Yerson Mosquera, Enso Gonzalez, Sasa Kalajdzic: Wolves injury updates latest

Wolves head of high perfromance, Phil Hayward, has spoken out on the club's current injury situation

Wolves have provided injury updates on Yerson Mosquera, Enso Gonzalez and Sasa Kalajdzic.

Mosquera, who is out for the season with the injury sustained at Villa, successfully underwent knee surgery on Tuesday and now begins the recovery process that fellow teammates Enso Gonzalez and Sasa Kalajdzic are currently following.

Phil Hayward, head of high performance, said: “Everything went really well with Yerson. The surgeon was very pleased with how the procedure went. Yerson will be home for a couple of days now as he recovers.

“Once he’s feeling better and the inflammation has settled down, he’ll be able to get up and about more, and he’ll be back into the club probably next week to start the early stages of his rehab.

“He’s got a long journey ahead of him, but Yerson’s an ultra-positive guy and he’s taken everything in his stride. He’s already talking about being back to the grass and is really looking forward to getting going. It’ll be a case of us holding back a little bit because he’ll be desperate to kick on.

“It’s really early days yet and I don’t want to put a definitive time scale on it, but everything went very well with the surgery, and over the next days and weeks, as we see how the knee has responded to the initial surgery, we’ll start to really map out what the next weeks and months of the rehab look like.

“That will ultimately give us a long-term target in terms of an estimated return to training timeframe, but it’s very fluid and can change so we tend not to set strict timelines.”

Gonzalez also suffered an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while representing Paraguay at the Olympics, while Kalajdzic is still recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Hayward said: “Enso’s doing great. He’s in the gym a lot now, beginning his strength phase. He’s a few months ahead of Yerson and is progressing really well. He responded really well to the initial surgery and is back in the gym working hard, so he’s right on track with where we’d expect him to be.

“Sasa’s getting towards the end. He’s back on the grass, it’s great to see him back out there. He’s now starting to get to the more functional aspects of his rehab. Over the next few months we’ll be integrating more ball work into what he does and then hopefully get him back into training and matches in the not too distant future.”