Wolves boss Bruno Lage slammed for 'shocking management' after Ki-Jana Hoever comments

Former Aston Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor has labelled Bruno Lage's recent comments on Ki-Jana Hoever as 'shocking management'.

Wolves boss Lage was left furious when Hoever had to be replaced just 25 minutes into the Premier League match against Crystal Palace at the weekend due to injury.

The Portuguese blamed the injury on the defender's lack of preparation. He said: "Ki is a good example of the young kids, they want everything to happen [now].

"When you are out and your teammate is playing, and you are not training at the intensity, you are not preparing yourself and after, when you have a chance, these kinds of things happen.

"I have too many kids in my team that sometimes don't work the way they should work. They do not prepare the way they should prepare and after, when they come inside [the team], these kinds of things happen.

"When they are in training they are thinking a lot, 'Oh I'm not playing', and I said to them in the first day when I started, 'We are here, you need to continue to work. The first target is to work and improve.'

"Injuries can happen, but this one happened because he was not prepared because Ki sometimes doesn't work in the same intensity. This warning is not only for Ki, it's for all the kids we have in our team.

"They need to understand that I don't waste time with guys who don't work hard every day to improve. I can see guys who are 35 years old and they don't play, like Joao (Moutinho) didn't (at West Ham), and they are trying to win balls in the air, 'Hey, look at me, I'm here'."

And ex-Premier League striker Agbonlahor didn't take well to Lage's comments on the the 20-year-old.

"I think that’s shocking management," Agbonlahor told Football Insider.

"What does that say to all of