Matt Maher: Conor Coady's Wolves departure is the last link to the bygone era
With Conor Coady’s departure goes the last remaining link to the pre-Fosun era at Wolves.
To read the team sheet from his debut for the club at Blackburn eight years ago prompts memories of a past which is near yet in other ways feels so far away.
Lining up alongside Coady at Ewood Park that day were, among others, Scott Golbourne, Dominic Iorfa and James Henry, all long departed. Adam Le Fondre, signed on loan from Cardiff a week previously, came off the bench late on as Kenny Jackett’s team held out for a 2-1 opening day victory.
For Coady and Wolves it has been quite the journey from then to now: The switch from midfielder to defender, captaincy, winning the Championship, the Premier League, Europe, England.
