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Kenny Jackett: Wolves building for the future

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Kenny Jackett today declared Wolves must not let any club pass them as he outlined a vision for glory with homegrown players.

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Wolves are due to open the £7m expansion to their Compton Park HQ this month which will make their training ground one of the best in the country.

Head coach Jackett is excited by the new group of Under-21s coming through the ranks and wants more youngsters to emulate Carl Ikeme and Danny Batth, who both graduated from the Wolves academy.

"The Under-21s group is quite a new one with lads who have been signed or have come through the youth team and they've started positively and very well," said Jackett.

"Some of those have a real chance, so they're the ones we're working towards improving this club. We don't come here to necessarily all be nice to each other.

"We want to improve every single position and raise the whole standard of the squad and the club so the confidence level kicks on.

"If you stand still for a month or a season, people pass you. We can't afford clubs to go past us. We're in a competitive industry and the person that realises that is whoever is sat in this seat.

"The reason we have this youth policy is we want to produce players of the calibre of Carl Ikeme and Danny Batth.

"That's what we want to do and is why we're here."

In contrast to Wolves, tomorrow's rock-bottom opponents Blackpool signed 17 players in two weeks before the big kick-offg after being left with just eight in pre-season.

Jackett added: "I have a degree of sympathy but really my focus is on this club and making it as successful as it possibly can."

A late decision will made on Lee Evans and Bakary Sako, who played two full games for Wales Under-21s and Mali respectively over the international break.

Sako and Nouha Dicko only returned in the early hours of this morning.

"Our medical team have been in touch with the lads who have just played in Algeria but they're both fine and 100 per cent fit," said the boss.

Asked if Sako and Dicko will play a full part tomorrow, Jackett said: "I think they will – they're OK and there's no reason to deviate too much from where we've been."