Former Leicester City and Charlton defender Paddy McCarthy has joined Crystal Palace.
Warnock told the South London Press: ‘I’ve chased Paddy for about five years and I’m delighted to get him.
‘I think I can make him a better player and it’s great to fit someone into our squad who I can trust straight away.’
He made 31 appearances for Charlton.
`’The move was a kind of sudden thing, a bolt out of the blue,” McCarthy told Palace’s official website, www.cpfc.co.uk .