Nick Mashiter
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Wolves are willing to let midfielder Goncalo Guedes leave this summer as Vitor Pereira reshapes his squad.

The club has already banked over £90m following the sales of Matheus Cunha to Manchester United and Rayan Ait-Nouri to Manchester City.

Guedes cost Wolves £27.5m when he ed from from Valencia in 2022 but has made just 18 Premier League starts.

He has spent two loan spells at Benfica and also six months at Villarreal in 2024.

Guedes, 28, returned to Molineux and 33 of his 51 appearances for the club came last season.

"I'm not sure about Goncalo Guedes, because he has a contract with us," boss Vitor Pereira said via Portuguese outlet Record earlier this week.

"I like him, but he's been there for a few years and has this ambition to leave."

The club has been looking at left-backs and number 10s to replace Ait-Nouri and Cunha - although Hugo Bueno is due to return from his loan spell at Feyenoord to be a contender for the left-back spot.

Right-back remains a priority with Nelson Semedo out of contract and yet to sign the new deal on offer at Molineux.

Wolves are also due to appoint Domenico Teti as part of their internal shake-up. Teti worked with Pereira at Al Shabab and is expected to come in as sporting director after the departure of Matt Hobbs last week.

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Wolves have announced their second pre-season match before the 2025-26 season.

Vitor Pereira's side will face La Liga and Europa League side Celta Vigo at Molineux on Saturday 9 August.

The club have confirmed that all 2025-26 season ticket holders can claim a free ticket for the fixture.

Wolves' pre-season schedule so far:

Thursday 26 July - Stoke v Wolves (15:00 BST)

Saturday 9 August- Wolves v Celta Vigo (15:00 BST)

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With left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri ing Manchester City for £31m, attention at Wolves turns to replacements.

Forward Matheus Cunha also swapped Molineux for Manchester, moving to United for £62.5m , so Wolves have done good business early and that should allow boss Vitor Pereira to shape his squad.

They are in the market for a left-back and Hugo Bueno will return from his loan at Feyenoord to compete for the spot.

The 22-year-old played 29 times, including in the Champions League, as Feyenoord finished third in the Eredivisie.

Pereira is a fan, so I expect Bueno - who has been at the club for five years - to be back at Molineux next season. In the meantime, Wolves will also look for another left-back to provide competition.

A right-back - with captain Nelson Semedo out of contract and yet to sign the new deal offered - and at least one number 10 are also on Pereira's wishlist.

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We asked for your views on Rayan Ait-Nouri's five-year spell at Molineux coming to an end.

The Algeria international has completed a £31m move to Manchester City, so will Wolves miss him next season or will he be easily replaced this summer?

Here are some of your comments:

Simmo: What a gift. Man City must be rubbing their hands together. I was under the impression that it is in our club's interest to get the best price possible. He should have been at least £45m. Wolves need all the transfer monies they can just to replace the player sold and then they even need more to strengthen the squad.

Mark: I wish him all the best at Man City, but why are we selling him on the cheap? Pep Guardiola does not buy £31m players he buys £50m players. We needed to play hardball, a bit like Brighton do, to get a much better and fairer price for him.

Geoff: He has been good for Wolves, but he isn't great defensively. I'm not sure he is good enough for City. We are happy to take their money again.

Gareth: I'm happy. Hugo Bueno is a better player. He is less flashy but can defend and cross, and he doesn't stand on the ball to give the opposition time to get back. Once he has the opportunity, he attacks. Let's hope we can spend on some reinforcements in the attacking areas. I'm optimistic for this season.

Gary: A ridiculous decision. We should be building our team around him, Emmanuel Agbadou, Joao Gomes and Jorgen Strand Larsen. We need to give Vitor Pereira a chance next season, yet we have sold two of our three best players. We don't want to become a club that is fighting relegation every season. It's up to Fosun now as to what kind of a club they want us to be.

Tony: I am fed up with Fosun selling our best players. It will be another season at the bottom of the table and more frustration for the fans. Fosun if you don't invest for success, sell the club.

Today is the first of two transfer deadline days this summer as the window shuts for seven days before reopening on 16 June.

In a change to the summer transfer window norm, it opened early to allow clubs involved in the Fifa Club World Cup 10 days to sign players for inclusion in the competition.

Whether it turns out to be a day of transfer action or a pretty quiet one for your club, you will be able to keep across it all on BBC Sport.

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Rayan Ait-Nouri has completed his move to Manchester City, bringing a five-year spell at Molineux to an end.

After g on-loan from French side Angers in October 2020, the Algerian international made a permanent move to Wolves July 2021.

Since then, the wing-back has made 157 appearances for the club, scoring 12 goals and delivering 19 assists.

We want to know how you're feeling about his exit - will Wolves miss him next season or will he be easily replaced this summer? What are your hopes for the transfer window?

Let us know your thoughts here

It is not just at the top of the Premier League where American ownership has a foothold in English football.

Twenty years on from the Glazer takeover of Manchester United, one third of the 72 EFL clubs now have either majority or minority US backers.

In a special episode of BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast, Kelly Cates is ed by a group of experts to investigate whether this trend is likely to continue.

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On Tuesday, the first of two summer transfer windows will come to a close.

So, do you expect business to be done at Wolves before the deadline? Do you want players to come in or exit? If so, what or who do you think is needed?

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Wolves have announced their retained list and confirmed they have made a contract offer to captain Nelson Semedo.

The Portugal right-back's existing deal ends later this month.

Spanish midfielder Pablo Sarabia and defender Craig Dawson will leave the club when their contracts expire at the end of June.

Sarabia's exit was already known, while Dawson has not featured in the first team since December.

Mike Taylor
BBC Radio WM reporter

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Until not so long ago, that might usually have felt like a pointless question.

Once appointed, the manager was assumed to have command - within the parameters, financial or otherwise, set by his employers, anyway. The manager set the tactical policies, enforced discipline, selected or at least had right of veto over new gs, and everyone on the football side of the club was therefore theoretically working to their plan.

It was the manager's way, or no way, until the day the board called their number.

The game moved on, at least at the higher levels. Perhaps the football department of a Premier League club is now just too big for one man to manage it all. For a while, replacing "manager" on the office door with "head coach" might have felt like an affectation, but now the head coach position often appears one of a suite of job titles given equal billing on a club's organisational chart.

As the head coach is the only one required to front up in public on a regular basis to for his club's form, when they speak you can get a feeling about whether their stock is rising or falling internally. This may not indicate internal conflict. But it often indicates the degree of influence the head coach is about to have.

After hiring him to rescue the team from a perilous situation last December, it now seems that Wolves are ready to line up behind Vitor Pereira, making him first-among-equals on the football side, just as Nuno undoubtedly was when Wolves first drafted him in eight years ago.

The suggestion that the new technical director - not sporting director, spot the difference - will be a colleague of Pereira in his most recent job points to this.

The reshuffle has left Matt Hobbs without a seat, which could be considered a harsh verdict, depending where you start from. Over the past two years he was, at various times, praised for finding Gary O'Neil and blamed for finding Gary O'Neil. The gs in January that helped Pereira fix their season were on Hobbs' watch, and make for a positive final contribution.

Arguably, there were a few moments during his tenure as sporting director when Hobbs was the most important - or at least most influential - person at Wolves. But for now it seems the board have heard the ers' praise for Pereira, read the room and fallen in behind him.

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Changes at Wolves point to Vitor Pereira holding a more influential voice at the club in future.

That's the view of writer and broadcaster Johnny Phillips, as changes play out at the club with sporting director Matt Hobbs leaving his role on Wednesday., external

Wolves were embroiled in a relegation battle before Pereira took over to help them finish the season 17 points clear of the drop.

"What we are seeing now with Matt Hobbs' departure and the possible incoming of a technical director and a bit of restructuring around the club is that Pereira's voice will be heard more so than recent managers," Phillips told BBC WM.

"The role of sporting director won't exist in the current shape. There's talk of a technical director could be coming in, Domenico Teti has been mentioned, having worked with Vito Pereira at Al-Shabab.

"There's also an increased role for Matt Jackson from his current remit. So, there is a little reshuffle going on, and I expect Wolves to be more fluid.

"The past two years have had a slight sense of waste about them. Wolves have been on the back foot, behind the eight-ball, and then spent time trying to recover positions. But it would be nice to think that you could have a starting block where the squad would be in good shape at the start of the season, rather than maybe bringing in players in the mid-season transfer window and desperately trying to avoid relegation battle."

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We asked for your questions for BBC Sport pundit Nedum Onuoha on your Premier League club.

Idris asked how Nedum thinks Wolves will cope without Matheus Cunha and possibly Rayan Ait-Nouri.

Cunha may have ed Manchester United, and Ait-Nouri looks set to him in Manchester at City, but I think Wolves will be fine.

This is not to diminish the quality of those two players, but football finds ways to move on and the recruitment possibilities the club will have with the money they would bring in for those two could again help redesign the team in the way the manager wants.

We saw a really good version of Wolves in that second half of last season under Vitor Pereira in the way he made them tougher to play against and still kept them as an exciting side.

But they will still definitely be able to overcome these exits. If you lose your starters it should not mean the end of days for your side.

They will be fine - but what "fine" means exactly, I'm not sure. I think Pereira is going to be someone who is hugely ambitious going forward, otherwise the Wolves hierarchy would not have bought him. I think, as a minimum, they will not be in danger of relegation.

Cunha and Ait-Nouri have been really good servants for the team in of what has been needed in the past few years, but Wolves will always find a way.

There have been spells when those guys have not been available - especially Cunha when he was suspended towards the end of the campaign - and Wolves have been fine.

A football club should never be led by just one or two players and they very rarely are.

As Wolves did when Cunha was out, the manager adjusts his tactics. Both he and Ait-Nouri look vital when they are on the pitch, but the game looks different without them. It is not like they play with two players fewer.

Pereira has shown his tactical flexibility already in the absence of Cunha, and the results were very positive.

You will always appreciate having really talented players in your team. But Wolves are adaptable and offer different approaches, which means - more often than not - they will be fine regardless of whoever is in or out.

Nedum Onuoha was speaking to BBC Sport's Nat Hayward

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Wolves are in talks with former Sampdoria technical director Domenico Teti about taking a top position in a restructured leadership team at Molineux this summer.

The Italian, who worked alongside Wolves head coach Vitor Pereira at Saudi Pro League's Al-Shabab in 2024, has emerged as a serious candidate for a position at the Premier League side.

Discussions are under way and understood to be progressing positively. A full agreement is yet to be struck but there is hope a deal, which would be subject to a successful visa application, is close.

Current Wolves sporting director Matt Hobbs' position is thought to be under threat as a result of Teti's possible arrival and the planned restructure.

It is understood if Hobbs leaves and Teti agrees to , the latter would be a technical director rather than hold the title of sporting director.

Wolves were dragged into a relegation fight last season but the appointment of Vitor Pereira in December as new head coach following the sacking of Gary O'Neil saw the club comfortably avoid the drop.

It remains to be seen whether Pereira is handed greater influence in of recruitment this summer.

Teti, 48, has worked across a number of clubs in Europe in an executive recruitment capacity, including at Apoel Nicosia, Sampdoria, Novara and Hellas Verona.

He is a free agent after leaving Al-Shabab last year.

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BBC Sport football news reporter

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Wolves may lose two key players this summer but the picture can still be positive.

Should Rayan Ait-Nouri leave Molineux, and all inductions suggest he will with Manchester City ready to move, the club will be close to banking £100m.

He is expected to follow Matheus Cunha out after his £62.5m transfer to Manchester United was agreed over the weekend.

There is no suggestion of what Vitor Pereira will have to reinvest but he will still have additional cash and, crucially, time to reshape his squad.

There is also no expectation all of the cash will be reinvested but that is the current Wolves model - they will also not spend fortunes replacing any departures.

It is likely Cunha, at £44m when he made his loan from Atletico Madrid permanent two years ago, will be their biggest outlay for some time.

Winter window g Emmanuel Agbadou and Marshall Munetsi - both about £16m - feel more realistic fees for Wolves.

Pereira's predecessors Gary O'Neil and Julen Lopetegui both felt they did not get - or were not going to get - enough backing during the two previous summers, but Wolves are now in an advantageous position with a manager who has ingrained himself into the club and city.

A right-back is still high on the priority list, with Nelson Semedo still mulling over a contract offer and not certain to stay.

But, despite concerns over losing players, there needs to be a sense of opportunity around Molineux this summer.

Dazzling Dave
Fan writer

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Wolves are entering a defining summer transfer window, with several key players nearing the end of their contracts or attracting interest from Europe's top clubs.

This could make Wolves one of the most active Premier League teams this offseason.

The biggest worry is the loss of Matheus Cunha and now potentially Rayan Ait-Nouri, two of the squad's main creative outlets. Their departures would leave a major gap in attacking quality.

