Arsenal MUST beat Wolves | Wolves vs Arsenal Preview FT @TalkingWolves

I guess that's right. People eluded, I'm back again. People deluded, I'm back again. With it being Wolverhampton Wanderers against Arsenal on Saturday, it's only right I get Big Dave here to preview the game with me. How you doing, my guy? You good? I'm good, man. How are you, man? I mean, after my Munich game, terrible, but I'm alright, man. We have to keep moving, man. How are you? Yeah, yeah, man. It's been a good year for Wolves, to be fair. So, yeah, been productive. We've slowed down a little bit now, which probably is music to the Arsenal fans' ears, but yeah, keep it well, man. Keep it well. I'm not sure, man, because you could argue we're a wounded animal, but you touched on it there and it sets us up perfectly. You said your season's kind of started well, it's kind of gone a bit flat. You know, obviously, I'm an Arsenal fan. For those who, you know, we obviously know Wolves is a good team and I want to talk to you about Gary O'Neill in a bit, but paint a picture for us how the season's gone for, obviously, those that are not Wolves fans. Yeah, so I mean, if we go back all the way to sort of August, we sort of had this full pre-season with Julian Lopetegui and it had gone quite well, you know, picked up some good wins, beaten the likes of Porto in pre-season, and although we were restricted with money and stuff, we sort of set up quite well and then a week before the season, Lopetegui says, you know what, I don't want to be here. So it sort of sets us up in a difficult position and when you've got a manager wanting to leave and no money, the managers that want to join you with no pre-season is quite a short list, but Gary O'Neill stepped up. Obviously, a lot of Wolves fans concerned, not too sure about that one, but he came in and we had the first game of the season away at Old Trafford and everyone thought this could be a long evening and we played really well. We actually lost the game, but it was really unlucky and sort of gone from there. Should have had a penalty, if I remember correctly. Yeah, right at the end, should have given away a penalty, but, you know, made Molineux a really difficult place to go this year, you know, beaten, got the doubles over Spurs and Chelsea, beat City as well in the league, so, you know, we've done alright. Like I said, we lost out in the FA Cup against Coventry and since then we've slowed down a little bit, but had injuries, long-term injuries to Cunha, Neto, Huang, no real striker replacement, so been frustrating the last couple of weeks or so, but ultimately if you look at the start of the season to where we are now, we're in a much better place than what I think most fans expected. I mean, that's music to my ears, really and truly, generally, not so much on Saturday. What have you made of Gary O'Neill? Because as I said, obviously I'm an Arsenal fan, I'm not watching you lot on a religious basis, but I've said I honestly believe he's one of the most underrated managers in the Premier League. Obviously I'm not a Wolves fan, but I look at sometimes he does like on the coach's voice or he speaks on Sky Sports and I feel he's a very innovative manager. I don't want to be that guy, but if he was Spanish or something like that, he might be held in higher regards. I really do like him, but what have you made of him and what is he like in terms of tactics? What could Arsenal expect on Saturday in that regard? I think he had a lot to prove when he first joined Wolves. Like I said, probably a good... If you asked every Wolves fan, who do you want to be as the next Wolves manager? No one would have answered Gary O'Neill. So at that point, he knew that he had a big job on his hands and it was a slow start. He came in, wanted to play 4-2-3-1 and at times it worked, other times it didn't. We lost out in the Carabao Cup to Ipswich. I think we were 2-0 up and we ended up losing 3-2. There were question marks then. You're thinking, we've got Man City up next. We've just lost out to a Championship team. What's going to happen? He switched to a back five, which is almost what has given Wolves the most success over the last few years under Nuno and even Bruno Large had played it. Switched to a back five, beat City the next week and everyone was like, oh, hold on. That's what's happening here. Yeah, exactly. He's stuck to that ever since, to be fair. I think as a young manager, you can see how he's learnt and improved across the season. Question marks over his substitutions and then all of a sudden, they're doing a lot better. I think with what he's been given, he's done a good job. Counter-attacking really is where we've been playing our best football and frustratingly, when we play teams who also counter-attack or sit deep, we struggle a little bit. We're not brilliant with the ball or creating things and making things happen as such, but when big teams like ourselves or City, United or whatever come to Molineux and we allow them the ball, counter-attack is where we can punish teams. That's why I'm intrigued. I think that's how we'll play Saturday. I think we'll sit deep, allow Arsenal a lot of the ball and then rely on either the wing-backs or the likes of Kunye who should be starting to drive the ball forward and try and get in behind. Again, I'm quite scared of the game because we've lost to Aston Villa in the Prem. We've lost to Bayern