Cold snap wipes out Wolves’ move for Mansare

The big freeze engulfing Britain has put paid to Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers’ hopes of taking Toulouse midfielder Fode Mansare on trial.

The Guinea international had been due at Molineux at the start of this week.

But bad weather would have meant Mansare had no chance to show his full potential to Wolves manager Mick McCarthy, with the Midlands club’s players unable to train outside all week because of the cold conditions.

Britain’s harshest winter for decades also put paid to Wolves’s midweek reserve game with West Ham.

The 28-year-old Mansare has 18 months left on his Toulouse contract but is keen to leave France and try his luck in English football, hence his decision to opt out of playing for Guinea in this month’s African Nations Cup in Angola.