Neil Warnock is weighing up a summer move for Wolves misfit striker Freddy Eastwood – if Crystal Palace stay in the Championship.Palace boss Warnock, who has won four promotions, is currently involved in another play-off scrap with Bristol City and bidding to overturn a 2-1 semi-final deficit to reach Wembley for football’s richest game.

Coventry are already preparing to make a renewed pitch for the 24-year-old, who was slapped on the transfer list last week just a year after signing for £1.5m.

Warnock is understood to have been monitoring Eastwood for some time and could launch a summer raid for the former Southend striker.

But it is likely the former Sheffield United boss will only move for the striker if Palace fail to win the play-offs.

Warnock has set his sights on securing at least one striker this summer.

Out-of-contract former Birmingham striker Clinton Morrison, and James Scowcroft, who looks like missing Palace’s second leg with a hamstring injury, are the only recognised strikers at Selhurst Park at the moment.

Coventry were prepared to pay £1.5m for Eastwood so Wolves could get their money back, but it’s likely they will start the bidding at a considerably lower price after failure to establish himself at Molineux.

Eastwood scored three goals in 31 League appearances for Wolves, although 21 were as a substitute.