Premier League team coach criticised club owners for lack of transfers in winter

Wolverhampton started the year with victories over Chelsea and Tottenham, although they lost to Brentford and were knocked out of the FA Cup by lowly Coventry. The instability in the results inevitably raises questions for head coach Gary O'Neill, but the specialist already has an answer to them.

He did not take responsibility, and put it on the club's management, which failed to make signings in the winter transfer window:

"It is difficult to win in the Premier League with a full squad and with a small squad we are missing five players, so the 42 points we have picked up are a credit to the players. I'm disappointed we can't score more. We have approached the club and warned the management that we are overloading the players, that we have such a small squad.

If we lose a few attacking players, it will make a big difference. We had already drawn attention to this situation, but the club was unable to take action or help us. Two weeks after the transfer window closed, we were left without strikers. The young guys are working hard and the older players are forced to play 90 minutes per match," Sky Sports quoted the specialist as saying.