Matheus Cunha

[Matt]

Well the January gamble lasted two whole weeks. Bravo Wolves.

Gutted for Matheus after showing such great form for the past couple of months. Hopefully we see him again in a month or so.

 

[Titch]

Who said that?

Heard from someone last night

 

[Golden_Wolf]

gutted, and the disappointment from january becomes much more now.

This. That's a big blow to gate crashing European places & progressing in the FA Cup.

 

[MikeH68]

There you go some wouldn’t listen to concerns over no cover and risking the loans of two strikers before replacement(s). Hwang has always had injury problems, currently calf issue. Flogged Cunha to death.
I guess we can look forward to Bellagarde or Frazier being a replacement(s) or starter(s). Sorry to be gloomy but this could put our season to bed.

 

[Bill McCai]

I'd have thought Yuri Alberto, Che Adams, Danny Ings or Hugo Ekitike could step in. Nothing to see here.

 

[Sketchead]

League season was over about a month ago (thankfully) as relegation concerns got put to bed, but a real shame about the FA Cup. Hopefully we can squeak past Brighton, get a favourable draw and have him back for mid-April.

 

[thommo1984]

Reading between the lines im guessing at 4 weeks

4 weeks would be an absolute miracle (aka no chance)

 

[Summer_Wolf]

Huge blow. But but but but we didn't need a striker apparently

 

[Ned]

There you go some wouldn’t listen to concerns over no cover and risking the loans of two strikers before replacement(s). Hwang has always had injury problems, currently calf issue. Flogged Cunha to death.
I guess we can look forward to Bellagarde or Frazier being a replacement(s) or starter(s). Sorry to be gloomy but this could put our season to bed.

I agree with this apart from you can’t really say we flogged Cunha to death. What we did was play our best player when he was fit and available as often as possible. Every club plays their best players.

But yea, everything else is completely stupid and self inflicted by the club.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

Gutted.

We all knew something like this could happen.

Another magnificent opportunity wasted by our owners.

 

[GoldenHorseshoe]

I'm hoping no news might mean good news......

I'm taking the silence as a bad sign

How to illustrate MolMix in two posts...

How does the song go?

"If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all"

 

[Ned]

I mean… this is a massive blow whichever way you look at it but it should have the caveat attached that it’s a great opportunity for Fabio and/or Sasa to stake a claim and have a run of games.

 

[Bognor_Wolf]

Might be me being cynical but interesting that O'Neil is the one coming out with this news given it isn't in his pre match press conference or anything. One might think we have made a big mistake in January and they don't want to own it and send O'Neil out to break the bad news instead....

 

[WolfLing]

'Fairly significant' is not very specific and could mean anything. In that it's not something he will recover from straight away and will keep him out for some games, but maybe not that many. Or it could be much longer.

I'm hoping that Wolves have learnt a lesson from the Neto injury.

Rather than say a couple of weeks (albeit that was Pedro himself), for it to then be a couple of months, always under-promise and over-deliver!

 

[Starsky]

The only positive I can think of is that it doesn't sound like he needs an op.

 

[Matt]

SSN saying likely out for the season.

 

[Sketchead]

I mean… this is a massive blow whichever was you look at it but it should have the caveat attached that it’s a great opportunity for Fabio and/or Sasa to stake a claim and have a run of games.

Wouldn't be half as bad news if at least one of them was still here. Finally, a chance for one of them to play 5/6 games in a row, with no real pressure given we're midtable.

Alas, step forward Nathan Fraser, who was set to go on loan to a team just outside the League One relegation zone just two weeks ago. I fear for him if he plays league games, the fan base will destroy his confidence by the end of the season, and it won't be his fault.

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

I'm sorry, but some of this is way over the top.

First he's played 2292 minutes for Wolves and 36 minutes for Brazil this season. That's 2328 minutes in total or less than 26 full games. So we haven't 'flogged him to death'.

Also he's not been played as the 9 recently. The positive option is Cunha and Neto with a Hwang down the middle. If we'd bought a new 9 that would still be the same, but maybe Hwang would have gone off or switched to the Cunha role, which doesn't suit him at all. So the failure to bring in a 9 doesn't really weaken us that much. Bellegarde and Sarabia will cover the deeper attacking role and Hwang or Fraser will lead the line.

