Jackson Tchatchoua

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16 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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 watch

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

Match

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.

Market

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

Back issues
15 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Wolverhampton sink to position 18

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Tempers go at Wolverhampton

Kieran Trippier was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Rodrigo Gomes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at Wolverhampton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bertrand Traoré is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Wolverhampton rescue it on 89 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 89. Sunderland had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match

Wolverhampton and Sunderland take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Loan watch

Nobody is scoring past Sam Johnstone at Bloemfontein Celtic

9 shut-outs in 14 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Sam Johnstone has been having a lot of them.

The dugout

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 1‑1, and nobody in the Wolverhampton dressing room was either.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about José Sá

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief