Wolverhampton Wanderers

Nick Mashiter
Football reporter

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Wolves have no desire to sell Jorgen Strand Larsen after rejecting Newcastle United's £50m bid.

The limited time they have to sign a replacement, with the transfer window closing on Monday, and the current prices are factors in their thinking.

Newcastle is an attractive option but the striker has remained professional and could start in the EFL Cup against West Ham at Molineux on Tuesday.

It is in contrast to Alexander Isak's position at St James' Park, with the forward not playing and trying to force a move to Liverpool, leaving Newcastle desperately trying to sign a replacement.

Strand Larsen only made his move to Molineux from Celta Vigo permanent for £23m this summer after scoring 14 goals in 30 Premier League starts on loan last season.

Wolves have lost their opening two games without scoring and are looking to sign another striker.

Getafe's Christantus Uche is a target and the forward played in a 2-1 La Liga win at Sevilla on Monday.

Wolves will hand Jorgen Strand Larsen a new contract after rejecting a £50m bid from Newcastle, but the Molineux club could still be tempted to sell the striker if they receive an offer in excess of £75m. (Telegraph - subscription required), external

Wolves boss Vitor Pereira is keen to bring in Girona's Czech Republic centre-back Ladislav Krejci, 26, and is also pushing to sign a central midfielder and a versatile forward before the window closes. (Guardian, external)

Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund are close to reaching an agreement with Wolves for the signing of 23-year-old Portuguese striker Fabio Silva. (Athletic - subscription required, external)

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Where the goals will come from has been a concern over the summer at Wolves - and the subject of several questions to come in via our 'Ask about Wolves' form.

They scored 63 last season but lost just over half - 32 - before this campaign, with Matheus Cunha (17), Goncalo Guedes (five), Rayan Ait-Nouri (five), Pablo Sarabia (three), Tommy Doyle (one) and Mario Lemina (one) all leaving.

Christantus Uche, Getafe's young striker, is expected to arrive at Molineux to provide some back-up, but more is likely to be needed.

Jorgen Strand Larsen is a good option and his 14 goals in 30 league starts last season was a good return in a debut season. However, he needs help.

Vitor Pereira wanted at least three more players before the season. Wolves have added right-back Jackson Tchatchoua from Verona, while Uche is expected to be the second.

Uche is just 22 and therefore still developing, so it would be wrong to expect him to score 20 goals. He only got four for Getafe in 2024-25.

Uche did net in the 2-0 win at Celta Vigo last week, but he is not at the level to fill Cunha's boots.

Wolves are not going to spend the type of money which is going to land them a proven Premier League scorer, so they need to come up with alternatives.

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We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Bournemouth and Wolves.

Here are some of your comments:

Bournemouth fans

Wing: It was a good performance despite not having our strongest team out there yet. Clearly the defensive unit is growing in cohesion and confidence playing together, and it could have been 2-0 or more. A controlled display and we are getting sharper, and I can't wait for this team to really motor and get started this season!

Charl: Bournemouth sat back and watched as Brooks toiled relentlessly. Scott and Tavernier should have been taken off much earlier. We were missing the energy until the subs came on. Defence looked better - two good additions settling in nicely.

Wolves fans

Mike: Not sure where the goals are coming from. A team low on confidence and short of ideas. We need a more direct approach from midfield. New players in key positions needed urgently.

Richard: Creativity totally lacking through the whole squad. Where's Fer Lopez? Long season ahead and only relegation on the cards if this continues. I just can't see where a goal is coming from.

Glyn: Caught cold again as in many previous games over past seasons as we stand back and let the opposition lay siege to our box. I am sorry to say I just can't see where goals are going to come from this season with the players we have in attacking positions. Couple this with no attacking midfield players and this season looks like a long, hard slog to retain Premier League status next year. I am not optimistic.

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Wolves' haphazard display at Vitality Stadium only underlines their urgent need for reinforcements before the end of the transfer window.

Jackson Tchatchoua - a recent arrival from Hellas Verona - carried a threat after replacing the injured Ki-Jana Hoever in the first half, while full debutant Jhon Arias struck the side-netting early in the second.

