Former player feels Wolves boss has been let down

Wolves find themselves bottom of the Premier League with one point from eight games so far this season.

The club sold both Max Kilman and Pedro Neto for big fees and brought in promising young players, while also failing to sign a centre-back.

O’Hara, who played for Wolves from 2011 to 2014, has sympathy for O’Neil having to work with a self-sustainable business model.

“I hope they can turn it around,” O’Hara said, speaking at the Copa del Cure Leukaemia tournament at St George’s Park.

“I like Gary O’Neil, he’s passionate about the game but you can see it’s taken a lot out of him. He looks like he’s aged 10 years over the last year.

“They’ve sold their best players in Max Kilman and Pedro Neto. I know Neto was injured a lot but he won games when we played.

“It’s a difficult one for Gary. You’ve got to give him a few more months and if they’re still in trouble, maybe bring someone in to just get them to safety.

“But they’re a big club and I think the owners have let him down by not signing enough quality to stay in the Premier League.

“Wolves have signed some really good players over the years and recruited well but I think they’ve let Gary down.

“He needed investment and help. He can’t produce miracles, especially when you take away his best players. It’s almost impossible.

“I think they’ll struggle but I hope they’ll find a way out of it – they’ll be relying on the promoted teams to finish below them.”

Amid the club’s struggles this season, speculation has been rife over O’Neil’s future.

As it stands, the club are backing their head coach to turn their fortunes around, with some crunch fixtures coming up.

O’Hara believes Wolves will struggle to find an upgrade on O’Neil, or at least someone who has experience of the Premier League.

And when asked to name the kind of candidate who could save them from relegation, O’Hara said the best man for the job is unavailable. He added: “The perfect guy to get in is Sean Dyche but he’s at Everton.

“Or you find someone who can implement a different style of football and maybe try and lift the players that way.”

Cure Leukaemia is a UK-based blood cancer charity founded in 2003, working to accelerate the process of bringing life-saving treatments to leukaemia patients by funding specialist research nurses across the country.