Amid all the speculation and rumours surrounding Glenn Hoddle’s managerial future at Wolverhampton Wanderers, one player has stepped forward and offered the former England boss plenty of support at the same time as doing the business on the field.

Wolves paid £2,000,000 to prise Carl Cort away from Newcastle United following a successful loan spell at Molineux and after the striker scored a brace of goals in last weekend’s impressive 4-1 victory over Crewe he was full of praise for his gaffer.

“The manager has come in and introduced new ideas and his coaching skills are very high,” said Cort. “He knows a lot about the game.

“I just think at the moment, in terms of the fans and maybe the players as well, he has signed a contract until the end of the season and you don’t really know what is going to happen.

“I think that is a shame because you can’t really build.

“It has nothing to do with me – I’m just here to play football – it is down to the board. They are 100 per cent sure what they are doing and we’ll leave that to them.”

Following last weekend’s eye-catching display at Gresty Road the former Wimbledon man is still hopeful of a place in the play-offs, the win over Dario Gradi’s men put them eight points off the play-off places.

“You have to have some sort of target and ours is still to get in the play-offs, otherwise you end up just drifting through the season and going through the motions,” he added.

“We have to have that in mind to keep the motivation and the confidence there.

“It is one of those situations where we maybe need a couple of good wins to lift the club.”

Things have definitely changed at Molineux since Hoddle took over the reigns from Dave Jones at the start of December. Pessimists amongst the Wolverhampton faithful would say that the team who were plying their trade in the Premiership last season are not winning enough games, 10 draws from the last 16 games means that the team have only won four games, but then they have only lost twice.

“The boss is very technical and very experienced, with a good knowledge of the game and we’ve only lost once in the League since he’s been here so it’s not gone too badly.

“He’s only here initially for six months so certain things he’s had to rush in a sense. We have played a lot of different formations since he’s been here and done things which are new for some players  – which could have had an effect on the way we played.

“We’d all like the gaffer to sign a longer deal because he’s done well for us. The boys are enjoying it because he has brought something new to us and we look a lot more organised and the confidence and motivation is still there.”

It is sure to be an interesting atmosphere at the Wolverhampton Wanderers training complex, especially following reports that appeared in several national newspapers last weekend, with Paul Ince supposedly being lined up as the successor to Glenn Hoddle for the Molineux hotseat.

Despite the stories it is business as usual as far as Cort is concerned: “There’s bit a bit of banter flying around about the Incey report but not too much has been said because at the end of the day it’s just paper talk.

“But whatever happens our job is just to play football. We’ve got to stay confident that we can maybe make the play-offs because the season is coming to a close and we don’t want to be drifting our way through from now until the end with nothing to play for.

“We’ve got to keep that as an incentive. It’s going to be a tall order but we just have to go out and try and win every game.”

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