The race for survival is heating up within the Premier League. Wolverhampton Wanderers are currently on 19 points after 24 video games, simply 21 factors away from the magical 40-point whole that’s thought to all however assure a facet security within the top-flight for one more season.
The Previous Gold will want their huge stars to show up within the remaining few months of the season. Matheus Cunha might be key, as will Rayan Ait-Nouri. This might be their previous couple of video games in a Wolves shirt, given each might go away in the summertime. They had been linked with a move away in January, too.
Vitor Pereira will even be hoping his January signings can put in some huge performances of their battle for survival. New midfielder Marshall Munetsi might be a key participant.
Munetsi’s January transfer to Wolves
The Previous Gold signed Zimbabwean midfielder Munetsi on deadline day of the 2025 January switch window. The 28-year-old signed from French outfit Stade Reims, with the transfer fee reported to be £17m.
His file for the Ligue 1 outfit is spectacular. Munetsi pulled on the Reims shirt 159 times in total, scoring 21 objectives and grabbing 14 assists. He’s a flexible participant, capable of play all around the midfield, as a quantity six, a quantity eight or perhaps a quantity ten.
To this point, the midfielder has played once for the Old Gold, together with his debut coming within the FA Cup, a 24-minute cameo in opposition to Championship facet Blackburn Rovers.
So, though it’s early days, the indicators that Munetsi may grow to be a superb participant for the Previous Gold are definitely optimistic ones. He might be an enormous determine of their battle for Premier League survival.
Nevertheless, it may need the Wolves followers reminiscing a couple of former midfielder who has grow to be a superb participant of his personal and is value excess of the £17m they paid for Munetsi.
The previous Wolves midfielder value greater than Munetsi
It has been a speedy rise to the highest for former Wolves loanee Vitinha. Now thriving at Paris Saint Germain, the Portugal worldwide made the transfer to Molineux on a season-long loan in the 2020/21 campaign. The deal had a purchase choice, however they didn’t activate it.
It’s truthful to say that issues didn’t essentially work out for the Portuguese midfielder. He played 22 times in all competitions for the membership, managing only one objective and one help. His sole strike was a chic FA Cup fourth-round profitable objective option to non-league Chorley.
Since enjoying for the Previous Gold, Vitinha has made an actual identify for himself at PSG of their midfield. He has played 125 times for the membership, managing 16 objectives and ten assists together with 11 objective involvements in Ligue 1 final time period.
He’s additionally a full worldwide with Portugal, and was a key member of their Euro 2024 squad alongside the likes of Bruno Fernandes and Cristiano Ronaldo, grabbing three assists within the match. He has 25 caps for his country to date.
The “maestro”, as Statman Dave described him, is now value excess of what Wolves paid for Munetsi. According to Football Transfers, Vitinha is valued at £51.4m, which is 202% greater than the price that their new midfielder price them.
The truth is, if that wasn’t sufficient, he was additionally extremely nominated for the 2024 Ballon d’Or.
The stats on Squawka recommend it is a truthful hole in valuation, too. Utilizing knowledge from the 2023/24 Ligue 1 season, the Portugal star ranked above Munetsi in lots of metrics, together with probabilities created, with 1.5 in comparison with 0.5 per recreation.
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Vitinha & Munetsi ket stats 2023/24 Ligue 1 season in contrast |
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Stat (per 90) |
Vitinha |
Munetsi |
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Objectives |
0.2 |
0.5 |
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Probabilities created |
0.5 |
1.5 |
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Ahead passes |
6.6 |
17.2 |
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Take-ons accomplished |
0.5 |
1.4 |
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Ball recoveries |
4.6 |
6.6 |
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Stats from Squawka |
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On reflection, the Previous Gold is likely to be kicking themselves that they didn’t get probably the most out of Vitinha throughout his time at Molineux. Given his worth now, and the way rather more he’s value in comparison with Munetsi, he might have been a key man in Pereira’s midfield.
Wolves may want they’d simply activated the purchase choice in Vitinha’s mortgage deal as a result of they might have had an outstanding, and costly, participant on their arms.
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