Moxey said at the time that the reason for selling Stearman was that the club felt that he was hindering the development of Hause and Iorfa as centre backs and that once they received an offer for him they decided to sell him and concentrate on improving the youngsters.
This of course was total BS otherwise they would have sold Nouha Dicko to concentrate on the development of Enobakhare.
As you rightly say, once Moxey sees the chance to get his greasy paws on some cash there is only going to be one outcome.
I am delighted to see Stears back where he belongs and I suspect he has played his last game for Fulham.
A prem experienced CB at this stage of our development is worth his weight in gold.

the wisest most knowledgeable of us predicted this
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comment by Wolfgang (U8869)
posted on 21/5/16
out, not that he's ever been in - williamson

in, stearman

Absolutely spot on Cyp, but I think there was another angle as well. Such was the incredulity at the sale of Stears, people were assuming that there had been a fall out and KJ wanted him out. I seem to recall that Jackett was responding to that question when he said Stearman had been sold for footballing reasons, ie denying there had been any relationship issues.

I never thought that Kenny had anything to do with Stearman's exit. His "footballing reasons" was just his way of being diplomatic. His wasn't the way to say "I would have like to have kept Richard but the decision was taken out of my hands".

So I have always believed that Moxey was the prime instigator. That said, he might have done us a small favour. Last season was never going to have resulted in promotion with or without Stears, so his sale did net us £2M or so, and now we have him back with, presumabl, little outlay.

I have to say, I was at that first home game last season when the news of the sale emerged and "incredulity" pretty much sums up the fans' reactions.

I think once Scas get threw in the towel he was always going to recoup what he could to help finance the team until it's sale, so when Foolham came along waiving a wad of cash, deal was done.
'For footballing reasons', my ar$e.
TLICOOTD

he seems genuinely glad to be back so all's good..Nice to see Zenga making him train with the boys on wednesday - there seems to be no let-up for the team at the minute

he has his faults, he's not maldini, but he had batth playing his best and is far better than some on here think

yea he's a great championship defender which is bang on where we are

Old ground I know, but we'd just missed the play offs by a whisker and instead of adding the bit of strength we needed we ended up losing (arguably) our three best players. Perhaps because its fresh in the mind , but of all of Moxey's f*** ups this one rankles most with me. Unlucky with Dicko's injury but the Sako situation simply wasn't addressed and Stearman should never have been sold.

He's crap, get rid !

Again !

I wanna hear Wolfie's views.

Wolfie 'doesn't do' requests !

comment by Hunterdon xiàn de láng (U11551)
posted 10 minutes ago
I wanna hear Wolfie's views.
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That's odd 'cause no-one else does

most of the people in charge at the club have come out with comments to distance themselves from the transfer decisions during last season. personally, I hold all four of them partly responsible. I do not believe KJ had no say in transfers, but if he really was forced to lose stearman and other players he wanted to keep, and accept players he didn't want, then he should have had the balls to say so and to walk from his job. far too easy to blame others now for our poor record on and off the pitch last year.

most of us knew that 'footballing reasons' was a load of BS, and that the sale of stearman at such a late date and with no replacement significantly weakened our team. a few either bought into the lie about the sale being a good thing because of their own personal opinion on stearman's ability (built largely on watching him 6 years ago, and/or poor judgement) or as another argument in the long running tedious sniping about pre and post MM era sides.. I guess those same people will now have to admit that they were wrong all along.

the sad thing is, I also expect that a few of those people will be desperately hoping for stears to underperform because they would rather see wolves suffer than accept they didn't know what they were talking about.

Stears doesn't blow my mind but he's better than what we have !

Fact

HMHW

He certainly was when he left halfy, let's hope he can replicate that form after basically having a year out.

I hope so,

Selling him was fine if it was a good offer and we had a replacement lined up.......we didn't !

However we did get the transfer money and now have Stears back, so did the club do the right thing ?

He wouldn't have made any difference to last season regardless, come to that even messi wouldn't have fixed us last season given the abysmal management.

If nothing else, I do think he will be more motivated.

comment by Wolfgang (U8869)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
he has his faults, he's not maldini, but he had batth playing his best and is far better than some on here think
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..."some on 'ere", surely?

I didn't want him back, we had a perfectly good cb lined up, but Jeff tightened the purse strings and being as he didn't cost a fee we signed him.

But lets see how it goes, I was going to play Coady there.

Nice piece in the E&S about the episode:

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2016/09/02/wolves-blog-footballing-reasons-chapter-ii/

comment by Walt (U21159)
posted 23 minutes ago
I didn't want him back, we had a perfectly good cb lined up, but Jeff tightened the purse strings and being as he didn't cost a fee we signed him.

But lets see how it goes, I was going to play Coady there.
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