well we have to next thursday, i was told that compton very busy hobbs etc recruitment team,
but equally that GON and teams focus was solely on west brom first then manure
Wolves have suffered a setback in their pursuit of a striker signing this month, with boss Gary O’Neil revealing targets have been ruled out on financial grounds.
O’Neil is keen to add a centre forward to his ranks after Sasa Kalajdzic and Fabio Silva left on loan. But with a week remaining in the transfer window, O’Neil hinted strongly today the chances of adding a forward have receded in recent days:
“Me, (sporting director) Matt Hobbs and the recruitment team have done an awful lot of work on a couple of options and, after a meeting yesterday, it looks like they're not going to be doable financially for us at this point. So we are back to looking at other options that we might be able to do.
“Obviously that's disappointing, firstly, because we felt like we were making some headway on a couple but it looks like they're not going to be doable to us.”
O’Neil will get leading scorer Hwang Hee-chan back from Asian Cup duty at some point next month with the South Korean having played as a makeshift No.9 for much of this season.
But with Kalajdzic and Silva joining Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers respectively, teenager Nathan Fraser is currently O’Neil’s only recognised central striker with record signing Matheus Cunha having been reinvented as a wide player.
O’Neil insisted he is relaxed about the possibility of no additions:
“I don't want it to be seen as a negative because the group that we have has given us so much so far and I’m delighted to keep working with them.
“I'm not just going to sign anybody, it's not going to be like ‘we need a nine, so we'll take whatever we can get."
“We need to take people that deserve the opportunity to play for Wolves.
“January's tricky, prices are sometimes inflated and people don't want to lose their good players.
“So if we can't find ones that help us and can't find ones that I think are credible to play for Wolverhampton Wanderers, then we will go with what we've got, which is fine.”