{"id":38577,"date":"2025-08-01T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38577\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:19:14","slug":"wolves-transfer-news-premier-league-la-liga-clubs-in-direct-contact-over-14-7m-deal-for-wing-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38577\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves transfer news: Premier League, La Liga clubs in &#8216;direct contact&#8217; over \u00a314.7m deal for wing-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers reportedly make contact with a La Liga club regarding a potential \u00a314.7m deal for a new right wing-back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/wolves\/\" title=\"More Wolverhampton Wanderers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> are reportedly pushing to secure a deal for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/sevilla\/\" title=\"More Sevilla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sevilla<\/a> player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/juanlu-sanchez\/\" title=\"More Juanlu Sanchez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juanlu Sanchez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With just two first-team additions made and having failed to win any of their four pre-season friendlies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/vitor-pereira\/\" title=\"More Vitor Pereira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vitor Pereira<\/a> has expressed signs of frustration in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>While several positions need strengthening, Wolves are in particular need of new wing-backs with Nelson Semedo and Rayan Ait-Nouri having left Molineux.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, it was claimed that the issue on the left was close to being resolved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/wolves\/transfer-talk\/news\/a-wolfe-to-join-the-pack-pereira-frustration-to-ease-as-wolves-close-on-gbp10m-left-back_578445.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolves having agreed a deal<\/a> for AZ Alkmaar&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/david-moller-wolfe\/\" title=\"More David Moller Wolfe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Moller Wolfe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Orazio Accomando, who was commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OAccomando91\/status\/1951208109243773231\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>, Wolves are now aiming to bring in a fresh face for the right-hand side of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgI\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sevilla's Juanlu Sanchez pictured on November 26, 2023\" class=\"vanilla-lazyload article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/24\/36\/juanlu-sanchez.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wolves fighting Serie A champions for Sanchez?<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests that Wolves have made direct contact with their Sevilla counterparts in an effort to negotiate a deal for Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves are allegedly prepared to pay in the region of\u00a0\u20ac17m (\u00a314.74m) to win the race for the 21-year-old, but they face competition from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/napoli\/\" title=\"More Napoli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napoli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last season&#8217;s Serie A champions are said to have a &#8220;preliminary agreement&#8221; in place but are yet to conclude the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez has come through the Sevilla academy ranks to contribute six goals and eight assists from 74 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>During 2024-25, four strikes and four assists came from 32 games in La Liga, Sanchez being used as a right-back, centre-midfielder, right-winger and support-striker respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Such versatility may appeal to Wolves, but Sanchez would presumably be viewed as a wing-back in Pereira&#8217;s 3-4-2-1 formation if he moves to the West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgI\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Vitor Pereira on April 13, 2025\" class=\"vanilla-lazyload article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/25\/15\/vitor-pereira.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wolves risking a repeat disappointment<\/p>\n<p>Wolves have already missed out to a European giant in the form of Atletico Madrid when attempting to sign Marc Pubill.<\/p>\n<p>That could plausibly be a similar case here if Napoli get their way, but Sanchez knows that he will have more chance of first-team football at Molineux.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/giovanni-di-lorenzo\/\" title=\"More Giovanni Di Lorenzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni Di Lorenzo<\/a> is Napoli&#8217;s captain and right-back, while there are enough options in the final third where Sanchez is unlikely to be first choice.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez has just featured in the same Spain Under-21s squad as Wolves left wing-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/hugo-bueno\/\" title=\"More Hugo Bueno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Bueno<\/a>, something else that can only help the Premier League side&#8217;s cause.<\/p>\n<p>ID:578454:1false2false3false: from db desktop :LenBod:collect4212: <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/13\/31\/darren-plant.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton Wanderers reportedly make contact with a La Liga club regarding a potential \u00a314.7m deal for a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4985,5906,218,372,5904,3553,5905,221,5903,5772,217,101,3022,5907,118,56,54,55,22397],"class_list":["post-38577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sevilla","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wolverhampton-wanderers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}