Town manager Mick McCarthy and owner Marcus Evans are set to continue their meetings regarding the budget and their plans for the new season in the next few days. We understand the pair met last week, having previously held talks in the days after the Blues confirmed their Championship status.

The restrictions of Financial Fair Play are likely to mean most of Town’s summer signings will be Bosman deals, although even then the Blues won’t be able to match the wages offered by clubs with parachute payments, as was the case with former Notts County winger Alan Judge, who last week agreed to rejoin his former club Blackburn.

Former Bristol City skipper Cole Skuse and ex-Nottingham Forest striker David McGoldrick are already set to sign contracts at Portman Road on July 1st, while released Wolves winger Stephen Hunt is another Bosman target.

McCarthy is understood not to have been at Wembley for yesterday’s League One play-off final, which may suggest that his current interest in Brentford wideman Harry Forrester, who he watched earlier in the season, has been overstated.

Forrester, whose Bees lost 2-1 to former Blues midfielder Ed Upson's Yeovil at Wembley, is also out of contract at the end of June. The 22-year-old is to hold talks with Brentford about his situation, although he seems certain to leave Griffin Park: “I can’t say anything on my future yet.

“I’ve got a meeting with the owner but we’ll talk about that. Now is not the time. We’re devastated that we haven’t gone up. We’ll see what happens.”

Meanwhile, former Wolves director Kevin Threlfall says Wolves’ plummet into League One was partly down to Mick McCarthy’s transfer dealings while he was at Molineux. The current Town boss was sacked by then-Premier League Wolves in February 2012 and suffered their second successive relegation earlier this month.

Threlfall, who says some of the Molineux board were “frightened” of McCarthy, told the Wolverhampton Express and Star: "Mick would decide who he wanted to buy and the rest of the board would have absolutely no input in the process.

"The best we could ever get out of him was ‘he will do us a job.’ We were always operating on Mick’s word, there was no due diligence on these players and we have paid the price. I’m afraid a lot of the blame for where we are now lies at Mick’s door.”

Elsewhere, we understand that Olympic gold medal-winning rower Steve Williams, who was employed in a consultancy role working with fitness coach Andy Liddell last summer, left the staff towards the end of the season.

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irishtim added 12:38 - May 20 Sour grapes by the wolves board I reckon. They had plenty of time to turn things around. Reality is they messed up in the first place sacking Mick.
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Keaneish added 12:41 - May 20 HaHaHa! Thats the funniest read i've had on here for aaaages! Threlfall really has made himself look a right tit! Is that the same manager who motioned for players to get you into the premier league? the same manager who motioned for players to keep you in the premier league and the same manager who brought in players easily good enough to keep you in the Championship!!? Wolves are in disarray with spokesmen like that! You're in good hands here Mick!

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rosseden added 12:51 - May 20 the best thing about that wolves article are the fans comments on the bottom of the page. How they seem to have wished MM hadnt gone!
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Popeye added 12:53 - May 20 If you read the fan comments under the article, most of the fans disagree with him! http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/05/20/ex-dir
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Beattiesballbag added 12:53 - May 20 I'm afraid a lot of the blame for where we are now lies at Mick's door.” I guess if that is true then PJ should get the credit for where we are now as he was the one who acquired most of the players we have now!!!! Getting the best out of them has nothing to do with it! Well done PJ ! oh & thanks for helping him make the right decisions Mr Clegg.
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arc added 12:57 - May 20 Perhaps Mr Threlfall would like to meet up with Mick at an appropriate place to discuss the matter calmly and amicably. No?
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nthstd added 13:14 - May 20 By heck there are some sour grapes there. How the heck he became a multi millionaire is beyond me if he can't stand up to someone and present a professional case for not signing a player then you shouldn't be on the board. Aside from football knowledge you need business knowledge and that's why none football types are there. Doubt very much you can blame Mick for the Wolves tumble to league one having watched them play they were dreadful in defence. Nah Mick you thunder on with the Town.

