John Carter

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30 May 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for John Carter

129 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Dylan Aquino is a Wolverhampton player

The fee is $40.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Lanús drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Wolverhampton sign Stefanos Tzimas for $22.3M

The paperwork is done: Stefanos Tzimas joins from Brighton in a deal worth $22.3M. Now comes the harder part.

Player ratings

Nothing got past André

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 33 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Geovany Quenda in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wolverhampton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Fer López in the eights

A performance of 9.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Raúl Jiménez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Geovany Quenda

Marked 8.84 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Wolverhampton find a way past Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town made Wolverhampton work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Axel Disasi

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

Back issues
127 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Enso González

Successful dribbles: 50. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

André Onana decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Wolverhampton boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match

Cup progress for Wolverhampton

A 2‑2 win over West Ham United, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Wolverhampton are in real trouble now

Position 16, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Remember the name: Geovany Quenda

He is 21, he is averaging 7.52, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad

Enso González keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Wolverhampton may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Ladislav Krejčí wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Wolverhampton hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Geovany Quenda in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wolverhampton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief