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Michael Kightly out of Wolves squad
Wednesday 1st September 2010, 11:00AM BST.
Michael Kightly was the shock omission today as Wolves revealed their 25-man Premier League squad.
Kightly has suffered a further setback in his bid to recover from knee injuries and has been left off boss Mick McCarthy’s list ahead of today’s 5pm deadline.
The grim news means the winger cannot play in the Premier League until January at the earliest.
It is the latest blow for the 24-year-old, who thought he had won his battle to recover from chronic inflammation of the patella tendons in both knees.
But the former England under-21 international broke down when he rejoined full training with his team-mates at the end of last week.
McCarthy explained: “He hasn’t played since last November and it would be very difficult to go straight back into the Premier League.
“So when he’s ready, we’ll discuss the possibility of going out on loan, which he can do before we can revise the squad in January.”
Head of medical Steve Kemp added: “This is a very complex injury. It’s not a major setback, it’s expected from this type of rehab.
“Rather than trying to get him back to Premier League football in a certain timespan, the gaffer has decided to take the pressure off by leaving him out for now.”
Kightly’s place has gone to Marcus Bent, signed on loan from Birmingham yesterday until January.
Matt Hill, who can be loaned to a Football League club, is the only other omission from the squad.
Geoffrey Mujangi Bia, who is expected to be fit in two weeks after a thigh injury, does not need to be named in the 25 as he is under 21.
Thirty-two-year-old Bent is looking to use all his experience to aid Wolves.
He said: “I’m sure the boys will teach me some stuff and I hope I can teach them some.”
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Seems sensible with Kites. Be like a new signing in Jan.
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Really, really bad news. Kightly was expected to be able to play a major part this season; now we definitely need Hunt to recover ASAP.
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Worrying news when rumours are still circulating from within the club that Kightly’s career is over!!
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Think this is news we all kind of expected…
Going out on loan to a Championship team will really tell us if he is going to get back to the kind of player he was a couple of years ago… My guess is that he will struggle to get back to they way he was… Lucky Jarvis has stepped up to the plate, he’s been possibly the most impressive player of the season so far…
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Gutted for Kites, if and hopefully when fit he could be a real influence us in the premiership. Would of been great with him and jarvo on both wings!
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Gutted for Kites but keeping the pressure off him and sending him on loan is the best thing to do. Every club in the Championship will be fighting to get him on loan for a few months and once fully fit he is a fantastic player hence the reason Man Utd tried to poach him just after we signed him, the lad is a class act.
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Bad news for Kites. Hope he recovers sooner rathen then later.
Still don’t know why it takes so long for players to regain fitness at wolves.
With so many injuries already within the squad, i feel a little worried for the coming few months.
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Does anyone know of a Wolves site that is sensible, informed and not melodramatic ?
Kightly – good decision, if he’s fit in January then he can fit back in when Bent goes. Its not like we’ve not grown used to being without him, so lets wait it out.
On Marcus Bent, all of a sudden his signing doesn’t look so bad for a fourth choice striker / someone with the speed to play out wide.
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guess its yet another season of square pegs. Should of signed a permanent replacement yesterday and let him go.
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Gutting news but it’s for the best the just needs time he wont retire its a big injury that takes time take a look at Hargreaves both very young players that will make full recovery I’m sure. Need Hunt to come good now and stay fit. Not sure about this Bent deal time will tell I suppose.
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Not that bothered to be honest. Hunt and Jarvis are better than Kightly.
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Wolves need to think a bit out of the box if they are going to get to the bottom of this mystifying injury. They need to look closely at lifestyle and diet, and even look at options like acupuncture to stop the inflammatory reaction in the body. It seems clear that conventional treatment is just not working so it is time to try something else.
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This is bad news and i have some more for you. Hunt`s recovery is not going to plan either, his injury has caused a number of other complications. For obvious reasons i cannot divulge how i know.
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This is the sensible thing to do. Hunt will be hopefully be back in about a month and there are a fair few games soon that we will have to revert to a 4-5-1 formation – due to standard of opposition – and that will mean Mancienne having to play and also to accomodate Doyle or Fletcher, we might have to employ them as part of a midfield 5.
A very good start to the season and I for one love the way the likes of Henry is getting stuck into the likes of Barton, Smith, Nolan and Cahill. None of these players are whiter than white. I cannot see Wolves lying down and surrendering like Albion or Villa, for example!
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This 25 man rule is not fair on injured players, it pushes them away from the club, for more months than is needed. I would make it a 30 man squad and ask for more english players within each team that actually plays.
It does not help players, it pushes them down the leagues, if they cannot get a place. Also when a player reaches 22 if he has not really made it, his chance is over, how unfair is that. Some players do not mature till after 21.
