Wolves sold five players around the first team during the 2024/25 campaign, with some departures working better for the club than others.
Gary O’Neil started the season with a Wolves squad largely different to the one Vitor Pereira ended the campaign with.
Pereira replaced O’Neil in December after a relegation-threatened start to the 2024/25 calendar left Wolves with little hope of survival.
Transfers both in and out of the club played a part in the downfall and resurgence of the season, with five stars bidding farewell to Molineux to change the dynamic of the squad.
Now that the 2024/25 campaign has concluded, Molineux News have graded Wolves’ departures over the past year of football.
Wolves 2024/25 transfer departures ranked
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Photo by Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images
Pedro Neto – 9
Kicking off with the biggest sale of the summer, Wolves sold Pedro Neto to Chelsea for £54m late in the window.
Neto became Wolves’ most expensive sale by making the move to West London, and for the most part, the Old Gold have coped well without the winger.
Though the 25-year-old was mesmeric in spells over the 2023/24 campaign, there was an invisible clock ticking regarding when the perfect time to cash in on the Portuguese forward would be.
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Neto’s abysmal injury record at Wolves was a stumbling block, so when Chelsea came knocking with a high fee, the West Midlands club had little option but to accept.
There were some flaws to the deal, as Wolves have been missing a player of Neto’s profile going forward, but for his price tag and injury record, Matt Hobbs did very well.
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Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images
Max Kilman – 6
Wolves wanted £45m for Max Kilman as West Ham showed interest during the 2024 summer transfer window.
Being the club’s captain at the time, some were puzzled when Wolves sold Kilman for £40m, £5m below his valuation, and it wasn’t only financially that heads were turned.
After selling Kilman and losing Yerson Mosquera to an ACL injury, the West Midlands club were left with few options in central defence, making the Englishman’s sale all the more perplexing.
Fortunately, things worked out for the best, as while Kilman worked his way through a sluggish season in East London, Wolves upgraded in January.
Emmanuel Agbadou came in and filled the void left by Kilman, making his transfer a success, but things could’ve been so different had Pereira not recruited well in January, limiting the grade of the departure.
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Photo by Malcolm Couzens/Getty Images
Daniel Podence – 7
Despite having an impressive pre-season and start to the campaign, Wolves sold Daniel Podence to Al-Shabab for a fee of £5m.
Though the Old Gold didn’t make a profit on the winger, receiving a transfer fee was a plus given that the Portuguese was destined to leave Molineux.
After his exit, Podence admitted that he wanted something Wolves couldn’t offer him: a new challenge, paving the way to his departure.
In Podence’s eyes, the writing was on the wall from the start of the 2024/25 campaign, giving Wolves no choice but to move him on, receiving a fee in the process.
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Photo by ANP via Getty Images
Mario Lemina – 5
Mario Lemina joined Galatasaray in messy circumstances midway through the season.
It’s difficult to grade the transfer given the way in which it unfolded, as Lemina refused to play for Wolves, leaving Pereira with no option but to sanction the Gabon international’s move.
Losing the ex-club captain midway through the season for £2m can’t be described as anything less than disappointing, but it was not something that Wolves could’ve avoided.
Lemina made his bed at Wolves and made his departure happen, amid what was an ugly time for the club and the former captain.
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Photo by Rob Newell – CameraSport via Getty Images
Luke Cundle – 8
In January, Wolves sold Luke Cundle to Millwall for £1m, a low fee for a player who was struggling to impose himself at Molineux.
Since leaving Wolves, Cundle has split opinion at Millwall in the Championship, suggesting that his sale was the right decision as the midfielder desperately needed regular playing time away from the top-flight.
It has been reported by Dave Azzopardi that Wolves have a 20% sell-on clause in Millwall’s deal to sign Cundle, which boosted our ranking of the transfer quite considerably.