The Wolverhampton Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kieran Trippier
98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wolverhampton lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Eliás Montiel at Wolverhampton
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Eliás Montiel is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Wolverhampton
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad23 Aug 2027
David Møller Wolfe has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market23 Aug 2027
Wolverhampton promote Luke Brown from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luke Brown has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Michael Murray joins the Wolverhampton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Murray is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Alexander Ellis steps up from the Wolverhampton academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexander Ellis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Richard Watson joins the Wolverhampton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Watson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Wolverhampton board did not keep
- Boardroom The Wolverhampton production line keeps running
- Boardroom Wolverhampton spend it where nobody looks