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Former Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy will appear on the latest Old Gold Club podcast on Wednesday evening, and he has named four signings he made for the club in the Premier League that he got completely wrong, as per wolves.co.uk.
What’s the word, then?
Well, the now Republic of Ireland boss spent five-and-a-half years at Molineux between 2006-2012, leading the west Midlands outfit in the Championship and in the top flight.
The now 60-year-old was sacked following a poor run of results that culminated in a 5-1 home humiliation by arch-rivals West Bromwich Albion.
One of the reasons for their downfall was poor recruitment, and McCarthy has admitted on the Old Gold Club podcast that four signings he believed would be good turned out to be the complete opposite.
He said: “The recruitment turned out not to be great. Roger Johnson, Nenad Milijas, Jelle Van Damme, Jamie O’Hara.
“I’m thinking we’re signing better players, we all thought it, but they weren’t better than Christophe Berra, David Jones. Roger Johnson was nowhere near better than Christophe Berra, Jamie O’Hara was nowhere near the lads we’d already got.”
Is this a ground-breaking revelation?
Not particularly, no.
It was clear to see from the quartet’s performances on the pitch that they were nowhere near good enough – and no better than some of the players they replaced in the starting XI – but it is always interesting to hear a manager’s take on what happened.
McCarthy isn’t one to mince his words and he certainly hasn’t in this case either, throwing Johnson and O’Hara under the bus in particular.
