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Wolves manager Gary O'Neil speaking to TNT Sports:

"I was proud of what they produced. Effort, quality, togetherness. Bundles of it. Disappointed with some of it.

"First half got away from us and didn't stick with what we were trying to do. Second half I think we were great and we dominated. Just a couple of details really.

"The corner goal is disappointing and then to concede from the throw-in at the end, that's not how we defend from a throw-in.

"We look a really good side at times and we just need to keep trying to improve and we don't have long to dust ourselves down for the next one."

Emma Smith, BBC Sport

An anonymous first half, a rousing second period - and a chaotic conclusion. This was ultimately a sickener for Wolves.

They would have moved above United with victory here, but instead fell to their first home defeat in nine league matches since losing to Liverpool on 16 September.

Having been fortunate to still be in the contest following a one-sided first half, they improved following the break as Lisandro Martinez cleared off the line.

Andre Onana then denied Craig Dawson's deflected effort, making an unconventional save with the side of his face.

But Gary O'Neil continues to endure a poor record against United in his coaching career, now having lost all four of his meetings without his team scoring.

Wolves' loss at Old Trafford on the opening day of the season was dramatic enough - but this was on another level.

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Paul Robinson, former Tottenham and England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live:

"What an incredible goal, what an incredible game, everyone inside Molineux thought Wolves had gotten back into this game, but Manchester United don't know when they're beaten. Young Mainoo, it's such a cultured finish, a brilliant goal deserving to win any game.

"An absolutely brilliant football match, a proper Premier League classic. You have to give Gary O'Neil so much credit for how Wolves played in the second half. The roof came off Molineux when Neto scored, but that goal from Mainoo takes some doing.

"People at Molineux tonight will look back and say 'wow, I was there'.

"It was an incredible finish and as soon as you can, go and find the platform to watch that game on. It's the finish, it's the ability to dribble through players and the confidence to do that.

"Mainoo thought 'I'm going to win this', a fabulous goal to cap off a brilliant game."

• Four of the last five 90th minute winning goals in the Premier League by players aged 18 or younger have been for Manchester United: Federico Macheda (April 2009 vs Aston Villa), Marcus Rashford (August 2016 vs Hull), Alejandro Garnacho (November 2022 vs Fulham) and Kobbie Mainoo (February 2024 vs Wolves).

• Manchester United have won three of their first four matches in 2024 in all competitions (D1), after ending 2023 with just two wins in nine matches (D2 L5).

• Wolves suffered their first home Premier League defeat since losing 3-1 to Liverpool in September, ending a run of eight successive unbeaten games at Molineux.

• Rasmus Hojlund has now both scored and assisted in each of his last two Premier League appearances – at the age of 20 years and 362 days, he is the youngest United player to achieve this, overtaking Cristiano Ronaldo (aged 21 in 2007).

• Manchester United have conceded two or more goals in five consecutive league games for the first time since November 1977 (run of six).

• Gary O’Neil has lost all four of his Premier League managerial matches against Manchester United (two with Bournemouth, two with Wolves). He has lost more Premier League games against the Red Devils than any other team.

• Marcus Rashford has either scored (3) or assisted (1) in each of his last four Premier League appearances for United, his best run of games with a goal or assist since January/February 2023 (five in a row).

Kobbie Mainoo scored a sensational 97th-minute winner as Manchester United beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-3 at Molineux in a Premier League classic.

Wolves had pulled themselves level having been 2-0 down at half-time and 3-1 behind on 85 minutes, but United took the three points thanks to 18-year-old Mainoo.

Marcus Rashford had opened the scoring five minutes into his United return, having been absent from the FA Cup fourth round with illness amid reports he had missed training following a night out in Belfast, before Rasmus Hojlund doubled the lead.

Pablo Sarabia pulled one back from the penalty spot, before Scott McTominay seemingly made it safe for the visitors by heading in a corner with 15 minutes left shortly after coming on as a second-half substitute.

Wolves captain Max Kilman ensured a grandstand finish by scoring from close range following a corner.

Then, in the sixth of nine added minutes, Neto struck home past the wrong-footed Andre Onana as United were caught on the break.

Wolves celebrated wildly - but it proved premature as Mainoo had the final word in a remarkable game.

Erik ten Hag's side move back into the top seven after ending a run of four away league matches without winning and are now eight points off the Champions League places, while Wolves stay 11th.

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Wolves midfielder Joe Hodge is set to join QPR on loan for the rest of the season.

The 21-year-old is on the bench for Wolves’ Premier League encounter with Manchester United right now but will complete the switch immediately afterwards.

Hodge has only made two appearances so far this season, most recently in the FA Cup third-round replay against Brentford on 16 January.

The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international is keen to play more often and manager Gary O’Neil has agreed to this.

With Armando Broja due to join Fulham on loan from Chelsea, it appears the transfer window will close with Wolves missing out on the striker Gary O'Neil was hoping to sign.

That means youngster Nathan Fraser is set to remain at Molineux.

It was thought that Fraser might leave on loan for the second half of the season but he gives O'Neil the striking option he will now need.

