Mark Molesley could ask boss Lee Bradbury to let him go out on loan next month as he bids to step up his recovery from injury.

The luckless midfielder was restricted to just two appearances last season after being sidelined with a long-standing foot problem.

And after damaging his hamstring in the opening minute against Leyton Orient in September, Molesley missed the whole of October before returning for a brief cameo appearance against Scunthorpe at the beginning of last month.

Despite having fallen behind Harry Arter and Steven Gregory in the central midfield pecking order, Molesley completed 85 minutes of Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat to Sheffield United after replacing calf injury victim Shaun Cooper.

But the 30-year-old Londoner was highly critical of his own performance following the final whistle and admitted he could request a loan spell in a bid to up his match fitness.

Molesley told the Echo: “Going out on loan is something I think I will have to sit down and discuss with the manager.

“It’s not something I have had a chance to do yet.

“But I need match fitness and if it is for the good of me and the team, I would go out somewhere.

“I want to be the best I can be for Bournemouth. I want to be going out and being 100 per cent for Bournemouth and be the real Mark Molesley.

“We will have to look at it. You would want to be playing at as near a standard to your club, though, so it would have to be close to Bournemouth’s standard.

“I haven’t discussed it with the manager, but it has been in the back of my mind because I just haven’t been playing enough over the past two years.

“I love Bournemouth and this is where I want to play and that is why I am fighting hard to get back in the team.

“But if I need to go out for, say, a month to get that sharpness back and do better for Bournemouth, that is what I will do.”

Reflecting on his performance against the Blades, Molesley added: “I was buzzing to get out there, but I think my lack of match practice showed at times. I was a bit disappointed with how things went for me but I battled on to get through it.

“My fitness didn’t feel too bad until the last 15 minutes when everything started cramping up but I felt I could have been more tidy on the ball at times.

“I won’t complain about getting out there, but I need to be a little bit sharper. I didn’t show the real me, but it wasn’t through a lack of effort.”