Mick McCarthy: Wolves need to splash cash to be Premier force

Apr 22 2009 by Lisa Smith, Birmingham Mail

“It’s an advantage our future is secure but let’s suppose there are targets in the Premier League, do you think any of those teams will do any business with their players until May 23?” he said

“If you start ringing up they’ll say ‘hold on, we don’t know whether we’re going to be in that league or not’. We can’t even start chasing foreign clubs because their leagues are all still playing but there will be a few Bosman free transfer players maybe if we could make inroads there.

“We’ve finished and we can plan but we can’t really nail anything until other clubs are done.”

McCarthy confirmed he was looking to bring in players with prior experience of life in the Premier League.

“We have got a young and hungry team but we will be trying to bring in some established Premier League players, which is very hard,” he said.

“When you’re in that market then that is the way it is. You want to bring in players who are going to be successful.”