Wolves transfer latest as the confirm signing of exciting winger Rodrigo Gomes

A good bit of early business?

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00:00Moving on to Wolves, look at their transfers so far. They added Rodrigo Gomes from the

00:10Portuguese league. They are quite familiar with buying players from that sort of region

00:16and these clubs. Notably some good players but also very poor transfers for the likes

00:23of Fabio Silva who looks like he could be on his way out permanently this summer from

00:28a massive loss for Wolves as well. In terms of Rodrigo Gomes, it looks positive, he looks

00:33quite a prospect. We have mentioned that Wolves should maybe start to try and look into more

00:40English and closer to home players in terms of transfers. If you look at Pedro Neto, it

00:48was quite a similar circumstance when he joined. It's surely something to be quite positive

00:53and excited about for Wolves fans, especially doing business this early in the winter.

00:57It's definitely a regular occurrence going out to Portugal. Wolves and Portugal are basically

01:02the same thing at this point. Rodrigo Gomes is exciting though and for a fee of £13m,

01:08it's not too much of a risk. It's not like Fabio Silva where he's splashing out £35m-£40m

01:13for a player that's not turned out to be what you'd hope. Gomes is already 20 years old,

01:18already banging in the goals in the Portuguese league. Seven goals and seven assists last

01:23season on loan at Estoril from Braga. It's a cheap fee, as I say. It's one that doesn't

01:29have too much of a risk. He's someone who should fit in fairly quickly. He's not going

01:33to be in the starting XI immediately, but he's someone who can maybe break through a

01:36little bit like Pedro Neto has. We've seen how well that deal has gone. Wolves can make

01:40a huge profit on him. As a fan, you're not going to want to lose Pedro Neto, but for

01:45the profit and sustainability aspect of things, selling him for about £60m this summer could

01:50really sort out Wolves and give Gary O'Neill the opportunity to spend and to make his own

01:55mark on the squad.

01:56How important is it that Wolves are actually getting their business done so early in this

02:02window and not leaving the fans to shout if and but by the time the season starts?

02:09I think there'll be a bit of a balance. It is important to show a bit of initiative at

02:13the start of the window, especially in attack, because we saw how the squad depth wasn't

02:17good enough last season and how much it cost Wolves, because potentially European football

02:21was on the cards. If they had that necessary depth, they didn't. So yeah, getting Rodrigo

02:25Gomez to the door, I think is important. Seeing what Jose Mosquera can do potentially as well

02:31as a centre back who's been at Villarreal. There's talks of him going out there permanently,

02:35but if they can bring him back, he might add some depth in defence, which could be useful.

02:40And Che Adams is another one that Wolves are looking at potentially signing. You mentioned

02:44players closer to home. He certainly is. There's just doubts over that one because

02:48Nottingham Forest are trying to make a bid and also his current club, Southampton, are

02:52trying to offer him new terms. But a free deal, I can't see too much wrong with that

02:56if Wolves are adding that depth in attack. He's a proven goalscorer, as we saw at Birmingham

03:00City a few years ago. He's tried in the Premier League before, he's not quite done it, but

03:05he's getting into his prime years now. I can't see why that would be a bad deal for Wolves.