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LEE "HE'S QUITE A UNIQUE PLAYER"

Wolves manager Colin Lee says he feels "sentimental" about Robbie Keane's big money move to Coventry. Lee was assistant to Mark McGee when Keane first arrived at Molineux as an unknown 17 year-old, and has since watched him develop into one of the most talked about players in Britain. Lee said: "It's about more than just losing a player. There's a lot more to it than that. I've seen him come through and become a very good player, and as a lad I like him very much. "I don't think you can replace him. He's quite a unique player. He's a very exciting talent and it doesn't surprise me that quite a few Premier League clubs have looked at him. "He's a big loss, but sometimes a Football Club is put in a position where finances dictate things. We had a meeting many months ago and without really putting a figure on Keane, we said that if an offer came in which the club could benefit from and would give me the money to go and spend on players, then we would take that offer."That offer has now been accepted and I've got to try and replace Keane with one or two players. "But we won't get a player like him, that's for sure."

ROBBIE SCORES AGAINST MAN CITY

A superbly taken Robbie Keane goal, the third successive time he has scored on the opening day of the season, was enough to give Wolverhampton Wanderers all three points in the Nationwide Division One clash at Maine Road. He hared into the box after a neat flick from Carl Robinson to drill the ball low into Nicky Weaver's net with an angled drive after thirty minutes. As the first-half wore on, Maine Road old boy Curle started to get the measure of City attack whereas Robinson and Keane's movement was clearly of a higher standard than Wiekens and Morrison were used to last season.In the second half, it was more of the same. The game stalled and stuttered rather than flowed, and City's attack was starved of real chances by either poor approach work or effective defending. Wolves always seemed to be able to find a higher tempo when they deemed it necessary and they finished the latter stages of the game in the same vein as they concluded the first-half.

ROBBIE SCORES AGAINST POMPY

Robbie Keane hit his second goal in as many matches to earn Wolves a draw against an in-form Portsmouth side who threatened to take all three points at Molineux. Keane rifled home a fierce shot after taking on a flick from Harvard Flo and rounding Jason Cundy. The manner in which the young Irishman shaped to shoot and made adequate space for himself, was of the highest order.Keane, unlucky when he rattled the underside of the crossbar midway through the first half, also missed a good chance when he failed to nod down a flick on from Steve Sedgley after 64 minutes.Lee said: "Robbie's goal was fantastic. He's the only player in our team who could have scored it. We need to see more of that from him because we know his capabilities. He is not affected by the transfer talk. He has always scored goals and he always will. He was made to score them".

ROBBIE MAKES AN IMPACT

The new darling of the Molineux support, Robbie Keane had a mercurial rise through the ranks after he made his first team debut on the opening day of the 1997/98 season. And on that sunny August afternoon, the traveling fans of Wolves were very quickly aware that they were watching an extremely talented player as Keane scored the game's only goals, two world class strikes, to give his team a flying start to the campaign against Norwich. The Irish youngster can either play as an out and out striker, or in an advanced midfield position sitting just behind the forward line. Mark McGhee was quick to recognize the quality of Keane, and he offered the former YTS boy an extended contract that will tie him to Wolves until the year 2002. Not that the Premiership big boys will take any note of that. Already Keane's skills have attracted some of the game's top names on scouting missions though McGhee insists that they are wasting their time. The icing on Keane's cake came with a call up to the full Irish squad at the tender age of just 17. And he won rave reviews for his second appearance for Ireland when a magnificent performance against Argentina in Dublin had the good folk of Ireland realizing what Wolves fans had known for several months, that a new star had been born.