I would not of put Ikeme in the 25 man squad, as he can go out on loan. Instead we should have looked for an under 21 Goalkeeper to cover. Which would of given Kightly a fair chance with the team he plays for.
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3 – similar rumours emerged when Joleon Lescott missed our first season in the Premier League didn’t they?
Bad news in some ways but it all sounds sensible enough. Get fit soon Kites.
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Not the best news to hear expecially with the recent news about Matt Murray. However for all the doom and gloom merchants that think he’ll have to retire, there are several high profile players that have had a season or two out of the game and then gone on to have successful careers. Players like Van Der Vaart, Alan smith, Djibril Cisse, Michael Essien.
I think it’s a good move by the club! Also Hunt should be back in around 6-7weeks, plus Mujungi started to find his feet at the end of last season, and McCarthy has obviously seen something in him to get him back for a second season. So it’s not all doom and gloom!
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The news on Kightly puts the signing of Marcus Bent in perspective.
As Kightly is not going to be available until January, Wolves might as well sign someone like Bent to make up the 25 irrespective whether he plays or not.
Hopefully we will have Hunt available in 4 or 5 weeks time.
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12 – your an idiot.
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N0 13 Simon Campbell…i think your full of it mate. expect hunt to start to feature in reserve games by the end of this month. fully fit by end of oct and terrorising prem defenses soon after! if hunts injury was worse than first thought MM would have signed a winger yesterday. up the mighty wolves!
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All ready brought most imjured what do we expect zzzz
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13 – TWADDLE! If you were “in the know” and you’re in a position of trust then you wouldn’t say anythng in the first place … let alone put your name on it!!!
Kightly news is no disaster. With Hunt out until at least late Sept then it’d be more of a disaster if Jarvo got injured.
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I feel so sorry for kites and i thought he was a great player,but i think he has come to the end of the road like matt, should have sighned pennant.
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Kites is young enough not to be rushed.
Good decision and certainly needs to go out on loan because I don’t think he should walk straight back in to the first 11 who have done great in his absence.
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Not good news. Fast turning into another matt murray I’m afraid. Hope I’m wrong but I don’t see him playing this season.
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BIG BAD TELFORD go and follow TELFORD TOWN.
13 As made a fair revelation,has only at the start of the season I was on this site SAYING
“that KITES would most likely never play for WOLVES as his injury was not fully recoverable,and this will be the case.(I would love him to prove the experts wrong)but it is been said “that at premiership level he could not sustain the level of fitness required,lower leagues yes but even then for short BURSTS.In relation to HUNT living in his hometown as I do,It is well known that he wont be ready for action till last wk of NOVEMBER/DECEMBER.And that he to as little niggling issues that may leave him PRONE to repetitive injuries.
MICKO took a GAMBLE on HUNT mainly due to DOYLE as they are in-laws,and this was a significant factor of DOYLE staying.
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KITES we love you mate,I hope and wish the very best mate,look after yourself and keep the old pecker up,do hope you are able to prove the experts wrong.
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13 – Simon Campbell. If you cannot give reasons, how are we to know that you really are in the know? Why should you be taken seriously? Better not to post such negativity surely.
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Bad news this one. I hope he recovers enough to play again but to be honest I can’t see it being at this level.
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Yes I have one braincell, which is one more than No. 13 (Simon Campbell)!
If Hunt’s injury is as serious as your ‘source’ has divulged, why is he in the 25 and Matt Hill left out?
What a numpty you are!
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I have to say its worrying signs when you start seeing your ‘injured’ players more in pics with the fans than on the pitch !
Weve all just gone through it with the big man hope we dont have to do the same with kites…
Take you time Kites, and when your ready and 100 % fit to go, complete the squad. GOOD LUCK.
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I think some of you have got a little carried away with what i posted at no 13. All i said is that he (Hunt) is not near fitness or near being part of the first team. I did not say that he would not recover or anything like it, he will be back, but November/December is closer to the mark than October which a number of media sources are suggesting.
I thought fellow fans would want to know some information thats all. But no, i get called an idiot and a numpty. Dont know why im even bothering to respond, to the real fans on here i apologise if i have upset anyone.
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Wanderer in eire……another numpty claiming ‘to be in the know’…. go an av a pint o guiness and chill yer beans pal!
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To be honest, I agree this is not good news for the man himself or for the fans that watched him those first couple of seasons after he signed. We all saw some awesome displays.
Having said that, he hasn’t realy featured for Wolves for well over a year and correct me if I’m wrong, didn’t play at all last season.
I’d love to see him playing again and if he’s fit come January then I think going out on loan is probably gonna be the best for him to build up his match fitness.