That's not excusing the club, or saying everything is ideal, but things are nowhere near as disasterous and some seem to think.

If Neto is injured as well then the lack of pace up top will really hurt us, but I don't think we were ever looking for a quick 9, and Silva and Sasa certainly wouldn't have covered that need.

 

[sc91]

Well the January gamble lasted two whole weeks. Bravo Wolves.

Gutted for Matheus after showing such great form for the past couple of months. Hopefully we see him again in a month or so.

You do realise we tried and finances didn't work in our favour, I mean a point deduction sounds fun and all but I'd rather not.

 

[WolfLing]

One positive, we can play a 3-4-1-2, with Hwang and Neto up top, and Sarabia or Bellegarde in their favoured number 10 role.

 

[sc91]

Wouldn't be half as bad news if at least one of them was still here. Finally, a chance for one of them to play 5/6 games in a row, with no real pressure given we're midtable.

Alas, step forward Nathan Fraser, who was set to go on loan to a team just outside the League One relegation zone just two weeks ago. I fear for him if he plays league games, the fan base will destroy his confidence by the end of the season, and it won't be his fault.

Well that's on the fanbase, no?

On the latter, yeah, lets proceed with players who aren't going to be here, or don't wish to be here, that's very forward thinking.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

I'm sorry, but some of this is way over the top.

First he's played 2292 minutes for Wolves and 36 minutes for Brazil this season. That's 2328 minutes in total or less than 26 full games. So we haven't 'flogged him to death'.

Also he's not been played as the 9 recently. The positive option is Cunha and Neto with a Hwang down the middle. If we'd bought a new 9 that would still be the same, but maybe Hwang would have gone off or switched to the Cunha role, which doesn't suit him at all. So the failure to bring in a 9 doesn't really weaken us that much. Bellegarde and Sarabia will cover the deeper attacking role and Hwang or Fraser will lead the line.

That's not excusing the club, or saying everything is ideal, but things are nowhere near as disasterous and some seem to think.

If Neto is injured as well then the lack of pace up top will really hurt us, but I don't think we were ever looking for a quick 9, and Silva and Sasa certainly wouldn't have covered that need.

Hwang would obviously have gone into Cunha’s role and he would’ve been good there.

The results will prove whether it’s disastrous.

 

[Skrilla]

Whoever we could have signed in January was not replacing Cunha’s output. We just need to hope that Sarabia-Neto-Hwang can perform to a similar level, as we coped well without Neto. I’m not convinced we will, as Cunha is by far our most important player. A real shame. Gutted.

 

[Rabid Wolf]

SSN saying likely out for the season.

So back in a month then.

 

[Matt]

You do realise we tried and finances didn't work in our favour, I mean a point deduction sounds fun and all but I'd rather not.

That’s a pretty extreme take, isn’t it? Nobody was advocating for us to go and spend a fortune on players in January - just to get cover, and specifically to get cover before we let our existing cover leave. We took a risk and it’s backfired within two weeks.

 

[lets all have a disco]

Stick Lemina in false 9........he would cause problems....with Hwang n Neto running the channels.....

 

[sc91]

That’s a pretty extreme take, isn’t it? Nobody was advocating for us to go and spend a fortune on players in January - just to get cover, and specifically to get cover before we let our existing cover leave. We took a risk and it’s backfired within two weeks.

And the club tried to get cover, the finances didn't work, so we haven't got any.

That's the crux. Not sure what part consistently keep going over your head?

 

[Aimless Balls]

Heard from someone last night

3 month hamstring injury is horrible, I don’t know how he could’ve walked off. Hope that’s wrong.

 

[thommo1984]

One positive, we can play a 3-4-1-2, with Hwang and Neto up top, and Sarabia or Bellegarde in their favoured number 10 role.

Yeah think we have to tweak the formation without Cunha, there's nobody to replicate what he does for us.

 

[Jefe]

We all knew something like this could happen. Another magnificent opportunity wasted by our owners.

It's weird - Jeff Shi disasterclasses usually take longer than a fortnight to manifest. This must be a record.

 

[thommo1984]

Stick Lemina in false 9........he would cause problems....with Hwang n Neto running the channels.....

lol no

 

[WalsallWolf]

I have no sympathy for the club but obviously every sympathy for Cunha who has been fantastic. Equally I have as much sympathy for Gary O'Neill.

