Wolves today admitted fufilling a gentleman’s agreement to accept Seyi Olofinjana’s transfer request – but clubs will have to pay £3m for him.

The 28-year-old, who is currently away on international duty with Nigeria, made his intentions clear in writing on Friday.

Bolton and Wigan are on alert for the former Brann Bergen player, who arrived from the Norwegian club for £1.75m four years ago.

The likely departure of Olofinjana – who only signed a four-year deal last summer – has echoes of Joleon Lescott’s exit two years ago.

“At the time of signing a new contract with Seyi last year, we agreed that should the club miss out on promotion at the end of the 2007-08 season, we would circulate his name for transfer if that was what he wished,” said chief executive Jez Moxey today.”As expected, Seyi has now made that request and we are therefore following through on our commitment and he has now been placed on the transfer list.

“As an experienced senior international player, who has not only served Wolves well but re-signed instead of holding out to becoming a free agent this summer, he has given us the opportunity of recouping our financial investment in him to help us buy new players.”

Olofinjana scored 16 goals in 135 League appearances since signing for Dave Jones.

He was 10-goal top scorer in Mick McCarthy’s first season but had a disappointing campaign last term with the additional burden of the African Nations Cup.

Olofinjana admitted his desire to move was not for money.

“If offers come in, a lot of things would have to happen for me to leave,” he said.

“But if it was down to money, I would have left Wolves long ago.”

The Nigerian scored just three times in 36 Championship games in 2007-08 and admitted failing to scale his previous heights of the previous season.

“It was a really frustrating season for me and my performances weren’t always the best,” he said.

“I was below par and disappointing.”

Meanwhile Moxey has dismissed speculation linking Sylvan Ebanks-Blake to Everton.

A report yesterday suggested Wolves had turned down £3.5m from the Toffees and wanted £5m.

But Moxey insisted today: “It’s not true and there’s no substance of truth in any of it.”