A few fresh faces should follow. Wolves fans know the drill by now. We all do. It is one of the Premier League’s most ingrained transfer strategies, and one that is strikingly balanced.
Since 2020-21, Wolves are £40m in the black for net spend. They will go back to red if they spend their Cunha and Ait-Nouri money, but to even be close to zero on the balance sheet is rare. From the Premier League’s class of 2025-26, 13 clubs are down more than £100m.
Rayan Ait-Nouri (L) and Matheus Cunha (R) have both left Wolves (Photo: Getty)
Only Everton and new boys Sunderland, who have just sold Jobe Bellingham to Borussia Dortmund, join Wolves in boasting a positive net spend during this period. “You’ll never sing that.”
Secondly, the disillusionment
That is the shortest of any Premier League side. So who at Molineux dares buy a shirt with a player’s name on the back? It marks a gamble, an expensive one at that, and deprives supporters of any real connection.
The players leading the way are more likely to be poached, and this is a sinking feeling given the closest they’ve come to Europe since then is 10th in 2021-22.
They have lost Cunha, Ait Nouri, Pedro Neto, Matheus Nunes and Diogo Jota all to Big Six clubs.
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The Seagulls’ first four seasons back in the top tier read 15th, 17th, 15th and 16th. Their most recent four reads ninth, sixth – which took them into the Europa League – 11th and eighth.
They are only heading in one direction, and they will run the risk of relegation if they get another summer wrong.
Head coach Vitor Pereira has restored faith, bringing a feel-good factor back to the local pubs as well as Molineux. The signing of defender Emmanuel Agbadou looks inspired, but the loss of Cunha – who scored 15 Premier League goals and assisted six last season – is a significant blow.
But… is change afoot?
Cunha and Ait-Nouri have gone, but so too sporting director Matt Hobbs, who took the role in November 2022 and subsequently oversaw the departures of Nunes, Ruben Neves, Neto and Kilman.
The Athletic reports Wolves are interested in former Sampdoria technical director Domenico Teti, but crucially agent Jorge Mendes and his Gestifute agency will reportedly take a more prominent role once again.
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The hope will be that Mendes still has the Midas touch, and can turn this boat around.
It would only take one of those clubs exceeding expectations to put Wolves in peril.
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