There are two games being played in the Premier League on Thursday and we will bring you every moment.

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I met a scout at a game against Brentford and when he mentioned his club, he said; "We’re frightened to death of breaking any rules, so it looks like we can’t do much at all."

That tells you everything.

Everyone is very limited - there are few ins and outs and a few swap deals but nothing significant.

Usually the big deals have a knock-on effect as it releases a couple and we get movement, but it’s been very quiet and agents have not been that busy.

I think there are lots of late deals to happen but will we see a bigger one? I don’t know.

Chelsea's Armando Broja seems to be getting all of the speculation at this point in the day.

Michael Brown was speaking to BBC Sport's Katie Stafford

Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches again this season, against a variety of guests.

For this week's midweek games, he takes on Chelsea fan Matthew Vaughn, director of new spy film Argylle.

Sutton's prediction: 1-1

I feel sorry for Erik ten Hag. Even when his Manchester United side win, there always seems to be something going on.

This time it is about what is happening with Marcus Rashford, or Bruno Fernandes basically saying some of their players are too greedy in front of goal.

This is a tough game for United and Wolves will still feel hard done by after creating so many chances at Old Trafford in August, when they were the better team and still lost the game.

United are getting their injured players back, like Lisandro Martinez and Casemiro, but I am still not convinced by them as a team.

They are good on the counter, but Wolves are well balanced and I don't think they will get caught out too often there.

Gary O'Neil's side are hard to beat, so I am going to go with a draw.

Vaughn's prediction: United are a very weird team. We know Chelsea are unpredictable - and I kind of know why, because our problems are obvious - but I really don't know what is happening with United.

With the players and coach they have, I don't understand why they are not doing much better than they are. Wolves are a hard team to beat and I can see them sneaking a goal and then shutting up shop. 1-0

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The perception of and mood around Wolves has changed massively in the six months since Gary O'Neil was appointed as Julen Lopetegui's successor as manager.

A summer dominated by financial concerns and several high-profile exits, not least that of Lopetegui himself less than a week before the season started, led many to tip Wolves for relegation before a ball was kicked.

However, Wolves put in a hugely creditable performance in their opening Premier League match at Manchester United - albeit the final result was a 1-0 defeat - and O'Neil believes that was a "good start point" for what has followed.

"What it showed was that the group were capable and willing," said O'Neil, whose side are unbeaten since mid-December and will move into the top half of the table if they beat United in the return fixture at Molineux on Thursday.

"When I watch it back now, we've come a long way tactically since then. For the boys to be able to buy into what I'd asked them in such a short period of time and to carry it out with as much zest and passion as they did was a good start point for us.

"We've suffered a few setbacks from there, and I'm sure we'll suffer some more, but it was a good start point for us and a day I look back on fairly fondly because it was my first game in charge of Wolverhampton Wanderers."

Victory over the same opponent on Thursday evening would see Wolves leapfrog their opponents and potentially move into the top eight but O'Neil said he is not yet satisfied with their progress this season.

"I'm pleased with where we've managed to get to, but not content," he said. "There are areas that still need improving - the boys know that as well."

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Chelsea’s Armando Broja has been attracting interest from Fulham as manager Marco Silva attempts to solve his side’s goal shortage but time is running out to formulate a package.

Wolves have also been trying to do a deal for the 22-year-old, who Chelsea value at about £50m but are now believed to be willing to accept a £5m loan fee for the rest of this season.

Will this spark even further interest?

Fulham are exploring all their options to strengthen in the attacking areas and Broja seems certain to be part of that wider conversation at Craven Cottage before the transfer window closes.

On Wednesday, we asked you what Wolves' ideal final day of business in the January transfer window would look like.

Here is a selection of your responses:

Richard: A striker might be on the wish list, but why not wait until the end of the season when contracts are up? Get a good striker for a realistic price in the summer. We have enough to finish the season well without the burden of European football. Settle this squad and then all guns blazing next season.

Liam: Hugo Ekitike. He is the kind of player we need, as long as we pay the right money.

Tyler: Sign Armando Broja.

BG: If Fulham are really going to spend silly money on Broja,can we have Raul Jimenez,our true number nine, back?

Whether it turns out to be a day of high drama or a pretty quiet one for your club, you can rarely take your eye off transfer deadline day.

Are you hoping for a rush of late deals or expecting a relaxed one?

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Wolves are in talks over a loan move for 22-year-old Corinthians and Brazil forward Yuri Alberto. (Telegraph - subscription required), external

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When does the transfer window close?

The transfer window will close at 23:00 GMT on Thursday for the Premier League and English Football League, while in Scotland, the window will shut 30 minutes later at 23:30.

Across Europe, the Bundesliga window will close at 17:00, Serie A at 19:00, Ligue 1 at 22:00 and La Liga at 23:00 - but the Women's Super League transfer window already closed on Wednesday night.

The transfer window for the Saudi Pro League, where a number of high-profile Premier League players moved in the summer, closed on 30 January.