Manager Vitor Pereira's decision to withdraw the Colombian summer signing a little over 10 minutes after half-time was met by a smattering of boos from the away fans, clearly frustrated by the visitors' lack of cutting edge.

Wolves' best spell of the game arguably came after Toti Gomes' dismissal early in the second half but Arias' chance was the closest they came to rescuing an unlikely point.

The west Midlands club are reportedly in talks to sign Girona defender Ladislav Krejci, external as they look to provide additional cover for Toti, who will now miss Tuesday's Carabao Cup tie at home against West Ham.

Wolves have ruled out selling striker Jorgen Strand Larsen to Newcastle but their lack of creativity in the final third was clear for all to see at Vitality Stadium.

Vitor Pereira spoke to BBC Match of the Day after Wolves' defeat against Bournemouth: "We started the first half creating a big chance to score and we missed it. We didn't and after we conceded a goal out of our plan because the plan was not to build play inside but to go to the sides. We know this is a team playing here who are very aggressive in the middle. We concede the goal and we tried to compete with a strong team. We made some changes at half-time. With the red card, playing against this team is not easy as 11v11 or 10v11. We tried to keep our organisation, we were united and organised. We didn't concede any goal but it was difficult to score and they won the game.

Football is football, it is all about mistakes. The only way I know to correct mistakes is to work. We need to give time for the new players to adapt in this league. It is different when you come from different leagues and feel the intensity and pressing which is difficult. This group works very hard and we will see in the end what our position is in the market. Two defeats is not what we were expecting but we know what we want and we will try to improve our game."

Wolves defender Matt Doherty spoke to Premier League productions about Saturday's defeat: "We're disappointed, we've lost the first games of the season which is not ideal. After the red card it was actually better and back against the wall but disappointed with how the game went before the red card.

On conceding early: "Our game plan was not to play through the middle and we did that and got punished. We made mistakes that we knew we shouldn't have made and they are a good side and punished us off the first chance that they got."

"We made the changes and it was working up until the red card."

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Wolves have now picked up just one point in the Premier League since the beginning of May, playing six matches in the competition, losing five and drawing the other. This is the outright fewest points won during this period amongst all ever-present sides.

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Andoni Iraola keeps faith with the Bournemouth team that started the Premier League opener at Anfield last Friday.

Recent signings Ben Gannon-Doak and Amine Adli are among the substitutes, as are fit again Justin Kluivert and Ryan Christie.

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Smith, Diakite, Senesi, Truffert, Adams, Semenyo, Scott, Tavernier, Brooks, Evanilson

Vitor Pereira makes just one change to the Wolves side that started the 4-0 defeat at home to Manchester City.

Jhon Arias makes his full debut in place of Andre, who is named on the bench alongside new signing Jackson Tchatchoua.

Wolves XI: Jose Sa, Doherty, Agbadou, Toti Gomes, Hoever, Bellegarde, Joao Gomes, Moller Wolfe, Munetsi, Strand Larsen, Arias

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I really liked Bournemouth having a go at Liverpool. I know they ended up losing, but they always carry that attacking threat. They are so good in transition and they get bodies forward.

How do you judge Wolves after they got walloped at home against Manchester City? I mean, they did have chances in that match.

There is also concern as to whether Bournemouth have properly replaced their three best defenders, who they sold this summer.

It will be quite tight but I'm going to stick my neck out. Bournemouth will sneak it.

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Sophie Brown
BBC Sport journalist

Both Bournemouth and Wolves will see this match as the perfect opportunity to bounce back from defeats in tough opening fixtures.

The away side has won the last five games between these teams, including last season's meeting at Molineux when Justin Kluivert became the first player in 67 years to score a hat-trick of penalties in an English top-flight match as Bournemouth won 4-2.

The Cherries were on the opposite end of a 4-2 scoreline against champions Liverpool last weekend – the first time they had conceded four goals since the season before last, but they won't be sounding the panic alarms just yet.

Bournemouth's defence has been raided this summer, with four of their first-choice back five leaving the club, including on-loan goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. In fact, none of the three goalkeepers who appeared for Bournemouth in last season's Premier League are still at the club.

