Matt Doherty

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If he had plans they were not on buying players in time so they gel . Like Doc going to sours he will train with his teammates. Our signings the invisible man will do well to get to know his teammates. Not impressed this preseason at all. Should have had players lined up to come and quickly to...
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That last comment by doc is a kick in the *******s if u ask me


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I know he's got to say all that crap re. joining Spurs, but what a load of crap. No Matt, no you can't play in midfield, or in a back 4 or in a back 3. You are a wing back and Nuno made you. As for the rest of the comments, you're soon forgotten you wee snake

Christoffer With
One of the best days of Matts career leaving us.

Bye then Matt.You have peaked and you´ll get destroyed if they gonna play you in a back four.

Grass was greaner after ten seasons.Looking forward to beating Spurs I am.



Bill McCai said:

Matt Doherty: 'I'll give absolutely everything I can for this club' | Tottenham Hotspur
Matt Doherty sees his move to the Club as “a big step forward” after swapping old gold for new beginnings in north London.
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“Particularly graceless interview, especially the big club bull.

Hope we get in ANM now and embarass the **** out of him.“

Yee...Doh!
Just doesn't shut up
Rubbish fee, rubbish interview, I’m well and truly ****ed off. I would wish Matt good luck after all the things he’s done at Wolves, but reading that interview and given the fee likely means he was being a **** about the opportunity to move, then good ****ing riddance.









 
Conte bigging him up in his pre Villa game press conference...

"Matthew is the typical player that is showing big improvement. If you remember at the start he didn't play a lot with me because at that moment I think he didn't deserve to play. Then he worked very hard. He is a really good guy and in every training session you see the desire and the will to improve himself.

"He has a great mentality, many times when players don't play a lot they go down mentally. Instead he has shown me to be strong and shown me 'I do what you want, I am going to improve and when I am ready I want to play'. He has shown me that not with talking, but with attitude and behaviour. He is playing very well and with great confidence and I am very happy for him. It's a good example for everyone."
 
Serge to Doherty supporters/fanboys after watching this game...

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Afternoon all - a London-based Wolves fan here who had this thread shown to me by a Spurs supporting mate.

The relationship between Nuno-era Wolves and Doherty was a very odd one. Our system was very rigidly adjusted to accommodate Doc's weaknesses.

(1) he can't defend: (a) we'd always have Neves and/or Dendoncker and/or Moutinho drop in behind him, (b) he'd always have the right-sided centre half behind him, and (c) we played lop-sided 3-4-3/3-5-2, meaning Jonny (our left wing back) would typically stay deeper; and

(2) he can't cross.

Instead he was very good at linking play in the final third with the wide forward and getting into good scoring positions in the box. This is basically the only thing he can do to a Premier League standard - and I've noticed that he appears to be most at home in your team when linking up with Bale in and around the 18 yard area.

The reason he scored well in fantasy football is because he did very little defending (mercifully - he was a liability at the back), but you can pick him in your FF team as a defender.

He was a terrible signing for you - but he would have been for any PL team that didn't want to adapt their entire system to accommodate his League 1 quality defending*. Letting him go hasn't worked out as well for the Wolves as we would have liked because it's taking Semedo much longer than we would have expected to get up to speed (although he's had to spend most of his Wolves career trying to get used to playing with Adama, which can't be easy for anyone).

However, taking Doc out of our team has given us the freedom to adapt our style - something the club wants to prioritise following two seasons of counter-attacking football. In the medium-to-long term, no longer being hamstrung by carrying a League 1 defender* will only serve us well in my view. Because of Semedo's shaky start, other Wolves fans disagree and are clamouring for Doc to return. I think this is short-termism.

It seems to me that it was very lazy scouting which caused you guys to go in for him. He's a FF points machine, but it shouldn't have taken much digging to work out why.

Best of luck in the Europa - I've a sneaky feeling you'll win it and secure CL football. That would be classic Jose.


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*one of the most embarrassing defensive performances that I have ever seen in a Wolves shirt was Doc playing left back in the Championship. He tripped himself over three times in a row whilst flailing around trying to tackle a Leeds attacker who just strolled on past him, crossed it, and they scored. I've never fully forgiven him for that day.
 
White Van Jan said:
My son just reminded me that he had Covid too, that might well have knocked him sideways.

There's always been a player there. And this isn't hindsight, I've never jumped on the hate bandwagon.
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Never understood the "hate" for any player in a Spurs shirt, especially if it derived from poor form.

I don't know if it's endemic to Spurs, or if you see this with other teams, but through all my years of following Spurs, there has always been a player, or players, that a large proportion of fans just want to hate.

You might note rate them, which is fair enough, but hate them?

It mystifies me.
 
This is a shrewd AF signing,

I really like that we are now willing to buy 28 yr olds with premier league experience instead of the strategy of buying potential which has had mixed results for us through the ENIC years to say the least.

This is a signing that will instantly impact the 1st team, loving it.
 
The Premier League clubs should have put their foot down and refused to release their players. Too many international players of small countries play in leagues that can't afford to test regularly and these are now contaminating the elite level leagues and putting them in jeopardy.
 
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