Wolves boss Kenny Jackett has long-term potential – Moxey
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey admits Kenny Jackett could attract interest this summer – but believes the club can provide him with the platform to stay long term.
Despite missing out on the play-offs, the head coach's stock has never been higher after leading Wolves to seventh place in the Championship following the League One title in his first season.
And Moxey, speaking at the launch of the club's new main sponsor Silverbug, believes Jackett can fulfil all his ambitions at Molineux rather than his head being turned elsewhere.
"He wants success and in this highly competitive business, if as players or managers you're successful, everyone wants some of it," said Moxey.
"ButI see him being with us for a very long time.
"What we have to do is create an environment that's strong enough and moving in the right direction so they want to finish off the job, and the job isn't finished.
"We think it will be a long-term campaign and Kenny is an integral part of that and wants to be here.
"Like anything it takes two to tango, but he said last week he's had 600 games as a manager and he said unprompted he'd like to get to 1,000 with Wolves.
"I spoke to him about it because I thought that was brilliant.
"I couldn't echo those sentiments loudly enough because that's what I'd want.
"We're trying to build something very special here – and he's a key part of that."
The chief executive believes the club has created the right environment for the head coach to flourish and continue the solid recovery job he started two years ago.
"We have the foundation and platform to not only give Kenny, but all of our players and all of our supporters, everything they want," said Moxey.
"But we have to achieve that goal of getting there (the Premier League) and staying there."
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Jackett's appointment two years ago heralded Moxey's fingerprints all over it after the ill-fated reigns of Terry Connor, Stale Solbakken and Dean Saunders amid the chaos that followed the sacking of Mick McCarthy.
And he is convinced Wolves and Jackett continue to be the right 'fit'.
"Kenny's done tremendously well and fulfilled everything we've asked him to do and done it in a professional way," he said.
"You couldn't ask for anyone better. The relationship is close – as most of our managers have been – and we can't speak highly enough of him.
"I was talking to a manager the other day and it's about making a manager impregnable from supporters, media and attacks from outside.
"That's what Sir Alex Ferguson had – he was impregnable.
"No one could get to him, even when he had some pretty difficult times.
"So we want Kenny to be in a position where he's totally at ease, he's not threatened by anyone and he's free to get on with his job and I think we've got to that point."
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The vast majority of Jackett's signings have proved astute – but perhaps none more so than Benik Afobe.
But Moxey believes there is a lot more improvement to come in the £2m signing from Arsenal after he scored 32 goals to top the country's scoring charts.
"I think so. For me, he's got to work both sides of the ball," he said.
"He's got better at it and the thing we really like about Benik is he's a development player.
"The fact he's the country's leading scorer has us asking the question 'can he do it two years in a row?'
"Half of his season was in League One, but if he scores 30 goals in the Championship then it would be a different kettle of fish."