Can a Premier League player signed on deadline day play this weekend?

Under league rules, new signings are eligible for the next Premier League game if the club submit the required documents by midday on the last working day before that match.

Where can I see all the confirmed transfer deals on deadline day?

You can find all the deals completed on transfer deadline day within our dedicated confirmed transfers page.

What is the story so far?

Only 15 players have been signed by Premier League clubs in January, with 10 permanent transfers, five loan deals and disclosed fees of about £50m.

It is a far cry from the past three transfer windows - January 2023 and the summers of 2022 and 2023 - which each set Premier League spending records.

At the same point last year, on the eve of deadline day, there had been 38 transfers worth about £550m - 10 times this year's amount.

How can I follow transfer deadline day on the BBC?

From 07:00 on Thursday, we will have a page dedicated to all the latest transfer news, reaction and analysis. You cannot miss it as it will be the first thing you see on our football website.

Your Premier League club's page will have all the latest transfers for your team in one place.

You will also find regular updates on BBC Radio 5 Live and breaking news across BBC Sport's social media channels, including X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

There will also be a special edition of The Football News Show on BBC iPlayer and the Red Button from 22:00 until 23:30.

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Wolves have confirmed the signing of winger Noha Lemina on loan from Paris St-Germain for the rest of the season, with an option to make the move permanent.

The 18-year-old is the brother of midfielder Mario Lemina, who also plays for Wolves.

Lemina spent the first half of the season on loan at Italian side Sampdoria, where he featured once for the first team and nine times for the club’s under-19s.

"Noha’s an exciting, quick and direct winger," Wolves sporting director Matt Hobbs said. "He has good technical ability and had a great football education at PSG. It’s an opportunity for him to get a feel for us and we can assess him.

"When Mario first joined, his brother had been flagged up by our scouting team. Mario’s a driven individual, so doesn’t want any favours, but he has real belief in him and thinks he’s a Premier League player in the making - and Noha will back himself."

Mike Taylor, BBC Radio WM

Had Wolves broken their transfer record by meeting Chelsea's reported asking price for Armando Broja, it might have been considered the most ironic deal of this window, at least in its timing.

Not because Broja is not a good player - he looks well-qualified to fit into the Wolves squad, albeit relatively inexperienced - but the need to fill that gap is arguably less acute now than at any time since 2020.

For the past three seasons before this one, Wolves have not risen above a one-goal-per-game average in the Premier League, which often led to football as dull as the statistic. Each passing transfer window led to more pressure on any forwards Wolves did bring in. Putting that right was never going to be as simple as just signing one player, as the experience of Matheus Cunha demonstrated last January. What was needed was a more extensive rewiring of Wolves' attacking play - something Gary O'Neil and his players have achieved unexpectedly quickly.

Cunha has made more progress than most, becoming especially productive in a role described by O'Neil recently as "left number 10". At a news conference just after Hwang Hee-chan left for the Asian Cup, O'Neil explained his reluctance to move Cunha, while recognising that he was the most obvious deputy for Hwang in the middle. Hwang is not necessarily a specialist "number nine" - his goalscoring run this season notwithstanding - but his trip away brought the issue back into the foreground.

That was the context for the Broja bid, and no doubt enquiries for several other players, but Wolves would have known that there are few discounts in football's January sales. Last year, they felt they had to spend big to stave off relegation, but with the fair play rules in mind, the ledger had to be balanced in the summer.

More irony: if Wolves had, say, 10 fewer points than they do now, there would be greater pressure to flirt with the financial fair play (FFP) precipice and, as we have seen, risk losing another 10 eventually.

If a useful, self-funding combination of deals come into view before Thursday night, fine; otherwise, the percentage play is to hold and get ready to back O'Neil's judgement more substantially in the next window, when it seems any lingering FFP concerns will have faded.

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• Since matchday 15, only Liverpool (17) have amassed more Premier League points than Wolverhampton Wanderers (14).

• Having won just two of their first six Premier League away games against Wolves, Manchester United have triumphed on their past three visits to Molineux.

• After losing their first two home league games of 2023-24 (to Brighton and Liverpool), Wolves have since gone unbeaten in eight. Only once before have they had a longer run without defeat at Molineux in the competition (a run of 10 ending in August 2019).

• Coming into this round of matches, only bottom-of-the-table Sheffield United (100 minutes) and 18th-placed Luton Town (223 minutes) had spent less time ahead in Premier League games this season than Manchester United (288 minutes), with the Red Devils failing to lead at any point during their past four away games.

• Wolves' Gary O'Neil has lost all three of his Premier League encounters with United as a manager without scoring a goal (twice with Bournemouth last term, and at Old Trafford in their opening game of this season). As a player, he only lost more games against Chelsea (15) than he did against United in the competition (10 out of 14).

• Marcus Rashford has scored (two) or assisted (one) in his past three league appearances for Manchester United, as many goal involvements as in his first 17 games this term. The forward has scored two Premier League goals against Wolves, both assisted by Bruno Fernandes in 1-0 victories (December 2020 and December 2022).