{"id":627664,"date":"2023-08-30T03:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=627664"},"modified":"2023-08-30T03:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:39:18","slug":"matheus-nunes-manchester-city-wolverhampton-wanderers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/30\/matheus-nunes-manchester-city-wolverhampton-wanderers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prepared to Walk Away&#8217;: Manchester Outfit Will Not Meet Club&#8217;s Evaluation for Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City appear likely to leave one of their transfer targets at his current club. The Citizens have been trying to lure Wolves into selling them Brazilian midfielder Matheus Nunes, but Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side were not willing to meet Wolves&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12458941\/Manchester-City-prepared-walk-away-deal-sign-Matheus-Nunes-Premier-League-champions-unwilling-meet-Wolves-60m-asking-price-midfielder.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over \u00a360 million<\/a> asking price, according to Jack Gaughan of the Daily Mail, and are &#8220;prepared to walk away&#8221; from the deal.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_polling_tile query=&#8221;soe\/manchester_city&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Ready to Leave Matheus Nunes in Wolverhampton<\/h2>\n<h3>Clubs over \u00a35 Million Apart<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12453111\/Wolves-Man-City-James-McAtee-Matheus-Nunes-transfer.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Jones<\/a> further reported in his article for the Daily Mail that City were willing to pay as high as \u00a355 million. That is still short of what Wolves want for Nunes, and at the moment it appears to be enough for the two clubs to end negotiations without a deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: <\/strong>I (Probably) Insulted Your Club &#8211; Our Premier League Predictions For the New Season<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I (Probably) Insulted Your Club - Our Premier League Predictions For the New Season\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uXqcL07DJg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The situation for Nunes looks bleak in light of this. While the 25-year-old will be reintegrated back into the starting lineup following his refusal to train, the club has promised disciplinary action for his behaviour.<\/p>\n<h3>Gary O&#8217;Neil Speaks out<\/h3>\n<p>According to Wolves&#8217; coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/66653752\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary O&#8217;Neil<\/a>, &#8220;I fully expect him [Nunes] to be here come 2 September.&#8221; The club&#8217;s current expectations are that Guardiola&#8217;s team will not make an improved offer. City&#8217;s interest in the Brazilian was sparked by the injury to Kevin De Bruyne, and their failure to acquire Luca Paqueta from West Ham United heightened their need to find a midfield replacement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/28\/barcelona-joao-cancelo-loan-deal-agreed\/\" target=\"_self\">Deal Signed Today\u2019: Barcelona Finally Agree Deal to Sign \u2018World Class\u2019 City Star \u2013 \u2018Player Prepared to Travel\u2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The English coach has confidence everything will work out for Nunes and Wolves, adding &#8220;I&#8217;m sure the situation will be resolved.&#8221; The BBC Sport article also stated that the collapse of the Nunes deal blocks the transfer of 21-year-old Tommy Doyle from the Manchester club to the Wanderers. Successive loan spells away from the Etihad made the young midfielder a likely target in an almost swap-like transfer.<\/p>\n<h3>Where Both Clubs Stand Three Games in<\/h3>\n<p>The reigning treble-winners have a perfect nine points from their first three games; the only team in the Premier League to do so. There have been some questions asked whenever they play strong opposition, but Guardiola could still lead this talented team to more glory both domestically and abroad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/29\/harry-maguire-manchester-united-west-ham-expensive\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Too Expensive\u2019: West Ham Give Up on Player Called \u2018Top-Class\u2019 in His Position<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wolves sit 15th in the table, with one win out of three matches. Not able to afford the potential loss of Nunes, every player on the squad will have to put in their best performances to save the club from relegation again this campaign. O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s work in the coming months is cut out for him.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161114131040\/http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/user\/5334302?with_photo_id=49068177\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gene Hunt<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City appear likely to leave one of their transfer targets at his current club. The Citizens have been trying to lure Wolves into selling them Brazilian midfielder Matheus Nunes, but Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side were not willing to meet Wolves&#8217; over \u00a360 million asking price, according to Jack Gaughan of the Daily Mail, and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4764,"featured_media":627693,"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":"1693368000","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Nunes to City off?","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,7188,2510],"tags":[7483,9650,9360],"class_list":["post-627664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-wolves","tag-manchester-city-transfer-rumours","tag-matheus-nunes","tag-wolves-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627664","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\/4764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}