There could be an exodus at Wolverhampton Wanderers this summer with seven out-of-favour players potentially available for sale in Patrick Cutrone, Ryan Bennett, Leo Bonatini, Rafa Mir, Roderick Miranda, Connor Ronan and Will Norris.
Here’s how much Wolves could fetch from their most recent suggested transfer fees and by trimming the’ wage bill.
Cutrone was valued at £15.3m by Transfermarkt on March 3, 2020 and earns £3.2m-a-year/£62k-a-week. Bennett was valued at £4.5m by Transfermarkt on December 10, 2019 and earns £1m-a-year/£20k-per-week. Bonatini was valued at £3.15m by Transfermarkt on December 30 and earns £1.82m-a-year/£35k-per-week. Mir was valued at £2.7m by Transfermarkt on February 11, 2020 and earns £1.78m-a-year/£34k-per-week. Miranda was valued at £1.35m by Transfermarkt on December 30, 2019 but his wages are unknown. Ronan was valued at £450k by Transfermarkt on December 15 but his wages are unknown. Norris was valued at £225k by Transfermarkt on December 19, 2018 and earns £0.15m-a-year/£3k-per-week.
Wolves have deadwood worth £27.67m that is eating up at least £7.95m-a-year in wages, giving a total potential summer budget of £35.62m.
As per Transfermarkt, the West Midlands outfit spent £101m to sign Jonny Otto, Adama Traoré, Rui Patrício, Diogo Jota, Willy Boly, Benik Afobe, João Moutinho, Bonatini, Raúl Jiménez (loan fee), Rúben Vinagre, Leander Dendoncker (loan fee) and Max Kilman in 2018/19 and £106.4m on Jiménez, Daniel Podence, Pedro Neto, Cutrone, Dendoncker, Bruno Jordão, Luke Matheson, Renat Dadashov, Leonardo Campana this season.
The West Midlands outfit have only raised £42.66m from selling Ivan Cavaleiro, Kortney Hause, Cutrone (loan fee), Jack Ruddy, Michal Zyro, Ethan Ebanks-Landell, Sylvain Deslandes, Afobe, Danny Batth, Barry Douglas, Ben Marshall, Prince Oniangué, Miranda (loan fee), Ben Stevenson, Jonathan Flatt, Duckens Nazon, Paul Gladon and Dominic Iorfa in that time and may need to offload more deadwood to ensure they don’t fall foul of FFP regulations.
Making £35.62m this summer would go some way to staying in the black.
While I agree with selling the players listed, they are only worth what clubs are prepared to pay. In the current situation that is not going to be megabucks. I am more concerned about our wage bill being £29.4 m which is just above Norwich, Sheffield Utd and Aston Villa. Even Bournemouth pay more. So this makes our players vulnerable to better offers from the likes of Burnley, Brighton and Southampton. Can’t be right.
Agree with BG. We do have too many players on the books that won’t make it, but getting rid at reasonable money is easier said than done. The more we can get in makes it easier for us to get players we need….at least three quality players in defence, creative midfielder and another striker. None of which will be cheap.