock got injured, it must be remembered that he had not played in the first team since being sent off against Liverpool the previous season. Also he did this without having a top quality defender to play alongside - just Berra who IMO is not good enough to be anything more than a squad player. The other poster who compared Stearman with Bramble is myopic IMHO. At times Stearman looked to be an excellent player and partnered with a top signing such as Johnson, Upson or similar would greatly benefit and grow into a fine central defender. I genuinely believe that Stearman will develop into a top Premier League defender and play for England. I hope and pray that he achieves this with Wolves rather than another club.

Well if your on about Upson being responsible like the rest for being relegated the same has to be said for Johnson ??? , Everyone has different tastes on players i understand that and yes Upson is 32 , but could still do a job for a year or 2 in my eyes , personally as previously stated id prefer Johnson and Bougherra but we will have to wait and see , Stearman has plenty of pace and heart but the man does not know how to stay on his feet , he dives in far too much and you cant take that out of a player , i have never seen a player give so many free kicks away for going into the back of forwards , ohhhh hang on i have Berra hahaha , he is young so maybe he could improve but it needs to be a hell of a lot to change my thinking and England ????? are you bonkers lol , as for England V Germany , I'll always blame Gazza's second yellow as his game changed and if he went with his left foot instead of right in 96 euro's we would have won , see even the best players this countrys ever had has fecked up for England , Keegan ? Astle ? Rooney ? Ince ? Southgate ? we could rattle em off all very very good players but remembered for 1 mistake !

Yeah because you watched every minute of West Hams games didn't you lol , Fromm what i had seen that team was poor from goalie to forward and only since Grant and the Icelandic idiot took over , Under Zola Upson was immense as was most others at Upton Park , the squad West Ham have should have finished mid table at least , in there case the buck definately stops with the manager !!! go check there squad and tell me a good manager would not keep that lot up !

Im debating and your being childish by making it personal , whats the matter dont you like someone not agreeing with you ? I'll hold my hands up and admit the haters word i said was wrong of me but i was sick of people being negative towards McCarthy of whom im an admirer ok , so yeah im going to stand up for the bloke when i think people are constantly knocking the fella , so are you telling me with the squad West Ham have , they would not stop up if managed right ?? , or you going to reply with a personal attack once more ??

These spats remind me of the Express & Star website which is why I came here in the first place. I really could not give a flying fiddlers if someone does not agree with me. I try to read people's opinions and even those I know I am going to disagree with from the off, I try to find something decent in it. Respect others opinions and let's not take each others as a personal attack on our own. For the record I will say again that the money is there to be spent. The club are sensibly playing it down but in all reality if they are going to improve next season the man at the top must know that a manager such as Mick will need 20 million to realize that improvement. How David Moyes would be jealous, all these millions being bandied around, and our arguement is not steering his side to how many top eight finishes in a row now? After assembling a great young squad, then building on it to the tune of 18 million we are all still worried about the prospect of a third relegation battle. We should not have to spend another 20 million to feel any sense of confidence we can finish reasonably, 12th or so, but that is what has become of us. I think we lost 55% of our games last year- the relegated sides all lost less than us. It would usually prove a recipe for complete disaster but oddly enough we secured one huge win after another against the top sides but what are the chances of that being repeated next season? They win titles and finish in the top 6 every year because they dont make a habit of losing to teams like us. Dont expect a trend to develop. If we can get Upson on a free we have saved 3 mil already in my book. He definately has a couple of years in him no doubt. He would also vastly improve us ahead of next season. I thought Berra and Stearman were greatly improving but they are at that awkward stage where they are not in my opinion quiet there. We need 3 defenders, simple as. This player for me in todays market, if we had to pay 8 milliion I would. No one is taking 14 million realistically so 8? yes. Then look left.

Ditto

Word is we are after Matt Mills,Reading centre back.

We should have sneaked in when you first recommended him to us, Oddjob! What's Mills like: from the reports he looks a good prospect but don't we need the finished article?

Discussion here used to be more like discussion of gentlemen just a month ago.... Lets return to that, we all support the same Wolves !