Jamie O’Hara has revealed he is ‘loving every minute’ at Wolves after declaring he’s playing for a ‘proper club’ with a ‘proper manager.’

The Tottenham midfielder is expected to seal a £5million permanent move to Wolves after his successful loan spell which has seen him play 14 games, scoring three goals.

O’Hara suffered the pain of relegation with crisis club Portsmouth a year ago but has now clinched survival with Wolves and believes he’s at a club that will go from strength to strength under manager Mick McCarthy.

He said: “This is completely different. This is a proper football club and it’s been a real honour to play for this club.

“I’m loving every moment playing for Wolves and I didn’t realise how much of a big club this is until I came here.

“It’s run fantastically well, the chairman is brilliant and the gaffer is absolutely amazing. He gets everyone involved in everything.

“It was a great decision to come here. I’m enjoying my football.”

O’Hara believes McCarthy’s man-management skills have been a key in the survival battle.

The playmaker said: “He’s put so much faith in me. A lot of managers came to watch me play when I’d been injured and carried a little bit of weight.

“But he put his faith in me, he brought me in and said ‘I’m going to give you a chance’ and hopefully I’ve repaid that faith.

“On Saturday, my dad and kid came to the training ground and they were sitting in the car and my manager went out to the car and said ‘come up and have some lunch’ and was sitting and chatting to him.

“That’s a proper football manager and that’s why he’s got the lads playing for him and that’s why this club is going to keep pushing on with someone like that in charge.

“We’re in the Premier League and, hopefully, I’ve been a key figure in that.”

McCarthy never wavered from saying Wolves would stay up and O’Hara also hailed the manager’s belief in the players.

He said: “We had to keep believing. People were writing us off a few months ago but the gaffer made the decision to go 4-4-2 and we had a gameplan and we stuck to it.

“We went after teams, got in people’s faces and that worked for us.”

O’Hara admitted Survival Sunday was the most tense game he has played in.

He said: “It was the most nerve-wracking day of my career. We knew it was going to be scary.

“No-one is going to hand a Premier League place to you so we had to go out and get it.

“The crowd told us we needed another goal so we were on top and had to go and get it.”