Town boss Mick McCarthy says he doesn’t expect to manage in the Premier League again - unless he wins promotion with the Blues.

McCarthy was in charge of Sunderland and Wolves in the top flight but says he’s received no interest from clubs at that level since his Molineux sacking in February 2012: “I don’t see them clamouring for my services and never did.

“I was disappointed I didn’t get the opportunity to have my third season to keep Wolves up and had I done I would have been viewed very differently.

“As opposed to have being sacked in February I would still have been in a job and still in the Premier League if I’d have kept them up.

“We don’t know whether I would have done. I can say I would have, but that’s all hypothetical.

“Of course I was disappointed and then the job I got offered was one at the bottom of the Championship.”

He added: “I get described as a ‘top Championship manager’ as my career has been spent either going from the top six in the Championship, mainly, to the Premier League or from 39th in the world to 13th as an international manager.

“I’d say that’s pretty good. I’d say there’d be a lot of managers who would be delighted with my record.

“While I’d like it to be better, I’m not content with it, I want to get in the Premier League again. To get there I do think I’ll have to do it again by getting a team promoted, hopefully it’s Ipswich.

“And that’s how I feel. I don’t feel they’re going to come clamouring for my services unless I make an anagram of my name and make it a foreign one.”

Town are currently second in the table despite other clubs having paid significant transfer fees and wages which McCarthy says are sometimes well beyond the Blues’ means.

“I’ve been talking to managers and agents this week and seen some of the wages that players are earning at other clubs,” he said.

“We’re OK in terms of what we pay to the players, but some of them are seriously nuts as to what they’re paying. And we can’t get anywhere near them.

“It doesn’t matter what we’re paying, we’re doing it how we do it. If they’re on free transfers, Bosmans, trialists walking in the door, that’s how it’s been done so far.”

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Sibelius8 added 06:44 - Jan 20 Kymci Tchmrac.......?
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MelbourneBlue added 07:37 - Jan 20 *cratch my mick.........?
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muccletonjoe added 08:05 - Jan 20 Myth crackim
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Len_Brennan added 08:06 - Jan 20 I wonder if those wages he's talking about are Billy Sharp's. He was on a Premiership contract when Leeds bought him, so presumably they had to offer him something similar to get his signature. The way Leeds has been run it would be no surprise to hear he is on £25k a week. Maybe that's whyMick is looking for a loan (subsidised wages) until the end of the season pending promotion when a new contract on better wages could be agreed?

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BathBlue2 added 08:14 - Jan 20 Kamitch Crymc - from the Russian Federation state, Mikskykonnorov - well thought of over there...
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emergencylime added 08:50 - Jan 20 Cammy C. Thrick
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jayceee added 09:31 - Jan 20 Cary Tickimm
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MVBlue added 10:14 - Jan 20 Our continental manager Cymicc Karthm speaks the truth. Whenever transfer talks stalled at this club it was normally wage demands. This is the first time since Clegg I can remember a transfer talk not going according to plan.
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flashblue added 10:19 - Jan 20 If we get promoted this season, it will be 'mission accomplished' for Mick and thank you very much. But we should move on to a new manager, straight away.
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wkj added 10:32 - Jan 20 Not only is MM a great manager, He has us playing Countdown now too with his name. top class
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petermorris added 10:48 - Jan 20 Is Mr My Catchick saying no Brashly Lip from Leeds then?
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bohslegend added 13:37 - Jan 20 Wind Up Flashblue, I marked you down and then regretted it, because you are on some mission to get them in the first place.
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Walk_the_Wark added 18:09 - Jan 20 Top, top championship manager, but as his record shows, a very poor Prem one. I'm afraid down to earth hard working approach and good man-management is simply not good enough in the top tier and Mick has consistently shn this. This was my worry from the off. Interesting to see what willhappen if we do go up. We have a handful of players who cold cope in Mings, Chambers, Smith, Berra, Bishop and McGoldrick. Difficult- you can't just let go the guy who got us promoted. You can't buy a whole new squad and expect them to gel. However, as shown against S'ton we will get mauled week in week with this set up. I'm afraid we can expect relegation pretty quickly under McCarthy. But at least we will have money to go again and get a manager with the talent required to get us promoted AND keep us up!

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Superblue95 added 19:33 - Jan 20 McCarthy says his only chance of getting back to the premiership is getting promoted with us. Funny that because our only chance of getting back there is with him. Match made in heaven
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harlingblue added 20:09 - Jan 20 MC MY THICK CAR (The first ITFC Rapper Manager) To get Town up is the name of the game that's why I'm here, we all want the same a sleeping giant, back home in The Prem me and TC and our squad ready to combat them!
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Warkys_Tash added 23:06 - Jan 20 Len Brennan, spot on. I thought the same & that's why it's doubtful you will see Sharpe sign here - we just can't afford the wages & paying such is likely to upset the apple cart. I would be surprised.
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