So it is likely to take time for the new recruits to bed in, and although conceding four goals does not look good on paper, there were encouraging signs, in particular from left-back Adrien Truffert and centre-back Bafode Diakite, who signed just two days before the game.

Like Bournemouth, Wolves have lost some of their prize assets over the summer, including last season's top scorer Matheus Cunha and first-choice wing backs Rayan Ait-Nouri and Nelson Semedo, with striker Jorgen Strand Larsen also currently being linked with Newcastle.

Wolves didn't win any of their six pre-season games and lost their opening Premier League match 4-0 at home to Manchester City last Saturday. They will need to stop the rot quickly to avoid the risk of a start like last season when they lost seven of their first eight league fixtures, a dismal run of form that eventually cost head coach Gary O'Neil his job.

They have at least reacted swiftly in the wake of last week's defeat by signing Jackson Tchatchoua from Parma to replace Semedo – and you don't get much swifter than the Cameroon international defender, who was clocked as the fastest man in Serie A last season.

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Wolves boss Vitor Pereira has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Bournemouth at Vitality Stadium (kick-off 15:00 BST).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• New signing Jackson Tchatchoua is available after training with the team, but "a decision will be made tomorrow" to see whether he will be involved. When asked about the defender's qualities, Pereira replied: "He is a fast winger that can also play as a wing-back. He has strength and he is powerful. He likes to attack the space and he knows how to create problems in the system we play."

• Jorgen Strand Larsen is "committed" to the club and "preparing to play" this weekend, despite being linked with a move to Newcastle United. He added: "He is a very important player for us. I haven't spoken with him about it, but he is committed."

• However, Pereira highlighted that "players can come and players can leave" up until the transfer window shuts.

• The club is "working to get the last few players" through the door before the transfer window shuts, but he didn't want to speak about the links to Girona's Ladislav Krejci.

• On losing key players such as Matheus Cunha and Rayan Ait-Nouri this summer, he said: "I believe we will still have a good team left. We've lost some players but we still have players that have always been in the first XI. We know what our vision is for the future, so the players are working very hard and in a way that I like - because of that I'm positive [about this group]."

• He admitted that it "isn't easy" for managers to manage their squad while the transfer window is still open because "every time we push for players that we need and we can also lose players that we want".

• Despite the 4-0 defeat, he was happy with the "true spirit, bravery and pressing" he saw against Manchester City: "We did a lot of things well, but when we commit a mistake against top players then of course they will score. I think they had five shots on target and scored four goals, this isn't something that happens a lot. We had our chances to score also."

• On facing Bournemouth: "They are a brave team, they have an identity, they are strong and they have good players. It's about doing what we can to improve as a team and as individuals. We can correct some of the mistakes from the last game. I believe the best way to work is to work hard to be better and better."

• He is anticipating a "very tough game" and he doesn't know if they will get a result, but the players will be ready to "go there and compete" for the three points.

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Wolves have stepped up the pace in the transfer market, quite literally in the case of new signing from Hellas Verona, Jackson Tchatchoua, who was named the fastest player in Serie A last season with a top speed of 36.3km/h.

He has fulfilled head coach Vitor Pereira's need for a player who can play right-back or wing-back, but the Portuguese is on the hunt for more.

Pereira is likely to focus on an attacking midfield player – Getafe's Christantus Uche is a name doing the rounds - and may take the opportunity to sign a striker to provide support and cover for Jorgen Strand Larsen.

Wolves are sure to be active in the next couple of weeks, with central defence another area Pereira might want to bolster.

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Mike Taylor
BBC Radio WM reporter

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Wolves' first game of the season does not seem to have shifted the dial much on expectations. It does say something about the stratified nature of the modern Premier League that a club - established in the division for several seasons - can lose 4-0 at home on the opening day and there be no sudden sense of shock afterwards.

It was fair enough for Vitor Pereira to talk up his team, but - as has been the case for a while - the part of his comments that attracted most attention was about the strength of the squad. "This is the time to make an offer and to help the team. We need help, so I hope the club can help us."

But reading between the lines of the comments of managers, especially those not speaking in their first language, is a bad habit, best avoided.

Anyway, Wolves have moved since Saturday, adding Jackson Tchatchoua to address the problem left by Nelson Semedo's departure. The impact of the other recent signings on Saturday was limited - David Moller Wolfe was the only one to start - but we can reasonably expect them to feature more strongly as they settle down.

