WOLVES are set to add Manchester City’s Tommy Doyle to their pack in a £4.3million deal.
The midfielder, 22, has been on loan at Molineux this season, making 29 appearances.
ReutersTommy Doyle is set to join Wolves on a permanent deal[/caption]
PAHis grandad Mike Doyle is Man City’s third-highest appearance-maker[/caption]
Wanderers have an option to make the move permanent.
This is Doyle’s fourth loan spell after stints with Hamburg, Cardiff and Sheffield United.
He has not scored or assisted in the Premier League this season.
But Wolves boss Gary O’Neil has insisted that the club are “delighted” with the player’s progress this season.
He said: “We’re delighted with how he’s done, so I don’t foresee any issues.
“I’d expect him to be here next year. Hopefully, we’ll get that done fairly quickly in the summer.
“I know Tommy feels settled and I know he’s enjoying it.”
Doyle’s move away from the Etihad would mean him leaving the club that is close to his family.
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The midfielder’s grandfathers, Mike Doyle and Glyn Pardoe, are two of Man City’s biggest icons.
His paternal grandfather, Mike Doyle, is City’s third-highest appearance-maker with 570 games for the club.
While Pardoe, Doyle Jnr’s maternal grandpa, still holds the record of being City’s youngest-ever player, making his debut aged 15 years and 314 days.
The pair played in Man City’s 1969 FA Cup final victory over Leicester City.
They both scored in the 2-1 League Cup triumph against West Brom the following year.
PAGlyn Pardoe is Man City’s youngest-ever player[/caption]
Our beautiful game is broken
By Dave Kidd
When Manchester United got lucky in their FA Cup semi-final, Antony’s first instinct was to goad heartbroken opponents Coventry. To rub their noses in the dirt.
Antony seems to be a vile individual but this isn’t really about Antony. Because Antony is merely a symptom of the hideous sickness within England’s top flight.
There is so much wrong.
After our elite clubs persuaded the FA to completely scrap Cup replays — which gave us Ronnie Radford and Ricky Villa and Ryan Giggs — without due recompense or reasoning with the rest of English football.
The previous day, after his Manchester City side had defeated Chelsea in the other FA Cup semi-final, Pep Guardiola whinged about the fixture scheduling of TV companies who effectively pay much of his £20m salary.
Up at Wolves, Guardiola’s friend and rival Mikel Arteta was playing the same sad song about fixture congestion, despite his Arsenal side having played two fewer games this season than Coventry — who don’t have £50m squad players to rotate with.
Chelsea, oh Chelsea. The one-time plaything of a Russian oligarch now owned by financially incontinent venture capitalists who have piddled £1billion on a squad of players who fight like weasels in a sack about who should bask in the personal glory of scoring the penalty that puts them 5-0 up against Everton.