{"id":614800,"date":"2022-07-15T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614800"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:19:13","slug":"wolverhampton-wanderers-nathan-collins-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/15\/wolverhampton-wanderers-nathan-collins-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Nathan Collins Deal Means for Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/05\/morgan-gibbs-white-premier-league-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> confirmed the signing of Nathan Collins from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/14\/chelsea-loans-out-ian-maatsen\/\" target=\"_self\">Burnley<\/a> earlier this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 21-year-old Republic of Ireland international made the move\u00a0to Molineux for a fee reported in the region of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/62134860\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a320 million<\/a>, despite only arriving at Turf Moor last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How Does the Nathan Collins Transfer Affect Wolves<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\uddd6\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd7: Wolves have completed the signing of Republic of Ireland international Nathan Collins for around \u00a320m from Burnley \ud83d\udc3a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/21oNdJ7n2G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/21oNdJ7n2G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LiveScore (@livescore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livescore\/status\/1546884588496072704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What the Club Said<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding the transfer, Wolves\u2019 Technical Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolves.co.uk\/news\/mens-first-team\/20220712-wolves-complete-collins-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Sellars commented<\/a>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s a very talented young man \u2013 he\u2019s only 21, has played international football and had a good season last year with Burnley. We think we\u2019ve signed a player with a lot of potential, as well as being a very good footballer now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Collins\u2019 specific skillset, Sellars also added: \u201cWe\u2019re getting someone who is physically very good, very tall, very athletic, and is very comfortable on the ball \u2013 he can step in and take the ball forward, which is what we need. He\u2019s very good in both boxes and has real aerial strength.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How Collins Fits at Wolves<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collins arrived at Turf Moor from Stoke City in June 2021 for a fee in the region of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/24\/burnley-complete-nathan-collins\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a312 million<\/a>. Making 19 appearances food Burnley, he emerged as a first-team regular at Turf Moor, starting all of Burnley\u2019s ten games of the season as they fought against relegation to the Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During those 19 appearances for Burnley, Collins ranks in the 98th percentile for blocks, as well as the 97th percentile for aerials won among fellow centre-backs in the top five leagues in Europe. So Wolves can expect a reliable presence at the base of their defence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wolves preferred to line up with three centre-backs under new manager Bruno Lage last season. England international and club captain Conor Coady is all but nailed on for one of those spaces and the emergence of Max Kilman likely means the 25-year-old will claim another when fit.\u00a0 Therefore, it\u2019s likely that Collins will be competing for the third option at centre-back to begin the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romain Saiss, who made 31 appearances this past season, <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/news\/romain-saiss-confirms-wolves-exit\/0Ii8LNKLVk3C\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left the club<\/a> this summer, opening up significant playing time at the heart of the defence. However, Willy Boly still remains a strong option at centre-back and 23-year-old Portuguese centre-back Toti made four appearances for the Midlands club at the end of last season after being recalled from his loan in the Swiss Super League.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, Collins will face some competition if he is to become a first-team regular, however, with a strong skillset and bags of potential, it will likely be sooner rather than later for the Republic of Ireland international.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers confirmed the signing of Nathan Collins from Burnley earlier this week. The 21-year-old Republic of Ireland international made the move\u00a0to Molineux for a fee reported in the region of \u00a320 million, despite only arriving at Turf Moor last summer. How Does the Nathan Collins Transfer Affect Wolves \ud835\uddd6\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd7: Wolves have completed the signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4148,"featured_media":614923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2510,3],"tags":[3764],"class_list":["post-614800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wolves","category-premier-league","tag-nathan-collins"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}