Munich. We're kind of struggling with fitness over players. There's a lot of minutes in the legs. As I said, I rate Gary O'Neill quite highly and when I think of Wolves of this season, I think of, I can never pronounce his name, but El Nouri, Jao Gomes I believe. Obviously, Pedro Neto I think is injured, but you've got some very attractive players. Kunye, as you mentioned. So, I'm expecting you lot to really go at us and have a go. What are you expecting from the game? Yeah, I think I'm hoping so, but frustratingly, we've had fitness issues of our own and then we've got three home games on the balance now. You, Bournemouth and Luton and it's interesting to see. I think this is the toughest of the three, but still Bournemouth had a good spell this season. Luton are still fighting for their lives and none of them are going to be easy. I will be intrigued to see how Gary O'Neill manages minutes and who he gives starts to. I think Kunye will start. El Nouri is a doubt because he was out injured last week. I'm hoping he's back because he's been fantastic going forward, been playing a slightly more advanced role. We have got quality there. Just our front line, we're down to the bare bones really. I expect Arsenal to go and win this match just ultimately because that's how good they've been this season and you look, 90% of their games they go and win naturally. But part of me thinks if this Arsenal team turn up at Tamolineau and they're still very fragile and licking their wounds, Wolves have got an opportunity. Ultimately, if Wolves go and get three points it pretty much kills the title race. It could go one of two ways. Arsenal could come out and think let's get this season back on track or, like I said earlier, just fall apart. It could be a long evening for Wolves or a very exciting evening for us fans at Tamolineau. That's what I'm expecting really. I'm expecting it to be one of those typical English games. All the fans from both sets of teams all out there making noise and the 12th man really playing a factor. For me as an Arsenal fan we haven't got time to feel sorry for ourselves. There's every reason to, as you said, be licking our wounds but we cannot perform like that. As you said there, and I don't think you're being dramatic, if we don't get three points the title race is over. We've seen City out of the Champions League. We're out of the Champions League. We're kind of chasing the pack with Liverpool and City so we need to win three points. We need to win and we need to get three points in these six games left so it's going to be difficult. What sort of weaknesses are in the Wolves' side? I think sometimes just lack of concentration. I think at the moment the back five, I like the wing backs but the three centre backs at the moment are still raising a few question marks. Max Kilman is a player who a lot of fans seem to rate quite highly and I think he has had some good games. One of his more solid seasons at Wolves but without Craig Dawson who's probably going to be injured as well. Without Craig Dawson he's almost not got that leader next to him so the last few weeks he struggled a little bit with Max Kilman and I think the lapses of concentration or the silly clearances or poor passes we give away possession quite easily sometimes in our own final third. I think the back three are really there to be got at. Sometimes they can be pulled out of position quite easily and I think if Arsenal attack like the way they attacked at the Emirates in the first half last time we played you, we could have some trouble. Sar as well. Just don't know which Jose Sar is going to turn up. Some games he's absolutely brilliant and other games like last weekend against the weekend before he's West Ham he conceded directly from a corner. You just don't know which Jose Sar is going to turn up as well. I think everywhere else, I mean, João Gomes and Mario Lamin are solid players and I think the midfield battle is going to be really interesting on Saturday. And then the attack as well for Wolves, Pablo Sarabia, another one of those players that's hot and cold when he's on it. He's a very good footballer and you're not surprised to see him in the Spain set up but in other games you're thinking what's this guy doing? So just consistency and ultimately that's probably why they play for Wolves and not for Arsenal because of that lack of consistency as football players but it really, really intrigues me. I love games at Molineux and Delights because you normally see Wolves really up for it and go for it but this one I don't know, a little bit later Arsenal fans will be up for it, Wolves fans will be up for it. I'm just interested to see what will happen. Do you think this is the best time for you lot to play Arsenal? I don't think it's ever a good time to play Arsenal because of how good you guys are but I really don't know because like we've already said Arsenal ultimately are in the title race still although some fans may not feel like it is but I still genuinely think all it takes is City to drop points in one game and you guys are straight back in it. I know you've got some tough fixtures but ultimately you've played well against the big teams this season as well. So I don't know I don't think it's ever a good time to play Arsenal and I've got a feeling Arteta won't let you guys sit back. I think they'll be up for it. Games like this I think we played you