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Wolverhampton Wanderers may have had some big names feature for them in recent seasons, but the Molineux faithful won't forget the players that helped them get where they are today.

The last six seasons have seen Wolves competing in the Premier League and even reaching the Europa League in two of those campaigns, but it wasn't too long ago the club were playing in League One after falling down the divisions.

The club has come full circle in recent years, and whilst supporters will enjoy their current status as an established Premier League club - they shouldn't take it for granted, as they've seen in the past what could happen if they were to be relegated from the Premier League.

One player who has seen it all in a Wolves shirt is Dave Edwards. The Welsh midfielder spent nine years at the club, and it's fair to say he experienced some highs and the lowest of lows.

In January 2008, Wolves moved to sign Edwards from Luton Town, with the Midlands outfit battling to try and make the Championship play-offs.

Edwards cost Wolves a fee of just £675,000, having only been with the Hatters for half a season in League One following his switch from Shrewsbury Town, and it's fair to say they got their money's worth in the nine seasons that followed.

Despite missing out on the play-offs during the 2007/08 season, Wolves would win the Championship title in Edwards' first full campaign at Molineux, meaning the Welshman would be a Premier League player for the first time in his career.

20 appearances as his side finished 15th to secure their Premier League status.

Injury problems would again impact Edwards during the 2010/11 season, and he made just 15 Premier League appearances as his side survived relegation by the skins of their teeth.

The Welshman would have just one more season at Premier League level, playing 26 times as his side finished bottom of the 2011/12 Premier League table.

Things would get worse for the club, and they suffered successive relegations, meaning that Edwards had gone from a Premier League player to League One in just two seasons.

However, he remained loyal to the club and helped them win the League One title at the first time of asking under Kenny Jackett.

Edwards would enjoy three seasons of playing regular Championship football for Wolves before the summer of 2017, which saw huge changes at the club with the arrival of Nuno Espírito Santo and quality Portuguese players like Ruben Neves and Diogo Jota.

This brought an end to Edwards' nine-year stay at the club as he was moved on to Reading, and unfortunately, he wasn't part of Wolves' 2017/18 Championship winning side, which would have meant he'd come full circle with the club to get them back to the Premier League.

However, he left the club as a Wolves legend, making 307 appearances in total for the club, and had played in the top three divisions of English football with one team.

Dave Edwards' career since leaving Wolves

Edwards would spend one-and-a-half seasons with Wolves' Championship rivals Reading, where he made just 35 appearances, before returning to Shrewsbury Town, where he had begun his career prior to moving to Luton Town.

The 44-time capped Welsh international made 79 appearances for Salop during his second spell at the club, before dropping out of the professional game to join Welsh outfit Bala Town.

Playing in the Cymru Premier League, the highest level of Welsh domestic football, Edwards would play 75 times during his two seasons with the North Wales outfit, registering 17 goals and eight assists - which despite the lower level of football is still impressive numbers.

That brought the curtain down on his career in the summer of 2023, and despite being popular everywhere he played, Wolves are the club you'd always associate with Dave Edwards.

For a fee of £675,000, Edwards proved himself to be an absolute bargain, and stayed with the club during some of their darkest days after dropping from the Premier League to League One.