Gary O'Neil points the finger of blame for Wolves struggles with strong vow to critics

Wolves are yet to sensation triumph successful the Premier League this play - and person conscionable 1 constituent from their opening 7 matches - with Manchester City heading to Molineux this weekend

Gary O’Neil has owned Wolves’ early-season woes, saying: ‘It’s connected me.”

The Molineux main is lasting beforehand and centre - and is prepared to instrumentality the brickbats if their winless streak continues.

The boys from the Black Country person taken conscionable 1 constituent from 7 matches and request a repetition of past season’s outcome, wherever a disciplined amusement saw them decision Pep Guardiola ’s men.

O’Neil surely isn’t hiding - and adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to accidental that his players’ on-field mistakes are down to him. He said: “I privation to transportation the can. It is my responsibility. It's connected me.

"There is an knowing extracurricular of present arsenic to the concern astir the shot club. I deliberation that everyone knows.

“You tin look astatine what we've sold and what we've signed and however overmuch has gone either way. It’s each determination to see. But that doesn't mean that we can't beryllium competitory and it doesn't mean that I conscionable get a escaped thrust and accidental ‘not my fault’.

“Everything that happens connected the shot transportation is my fault. Brentford was my fault. The 2nd fractional against Aston Villa was my fault. Chelsea was my fault. Players making mistakes is my fault.

“They're trying to transportation retired what I've asked. If idiosyncratic slips implicit oregon can't implicit a five-yard walk there's not excessively overmuch I tin bash astir it. But they are my responsibility. If it's not my fault, past whose responsibility is it?

“So, I americium much than blessed to basal up aft each crippled and instrumentality work for the afloat performance, immoderate goes on, and I person nary worries astir that astatine all.”

Wolves person been competitory successful patches this play but the illness astatine Brentford 2 weeks agone acceptable alarm bells ringing. The manager has the board’s backing, but helium knows the timepiece is ticking.

O’Neil added: “I'll springiness perfectly everything to assistance the squad and to assistance the nine and past erstwhile idiosyncratic says to me: ‘You cognize what, we don't deliberation it's bully enough, you're going to determination on’ past I tin accidental ‘no problem, I’ve fixed you perfectly everything, I anticipation you bash well’.

“But that's not however it's going to extremity here. We're going to crook this around. The players are going to springiness perfectly everything and we're going to amusement everybody what a bully squad we are and that this commencement to the play has conscionable been a flimsy shortfall against truly bully sides.”

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