guys twice in the evening games a couple of years ago and that ultimately ended our season because we fell apart I think you it's when Martinelli got the two bookings in the same passage of play, I don't know if you remember that a couple of years ago. I think you just about beat us that game and then a few weeks later we played you at the Emirates and again late, two late goals and you beat us and the Arsenal fans are really up for it then and sometimes Wolves fans don't like it when opposition fans give it back but Arsenal fans sometimes when you're up for it are some of the best that come to Molineux. So if they are up for it Saturday, I think the atmosphere could be brilliant as well. That's the thing that makes me nervous man. I think the fans you know as I said typical British kind of game I'm quite nervous about Gary O'Neill because I rate him highly. I think he's got a potential spanner in the works. I definitely feel you'll have a lot of threats that you could pose to us in an attacking sense. I think we've been one of the best teams defensively in the Prem but we still have this. I know it's never a good time to concede any goal and every goal you concede is a poor goal but we have conceded some poor goals and of recent you look at the two against Villa and the goals we've conceded against Bayern Munich. They've been silly goals and I think we're a bit wounded. I hope our tether doesn't feel like that and I hope the players don't but at the same time it feels a bit weird. I think you know everybody knows Arsenal have this bit of April curse. Our defeats are never it's never just one defeat and then we get back to it. Last season was an anomaly. Our kind of poor results or lack of points it kind of comes in bunches if that makes sense and that could happen now and as you said there all it takes for City to drop points and we're back in it. We've got six games and I do feel like we're a bit of a wounded animal. To hear you say that you play a back three it's making me think how do we deploy it because I feel Gabriel Jesus would start for me because we've got a lot of as you know we've been playing a lot of games. There's a lot of minutes. We've got a thin squad but I am kind of thinking does Kai Havertz go up front now? I would like Martinelli to start. I'm happy you mentioned the counter-attack because I am very nervous of you lot on the transition because you lot have pace. I'm not too much worried about the left-hand side. So all right. I'm kind of worried about the left because I don't know if Tomi Asu will start. I don't know if Kyrgios got a bit of ring rust and I just have a feeling that Arteta will do one of them games where he's kind of being complicated and he might play Zinchenko. Now obviously he gives you a lot in midfield and in the final third but going backwards he can be got at and if you're Gary O'Neill not to say my team is the best thing since live spread but if we named Arsenal's strongest team from last season which had Zinchenko naturally every manager is going to target Zinchenko and try and get him either the space he leaves or his inabilities defensively. So it'd be a bit of an interesting game man. What have you made of Wolves' season in terms of accomplishing what you'd like to accomplish? What was the targets in August and where are you on course to do now? Yeah I mean I think it's still a little bit too far for the remainder of this season. We played West Ham a few weeks ago and even at that time before that game people were saying after the FA Cup exit which I'll talk about in a sec after that everyone was like well that season's done now we've got nothing else to achieve because we still had Brighton, Chelsea Newcastle a lot of good quality teams still chasing the same goals as us but then we played West Ham and we were only three points behind them, they were sat in 7th we were three points behind them, had a better goal difference and a game in hand. If we beat them we could go up to 7th or 8th game in hand of them, we're in a great position and frustratingly we lost that game we conceded directly from a corner which I said is a stupid penalty but then we had the VAR disallow a goal right at the death 97th, 98th minute which was just absolutely ridiculous and Gary O'Neill got in a bit of trouble about that but I think the goal ultimately at the start of the season was Gary O'Neill was told keep Wolves in the Premier League and a lot of neutral fans and even a lot of Wolves fans were saying we're done, you can't, Gary O'Neill very little experience coming into this squad who's just all over the place but I still had a feeling on paper our squad we're better than Forest, we're better than Luton we're better than Sheffield United, you're better than Burnley there shouldn't be anything to worry about really, ultimately Gary O'Neill he's let the football do the talking like I said earlier, got doubles over Chelsea, Spurs, beaten City at Molineux, we've had a really good result so the goal for the rest of the season, I don't think European football is, I think it's too far away now but to finish as high as you can if you can get a top finish, finish like 9th or 10th, especially after what was predicted at the start of the season, I think that is a very very good campaign for Gary O'Neill and I think he'll have suitors in the summer whether that is, I know it's maybe a bit of a sideways step, someone