Kightly gets chance against Albion tonight
Tuesday 4th October 2011, 11:35AM BST.
Wolves winger Michael Kightly gets a ‘shop window’ chance tonight after his loan to Nottingham Forest collapsed – as three team-mates prepare to hit the comeback trail.
Kightly is in the reserves line-up to face Albion in the Black Country mini-derby at AFC Telford’s New Bucks Head tonight, 12 days before the real thing at The Hawthorns as Kevin Foley, Jody Craddock and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake prepare to start full training again.
Former England Under-21 international Kightly had agreed to join Forest, but the failure of the Championship club to seal the deal because of finances was believed to be a trigger for Steve McClaren’s resignation on Sunday.
Manager Mick McCarthy said: “There was interest – I’d spoken to Steve McClaren about Michael Kightly but I’ve no idea what happened because I was open to it and so was Kightly.
“I spoke to Steve and we left it that if he wanted Kightly then it was up to him.”
McCarthy insisted a temporary return to the Championship was perfect for Kightly at this stage as he strives for the edge to his game.
“He’s playing tonight for our reserves, but if he got half a dozen games at the top end of the Championship, I think it would really benefit him,” he said.
McCarthy insisted Adam Hammill wasn’t going to Forest on loan.
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