How to replace Doyle?

It been something like a week since Kevin Doyle’s departed and the confusion hasn’t yet disappeared.

Why Wolves? I simply don’t get it. Someone of his talents deserves better - well at least Fulham I suppose.

Nevertheless, he has walked away from Berkshire for a season trying to save his new club from a relegation battle as we attempt to get back to the topflight.

Kudos to Doyle, thank you for the memories and there are plenty. And to be fair I will miss him dearly, he has constantly been one of my favourite players in our recent era.

The way he plays and the effort he puts in every time is a delight and unfortunately for us loyal royals, Wolves will get to experience all that first hand, as we ponder who will fill his boots.

Now whoever comes in will have huge task wearing that Number 9 shirt and I presume the new management team are looking intently for a suitable and adequate replacement.

We still have some quality left at the club with Noel Hunt good for a goal and I, unlike many, believe Shane Long will come prolific sooner rather than later. We have another Irish youngster waiting in the wings - Dave Mooney – he performed well for Norwich City at the latter end of last season and he could be good for a goal or two.

However, we do need a fourth striker – we have always had four at the club and we’ll be foolish not to splash out on a decent young striker. Similar to what we did with Leroy Lita when we signed him from Bristol City.

Promotion season we had Dave Kitson, Leroy, Doyle and Long and three of them were untested at Championship level at the time, they took the league by surprise and that is something we need to do.

Look to the lower leagues and see who has been scoring. We could have had Simon Cox but we practically gave him away to local rivals Swind*n Town and his goal scoring record was stunning in a team that was close to relegation.

At least we made a reported £6million from Doyle and that money will be put to good use hopefully.

Wolves are Biting Again

Those Brown shirt-wearing bastards are at it again.

This time it’s for Kevin Doyle. According to Reading Chronicle, well Anthony Smith,
Wolves are closing in on the striker for an estimated £6.5 million to bolster their Premier League survival hopes.

I really, really, really hope he doesn’t join the ignorant, selfish Wolves side.

Those bullies always take our best players, this is a team we comfortably beat twice the previous season and know have the goalkeeper and potentially the striker that played so well against them.

To make daggers in the back hurt a little more, it was Marcus Hahnemann quotes saying that all these players will be leaving, and he probably hopes for company at his new side.

The ex-loyal Royal said, “I think its inevitable will go. They could well move on because I think the club are trying to off load some salaries.”

And to be fair he is right. Hahnemann is 37 years old and on a supposed £12,000 a week, so yeah his salary would probably be good to get off the wage bill.

Doyle’s worth his salary a little more and he will be a lot harder to replace. As long it’s not Robbie ‘I can barely score and cost a lot of money’ Earnshaw it’ll be fine.

Doyle will probably end up going but he can do much better than Wolves. I’m sure Everton or Aston Villa would be great options. He is that good. He’s a starter for his international side and he should be number one choice for his club side too, whoever that might be.