like West Ham although it's a lot closer to his home, he's a previous player there, or even again a bit of a stretch but maybe even the England job it might be a bit too early for him. He's definitely a candidate one. Yeah, I think it'd probably be Ugrain Potters already, how or if England go foreign I don't know but I think he'll be in the conversation for sure and it's hard to turn that down anyway. You couldn't begrudge him for turning it down. As I said, I rate him, when I've seen him link with England, when I've seen him link with United I don't know if I was him if I'd make the West Ham move, I get it, you're a former player London aspect, might have a bit more money to spend but it just seems like, you know, I know you said your season kind of started kind of horribly but it just seems like everybody connected to Wolves is slightly more aligned with what they want to do than West Ham so I don't think it makes sense and I just feel there's something underrated about stability like I think he's done really well at Wolves, I think he's got really impressionable players. When I hear like Kunja, the couple of players really but Kunja when they speak about him and how he improves him and stuff, in a weird way it reminds me of Mikel Arteta when he's kind of opening these players' eyes. What would you say is the biggest strength and weakness of your Wolves side under Gary O'Neill then? I think the ability to actually, although it's not you know, it's not loads and loads of goals but our ability to score goals under Gary O'Neill is surprising but in a good way. Last season under Nuno, really really struggled. Bruno Large couldn't get a scoring even under Lopetegui really struggled to get us scoring on a consistent basis. So Gary O'Neill has come in and ultimately we haven't even signed another striker. We had Fabio Silva and Sascha Kulajdzic at the start of the season. Neither of those were getting a look in. We've relied on Kunja as a number nine but we've already bettered our goal scoring through all of those seasons and we've still got a stretch of this season left so goal scoring's been fantastic. There's been a lot more positives than negatives. I think in terms of atmosphere, the team's spirit, the feeling of connection between the fans and the players, we lost that with COVID. Under Nuno it was unbelievable. With COVID we lost that. Bruno Large couldn't really get it back. Bruno Large couldn't get it back. Lopetegui sort of had it but because he was a little bit of a I don't know, he used to moan a lot about things so although you felt something in the ground by the time you were home you were like drained by just the pure negativity that was sometimes there. So I can't really see there being many negatives. I think it's more, not so much of Gary, more of the club. I think the club should have invested in him a lot more in January. He was quite critical on that to be fair. Yeah exactly but I've had conversations with the director of football at Wolves. Quite lucky to have an open dialogue with him and he said he's quite disappointed that the club didn't give them the funds as a duo, give them the funds to at least bring one player in like a strike was the main one. I don't know I think obviously when we first came into the Premier League they were spending a lot of money in the Championship they did as well but I think the club now have almost sudden sort of changed stance and they want to be self-sustainable so basically a sell to buy model which is fair enough. I think everyone is looking towards the Brightons and thinking well if they can do it why can't we so frustratingly that held us back. I do think if we had another forward in whether it be Brozier who was linked or whoever else. Well so you had the NK off a 40 mil if you want. Yeah but even like the game against Coventry we played, we weren't great but we had an 18, 19 year old kid up front who played two senior games in his career so we had a proper number nine there we could be having a different conversation. Wolves could be seventh place in league and we could be in an FA Cup semi-final this weekend so it's just little if buts and maybes things like that which is frustrating. I'm quite glass half full. I always look towards the positives rather than negatives so I try and leave that behind but there are a lot of fans quite vocal about the lack of investment and why they haven't backed Gary O'Neill and if Gary O'Neill was to walk I don't think he would but if he was to walk this summer and join someone else everyone will be critical towards the board and that will be the reason why lack of investment. I mean that kind of ties it up to what I wanted to ask. So obviously you mentioned sell to buy or that sort of change in regime. I didn't know that. That's why it's a pleasure that you're on the platform. You know a couple of your players have been linked with moves away. The first one is obviously you probably every day is probably linked with a club. Pedro Neto. What do you make of him? Do you think it's his last season? I think his season is actually done with injury right but I was impressed with him. He could play on the right, play on the left, actually play as a false nine. I feel until his injury or the early parts of the season he was a contender for team of the season if I'm honest. But yeah where's your thoughts with him? See with Neto it's so frustrating because