All change as Leon Clarke makes his return to Wolves

A return of 15 goals in 83 appearances for Wolves, 48 of those games as a substitute, was a modest tally from a player whose potential suggested far better.

But in the last 18 months, his rate of hitting the net has matched his rate of accumulating clubs, and he returned to Molineux yesterday with 28 goals in 43 games for Coventry.

Fifteen of them have come in just 23 matches this season.

Goals are Clarke's currency and, more than anything, will define how he is judged.

"I scored a lot of goals with the Wolves academy and remember training with the first team a lot before I got my chance," said Clarke.

"I did manage to get some goals for the first team, but wasn't maybe as prolific as I could have been and have been over the last couple of years."

Clarke might have left Coventry on a sour note this week after he was accused of letting his team-mates down by Sky Blues boss Steven Pressley when refusing to play in Tuesday's 2-0 defeat at Leyton Orient, citing a foot injury.

But he is indebted for the chance they gave him and to his team-mates for giving him the platform to develop what was League One's most prolific partnership with Callum Wilson.

"The season has gone really well so far," he said. "A lot of that is down to my team-mates at Coventry and strike partner Callum, before he got injured.

"I have to thank my former team-mates for helping me find good form at Coventry.

"From the day I joined Coventry I thoroughly enjoyed it; I hit the ground running and managed to score a few goals.

"I knew there are Coventry fans who are going to be disappointed and I'd say while I was keen to move to Wolves, it was still a difficult decision to leave.

"But when the opportunity did come to move to Wolves it was always going to interest me."

A transfer request and three bids later, he's back in gold and black.

"I'm really happy to be back. I left when I was 21 and it feels really nice to be back," he added.

"Wolves are a massive club and I'd been here before for so long so it was always something that was going to appeal to me.

"There are a lot of things at Wolves that appealed to me – the stadium, the ambition of the club and where they're striving to be.

"There's the chance to go for automatic promotion and that was another factor in my decision."

Clarke's return also gives him a chance to see even more of best mate Carl Ikeme – they came through the academy ranks together.

"I speak to Carl a lot and we meet up outside football a lot," he said.

"He was here having treatment when I came in for my medical and it was good to see him. We've always spoken a lot about football.

"Wayne (Hennessey) was in the academy when I was, although I haven't seen him for a while. I stayed in touch with Matt Murray as well and we went out for dinner a few weeks ago to catch up.

"My family and friends will be happy I'm back as well and I'm really looking forward to the challenge."