Gary O'Neil fires warning to Wolves players amid difficult form

After a 3-1 loss to Crystal Palace, Wolves have managed just one win in the last nine Premier League games, losing six.

Following the game on Saturday, O’Neil spoke at length about needing to change the style of play to suit the players he has at his disposal, as he expressed his disappointment at the Palace result and the recent performances.

And when pressed further on his side’s form, O’Neil admitted in a lengthy answer that work on the training ground and in the transfer market will be essential in the summer to replicate form from earlier this season and avoid a bad start to 2024/25.

“There’s no reason for that apart from if you’ve got big weaknesses you’ve not been able to deal with or cover up,” O’Neil said when asked why teams often carry poor form into the next campaign.

“If we go into next season with the same weaknesses as now, we’ll have issues.

“If we’re able to improve them and get the levels back up to where they need to be, then we won’t.

“There’s no reason that next season has to start slowly because the end of this season has finished slowly.

“We need to make sure that every football game is a new challenge and a new opportunity to pick up points. We need to give ourselves every opportunity.

“I need to find something that the players find easier than what I’ve seen in the last few weeks.

“Against Bournemouth in the first half they struggled. Here, first half, really struggled.

“We’re trying to do exactly the same as what we were trying to do at the start of the season but we’ve not been able to replicate the same sort of performances and results.

“We need to look at ourselves first and find a way to try to improve it.

“Next season will be fine. We need to do some really big work in the summer though.

“Look at what Crystal Palace have. Just compare the amount of mistakes on the ball and they’re a long way ahead of us.

“Attacking players and attacking threat, they look a long way ahead of us.

“How easily Andersen dealt with Channy, compared to how difficult it was for us to deal with their front player, they looked ahead in a lot of departments.

“We go into the summer with that as the harsh reality needing to find a way to improve it, whether it’s on the training ground or in the window.”