Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Wolves want team selection ruling

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Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey wants the Premier League to clarify rules on team selection at its summer meeting.

Wolves were given a suspended £25,000 fine by the league after making 10 changes for the clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford in December.

The issue came into focus again at the weekend as Fulham made nine changes for their game against Everton.

"I don't recall the media having a go at Manchester United for changes on the final day of last season," Moxey said.

Wolves have expressed concerns that other teams have also made wholesale alterations to their line-ups without action being taken against them.

Fulham, who play a Europa League semi-final second-leg this week, fielded a weakened team on Sunday, losing 2-1 at Goodison Park courtesy of a last-minute penalty.

Wolves' altered team selection came in December, with the club losing 3-0 at Old Trafford, but winning the games either side - away at Tottenham and home to Burnley.

And Moxey added: "Since [the game against Manchester United] we have seen other managers make a lot of changes. Are we going to have the same furore over Roy Hodgson's selections for Fulham at the weekend?

"The Premier League has got an issue and we will be raising it at the summer meeting. Being introduced now is a squad system where you can only register 25 players and as many Under-21s as we like.

"The manager will have 25 players to pick. Surely he has got to be able select whatever 11 he wants to play week in and week out just as Roy Hodgson did at the weekend.

"We will be asking for clarification on the ruling. The one question is 'how many changes are too many?' but we won't be asking for an apology for the action taken against us."

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Moxey also said that he wants manager Mick McCarthy to remain at Wolves for "a very long time" after the former Republic of Ireland manager kept the club in the Premier League.

McCarthy is understood to be on a one-year rolling contract having taken over at Molineux four years ago, inhering a club in the Championship that Moxey said was "in crisis".

"Mick has been central to everything we have done from a football point of view. He took over a club that was in crisis," he said.

"Part of our plan when we appointed Mick four years ago was to take the club and rebuild it, take it to the Premier League and stay there.

"We set out a plan of where we wanted to go and Mick has delivered at every turn and we couldn't be more happy with what he has done. I hope personally Mick will be with us for a very long time."

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