Championship - McCarthy looking far and wide

Eurosport - Thu, 17 Jul 15:36:00 2008

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy insists he will not be tempted to "pigeon-hole" the sort of players he brings to the club.

FOOTBALL: Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy - 0

One of McCarthy's most successful transfers has been winger Michael Kightly - whom he plucked from obscurity at non-league Grays in 2007.

And McCarthy believes that Kightly's progress since arriving at Molineux shows he is right not to always go for established players.

"I've been wrong on some signings, but if you only set your targets on certain people, Michael Kightly would never have come to the club," McCarthy told the club's official website.

"I think people thought 'how can the mighty Wolves be signing Kightly from non-League Grays?' Eighteen months on, he's the hero and no-one would argue he's not one of the best signings we've made.

"I don't like pigeon-holing players and saying 'that's the way I want to go' because if you do it, then the first reaction is a negative one and we don't need that."

TeamTalk / Eurosport

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  1. i think we should go for koumas at wigan we need someone like him to create things in the middle of the park thats my view, and also why dont they paid the wages for thomas gravesen he would do the buissness for us no doughts just like ince used to do!!!!!

    From bully09, on Thu 17 Jul 6:41PM

  2. Kightly is the BEST player McCarthy has signed......
    followed closely (very closely) by Ebanks-Blake..... a Premiership bound duo if ever i saw one!!!
    heres to a successful promotion campaign for 08/09....

    From Daniel S, on Thu 17 Jul 4:11PM
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