Wolves attacker Goncalo Guedes is currently out on loan at Benfica but looks set to leave and join Villarreal till the end of the season.
Goncalo Guedes is a forgotten man at Wolves.
The Old Gold completed the £27.5 million signing of the Portuguese international in the summer of 2022.
He featured for the Premier League side 18 times in his debut season for the club, scoring just twice, and was shifted out on loan to Benfica in January 2023.
Since then, his career has continued to take a downward spiral and despite only finding the net once in 12 Liga Portugal appearances, Benfica decided to take him back this season – and it has proven to be a disastrous decision.
The 27-year-old is yet to score in 14 matches for the Portuguese giants and is now reportedly ‘forcing his way out’ of the club with Villarreal ready to take him on loan till June.
Goncalo Guedes will switch Benfica for Villarreal
Although a deal is yet to be agreed between the two clubs about Guedes moving to Villarreal, ‘barring unforeseen circumstances’ he will join the Yellow Submarine.
That is according to Spanish publication El Periodico Mediterraneo, who claim that an agreement is in place for the Wolves player to make a switch to the Spanish giants.
The outlet claims that Guedes is “forcing his way out” of Benfica while everything still indicates that he will join Villarreal next week, despite the Eagles manager Roger Schmidt stating the striker is “very important”.
Regardless of how he does in Spain, the Wolves attacker will likely leave Molineux in the summer anyway.
Guedes, unfortunately, is one of the reasons why the club are in such a mess with financial fair play having overspent on players who have underperformed.
Wolves need to get Guedes off the books
Once the summer rolls around, the Portuguese star will likely wave goodbye to his time in the Premier League.
After arriving at Molineux on the back of a season where he produced 13 goals and six assists for Valencia, it just hasn’t happened for him since, and his recent loan failures only exasperate the need to cash in.
At the age of 27, Guedes still has a chance to deliver on the potential that his formative years promised, but that isn’t expected to be with Wolves.
O’Neil has managed to get a tune out of record-signing Matheus Cunha while forward Hwang Hee-Chan is in the form of his life.
Indeed, the best course of action for both parties is to get him off the wage bill and invest the fee they receive into other areas of their squad.