Stoke's new striker Kenwyne Jones will have his ankle scanned on Sunday after limping out of his debut at Wolves.

Jones, only signed from Sunderland on Friday for a record £8m, was forced off inside 10 minutes after a Jody Craddock tackle, before his side went down 2-1.

Jones had already hit the bar and boss Tony Pulis said: "We had a really good start and then Kenwyne went off and it just took the wind out of our sails.

"We dropped off so deep, it was embarrassing. It shouldn't happen."

The extent of the injury to the 25-year-old, who also played under Pulis on a loan spell in 2005, should become clearer after the X-ray, but it remains a huge blow to the Potters at such an early stage of the season.

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Pulis would have been delighted after only three minutes when he saw Trinidad and Tobago striker Jones crash a shot against the woodwork.

But Stoke then conceded two quick goals by David Jones and Steven Fletcher, before a Abdoulaye Faye header made a contest of it after the interval.

"We allowed Wolves to play where they wanted to at the tempo they wanted to. We just stood off them," Pulis added.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy admitted Stoke's early injury was important, but saved much of his post-match comments for his two debutants - £6.5m signing Fletcher and Belgian Jelle van Damme.

"I'm very pleased with them both, I thought the two lads were great," McCarthy said.

"We played well, we had a good spell - Kenwyne Jones went off, maybe that threw them a bit out of kilter. We had our best spell on the back of that.

"It turned out not to be a convincing win but it was a convincing performance. I'm a bit disappointed we conceded one, we made a little mistake there."

Pulis, though, was left fuming at the end of the game, unhappy with the lack of injury time as his players pushed for a late equaliser.

"It's something we have to look at," added Pulis, who believed there should be official time-keepers as in rugby league.

"On the stats, we have the least amount of time given to us when we're losing games and the most given against us when we're winning and that's happened again.

"There have been five second-half substitutes, the trainer's been on three times and Wolves are obviously slowing the game down. They [officials] make it up as they go along."

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