Do You Remember Ludovic Pollet?

Wolves 24-7 doesn't only talk about the present and the future, but we also like to reminisce about past, good or bad times. So without further or do, we open a new feature called 'Remember...?' Every month, Wolves24-7 will go to the past and remember the good and bad players who donned the gold and black shirt. This month, we look at a centre-half who has had more injuries to his face than I've had hot dinners, Ludovic Pollet.

In August 1999, Robbie Keane was sold to Coventry City for £6m, enabling Colin Lee to use the funds from the sale to bolster the squad in other areas. Out of the players he signed from the spree, Pollet - or 'Ludo' as he was affectionately know to us - proved to be a snip. He arrived from French side Le Havre on loan in September 1999, making his debut in 1-0 defeat to Huddersfield Town and a few solid displays and a month later in the centre of defence alongside ex-England man Keith Curle, he was snipped up for what would turn out to be a shrewd £350,000. Pollet's form continued so impressively that a Sunday newspaper wanted to stir some fiction suggesting Arsenal were interested and tabled a £1m bid for the Frenchman. This did not deter him as he went on to be voted Player of the Season for the 1999/2000 season.

However in his second season, despite solid performances - which saw him score against West Brom - and gaining the captaincy for a couple of games, 'Ludo' struggled with injuries, mainly due to his bravery, putting his body where it hurts, but his face more so as he suffered a broken nose, gashed eye and half a dozen cuts to the facial area during his time here. And due to the form of Paul Butler and the emergence of academy star Joleon Lescott, Pollet had to resort to injuries and suspensions to his competition to get his chance to play and he only managed to make seven appearances in the 2001/02 season as we wasted a golden chance to gain promotion to the Premier League -nonetheless he did a job. He rarely featured in our promotion campaign a season later, resorting to only League Cup appearances and the emergence of another youth product in Mark Clyde pushed Pollet further down the pecking order so he spent some time on loan at our friendly neighbours Walsall.

'Ludo' was released in June 2003 making 78 appearances and scoring 7 goals for Wolves and returned to his native homesoil with USL Dunkerque for three seasons before retiring. He remains at the club as an assistant coach.

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