A year of change at The Hawthorns
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Jamie O’Hara’s outlook for Wolves
Wednesday 22nd June 2011, 2:20PM BST.
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Jamie O’Hara’s outlook for Wolves over the next five years matches his own – sunny.
The midfielder might have a WAG girlfriend in Danielle Lloyd and arrived from the bright lights of the capital, but there’s nothing fancy about O’Hara.
And, over the next half a decade, the popular 24-year-old aims to prove it by devoting the best years of his career to Wolves and cementing his place as someone who fans speak about for a long time to come.
He said: “I wouldn’t have signed for five years unless I wanted to be here for five years. It’s going to take me up until I’m 30 and I see my future being here.
“I’ve always said I wanted to be at a club for a long period of time and play 300 to 400 games for a club – that’s what I’m looking to do here.
“I think this club is really going to push on. There’s the stadium being redeveloped and I think with this chairman, manager and the squad, we can really push on.
“Next season we’ll be looking to be in mid-table and we’ll just keep going from there.”
Having moved from Tottenham, O’Hara knows what it is like to be part of a big club.
But the £5million man is so convinced Wolves’ potential can be realised over the next few years that he happily talks about his new surroundings in the same breath as Spurs.
He said: “I think, once the stadium is complete here, we’ll start filling it and it’s going to be fantastic to play here.
“I always love playing home games here, hopefully I can do it every week and start getting some big games under my belt, because I think there’s more to come from me.”
Such is O’Hara’s enthusiasm, Wolves could do a lot worse than to allow him to do the hard sell on prospective signings – not that it’s needed these days.
Wolves want Birmingham defender Roger Johnson – a fellow Londoner – and Reading’s Matt Mills and O’Hara would tell them to sign tomorrow.
He said: “It’s a great club to join. The chairman is fantastic, he wants to move the club forward.
“It’s not a club that wants to be involved in relegation fights. They want to move on.
“If we can get hold of the players the club wants, then great. If not, we’ve still got a fantastic squad anyway.
“It’s just about cutting out sloppy mistakes that we made last season.
“If we can do that then we’re going to be right up there. I think next season is going to be big for us.”
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