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Wolves boss Kenny Jackett's summer shopping list

Wolves will continue to look to promising youth as they look to build on a second successive promotion push.

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Tim Nash looks at five players who could be on Kenny Jackett's summer shopping list.

Alex Mowatt

The Doncaster-born midfielder has just made his England Under-20s debut as a team-mate of Wolves defenders Dominic Iorfa and Kortney Hause but has already played 61 League games for Leeds, scoring nine times.

Is naturally suited to operating in central areas, regularly drifting into dangerous positions.

Liam Bridcutt

Now 25, the stocky central midfielder hasn't played as regularly as he would have liked since Gus Poyet took him to Sunderland from Brighton for £3m in January 2014.

But he certainly impressed in the Championship, where he showed an ability to run games with his calm authority and ability to win the ball and use it well and he looks a Premier League player.

Jeff Hendrick

Bit qualified this one as it would only be realistic if Wolves went up and Derby didn't.

But as one of the most effective players in the Championship, the 23-year-old central midfielder would surely be capable of gracing the Premier League.

The Ireland international is comfortable on the ball and a robust competitor.

Michail Antonio

No one wants Bakary Sako to leave Wolves, but if he departs then the Nottingham Forest winger is the sort of player capable of replacing him.

Like Sako, Antonio is powerful, direct and unpredictable; a goalscoring wideman who can dribble and shoot to devastating effect. His play can be loose at times but you would back head coach Kenny Jackett to tame him if he targets him.

Tyrone Mings

At £10,000, the Ipswich left-back is the only player Mick McCarthy has paid for in his Portman Road squad and what a snip he looks to be.

Mobile, powerful and athletic, the Bath-born 22-year-old is superb at stopping crosses and a real threat going forwards.

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