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Wickets added 13:14 - May 20 Did Mick have an imput into the managers after they sacked him? NO. They are the ones who took them down,just buck passing from the Wolves board i'm afraid.
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suffolkpunchdrunk added 13:15 - May 20 How about a discussion over signing Stephen Mcphail?
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AbujaBlue added 13:16 - May 20 That is like the captain of a ship blaming the engine room as he steers the ship into a cliff face. Wolves have no hope with the likes of Threlfall in charge and the scores of deluded souls (mainly populating Molineux Mix) who share his views.
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whosroundisitanyway added 13:29 - May 20 Is his name pronounced "Freefall"? It should be!
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pazelle added 13:32 - May 20 Frightened of him! And it's HIS fault!
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JewellintheTown added 14:07 - May 20 Who cares what the bitter bloke says, we got Mick, he's stopped the rot and built us back up. For that I'm grateful and put my trust in him to sort us out for a promising season.
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shefkuqi32 added 14:26 - May 20 If Mick would have the money the previous managers mostly squandered on players we would be looking at a very good season. Hopefully Evans will back Mick now as I trust him 110% he knows who to sign to get us back in the Prem.
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marcusevans added 14:31 - May 20 I thought Threlfall was the bloke who plays Frank Gallagher in Shameless. He was an alcoholic I think. Nuff said.
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BillBlue added 14:34 - May 20 Popeye. Thanks for that lead! Hell what a lot of nasty vicious comments from Thelfall but again what an awful input from the supporters, mostly for but some against Mick, but they almost appear to hate each other. We came pretty close in the last couple of years but I sincerely hope we never get back there again. When Micks heart was with Wolves and he said he loved being there and loved the fans it makes you think because things must have changed drastically since he left and I don't just mean the double relegation.

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Edmunds5 added 14:39 - May 20 "I'm afraid alot of the blame for where we are now lies at Mick's door"- what a load of rubbish. So it had little to do with the poor left-field decisions hiring Stale Solbakken and Dean Saunders and the players they both brought in? They have dropped two tiers since Mick left so how can he be resposible? Trying to shift the blame from their own incompetence I feel. Besides if they're employing Mick then surely they have to be big enough and assertive enough to have told MM what he can and can't do, the biggest reason TC and MM work so well together is because of they bounce of their own ideas and disagree quite often, you shouldn't be on the board if you haven't got it in you to tell the clubs manager how you feel. Anyway not to worry, we've benefited from their failings.

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MickMillsTash added 14:41 - May 20 I suspect there is an element of truth in these comments- some better diligence on Roger Johnson may have saved £7million but in Jarvis, Fletcher, Doyle, Stearman plus others no doubt McCarthys method worked. The reason why Wolves are where they are is due to successive managerial cock ups since McCarthy left.
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Paddy39 added 14:42 - May 20 Best laugh I've had in ages ha ha ha. COYB's
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Blue041273 added 15:22 - May 20 Possibly the most telling thing about Threlfall is that he is a 'former' Director. His description of Board Meetings suggests that the Directors were not fulfilling their duties and responsibilities of their office and that failure ascribes greater culpability for any alleged mis-management and its consequences than any action taken by any of their Managers. Any football manager doing the job to the best of his ability will be wanting to bring in better players. It is the responsibility of the Board to ensure that finances are properly controlled and any/all risks are properly managed. In blaming MM for Wolves' current predicament Threlfall is clearly acknowledging that he didn't do his job as a Director properly and probably explains why he is a director no longer.

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NoCanariesAllowed added 16:38 - May 20 Sorry, Mr Threlfall, but regardless of whether there is even the slightest shred of merit in these claims of the board being 'frightened' or dominated by McCarthy - which speaks greater volumes about the Wolves board than Mick if so - it is all completely irrelevant. The squad Mick McCarthy left you with was more than good enough to stay in the Championship. No excuses.

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Clemcc added 17:10 - May 20 I am a bit confused by the comments Mr Threlfall. If it is the players that were bad (Btw i think were good enough to stay up), why sack Ståle Solbakken and Dean Saunders? They must thought they were good managers to appointment them, so on that principle if its the players are bad, why get rid of them?? Should have keep faith in one of them.
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Beattiesballbag added 17:15 - May 20 I think Mick McCarthy has a lot to answer for. If he had made the decision to come here a bit sooner he could have helped that nice Mr Clegg opt for Category 1 status, instead of Cat 2, Ps did someone fart before TC had his pic taken?
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Stato added 17:54 - May 20 Mick is currently 2nd/3rd favourite to be the next boss of ireland and same for next boss of Celtic so I don't think he'll lose too much sleep over those that view his reign at Wolves negatively. I hope we he moves onfrom Portman Road we show a bit more class and remember this season just past as a fantastic achievement on Mick's part.
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Talbs77 added 19:38 - May 20 God Wolves just need to get over it, they really are sounding a pathetic bunch now! They need to get their heads round the fact they will be playing League 1 football and figure out how they will get out of it, oh and get their 4th boss in the space of a year installed. Anyway I really dont care what they think, MM has done magnificently at our club and Wolves loss is our gain.

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