Mick McCarthy planning more Wolves transfer swoops

Wolves are planning to stay on the front foot in the summer transfer market after completing two deals this week.

The club believes the swoop for Scottish international Steve Fletcher, just 48 hours after Belgian defender Jelle Van Damme arrived, caught rival clubs napping.

And manager Mick McCarthy suggests more deals are in the pipeline as the club looks to get as much business done as swiftly as possible.

Wolves are already being heavily linked with Portsmouth's South Africa defender Aaron Mokoena and McCarthy said: "We've got a budget which we work to here.

"It's something that myself, Jez and Steve sat down and spoke about and said we were going to spend in the best way that we could to improve the team.

"I think we've already done that with Jelle and Steven and we'll continue to look. We did it last year with getting Doyler signed up early when he was the primary target. We'd been trying to do Jelle for quite a well and now Steven. It makes us a better squad already with two very good players.

"I'm really pleased to have got two done as early as we have done like we did last year. But we're still looking for more and still looking to improve."

Chief Executive Jez Moxey believes it was the speed at which Wolves were prepared to do business on Fletcher which caught the clubs with whom they are competing in the summer market – in this case Blackburn Rovers – napping.

That enabled Wolves to steal a march and make a convincing first pitch to the Scottish international which paid off and Moxey hopes to repeat the process before the World Cup inflates the market.

And McCarthy will continue to put personality ahead of price adding: "The money side of it doesn't bother me. It's the player, the personality and the character that he is.

"Steven will fit in here perfectly and I'm delighted to have signed him. It doesn't appear that there has been too much cash knocking about."