probably the last three pre-seasons he's been the best player by far in the summer and then he was linked with Arsenal a couple of years ago and start the season quite strongly and then got injured and was out for a long time until the new year. This season again unbelievable in pre-season kicked on quite well with Gary O'Neill I think he was top of the assist charts for a long time. Then got injured I think he pulled up against Newcastle and we drew that game could have easily gone on to win it I think if he was fit for the rest of the game and he was out till the new year and I think even in the new year he was still top assists like that's how good a start he had to the campaign. Came back for a little while pulled up again within like two or three games so you think flipping heck. They're saying they're trying to get him back before the end of the season so he's back on the grass now so he might be back for the last two or three games but two of those three games are against City and Liverpool which I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing because he ultimately is going to want to be in the Portugal squad for the Euros and I think that's why he'll try his best to be back for then but ultimately because of his injuries that's held back the amount of money that Wolves can demand for him I think like you were saying earlier if he continued with the form that he was in you can start to look at the 60, 70 even 80 million pound mark but because of the injuries you straight back down to like 40-ish million. If I was director of football at Wolves and someone offered me and put 40 million pound on the table I would strongly consider it. Not because I think it's... I'd do it. I think the thing is although I think you can replace him for 40 million not necessarily with a player of the same or better quality but you'll get a player that's available for 90-95% of the season and I think with Wolves like I was saying earlier with him being out for this stretch of games the last what 6-7-8 weeks if we had a player that was available Wolves would be in a completely different position. We'd be higher than the table. We'd probably be in the semi-final of the FA Cup but because of that he's almost like a luxury player. It's great to have him but ultimately you're not available. If you were top 4 or top 6 team you'd think oh Grealish is injured it's alright we've got Daku on the bench or whatever. Wolves haven't got that luxury haven't got that luxury yeah. Yeah so I would cash in on him this summer and I hate to say it but I probably would but other players Reinhardt Norrie I think will be one that's spoke about quite a lot. That's another one let's speak about him. That's another one because we've been linked. Liverpool have been linked. That's another one I wanted to ask you about man. Would you make of him? Do you think he could cut the mustard at a top 6 side? I think so. I think so. I think even City have been linked this week and I think I saw a report about £60m. Now it sounds a lot but 8 Norrie I think he's only 22-23. Already got 4 or 5 years of Premier League experience which same with Neto you know he's 24 but been in the Premier League 5 years. Almost a veteran of sorts. Yeah exactly but I mean I was saying on another channel earlier on I said even with players like Kunja I said I think sometimes you take for granted that players are just going to move to a league and be absolutely brilliant whereas sometimes especially if you're coming from abroad it will take them 6-12 months before they're settled and can play the football. Yeah so with 8 Norrie you know he's ready for that Lopetegui wanted to get rid of him Lopetegui did not rate him at all Lopetegui was ready to get rid of him and bring Aaron Creswell in from West Ham like it was mind-blowing. So he went and it was a blessing in disguise really this season 8 Norrie's been phenomenal. Just a player that is comfortable happy where he is, happy with the playing time. Almost it's like Gary O'Neill's giving him the ball and say you do what you need to do. Defensively I've never seen somebody lock up Mohamed Salah as often as he does. Salah does not get a sniff against 8 Norrie. The last twice I think they've played at Molineux Liverpool or three times actually because we beat them last season. Earlier this season Salah didn't get a sniff. 8 Norrie came off Salah gets an assist straight away and scores I think a goal. The year before exactly the same thing 8 Norrie brilliant. Won the Lop I think we were. 8 Norrie pulls up has to go off and Liverpool go and win the game 1-0 to Salah. Yeah so so so good defensively we're going forward. I don't know it's like this sort of Algerian style football like Mahrez is the same just on the ball. It's just like natural it's just like that kind of region. They're all blessed technically and they're kind of like showman they all want the ball. They've all got a swagger with the defenders. On Soccer AM I haven't watched it for years. I used to do like little skill thing a compilation of two minutes. We just show all the skills on the weekend. Ryan 8 Norrie will be on that two or three times every single week he'll do a ball roll a 360 roulette an elastico through someone's legs every every match and you'll see on Saturday Oh yeah Dave. Yeah he's going to do someone He'll do it so yeah I think I'd be worried if he went to City although I think