RUMOUR - McDermott to Wolves

[CayeneMatt]

Brillaint article by WIMB on Tilehurst End - sums it all up for me. Will not blame Brian if he goes but really hope that RFC see his value and give him a matching contract to stay.

http://thetilehurstend.co.uk/2012/02/21 ... n-a-royal/

Agree. A worryingly good article and one that actually makes a very good point as to why McD should/could leave...

[TBM]

So around the same time he was on BBCRB?!

Just 45 minutes later. If Twitter was the first he heard about it then how did he do the interview first?

Depends how you read his tweet.........to me, he is saying he's just seen the messages on twitter about McD but its the first he has heard about the story (ie, nothing from within the club or from McD himself)

[No Hoops]

So around the same time he was on BBCRB?!

Just 45 minutes later. If Twitter was the first he heard about it then how did he do the interview first?

Depends how you read his tweet.........to me, he is saying he's just seen the messages on twitter about McD but its the first he has heard about the story (ie, nothing from within the club or from McD himself)

my phone says tweeted 4 hrs ago, got it as I arrived at work at 08.30 so timing seems right

[Royal Rother]

Christ, I fcuking HATE Twitter and everything it stands for.

Pile of shit.

All these wakners following what footballers and sports "journalists" etc. are Tweeting and trying to get ahead of the news by doing so but only result in exaggerated nonsense getting airtime - OMG, get a fcuking life. Piss off and do something constructive you parasites.

Sorry, that's just a dumbed down version of Mr A's articulate rant earlier, but I felt the need to get it off my chest.

Carry on.

[Hoop Blah]

F**k me Cobi, he talked about it on the radio man. Are you saying he's that thick that he had a 5 minute conversation about something without knowing he did it?

Listen back to the interview on the BBC iPlayer if you have any doubts, but does it really matter if he heard about it first from twitter or the radio researcher/producer tee-ing up his interview? He knew about it at 8.45, and talked about it saying exactly what the BBC quoted him as saying.

[holsgrove breaks a leg]

I have met Brian when I did some work for him in 2004. He was a genuine nice guy as you would expect.

However, it would be delusional for anyone on this forum to think that any manager or player has any loyalty to a club beyond their pay cheque. RFC gave Pardew his first chance but as soon as West Ham came offering to triple his salary (and that is about right BTW) he was off and so would any of you if that sort of thing happened to you. Ditto McGhee...

The only difference now is that, with the arrival of Anton, Reading could now compete with Wolves on the salary front if the board really want to keep Brian. Add to that the prospect of promotion this year and the further prospect of actually having money to spend to strengthen the squad in the summer and I would suggest that Wolves are a less attractive option than Reading, assuming they are both offering the manager a similar pay package.

If he does go, we may now be seriously able to attract Curbishly or similar. Football is a revolving door and the only constant is the fans and whilst i would prefer Brian to stay and finish what he started, money talks and talent walks. If Wolves offer to triple Brians salary and Reading won't match it, I would be amazed if he didn't go there.

Clearly the loyalty issue is one which is misty eyed by fans, and in the case of BM for good reason. For me though its not so much the loyalty issue itself re BM but questioning his decision making skills in all this. I had Wolves down for a bad season at the beggining, and if they are relegated it would leave BM looking a bit silly as well as the owner(s!) at RFC. I could understand it if BM had really taken RFC as far as possible, we were a mid table team and there was no more room for maneouvre in terms of finance, but the introduction of investment has (alledgly) enabled us to keep a now stable team and streghthen as necessary. I worry what TSI have had to do with this and whether visions both sides have been skewed - it is all very quiet. Back when Pards and Mcghee left in hindsight you could annoyingly understand it, we were back in Elm Park and were novices of the championship even under pards. However we are now an established champ side with premiership 'experience' (virtually as much as Wolves tbf) and with the apparent finacial muscle to start competing. If it is the' pull' of the premiership, i find it very frustrating that BM would settle for anything as long as it is premiership, the kind of thing we were facing with departing players (Doyle, Hunt to Wolves, Bikey to Burnley Sonko to Stoke as eg's) and for a vast majority of them it hasn't worked out and the grass has not been greener. If its not the lure of premiership football, i can only see something behind the scenes with TSI ownership. If BM does go, its a step back considering where we have got to as a squad and no amount of money can guarantee this rebuild.

