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Premier League finish, top goalscorer and season preview

Posted By joeerazer
August 15, 2024
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Many feared for Wolverhampton Wanderers ahead of the 2023/24 campaign following Julen Lopetegui’s sudden departure days before the season kicked off.

However, Gary O’Neil, who had been unceremoniously dumped by Bournemouth several months prior, swiftly steadied the ship at Molineux and guided Wolves to a mediocre finish with some impressive results along the way. The aim for the coming campaign is to build on those solid foundations.

However, that won’t be straightforward. Key contributors Max Kilman and Pedro Neto have departed the Midlands for London, while recruitment has been fairly uninspiring to date. Once again, O’Neil will be asked to overachieve in 2024/25.

Here is 90min’s guide to Wolves’ Premier League campaign.

2024/25 will be Wolves’ seventh consecutive season in the Premier League and last term was their lowest finish in the top flight since they were relegated at the foot of the table in 2011/12. Bar two seventh-placed finishes on their return to the Premier League, the Old Gold have had to settle for mid-table or bottom-half placings in recent times.

The cup competitions haven’t been too kind to Wolves, either. Three quarter-finals across the last five seasons – including in the Europa League in 2019/20 – is the best they have been able to muster, with a strong cup run potentially a priority heading into the new season.

Season

Premier League

FA Cup

EFL Cup

Europe

2023/24

14th

QF

R3

2022/23

13th

R3

QF

2021/22

10th

R4

R3

2020/21

13th

R5

R2

2019/20

7th

R3

R4

Europa League QF

Jorgen Strand Larsen

Summer signing Jorgen Strand Larsen will wear the number nine / Cameron Smith/GettyImages

Wolves currently boast a big squad with not many numbers left vacant. That could change come the end of the transfer window, although the number seven is now available to any new signings following Neto’s exit.

Jorgen Strand Larsen, who has signed on loan from Celta Vigo with the deal potentially becoming permanent, has nabbed the number nine, while the exciting Rodrigo Gomes has gone for number 19.

Number

Player

1

Jose Sa

2

Matt Doherty

3

Rayan Ait-Nouri

4

Santiago Bueno

5

Mario Lemina

6

Boubacar Traore

8

Joao Gomes

9

Jorgen Strand Larsen

10

Daniel Podence

11

Hee-chan Hwang

12

Matheus Cunha

14

Yerson Mosquera

15

Craig Dawson

18

Sasa Kalajdzic

19

Rodrigo Gomes

20

Tommy Doyle

21

Pablo Sarabia

22

Nelson Semedo

24

Toti Gomes

25

Daniel Bentley

27

Jean-Ricner Bellegarde

28

Tawanda Chirewa

29

Goncalo Guedes

30

Enso Gonzalez

32

Joe Hodge

35

Ki-Jana Hoever

36

Chiquinho

37

Pedro Lima

39

Luke Cundle

40

Tom King

63

Nathan Fraser

Fabio Silva

*Numbers subject to change before end of transfer window

In

Player

Joined From

Fee

Rodrigo Gomes

SC Braga

£12.7m

Pedro Lima

Sport Recife

£8.5m

Tommy Doyle

Manchester City

£4.3m

Jorgen Strand Larsen

Celta Vigo

Loan deal

Out

Player

Club Joined

Fee

Pedro Neto

Chelsea

£54m

Max Kilman

West Ham United

£40m

Bendeguz Bolla

Rapid Vienna

Free transfer

Hugo Bueno

Feyenoord

Loan deal

Home kit

Rayan Ait-Nouri

Wolves have a new kit manufacturer / Cameron Smith/GettyImages

Away kit

Matheus Cunha

Matheus Cunha scored plenty last term / Naomi Baker/GettyImages

Wolves have added several new forwards to their attacking line but they all lack Premier League experience. That’s something Brazilian attacker Matheus Cunha now has plenty of after a slow start to life in England and he posted some encouraging numbers last season.

Cunha netted 12 Premier League goals for Wolves in 2023/24 and went on several promising runs of form, especially around the halfway point of last season. The former Atletico Madrid man has incredible technical quality and an eye for goal, even if he needs to iron out some inconsistencies in and around the penalty area.

If O’Neil’s men are going to thrive in the upcoming campaign, they will lean heavily on Cunha.

Looking at Wolves’ squad and summer business, it’s difficult to envisage the Midlands club pulling up any trees in 2024/25. While they should steer clear of a relegation battle, a lack of quality in both boxes could prove detrimental to their chances of bettering last season’s finish.

In fact, they could finish exactly where they did last season, likely securing the odd scalp but also failing to claim victory in some winnable fixtures. They’re likely to be consistently inconsistent, which may not be enough for O’Neil to keep his job come May.

Wolves 2024/25 Premier League prediction – 14th

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