he'd do a good job there I'd be worried that someone like Pep would almost train the flair out of him Yeah exactly that whereas at Arsenal or I don't know Liverpool depending on who their manager is. Liverpool will be interesting because if they get Amirim in I don't know if he would stick with a back five at Liverpool because that's how he plays sometimes at Sporting but 8 Norrie in a back five does well because he has got the licence to bomb forward and he's got that protection behind him but I think he's the best chance again not that I want to sell him he's the best chance for Wolves to recoup the most money this summer I think he's probably the most valuable player him alongside maybe João Gomes Another one I'm so happy you moved it onto that because that's another one I wanted to ask you about someone that I think he joined last Jan don't know him too religiously but when I've done my research and been watching Wolves games I'm like oh he looks alright I can see how I think he's Brazilian he could tie in that Arsenal with his age profile etc he's been linked with a few clubs what do you make of him and what have you made of his impact so far? Yeah so João Gomes is a good one because it's not the South American market isn't really a market the Wolves have gone into obviously we're in the championship for such a long time and then when Fosa came in it was all George Mendes it was all Portugal or you know anything to do with that and we sort of come away from that a little bit more now and the new head of recruitment director of football Matt Hobbs he's got a keen eye on South American so we were Enzo Fernandes who's at Chelsea we had an offer on the table whilst he was at River Plate before he went to Benfica I had an offer on the table and basically I think he would have joined Wolves but he wanted to stay at River Plate until the Copa Libertadores was finished so basically that was in the summer we'd have to wait till January to sign him and Wolves said no we're not interested Copa Libertadores they're getting knocked out Benfica go in and sign him straight away six months later sold to Chelsea for 100 million so that's one that's I had someone message me saying why does everyone keep praising this Matt Hobbs he put the Enzo deal and I said no it was the club that didn't want it he set it up he said do it and yeah they let him down yeah but now he's kept a keen eye so Joe Gomez is one similar sort of thing we had a deal agreed with him and then Leon came in last minute and I think Leon had tied in with Flamengo so Leon were like Flamengo were like right you're not going to Wolves you're going to Leon but Joe Gomez ultimately gave his word to Wolves but he wanted to play in the Premier League as well it was like a month long thing in January this was really early January and we didn't sign until the last few days of the window but he came in scored on his debut against Southampton last year but again Lopetegui I think it's going back to what I said earlier it takes a bit of time for them to bed in a new club but Lopetegui wasn't a big fan of him didn't really give him many minutes Gary O'Neill's trusted him a lot more I think he's won the most tackles in the league potentially. He's an all action midfielder of sorts I like him a lot man. Brilliant and he started to chip him with a few goals I think he scored twice against Spurs as well you'll be happy to hear I always love you for doing that so again like this is it's not a new thing I suppose but defensive midfielders now are attracting a lot more money than probably what they used to do but you know twice as wide how much Roger would go for as well exactly yeah so I'd be interested I would love to keep him I think Wolves plan to keep him this summer but it's been interesting they've been quoted a couple of times at the club to say we don't want him to go but if he does we've got a list of players that we're happy to replace him with so it'll be interesting and again fee wise you know signing for 15 million about 18 months ago I think you could sign the man in 40, 50 plus million again which is unbelievable business and fans won't like it because we've never been used to it Neves should have been the same ultimately yeah we made a nice profit on him but at the time I thought right we sign Neves for 15 million next year if we get 30, 40 million sound but he stayed way longer than what we expected yeah yeah that's the thing Wolves missed that chance, Adama they missed that chance when he was at his peak we should have gone yep thank you very much because ultimately you know we left him free yeah didn't you have like 60, 70 maybe more bids or something from someone, I saw someone bid something crazy for Adama once upon a time Wolves valued him at 70 million and ultimately I think with Adama again going back a luxury player I think every manager in the world would love Adama Traore but ultimately he's not going to give you the output that for 60, 70 million he's not going to give you like 20 goals or 20 assists a season so we missed the bow on that Jimenez injury obviously you know speaks for itself so it's getting to the point now where Wolves need to be much cleverer in the market and I think we'll see that a lot more this summer I think you're bang on the money and I think mimicking Brighton I know fans don't want to see it and I definitely saw it in the early days at the Emirates when