Mick McCarthy is confident Kevin Doyle will be a star for Wolverhampton Wanderers now he has scored his first goal for the club.

The £6million record club signing scored in the 2-1 home win over Fulham on Sunday, and McCarthy expects the goal to kick-start his career at Molineux.

"He's a Premier League striker and a Premier League goalscorer,” he said on skysports.com. "Unfortunately when we took him he had a hernia and he's never been fit, even today.

"He has been getting his fitness on the hoof a little bit in training and in games. It is great for him to get his first goal and that will help his confidence - not that he lacks self-belief.

"It is more to do with the acceptance of him by everyone at the football club as a centre-forward who is a big signing and who has to score goals. It's great for him to get this goal."

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