FEAR WOLVES? TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELVES

WITH promotion increasingly certain, it appears some insecure Premier league clubs may be mobilising against Wolves, too. We can pretty much imagine who they are. The slow-witted, the bereft of ideas, those who fear relegation and wish to drag Wolves down to their level. The claim is that Wolves’ link to Jorge Mendes company Gestifute and the number of his clients on the staff constitutes third-party interference. Yet nothing in the fA, football league or Premier league rule book prevents a club having a share in an agency and there is no evidence Mendes interferes in team selection. for Wolves to contravene regulations, therefore, it would need 14 clubs to vote to make agency ownership illegal — and how many want to risk upsetting one of the most influential advisers in the game? Much like the protests against Wolves from within the football league, this seems an overplayed hand. Derby, for instance, are more upset at being considered aligned with Aston Villa and leeds, than with anything Wolves have done. ‘We have no axe to grind with Wolves and appear to have been thrown into this debate for spurious reasons,’ a Derby official told me last week. ‘We don’t support either of those other two clubs.’ far from being motivated by fair play, the campaign seems more a sign of desperation — as it would be in the Premier league. If your club feel threatened by Wolves, what does it say about their own operation?