There was no panic in his transfer. I believe things just fell into place to bring him in earlier than we would have planned to. Paqueta was the target, that fell through when the betting investigation came up leaving an opening in midfield, we had a long standing interest in Nunes from his sporting days, wolves had to make several big money sales to comply with FFP and so we bit the bullet and brought him in before he was sold to another club when we probably would have waited 12 months in an ideal world.Can't see any way he'll be here next season, genuinely got no idea how or where he's meant to fit in for us. A weird panic type signing and one we'll hopefully be able to move on from
There was no panic in his transfer. I believe things just fell into place to bring him in earlier than we would have planned to. Paqueta was the target, that fell through when the betting investigation came up leaving an opening in midfield, we had a long standing interest in Nunes from his sporting days, wolves had to make several big money sales to comply with FFP and so we bit the bullet and brought him in before he was sold to another club when we probably would have waited 12 months in an ideal world.
I look at his first season as a free adjustment period for that reason. I see a lot of potential in him, he has attributes few others in the team have. He can play anywhere in midfield for us with peps fine tuning. people forget he came in at the end of the window, he had no pre-season with us at all and we know that with the schedule we don't do much training during the season, it's all just fitness and game preparation.
this pre-season will be the first real chance pep will have to get him on a pitch for a few weeks and drill into him everything he needs to do. I expect a big improvement next season and think he'll play a much bigger role.
There's no excuses, they're legitimate reasons, kovacic was signed incredibly early, and gvardiol in time to have a little bit of pre-season, nunes had zero. by the time he had signed the season was well underway and we were already in play, recover, prepare mode.There's quite a lot of excuses in there for a player who cost £60m. Gvardiol had the same circumstances regarding training, joining a new team, etc, as did Kovacic, and they did alright.
Nunes wasn't even close to getting meaningful minutes from about march onwards.
He's been here a year and I couldn't tell you what he's meant to be good at. It's alright, not every transfer will work out, but let's not pretend we'll perform alchemy with him over the summer
Please tell me that isn’t true about Cancelo! Who authorised that!He's been disappointing, Pep hasn't shown trust in him against any decent team.
Like Philips he's got a contract until 2028. Philips is on £150k/wk and Nunes is on £130k/wk. (Cancelo has a contract until 2027 on £250k/wk)
Will be interesting to see if rumours appear now that we are willing to let him go, as happened with Phillips last summer.
His lack of minutes is worrying, but Pep has done this before with players that went on to be successes with us (Bernardo, Sane both had patchy minutes in their first 6 months, Mahrez, Cancelo throughout their first seasons).
He has some skills but dunno where he fits currently. Clearly nowhere near the level of KDB/Foden in the 10/8 positions, but he’s not a Rodri type either. Best case is he learns to do what Kovacic has done in a double pivot this season.