Huddersfield Town have provided a definitive answer on the fitness of leading scorer Nahki Wells.

The 18-goal leading scorer is nursing a knee niggle but the club insist he has not at this stage been ruled out of the opening Championship fixture against Brentford at the John Smith’s Stadium.

David Wagner said of Wells after the Werder Bremen friendly, which he missed, that the 26-year-old would not be rushed because it’s about his availability over the whole season, rather than right now.

“Unfortunately he is now out for two weeks from the training group, but at the end of the day it’s only two weeks in a 10-month season. It’s nothing,” was what Wagner said.

While conceding that can be interpreted two ways, the club say the head coach intended to indicate he had already been out of the training group for two weeks and was fully in the recovery stage.

Wagner said Wells “is a question mark” at the moment.

It seems he is unlikely to figure against FC Ingolstadt in Friday’s friendly in Austria, which would leave him only a week to prove his fitness for the big League kick-off.