The 30-year-old admits he is finding it hard to show his face in the city after the team's woeful collapse into the third tier.

But as he waits to see what will unfold in a summer of change at Molineux, the promotion-winning skipper is desperate for the opportunity to at least help repair the damage of the catastrophic season just completed.

Henry, who has been at the club he has supported since childhood for seven years, said: "I think there needs to be a clear out, for the sake of the club and, probably, for the sake of the players.

"I don't want to leave Wolves. No way. But at the same time if somebody comes in and thinks we need a clear-out and I'm one of them then that's life.

"I still want to be part of it. Whether the club or the manager will want me to be a part of it we will have to see.

"But I've got three years left. I've got my own personal pride. I want to get back to the player I was before this season.

"Getting relegated from the Championship is a disgrace. It is shameful. And I want to come back to put things right – I know a lot of the players feel the same.

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"I want to make up at least for what has happened this season. I don't want to walk around Wolverhampton at the moment.

"It's embarrassing. What we have done to go from those highs to this is just a disgrace for us.

"I know this comes over as 'talk is cheap' but what else can you say? I want to knuckle down in the summer and find the player I know I can be again."

Henry is the first Wolves player to speak in the wake of relegation as he returned to his old Wednesfield primary school to publicise the launch of a learning aids book for parents and children.

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And, whatever happens, he hopes the club re-establishes a clear identity after the failures of three managerial regimes.

He said: "Under Mick McCarthy, we had a clear identity. We worked hard and we were a tight group.

"We don't have an identity at the moment though. There is no 'Wolves way.' That's what I want to do.

"I want to make up at least for what has happened this season."