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Mick McCarthy disappointed with Wolverhampton Wanderers' transfer campaign
Lonewolf howls in despair...
2 Feb 2010 11:23:00
By Adithya Ananth
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy has admitted that he is frustrated at not having brought in as many players as he would have liked during the January transfer window.
The relegation-threatened club were willing to break their own transfer record and bring in the necessary quality to assure survival in the top-flight, but were eventually unable to do so as Hull City rejected a £5 million bid for Stephen Hunt while Crystal Palace youngster Nathaniel Clyne turned down a move to Molineux.
The only new faces that came in to the squad were midfielder Adlene Guedioura and winger Geoffrey Mujangi Bia, both on loan from Belgian club Charleroi.
"We would have liked to do some more business and we were prepared to break it [club's transfer record]," McCarthy is quoted by The Press Association as saying.
"In Adlene and Geoffrey we have signed two really good players and we tried our damnedest to get other players in.
"We tried to make other signings but we can't force people to come, and we can't force people to sell them. We had contingencies in place as well.
"I won't discuss who they are but we have had bids in for lots of players.
"They have all been batted back and there is not a thing that we can do about it.
"We offered to pay over the odds on three or four players, maybe even more.
"You have to do it in this window and we have been prepared to do it.
"But they either don't want to come or clubs don't want to sell. There has to be a cut-off point as well.
"If someone gets put way, way beyond you then there has to be some common sense shown as well.
"It is also a case of them not being for sale or on other occasions they don't want to come.
"It is also only right and proper that they put the prices up. If someone came to us and said they wanted to sign the likes of Kevin Doyle, Karl Henry, Wayne Hennessey, Marcus Hahnemann, Jody Craddock, I am not going to sell them."
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The only new faces that came in to the squad were midfielder Adlene Guedioura and winger Geoffrey Mujangi Bia, both on loan from Belgian club Charleroi.
"We would have liked to do some more business and we were prepared to break it [club's transfer record]," McCarthy is quoted by The Press Association as saying.
"In Adlene and Geoffrey we have signed two really good players and we tried our damnedest to get other players in.
"We tried to make other signings but we can't force people to come, and we can't force people to sell them. We had contingencies in place as well.
"I won't discuss who they are but we have had bids in for lots of players.
"They have all been batted back and there is not a thing that we can do about it.
"We offered to pay over the odds on three or four players, maybe even more.
"You have to do it in this window and we have been prepared to do it.
"But they either don't want to come or clubs don't want to sell. There has to be a cut-off point as well.
"If someone gets put way, way beyond you then there has to be some common sense shown as well.
"It is also a case of them not being for sale or on other occasions they don't want to come.
"It is also only right and proper that they put the prices up. If someone came to us and said they wanted to sign the likes of Kevin Doyle, Karl Henry, Wayne Hennessey, Marcus Hahnemann, Jody Craddock, I am not going to sell them."
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