Wolverhampton Wanderers wish to signal one other new defender in what stays of this switch window, in accordance with a brand new report.
Wolves endure 4 consecutive defeats
Vitor Pereira’s aspect suffered a fourth consecutive defeat within the Premier League on Saturday afternoon, as they have been crushed 1-0 by Arsenal. The Midlands aspect gained a bonus early on, as Myles Lewis-Skelly picked up a purple card, however that benefit disappeared within the seventieth minute, as Joao Gomes additionally obtained a purple card, after which 4 minutes later, Arsenal scored what turned out to be the successful objective from Riccardo Calafiori.
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It comes after a failed try and land their prime goal.
Wolves have now misplaced to Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Chelsea, and Arsenal of their final 4 Premier League video games. Nevertheless, regardless of the defeat to Arsenal, Pereira wasn’t too disappointed with his side’s performance. Pereira stated after the sport: “On the finish of the sport, I let you know we misplaced an enormous probability to win this match as a result of we play an excellent sport. In my view, we performed an excellent sport.
“Tactically, dedication, power, we did all the things to win the sport. What [we] missed was to attain one objective. We had two possibilities earlier than they scored; now we have two clear possibilities to attain the primary objective. After the yellow card for Joao, they rating one objective, and we did not.”
It has been a quiet switch window to date for the Previous Gold, as they’ve introduced in only one new signing, regardless of the very fact they’ve been sitting across the backside of the desk for almost all of the season. Defender Emmanuel Agbadou joined Wolves earlier on this switch window from Stade de Reims, and it might be anticipated that Pereira wish to add to that signing much more so, after the defeat to the Gunners.
Wolves working to signal one other new defender for Pereira
In reality, the Premier League aspect are engaged on one other switch, as in accordance with Soccer Insider journalist Pete O’Rourke, Wolves are looking to sign a new defender before the transfer window closes on February third.
The report claims that Pereira is eager to additional strengthen his backline this month, regardless of the arrival of Agbadou. It’s in all probability no shock that signing a brand new defender is excessive on the agenda for Wolves, as they’ve conceded the second-most goals in the league, with solely backside aspect Southampton conceding extra.
Wolves presently have Toti, Santiago Bueno, Yerson Mosquera, Bastien Meupiyou, Craig Dawson, and, after all, Agbadou as their centre-back choices. Nevertheless, Mosquera is presently out with an damage, and it seems to be as if Pereira is eager so as to add extra competitors on the coronary heart of his defence, as he nonetheless has loads of work to do to maintain his aspect above that dotted line.
It’s unclear if signing one other defender might be finished by way of a mortgage swap or a everlasting transfer, however both approach, Pereira clearly sees this as a should, as whereas they’ve scored 32, they’ve additionally conceded 52 targets.
