"Go and get in the team" - Rob Edwards challenges defender to win back Wolves place
Rob Edwards has challenged Hugo Bueno to win his place back in the Wolves team after missing out to David Moller Wolfe in recent weeks.
Since Edwards took over as head coach, summer signing Wolfe has started all three games, after previously playing understudy to Bueno under Vitor Pereira.
Bueno missed out against Nottingham Forest on Wednesday due to a minor back injury, but Edwards has urged him to win his place back and called on every player out of favour to fight for their spot.
"I think it's a really good battle, those two," Edwards said.
"I don't see him as losing his place. I just think right now, go and fight and go and get in the team.
"Wolfie was actually one of the positives (against Forest), especially in the second half.
"I thought he showed a lot of fight and courage.
"But look, I like Hugo as well, so it's not a case of he's out or anything like that. Not at all.
"The lads that are not starting at the moment, just show that fight and get in the team."
Wolves will have less options in the coming weeks, too, as the Africa Cup of Nations gets under way.
Jackson Tchatchoua has not been called up by Cameroon, while Marshall Munetsi is likely to miss out for Zimbabwe after picking up a calf injury.
But Emmanuel Agbadou, Tolu Arokodare and Tawanda Chirewa are still expected to depart for the competition that runs until mid-January and Edwards is already preparing the squad for that eventuality.
He said: "We lose a few and even with everybody fit, we're probably going to be relying on some of the younger ones coming in as well to help supplement the squad.
"I don't want to be putting seven on the bench and things like that, that's not how I work.
"We need to look at all avenues."
Wolves will hope that signing players in January will be boosted by players wanting to come to the Premier League in a World Cup year, while the club will also assess the loan market to give Edwards and his players some help.
"That's been spoken about as well," he added.
"There'll be a lot of clubs that will be thinking the same thing as well, so we'll be competing against a few for those sorts of players, but that was spoken about.
"Any which way possible that we might be able to improve the group and improve the squad, then we'll be looking at it."
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