The club has known for 7, 8, is it even 9 windows now? We desperately require(d) centre forward additions.

It is genuinely to the point now of being funny that they have not addressed it.

I am actually starting to think it is all just one big wind up from Jeff. We didn't take to his generational ego trip talent, so he won't back anyone else. And yes, I realise how ridiculous of a suggestion that is, but certainly no more ridiculous than us not having signed a centre forward, again.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

And the club tried to get cover, the finances didn't work, so we haven't got any.

That's the crux. Not sure what part consistently keep going over your head?

We don’t really care about ‘tried’ and it’s a very vague word in your sentence. Did they try? How hard did they try, if they did?

That’s without going into letting players leave before or even the finances. You seem to know more than John Percy, Gary O’Neil and Johnny Phillips who have all indicated there was money to sign players.

Anyway, it’s about what actually happens.

Once again, they’ve delivered a disastrous window which was all their own doing.

 

[A3wolf]

One positive, we can play a 3-4-1-2, with Hwang and Neto up top, and Sarabia or Bellegarde in their favoured number 10 role.

Or have Doyle, Lemina and Gomes in with Hwang and Neto up top with Boub to cover in midfield from the bench.

 

[Matt]

And the club tried to get cover, the finances didn't work, so we haven't got any.

That's the crux. Not sure what part consistently keep going over your head?

Nothing is going over my head, why do you always talk down to people? Does it make you feel big and clever?

The finances didn’t work, so they shouldn’t have let our existing cover go until we’d found a solution where the finances did work. That’s my opinion, it differs from yours.

 

[CelebrityWolf]

Dunno why anyone thinks keeping Silva or Sasa would make up for the loss of Cunha.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Nothing is going over my head, why do you always talk down to people? Does it make you feel big and clever?

The finances didn’t work, so they shouldn’t have let our existing cover go until we’d found a solution where the finances did work. That’s my opinion, it differs from yours.

Certainly all of our even vaguely experienced cover. They gambled that a freakishly good injury record could be maintained and lost.... Just as they did when Nuno was boss.....

We don’t really care about ‘tried’ and it’s a very vague word in your sentence. Did they try? How hard did they try, if they did?

That’s without going into letting players leave before or even the finances. You seem to know more than John Percy, Gary O’Neil and Johnny Phillips who have all indicated there was money to sign players.

Anyway, it’s about what actually happens.

Once again, they’ve delivered a disastrous window which was all their own doing.

The lost prize money resulting from finishing three or four places lower will probably amount to more than the cost of cover.

 

[MickHolmesFanClub]

It's clearly a massive blow losing, in my opinion, our best player but he has not been playing as a number 9 (which is the area everybody was screaming about in January).
He was, undoubtedly, pivotal to how we've been playing but GON will now have to find another way to set the team up. That will be a challenge.

I was never very optimistic about us pushing on into a European spot but I was hopeful of going very deep in the FA Cup. I am quite pessimistic about that now but hope I'm proven wrong and others can step up

 

[Jefe]

And the club tried to get cover, the finances didn't work, so we haven't got any. Not sure what part consistently keep going over your head?

Oh, my sweet, Summer child...

 

[sc91]

We don’t really care about ‘tried’ and it’s a very vague word in your sentence. Did they try? How hard did they try, if they did?

That’s without going into letting players leave before or even the finances. You seem to know more than John Percy, Gary O’Neil and Johnny Phillips who have all indicated there was money to sign players.

Anyway, it’s about what actually happens.

Once again, they’ve delivered a disastrous window which was all their own doing.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how thrilling has his injury been for you for that sweet chance to go 'I told you so'.

Jibes aside, I'm sorry, but all they do is try? You do realise you can have money, try and the deal not come off. I could have £50 but that isn't going to buy me a £100 meal.

Nothing is going over my head, why do you always talk down to people? Does it make you feel big and clever?

The finances didn’t work, so they shouldn’t have let our existing cover go until we’d found a solution where the finances did work. That’s my opinion, it differs from yours.

Talk down? Why do you persist on the same points regardless, the same people, doom and gloom ready to go.

It's your opinion, great, best thing about them, they're like ********s in that everyone has one, just varying amounts of **** comes out of them.