The Wolverhampton Gazette
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Gomes was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Wolverhampton
Luiz Henrique and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kieran Trippier falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Kieran Trippier
7.66, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Wolverhampton had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
Sam Johnstone’s loan is measured in nothing happening
10 clean sheets from 15 appearances at Bloemfontein Celtic. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Joshua Stewart was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Wolverhampton dressing room was either.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Jackson Tchatchoua knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jackson Tchatchoua trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match14 Nov 2026
Wolverhampton and Newcastle United cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Newcastle United came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Rodrigo Gomes story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rodrigo Gomes signs something — a contract at Wolverhampton or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Looking ahead Kieran Trippier faces his old club
- The dugout Hugo Bueno gets picked when it counts
- Squad Jackson Tchatchoua called up by his country