Stephen Hunt is set to make his long-awaited first appearance for Wolves in a reserve team outing next week.

The Republic of Ireland international was signed for an undisclosed fee in June, but his recovery from surgery on a foot injury picked up at former club Hull City has kept him on the sidelines.

The 29-year-old former Reading midfielder has now returned to training and will turn out for the second string against Wigan Athletic on Tuesday.

"The surgeon was pretty much spot on with his prediction of how long I was going to be out for," Hunt told the club's official website.

"No matter how you try to speed things up, it was obviously going to heal in its own time.

"And you tend to get little niggles in the rest of your body when you have been out for so long, so it's just a matter of getting rid of all of them and getting over it.

"It's been frustrating because you want to be involved but I knew that I couldn't be.

"In a strange way, because of that, it still feels like I'm a Hull player as I haven't been on the pitch yet for Wolves.

"But once I've got two or three games under my belt I know I'll begin to feel a bit more settled and will be able to get used to the surroundings at Molineux."Subscribe to Football FanCast News Headlines by Email