Mick McCarthy keen to oversee new Wolves stadium

Mick McCarthy admits the £40m Molineux re-build has ramped up the pressure on keeping Wolves in the Premier League.

The Steve Morgan-inspired project, described as "fabulous" by manager McCarthy, will see three sides of the ground developed and capacity raised to 36,000 over the course of the next five years.

But the pace of the development will be influenced by Wolves' fortunes on the pitch and McCarthy acknowledges that means keeping Wolves in the top flight.

Speaking for the first time about the plans which were unveiled last month, the Wolves boss admits he would love to still be manager when the new Molineux is complete in 2015.

"It's a long way away but what a project it is," he said. "I want to be here and overseeing it, or being involved in it all the time.

"I think it is a fabulous project, and I want to be involved in it but my brief again is keeping the team in the league and progressing from last season.

"But it is thrilling to think what is going to happen at the stadium it's an exciting time and I want to be involved in it. But the only way all that keeps churning forward is by being a Premier League club and that is my responsibility."

Appointed in 2006, McCarthy is preparing for his fifth season in charge, an act of survival which bucks the trend in football management. To still be in charge to see the Wolves of 2015 run out into the re-designed stadium would be an even more remarkable achievement, but McCarthy is relishing the challenge.

"It was me who kept a steady hand on the tiller and kept the sanity around the place when there was insanity raging last season. It was me who went to Old Trafford and took those decisions and then we took nine points out of 12," he said.