[Cobi]

F**k me Cobi, he talked about it on the radio man. Are you saying he's that thick that he had a 5 minute conversation about something without knowing he did it?

He's Oirish so you never can be to careful. And thanks for the offer!

[No Hoops]

Christ, I fcuking HATE Twitter and everything it stands for.

Pile of shit.

All these wakners following what footballers and sports "journalists" etc. are Tweeting and trying to get ahead of the news by doing so but only result in exaggerated nonsense getting airtime - OMG, get a fcuking life. Piss off and do something constructive you parasites.

Sorry, that's just a dumbed down version of Mr A's articulate rant earlier, but I felt the need to get it off my chest.

Carry on.

#calmdownmate

[TBM]

Iain Dowie would be my 1st choice if McD goes.....

[Royal Lady]

Iain Dowie would be my 1st choice if McD goes.....

No-one is biting m8!!

[Platypuss]

Iain Dowie has been my 351st choice if McD goes.....

[TBM]

[under the tin]

If the bloke's been offered the chance to take a higher profile job with a bigger club on more money, then he'd need certifying if he didn't have a look.
It's called career progression.

The food chain in football is not limited to playing assets.

[MmmMonsterMunch]

I cannot put into words how much I hate Wolverhampton Wanderers. Just fcuk off.

JM & TSI need to immediately put their hands in their pockets & cough up exactly what Wolves have offered. This is a disaster. I've not been online all weekend & come back to this. Not happy.

Surely BM has a sense of giving something back to us after us giving him this opportunity? The fans up there are pricks - will be on his back pretty sharpish if things don't go right straight away as well.

I genuinely don't see how this is a step up - £ available should we get to the Prem will surely be the same if not better than Wolves wouldn't it?

Perhaps this takeover stuff has got him rattled & he doesn't feel secure. He wasn't jumping for joy about TSI was he?

GUTTED.

The fact Brian hasn't come out to quash the rumours is worrying as well.

FCUK YOU WOLVES.

[79Royal]

It’s only right that he goes and talks to Wolves, then comes back and has a chat with Zingo before making a decision. If he says no without talking to them, he may be left pondering on what might have been and that won’t do us any good anyway. If he does go, we can only really question the board for not giving him a better contract. A year to year rolling contract may have worked for Coppell, but that doesn’t mean McDermott is happy with it.

For all the signings in January, McDermott’s signature should have been top of the list. Easy to say with hindsight, I guess.

[Hoop Blah]

Just as a side point, with all the talk of why he should stay now we have oodles of money from TSI, I still don't think that's quite the case.

They've said there is money available etc yes, but they've not said they're throwing silly money at things so I don't quite see the founding in RFC now being this major force that McDermott would be a fool to leave.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Still no clear Fav in the betting

Clark 10/3
Bruce 7/2
McDermott 4/1
Poyet 10/1

[Uke]

For all the signings in January, McDermott’s signature should have been top of the list. Easy to say with hindsight, I guess.

Unless it wasn't top of TSI's list; or, having talked "football" to 1 am in the morning , McD didn't want to commit to the new Messiah after realising he may wish to influence team selection rather too heavily


I'm amazed how many people believed the platitudes at the "takeover" press conference

[MmmMonsterMunch]

JM has said on SSN that Wolves have not as yet made an approach to speak to Brian so there is clearly a lot of BS being reported.

Please stay Brian! God this would be truly awful if he went.

I can only hope that the Wolves chairman decides he needs someone with PL experience who will be ready for a dogfight & not a rookie.

Uke - agreed. Brian was less than enthused about TSI.

[sandman]

A year to year rolling contract may have worked for Coppell, but that doesn’t mean McDermott is happy with it.

Why sign it then?