But there, specifically, is the issue I've most often heard raised by Wolves supporters recently. The notion that Wolves 'write off August' has caught on, on the basis that since they returned to the Premier League in 2018, they have won only one league game before the start of September. This, it is argued, is a symptom of their tardiness in making signings every summer - a lack of preparedness always putting them under pressure.

This is not entirely fair. It isn't really credible to think a club will consciously 'write off' any games, even when expectations are so low as they were for Wolves against Manchester City.

Pereira is not the only Premier League manager recently heard wondering when his club will get on with signing players, and some have done so rather more impatiently. Every coach hopes his full squad will be together for the start of pre-season, but the timing of the transfer window, and the sums of money in play, encourage brinkmanship.

In Wolves' case, though, it seems several key players leave at the start of each summer, so there is always the feeling of having to do more than others to catch up, and the fear that this time they might not manage to jump on the train that is already leaving the station.

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Wolves striker Jorgen Strand Larsen remains of interest to Newcastle - although the 25-year-old is not hankering to leave Molineux. (The Athletic - subscription required, external)

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We asked for your views on Wolves' latest signing Jackson Tchatchoua and where else they need to look to strengthen before the transfer window closes.

Here are some of your comments:

Richard: Very happy to have signed another defender. I like the fact he has pace. I still think we need a central defender and another forward. With Nottingham Forest spending over £100m, it shows what you need to do to be ambitious. I hope Fosun are watching.

Tony: This is going be a transitional start to the season with so many new signings and established players leaving. But I feel we have signed quality players, and given time under the guidance of our excellent manager Vitor Pereira, we will be a good side and play some exciting attacking football.

Baz: Looks like a good signing as we need more pace which he seems to have. He alone will not be enough, a first class striker is vital. Fabio Silva should go as he is clearly not in Vitor's thinking. He would be sold at a loss but at least it would free up cash for the additional three or more signings that are needed. It's about time Fosun spent more of the incoming revenue for the sold players that scored and assisted so many goals last season.

James: We certainly need bodies, and we certainly need pace. Is he the answer? The price tag suggests not - £10-15m doesn't buy a player who is going to make the difference, not anymore. I think this under-cooked squad is really going to struggle all season. The owners simply seem to be out to turn a profit on player sales, and don't care about results on the pitch.

Dazzling Dave
Fan writer

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Wolves' 4-0 defeat by Manchester City was a harsh scoreline to swallow, but the real story at Molineux started long before the first whistle. This was a day of emotion and remembrance, as fans paid tribute to Diogo Jota - a player who left an unforgettable mark on Wolves and everyone who loves the club.

The display from the Old Gold Pack was nothing short of outstanding. Flags flew, voices echoed, and for a moment, football was about more than just the result.

Diogo's impact on Wolves fans is hard to put into words. He delivered happiness, moments of magic, and memories that will stay with us for a lifetime. Footballers like Diogo remind us that the game isn't just about points or trophies, but about shared joy, heartbreak, and community.

As for the match itself, most fans probably feared City's quality would be too much for this current Wolves side. Pre-season worries about depth and pace were on full display, but the 4-0 scoreline didn't tell the whole story.

Wolves had spells of good play, matched City for effort, and there were moments when it looked like we could match their intensity. However, mistakes against a side of City's calibre are quickly punished. That was the difference.

This Wolves side felt a step slower than we are used to, missing the spark and unpredictability brought by players like Matheus Cunha and Rayan Ait-Nouri. Yet, in flashes, we saw intent and spirit. The hope remains that with key signings before the transfer window closes, Wolves can find their feet and show their true potential.

Vitor Pereira shaped the defence well last season, with Emmanuel Agbadou a standout at the back. But Agbadou's pre-season form has slipped and defensive errors have been costly. Wolves must tighten up fast if they want to avoid more tough defeats.

The squad needs more quality, support and investment or Wolves risk a long, difficult season.

Despite the result, the day was about more than football - it was a celebration of Diogo Jota's life and his lasting influence.

And for Wolves, there is still time for optimism to return to Molineux.

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