I’d be a lot more concerned right now if Jarvo got injured. From what I’ve seen of him so far this season, he is the man.
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Sorry to hear this, he must feel that fate is against him at the moment–Good Luck Kites you are going to need it.
No 12-Get a life.
Crazy Dave—
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Kightly may well have an injury which prevents him ever being fully fit and regardless of what medical chief Kemp may say, these type of injuries take their toll on players.
Hopefully Kightly will return in the near future but the longer it goes on, the more unlikely it will be that he plays top level football again.
Still as someone wrote earlier, we have coped without him for a season or more and we can do so again!
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13 = Numnuts!
Spoke to Hunt last sat and he is aiming for the Villa game in a month but the physios have put extra 2 weeks on that! Sounds to plan for the injury he had….. Kites im gutted for ya but wise thinking by MM. Hopefully like a new signing in Jan!
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A very sensible decision.
Kightly has a habit of coming back half fit and ending up worse each time. This has taken away the pressure and made sure he knows that his role at the club is to get 100% fit before he kicks a ball in anger.
Had Mick put him in the 25 man squad it would have placed an extra burden on the lad, physically and mentally, to make an early return.
I applaud a sensible decision and am not going to read anything else into it. I certainly don’t think it means Kightly’s career is over just yet.
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Sorry, forgot to congratulate comments 16 and 17 for their obvious sense!
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A)Its amazing how many knee specialists are wolves fans, and B) That despite their busy specialist schedules, they have so much spare time to post on this forum.
Who would have thought it ?
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a wise and sensible move by mm,i would have 120%fit kites.he will be a new signing in january.
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@ Simon Campbell
With more respect than some hereon, I think that most people’s problem with your orignal post was the rather self-important “I know more than you but I’m not telling” subtext (well, it wasn’t even a subtext, it was just a text) of it. If you’re making what purports to be a definitive statement and then qualifying it with a phrase like “for obvious reasons i cannot divulge how i know” then I’m afraid you can’t be surprised if a few people jump down your throat.
How do I know the above is true? A little bird told me…
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What with this news following yesterday’s plus the SIGNING of another injury prone player like Hunt. Championship here we come.
On another subject. That bloke with the cap. Sorry to disappoint you but I wouldn’t sink so low as to support the Boggies.
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sorry people but even if kites does come back i can’t see him being the same player,i think his wolves career is over
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whoeva sed hunt & jarvis r betta than kightly. av u ad a bump on the head? kightly wud put them both in the shade, kightly’s our best winger!!!!
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Currently we have very little fit cover for the right wing spot.We should have signed another wideman especially given Kightly’s injury problems.Anyone who thinks differently are putting bias ahead of rationality.Jarvis is better on the left,as witnessed by his improved perfomances when switched from right to left against Everton and Newcastle,He did well on the right against Stoke,but he was up against a very slow full back.ALSO MR SWAIN,if you check your facts I think you will find Matt Murray spent a large part of his upbringing in Leomansley Lichfield.
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I told you last season that Kites may not play this season, and thats why we needed a 3rd Top class winger like Steven Hunt, i like kites as much an anyone else, but he seems to have problems in ‘his head’ aswell as his knees.UTW
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If Kightly comes back after such a long spell off he has to prove himself both as the player he was and batter – as a Premiership player. Both these facts together don’t bode well, i really hope he gets through this in the long run..Knowing this as Wolves would have done before the transfer deadline I think the decision to only bring in an unproven Marcus Bent was woeful. If Jarvis gets injured we are very narrow and will lack creativity. Without Hunt we are very one-sided in our attacking play at present.
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Give him a years rest and he will be O.K. to play for wolves in the Championship. JtH.
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kites has to be given the chance to come back like he was, if he was in the 25 he’d be brakin his neck to get fit and he could end up like mat, we’v done without him for long enough. he’l be like a new signing in january fingers crossed..
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#12
Why would Wolves “need to think a bit out of the box?”
Surely this is a matter for the medical advisers and Doctors – not Wolves to decide on any medical procedures?
Do you have intimate knowledge of the case and an appopriate qualification to suggest such a course of action?
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There are actually pictures of Hunt on the Wolves site of him training. I am not suggesting he is back with the first team but he is certailnly doing light running, jogging etc.
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Without being negative I can’t see Kites ever playing again at such a high level. Any good news on Hunt to cheer us up?
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49) We are a miles better team than you for starters. So if we go, you are joining us!
Everyone needs to calm down here. Firstly, most teams do not play two out and out wingers every game. Secondly, in the next 9 games we have to play the likes of Spurs, Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal, and that means we will play a 4-5-1 formation and one of our spare forwards will either have to play wide or in the gap behind a lone striker!
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