Wolves want Best of British signings
Thursday 23rd June 2011, 3:00PM BST.
Wolves owner Steve Morgan has insisted the club are focusing on recruiting home-based players this summer with “one or two” key additions.
Club-record £5million midfielder Jamie O’Hara and Dutch goalkeeper Dorus De Vries are Mick McCarthy’s two summer signings so far.
Chief executive Jez Moxey is now pulling out all the stops to land the quality centre-half the team craves.
And, after mixed success in the difficult foreign market over the last two years, Morgan admitted Wolves are concentrating on British-based players this time.
He said: “We do seem to have had better success with homegrown British and Irish players. It’s probably a formula we will stick to.
“That’s not to say we won’t sign more foreign players. But having that core of a British and Irish base is the right thing for Wolves.”
Wolves signed 11 players including two loans over the two windows in 2009-10 after promotion, then added another seven over the same period last year.
But Morgan revealed there would be far fewer arrivals this time, with a centre-back, a left-back and probably a loan striker the targets.
He said: “What we need is one or two key additions, not wholesale changes.”
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