Good enough for the World Cup, but not for the bench of a struggling Premiership side? Jules Brandon wonders what has gone wrong for Wolves’ star buy from Nigeria
On the evening of July 7 last year, Wolves called a press conference for the next morning, promising to unveil a new mystery signing. The club had just signed Oleg Luzhny from Arsenal, but there was a sense that this next deal might be bigger and better. If there was a slight air of anti-climax, not to mention bafflement, when the latest acquisition was revealed as Isaac Okoronkwo, it set the tone nicely.