justanotherwolf
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Now it's being reported that business is done, here's a summary/verdict...
Wolves transfers in
Sasa Kalajdzic — Stuttgart, £15.4millionMatheus Nunes — Sporting Lisbon, £42million
Goncalo Guedes — Valencia, £27.5million
Nathan Collins — Burnley, £20.5million
Boubakar Traore - Metz, loan (€11m to buy)
Wolves transfers out
Morgan Gibbs-White — Nottingham Forest, £25-42.5millionPatrick Cutrone — Como 1907, nominal
Trincao - end-of-loan
Conor Coady — Everton, loan
Fabio Silva — Anderlecht, loan
Ryan Giles — Middlesbrough, loan
John Ruddy — released
Romain Saiss — released
Marcal — released
Ki-Jana Hoever — PSV, loan
Leander Dendoncker — Aston Villa, £13million
Willy Boly - £2m~
Headlines
1) We've lost a lot of depth for (in theory) 1st team quality upgrades/options.2) Under Nuno, our centre-backs were generally Coady plus 2 from 3 of Boly, Dendoncker and Saiss. To move all four on in one transfer window is extraordinary.
3) We've finally spent big money on central midfield for the first time since promotion. Neves & Moutinho are still here.
Postives
If you'd said before the summer that we'd get a quality attacking CM, keep Moutinho and Neves and sign a physical player as cover/alternative, plus get a new striker, plus a top English CB prospect, plus a goal-scoring wide forward, every single Wolves supporter would be ****-a-hoop.Negatives
Such massive turnover in one window and so late in the day puts massive pressure on Bruno to galvanise the squad in a very short space of time - if it takes a couple of months to get everyone up to speed a third of the season will have gone - too late!! We've also gone from being overstocked at centre-back to short of cover.Verdict
On paper great, in practice concluding business so late has put us miles behind where we should be.Probably exactly the window we needed to secure the team for a the coming years if we minimise the suffering of the next couple of months / this year - patience needed but hard to give and unlikely to be given!!