Out-of-favour striker Freddy Eastwood fears he may have played his last game for Wolves.
The £1.5m summer signing today insisted he will play regular football next season - even if it means quitting Molineux.
Eastwood scored twice in Wolves’ 4-0 victory over Walsall in Darren Wrack’s testimonial last night.
Asked whether the rare start in the rain-soaked Banks’s Stadium fixture could be his final Wolves appearance, Eastwood said: “Maybe. Summer is here and obviously I have played nowhere near enough games this season.
“Next season things have to change. Either I have to play a lot more games for Wolves or go to another club and play a lot of games for them.
“I don’t want to be sitting around for three quarters of the season not playing at any club. I want to play football.”
The 24-year-old has not started a game since boss Mick McCarthy pulled the plug on a proposed move to Coventry on the eve of the January transfer deadline.
The Sky Blues are expected to renew their interest in the Wales international in the summer, when a Molineux exit.
Eastwood now admits it may have been better for all parties had his switch to the Ricoh Arena gone ahead.
“I would rather something had happened one way or the other,” he said. “The manager ended up keeping me here and leaving the club was never the issue because I have never wanted to leave Wolves. I have just wanted to play football.
“The manager kept faith with me here and said I had a big part to play and I respect him for that.
“But since then I haven’t played a game. That’s disappointing, but I will keep my head up and keep doing what I do.”
And he insisted he could still be a hit in the Championship - at Wolves or elsewhere. “I look at the top strikers in this league scoring 20-odd goals and that’s where I want to be,” he said.
By Tim Nash
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