Wolves boss Gary O’Neil sends message to Man Utd amid Mattheus Cunha transfer interest

Wolves brag Gary O’Neil is definite that prima striker Mattheus Cunha volition enactment with the nine successful January contempt reported involvement from Manchester United.

Having impressed during an archetypal loan, Cunha joined Wolves connected a imperishable ground successful the summer of 2023 and has gone from spot to spot since then.

A brace against Fulham past play continued his affluent vein of form, with the Brazilian registering 5 goals and 3 assists successful his past Premier League games.

Such output has seen the 25-year-old, who has two and a fractional years remaining connected his existent contract, linked with a imaginable determination to United successful the coming months.

However, O’Neil is assured that the nine volition rebuff immoderate bids for the striker successful January arsenic they look to enactment further region betwixt themselves and the bottommost three.

‘Matheus decidedly won’t permission successful January,’ O’Neil said successful his pre-match property league up of Saturday’s clash with Bournemouth.

‘Our narration and his knowing of what we’re trying to bash present is exceptionally good, truthful I don’t foresee determination being immoderate problems astatine each successful January with Matheus Cunha.

‘Contract wise, I’ll permission that to the club. We person a existent focus, Matheus included, connected tomorrow’s crippled and making definite we’re successful the champion signifier to bushed Bournemouth.’

Asked astir Cunha’s marked betterment since his arrrival, O’Neil added: ‘He’s worked precise hard and he’s a truly humble guy.

‘When I archetypal came, helium was large capable and unfastened capable to judge the gaps that helium had successful his game, and past he’s conscionable gone head-on into trying to tackle them and trying to portion the bits together.

‘The astir important spot successful immoderate footballer is quality, and that’s the spot helium has successful abundance.

‘All the different worldly you tin enactment connected with him, astir positioning and mentality to support and get backmost nether the shot – each that is workable.

‘What you can’t assistance players with is the prime that they person and the knowing that they have, and Matheus is apical level astatine that.

‘We emotion having him here, he’s an exceptional player, he’s incredibly important to the radical and to the shot club, and I look guardant to moving with him for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.’

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