Luke Molyneux - Hartlepool winger

We're one of a number of clubs being linked with the Hartlepool attacker. 24 years old, mainly has experience in league 2 and the national league.

12 goals in 55 appearances last season, played primarily as a winger I believe.

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sp...rtlepool-united-forward-luke-molyneux-3705605

 

A winger! A winger! Jesus Christ, a winger!

I'm off for a lie down...

 

Forget it if Derby are interested

 

Surely we shouldn't be signing anyone until we've got our new coach/manager appointed and ideally, until we've got some of our expensive players off the books?

 

Wolves are in for him
Will be a boost to their shirt sales

 

Saw a few days back (twitter) where Portsmouth thought they'd got him.

 

The club have not said they are trying to sign him it is just speculation & no doubt agents drumming up some interest , if we signed every player we are allegedly linked with then we would be able to turn out half a dozen teams, but having said all that they do actually need to draught a short list of potential targets for when the close season transfer merry go round begins.

 

All paper talk, I doubt we’ll sign anyone we’re linked with in the papers. The kind of player we should be looking at though.

 

There's an article from their local newspaper from yesterday, quoting Danny Cowley denying that they're close to signing him.

 

Any 'wingers' we sign will either be shoehorned into a front three, asked to play as a makeshift left wing-back (particularly right-footed wingers) or will end up on loan at Bristol Rovers - we all know this

 

I don't disagree. As long as the short lists are geared towards what the new coach actually needs for the style of play he wants to adopt.

We need a window where every signing is at least solid and is going towards strengthening the first 11. But we still have to offload first,

 

You've spoilt it now. How **** football is when you can't even dream of signing a winger...

 

I don't personally think the "outs" need to be completed before we make headway onto "Ins"

Nothing wrong with getting the ball rolling for incoming players, and as long as they are completed within a day or 2 of each other we should be ok.

Id say it would be more failure should we wait to offload say 10 players before even starting on who we might bring in. By then we may miss out.

So 2 pronged approach, but geared towards things completing at the same time is more where we should be.

I agree it's an awful lot of planning to do to achieve, but it would show progress from above

 

Love a good winger, a la Martin Bullock. A wee nippy little bugger, silky skills and end product. It's a dying art seemingly.

 

I don't think the outs need to be fully completed before we bring players in, but I do think we need to have made major inroads. We had a wage bill of £14m at the ends of 2020/21. I suspect last season our wages were probably reduced a little, but I could still see them as high as £12-12.5m. No doubt some clauses will be active to reduce contracted wages, but we don't know the offset in the players favour.

We should certainly be planning for multiple scenarios so we can hit the ground running when we have a coach in place. We have to see our wage bill coming down before we start adding to it.

 

exactly ! Can’t see any point until the new manager is in place!

 

Aye, it's all bloody wingbacks nowadays. I wouldn't mind so much, but at our level wingbacks are Jack-of-all-trades. They're either great at defending and not so hot attacking, or vice versa - or more than likely mediocre on both aspects.
Give me a solid fullback coupled with a hardworking winger any day of the week.

 

Though we did have wingbacks when we had Bullock and Marcelle.

 

i miss wingers

 

With a surname like his, it's nailed on he'll be going to Wolves