Steve Froggatt urges Wolves to back Dean Saunders
Former Wolves winger Steve Froggatt today urged the Molineux board to support manager Dean Saunders if the club is to escape a second successive relegation.
As a close friend of Saunders from their Villa days, Froggatt has been invited to the club's Compton training ground and seen the players at close quarters as they struggle to find a way out of their continuing decline.
Saunders failed to sign Blackpool defender Alex Baptiste and Birmingham pair Curtis Davies and Marlon King in January, with the club refusing to pay over the odds for players whose contracts are up this summer as in the case of Baptiste, 27, and King, 32.
Chief executive Jez Moxey told the Express & Star on Friday that at least one more loan signing is being pursued to add to Reading defender Kaspars Gorkss and Liverpool's Jack Robinson.
And 39-year-old ex-wideman Froggatt reckons that if the reinforcements he felt should have been added to strengthen the squad couldn't be made in January, the board should do everything they can now to assist Saunders before the loan window shuts on March 28.
"That dressing room must be mentally shot to pieces and I think the board should have seen that," said Froggatt.
"They should have seen the team needed reinforcements to get rid of this losing mentality because the lads coming in from outside haven't been relegated and they would have been looking to impress.
"They were struggling when Dean took over and he knows it's a results business and that he has to start winning games, but I don't think he's been given enough help.
"He needed players but the board have only started to act now and it's as if the horse has bolted.
"From what I have seen, I think he needs two more signings to keep them up.
"They need a central midfielder and a striker.
"They are desperately short of goals because confidence is shot so if they can find someone to score, that would be a massive boost."
Froggatt reckons the losing mentality runs so deep that there is a perception that some players aren't as committed as they should be.
"Any player can have a stinker but Wolves fans will stand by you as long as you give your all," he said.
"But there's a large majority of fans now believing the players aren't putting a shift in."
