Wolves playing waiting game over Kevin Doyle

Wolves were today facing a waiting game over Kevin Doyle with concerns that he could miss the rest of the season.

The £6.5m striker undergoes scans today on the medial knee ligament damage that caused him to limp out of Ireland's 2-1 Euro 2012 qualifying victory over Macedonia in Dublin after 17 minutes.

Doyle's injury was caused by a bad tackle from behind by Nikolche Noveski, and the initial response from Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni wasn't good.

"It's his medial knee ligament. I think he may be out for one or two months, so it's a very serious injury," said Trapattoni.

Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey said: "We've been in contact with Kevin and his knee is hurting.

"He's the consummate professional and we're all concerned for him but we have to wait to see the extent of the damage, which we hope to know as soon as possible.

"Of course it would be a massive blow to lose him, but we've got two other high quality strikers in Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Steven Fletcher."

But Moxey insisted Matt Jarvis, who could make his England debut in the Wembley friendly against Ghana tomorrow night, would not be withdrawn because of a risk to injury.

If Wolves did pull Jarvis out, he couldn't play the next two club games under FA rules designed to stop teams withdrawing players from playing in friendlies.

Winger Adam Hammill has been called up by England under-21s for tonight's friendly against Iceland at Preston (7.45pm) after injuries and the decision of coach Stuart Pearce to rest some key figures.