Wolves will likely be a very busy club this summer.
It looks like Vitor Pereira will secure safety having opened up a nine-point gap down to the relegation zone.
The job needs seeing through, but Wolves are certainly in a healthy position.
Photo by Jack Thomas - WWFC/Wolves via Getty Images
Photo by Jack Thomas – WWFC/Wolves via Getty Images
And once safety is assured, executives can start to plan properly for next season – and attention will turn to the futures of certain players.
Currently, several stand to leave the club.
But which players are actually fighting for their futures at Molineux? Molineux News assesses the state of play.
Tommy Doyle
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Photo by Jack Thomas – WWFC/Wolves via Getty Images
It’s been a tough season for Doyle, who has again found himself near the bottom of the pecking order.
The departure of Mario Lemina might have prompted more opportunities. But Joao Gomes and Andre have nailed down the midfield positions, leaving Doyle to continue warming the bench.
Pereira has concerns over Doyle’s physicality.
And earlier this season, Pereira even spoke about playing Doyle in the front three.
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At the moment, an exit feels more likely than him staying, and he will have to fight very hard in order to remain a Wolves player next season.
It would be a shame to see Doyle go. Former Wolves winger Mark Kennedy branded Doyle ‘outstanding’ when he signed, but we just haven’t ever really seen him reach his best level due to strong competition in midfield.
Boubacar Traore
Traore is another midfielder at Wolves who has lacked minutes.
In fairness, that has been because he suffered an injury at the start of the season, for which he then needed surgery.
Traore had been lined up to join Feyenoord on loan, but Pereira has actually been quite complimentary about him in recent weeks.
There is suggestion that he likes him, and wants to use him more.
But Traore certainly faces a fight to stick around at Wolves beyond the summer. The most ideal thing for him would be for Wolves to secure safety relatively quickly, allowing Pereira to thrown him into games to get a proper measure of him.
Like Doyle, he’s struggled against the competition of other midfield players at Molineux.
Sasa Kalajdzic
Kalajdzic was left out of Wolves’ updated Premier League squad, so actually won’t get the chance to play games over the next two months.
But he still faces a fight to stay at Wolves, and will need to be going hard in training as soon as he’s able to do so and will need a solid pre-season.
The Austria international has sadly played very little football since he signed for Wolves in 2022 due to suffering two ACL injuries.
That has thrown his future into doubt, and it will be interesting to see if he can still be an option next season, or if Pereira is keen to move him on.