Wolves on the right path, says Stale Solbakken

Solbakken believes the squad have already made more progress than he anticipated after the recruitment rush which followed the sales of Steven Fletcher and Matt Jarvis in the summer.

But last week's back-to-back home draws saw Wolves miss a golden opportunity to press home the manager's verdict in front of their Molineux audience and they head for Burnley on Saturday looking to put their challenge back on the front foot.

"As I've said to the players, it's a long season and people will ask you questions and if you try to answer every one at once, you may come unstuck," said Solbakken.

"I said 'you must have confidence in what we're doing'.

"Before the international break we were very poor; we had four points from four games and we didn't deserve anything more.

"Since the international break, we've played nine more games and picked up 18 points from eight matches which is an average of two a game.

"That's a big difference and that's not because we've scored in the last minute or let in a goal in the last minute, it's because our basic play is so much better.

"In a way that's because we've come on as a team, but it's also because each individual has progressed within their role in the team."

Solbakken is urging fans not to forget his regime's difficult starting-point as players were hurried in after Premier League clubs had finished "cherry-picking" from a discredited team which had won only five games all season.

He added: "We could have been left in a really bad situation in the transfer window. With five or six days left of the window, I wasn't sure it was going to be a very good season.

"We struggled to get the right players in and then when we got them, they came very late.

"So I think the first four games were played as if we were waiting for something.

"We hadn't trained together with all of the new players. It doesn't happen overnight. Overall, I'm very satisfied with what we've done."