Doyle tipped to improve with age

Mick McCarthy is confident Kevin Doyle will be a better player for Wolves next season.

Doyle pledged his future to the club in an interview with the Express & Star interview this week, provided Wolves stay up.

And the £6.5m club record signing is excited by the prospect of new arrivals promised by boss McCarthy that would be triggered by Premier League survival.

Doyle is Wolves' six-goal top scorer but McCarthy is hopeful that tally would be higher with more assistance and better chances.

"He's had a great season. I'm hoping he's going to come on a bit more next season with us," said the Wolves chief.

"He needs someone to slot in him or put a cross on his head, but we've had great delivery from corners and free-kicks.

"I'm not saying we've been unlucky but we might get a bit of luck where a ball just might drop to Doyle like it dropped to Paul Scholes in our box last week."

Villa, Everton and Sunderland have again been linked with Doyle.

But the 26-year-old is happy at Molineux and McCarthy insisted any interest won't faze his star asset.

"It doesn't bother me at all," he said. "It just tells me he's playing well.

"It won't bother Doyle. He'll just get on with job like he always has done.

"It won't interfere with his performances.

"It's flattering but you just get on with your job. The ones that don't get on with their job aren't like Doyle.

"You don't get to that level of performance by worrying what is going on elsewhere.

"That makes the world go round in football - you play well and there are supposedly bigger, better and richer clubs having a look.

"Whether that's us looking at somebody or somebody looking at ours, it doesn't bother me at all.

"I remember myself as a player in the long distant past, if you're having a great season and thinking: 'I'm doing alright', people start talking about you."

McCarthy however admitted Wolves, who went into today as the division's lowest scorers on 21, should be netting more goals.

"We were never going to score tonnes but on chances created, we should've scored more," he said.