Ki-Jana Hoever believes Wolves need to start producing consistent performances if they are to get off the bottom of the Premier League table.
After conceding in the final minute of last weekend’s defeat to Arsenal to deny the team of only their third point of the campaign, the Old Gold find themselves 14 points away from safety ahead of the visit of Brentford to Molineux on Saturday afternoon.
However, Hoever – who has also spoken openly about the difficulties he has experienced over the last few years – feels the team are improving under Rob Edwards, as has been shown in the displays against the Gunners and Aston Villa, but the players need to replicate those showings every week if they are to close the gap.
On late heartbreak in north London
“We deserved a point out of that game. Then it doesn’t come. Like everyone knows, we just needed to stick together for five minutes, or however long it was, but we needed to stick together and make sure we didn’t concede.
“Against a top side like Arsenal, it’s not always easy, but it’s just something that is in our control and we needed to do better and not concede. It’s just not easy.
“But I feel like we are on a good way. We work day in, day out, and that work is not for nothing. That means something. I feel like that’s all the motivation we need to keep going.”
On sitting bottom of the table
“Obviously, you’re sad, you don’t want to be there, but this is a hard world, a business world, so you just need to continue, there’s nothing else to do. You cannot give up.
“We still need to keep going and that’s everything we can do. Everybody can say things about us, say that we’re going down, but until it's official, nobody knows what’s going to happen.
“Things could still change, so we’ll just keep going.”
On facing Brentford at Molineux
“You never know, it might be start of a comeback. Don’t give up on us, because we haven't given up. We do things day by day, and it’s very important for us after a game like Arsenal where we basically had a solid performance, that we keep that standard up and take it with us to every game.
“I think that’s the problem we’ve had recently, because we’ve had a good performance and then we drop, and I feel like we’re on a good track for us and we can’t let that happen so quickly anymore.
“But for all the Wolves fans out there, we really hear the support in the games when you guys are behind us, and we also need it.”
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On getting a second chance at Wolves
“Just before I left here to go on loan, I was at a really low point. As a player, the best thing you can feel is to be trusted by the people around you, the coach and the club, but before I left, I did feel that I had been let down.
“I’m not saying that I was perfect, or I was a great professional at the time – probably not – but at the end of the day, we are all people. We all deserve some kind of respect in some way, even though my performances weren’t maybe at the top level at the time.
“I just feel like we should all respect each other in some type of way and I didn't feel that at the time. I feel misunderstood in a lot of things. People don’t actually know me and they only see things online. I don’t give them another side of me because I’m not someone who goes out there on Instagram or Twitter or whatever and explains my side of the story.
“I don’t really care about the social media side of things, but the people around me know what actually happened, what didn’t happen, and I feel like the some coaches maybe misunderstood me, because they just look at things they see on the pitch and they don’t look into you as a person.
“They don’t care about you as a person. They just care about the person who you are on the field. But I understand that side of business as well, it’s not a normal day job, but for me, it’s just important that everybody respects each other and it doesn’t matter how you perform or who you are.”
On relationship with Edwards
“I feel like it’s a learning process. It’s not something on day one that he understands you fully, or you understand him, but we’ve had a conversation when he came in, and it was a good conversation.
“He’s a guy whose door is always open, so you can always speak to him, and I respect that. It’s a good trait. He is also somebody who cares about you more than what you do on the pitch.
“For me, there are things more important in life than football, and family is one of those things, so I appreciate that somebody actually like cares about those things and asks how my family is.
“Obviously, I’ve only worked with him for a short period of time, but he’s a hard working coach, he wants us to do well, wants us to work hard, and I can only appreciate that and try to take as much from it as I can and try to improve as a player.”