we had Cesc, Nasri etc etc so you get some good players and then it's like you get one or two then you kind of get three or four and then you've got a decent bunch of players and then every second one or two they're kind of pinched by other clubs and then you replace and then it gets a bit frustrating but I think going back to what you said where you made a brilliant point about Brighton Brighton are at that stage now of course you can never kill players ambition and they want to play for top clubs and do top things but they've got stronger cash reserves to the point where they can actually hold on to players and they've obviously got a great scouting network where they're sourcing players from all over and I think with the players we've said there that is great from you lot's perspective you lot I mean if I was a Wolves fan I wouldn't want us to sell El Nori, Gial Gomez and Pedro Neto in one window but that's bringing in over a hundred million and assuming you reinvest it could be decent if you had to say that out of the three which one would you want to lose the least and also which one would go for the most money in your opinion bit of a twofold question yeah it's a difficult one I think I'd be happy out of the three I'd probably be more comfortable in selling Neto just purely because the availability thing I think he's a fantastic player but just availability wise it's not just a one off this season like every season we've had it so I think in terms of availability in terms of money I don't know El Nori isn't I think El Nori and Gial Gomez would command and get you a very similar fee I think you're looking sort of that around that 40 to 50 million mark I know Wolves are valued El Nori at 60 but ultimately you know you're going to be bargaining a bit so I don't know in terms of going because I think Gial Gomez I like a lot and he's got a lot more you know shows a lot of passion and so on and he's probably more replaceable in terms of I think you'll probably find another player whether it be from South America or Europe that can replace him and do a similar job whereas El Nori is quite unique I think although you know he's a left wing left back but he can play left wing back left wing even played as like a four star striker the other day and creates chances out of nothing so I probably think I'd like to keep El Nori the most out of the three but it's close between him and Gial Gomez I would say. It's interesting I did imagine you'd say Pedro Neto purely because putting myself in the Wolves perspective the injuries is one thing and it's a thing where he's always linked with clubs it's a bit like for me it's very different but it's like when Cesc Fabregas went to Barcelona it's like it's been there for years you've mentally made peace with it it is what it is kind of thing so it'd be interesting out of the three the one I would want the most it's an interesting one because if you asked me two months ago it would have been Pedro Neto without a doubt but I do like El Nori and obviously the highlights with Timbers injury, Tommy Asu's injuries Zinchenko's inconsistencies and obviously what you've said and his attacking flair and I love the inverted thing we're doing but I miss kind of when we had fullbacks that were threats I think Martinelli obviously on the left would benefit so I'd probably say of the three I mean Gial Gomez Brazilian I got Brazilian bias and I need a midfielder so I'm going to say Gial Gomez first, El Nori second and Pedro Neto not because of ability just because arguably a wing is important but I'd say him third. My last question before I let you get out of it then, what's the score predictions for Saturday? I've got to talk positivity into existence, I've got a 2-1 Arsenal I've got two, my head is saying a 2-1 Arsenal win only because I think like I said 90% of the games Arsenal are going to go into as favourites but my heart is saying that if Arsenal do come into this one quite fragile we're going to nick it 1-0 although your goal scoring record against Wolves is unbelievable in terms of consecutively scoring in games so I'd be very surprised if we keep a clean sheet but my heart is saying we're going to nick it 1-0. It's a dangerous one because obviously we've got a condensed fixture calendar list, we're coming off a lot of games, we've got you lot so I expect there to be some sort of rotation purely because I could be wrong but Tuesday, Wednesday we've got Chelsea so it's an interesting period. Dave let people know they can find you if I let you get out of here man, it's been a pleasure. Yeah, no as always man it's at Talking Walls everywhere so I've got a preview and then my thoughts on the game afterwards as well on Saturday but yeah fingers crossed for you guys man, I'm hoping that there's a few more twists and turns in the title race and it'll be nice to see someone else win the title as well man so best of luck for the rest of the season. I mean I appreciate that Dave man right back at you, I mean in terms of twists and turns if it don't concern Arsenal I'm dying to be wherever it comes to concern but as the man said people, follow Talking Wolves find them on YouTube, on Twitter and everything else, all the information will be in the bio so give them a follow and may the best team win. Dave it's always a pleasure, thank you for being here. Let me let you get out of here my dude, peace. Cheers buddy, thank you.