Wolves boss Mick McCarthy confident he'll get the backing for Premier success

May 10 2009 by Brian Dick, Sunday Mercury

BULLISH Mick McCarthy insists he has more chance of keeping Wolves in the Premier League than he did previous club Sunderland.

The former Ireland manager led his Molineux men to Championship glory this season with the second promotion of his managerial career.

The first came at the Stadium of Light in 2005 when the Black Cats went up with four more points than Wolves achieved this term.

But McCarthy maintains the Wearsiders didn’t back him in the transfer market and as a result they came straight back down.

While he was able to fortify Sunderland with 12 new faces in the summer and January transfer windows he spent a total of just £4.25m.

Half of his signings were free transfers and only three cost more than £1m, with the £1.8m fee paid for striker Jon Stead the single biggest outlay.

He is confident the situation will be much better this time round and, while Wanderers won’t confirm how much they are giving McCarthy, he expects it to be more.

“I am sure we will have a better opportunity to be a success this time in terms of support,” McCarthy said.

“I am not talking about fans, I am talking about from within and in terms of money. I have not spoken a lot about it [Sunderland], I have just stated the facts of what I had to spend which made it incredibly difficult.

“I enjoyed the experience. I don’t enjoy getting beat but we didn’t really get slapped about.