The future of other forwards - like Gonçalo Guedes and Hwang Hee-chan - is unclear, and with Pablo Sarabia already gone, strengthening the forward line is a must.

Wolves cannot afford to gamble on untested players or projects. The club needs experienced, 'oven-ready' gs who can contribute immediately - not just talent with potential.

At wing-back, questions persist. Nelson Semedo's contract is unresolved, Ait-Nouri is wanted by leading clubs, and while Hugo Bueno and Rodrigo Gomes show promise, neither has enough Premier League experience.

Manager Vitor Pereira's preference for physically strong, one-on-one capable players will shape Wolves' search strategy this summer.

Fortunately, Wolves are well-equipped in central defence and midfield. The duo of Andre and Joao Gomes must remain untouchable, as they are vital to the team's balance and progression.

Leadership is another pressing concern. With the possible exit of senior figures, including the captain, Wolves risk losing valuable dressing-room experience.

Past seasons have exposed the drawbacks of lacking strong leaders - especially during tough stretches - so the club must prioritise recruiting players with a track record of leadership and resilience.

While excitement about fresh gs is natural, too much squad upheaval brings risks. Major changes can disrupt team unity and make it tougher for new players to settle - both into the style of play and daily life in Wolverhampton.

Wolves' future success depends on wise recruitment: replacing lost creativity, bringing in immediate-impact players, and adding proven leaders who can guide the team.

We've got a big summer ahead!

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We asked how you feel about the possibility of Wolves losing both Matheus Cunha and Rayan Ait-Nouri in this transfer window. What impact could that have on the side? Could they can be replaced?

Here are some of your comments:

Dave: I find it highly frightening. This team could handle the loss of Cunha but Ait-Nouri as well, I don't know. It will be a challenge to replace their directness and talent.

Jack: It was always going to happen, as it does every year. The two rumoured names are on their way out and it is better to get it done sooner rather than later to give us time to replace. As always, there is a lack of trust that the money will be put to good use, but hopefully it will allow us to bring in the players we require for our latest rebuild - a right-back, centre-back, midfielder and some attacking options. Let's back Vitor and see where we end up.

Mike: It is only worrying if Fosun does not allow the manager to replace them. If we don't replace them, next season could well be a disaster even with the excellent Pereira in charge. Quality players must be replaced with quality.

Richard: We have had a long time to accept Cunha leaving and I suspect Wolves fans have come to accept we are a selling club. Ait-Nouri is incredibly skilful. He has just had his best season at Wolves but he has also been quite frustrating. I would rather he stayed, though. Losing both means losing all of the creativity. I think Wolves will cash in and recall Hugo Bueno. Wolves don't buy Premier League experience so expect moderate expenditure on purchases from abroad. Then hope to sell on at a profit. Rinse, repeat. Another season of struggle.

Tommy: It is a big gamble after such a difficult season to sell our two best players. I assume Fosun is not going to gamble our Premier League status without a back-up plan. Brighton and Brentford for example have seen some of their best players leave but always seem to find new gems to keep the club progressing. One huge positive is the swiftness of business of these players out of the door. If we can act quickly with incomings rather than scrambling last minute for gs, this could be a very good summer.

James: Sure, it is worrying to lose your best players. But that is the nature of the league. Players want to play for the best teams. Wolves are seen as a stepping stone. C'est la vie.

Guy: I'm more concerned about losing Ait-Nouri than Cunha. Cunha's discipline is an issue and his suspension saw other players stepping up. I would rather have the £62m than an unreliable player (and I hope that these funds will be available over the summer). Wolves, like many others, are effectively feeder clubs for the big teams. They, in turn, need to nurture the talent that they can attract.

Will: Cunha leaving has been inevitable for a number of months and the team showed they can cope without him with the winning run they put together. Losing Nelson Semedo and Ait-Nouri would be more concerning than the loss of Cunha, though, as they are key in our way of playing.

BBC Sport pundit Nedum Onuoha has given us his insight and opinion every fortnight on your Premier League club throughout this season.

But this week, he's in the hotseat for your questions.

Maybe ask him who should be on your club's radar this summer, or where a rumoured target or new g might fit into the team.

Perhaps see what he thinks about how successful a new recruit might be, who it is vital to keep, or what is needed to make next season a success.

Send in your questions here and we'll put a selection to him