O’Neil needs reinforcements
Gary O’Neil’s side were handed a tough Premier League opening day match as they travelled to north London to take on last season’s title challengers Arsenal, and the result largely went as expected with his side falling to a 2-0 defeat.
The performance of Colombian defender Yerson Mosquera will have come as a positive to O’Neil after he spent last season out on loan with Villarreal, but the Wolves squad still looks very light with veteran defender Craig Dawson and Santiago Bueno the only central defenders behind Mosquera and Toti Gomes, both of whom started at the Emirates.
Having lost almost £100m of talent this summer with the sales of Max Kilman (£40m) to West Ham and Pedro Neto to Chelsea (£54m), O’Neil will be desperate for reinforcements in the final days of the transfer window. Indeed, the Wolves boss sent a warning to those above him about just that when quizzed on potential additions in the final stages of the transfer window.
“No real update on names linked, it’s a ruthless league and we have an opportunity to be really clever and get some stuff done, the next 2 weeks is big for us…you take £100m last summer, you take £100m this summer, you can’t stand still,” he explained.
Now, Wolves may finally have identified their replacement for Kilman, six weeks after the Wolves skipper departed the Black Country.
