Dave Edwards: Wolves already have potential replacement as star wing-back departs

A lot of credit has to go to everyone involved in that journey for him. The Wolves coaching staff and all the other staff around him that have developed him into this player. 

I'll miss what he does on the pitch. He's one of those rare players who plays with complete freedom. 

What he does with football is majestic at times, the way he manipulates the ball and really puts fear into opposition. I'd have hated to play against him.

I've been lucky enough to see training on a few occasions over the last couple of years and you watch him in the possession drills, those little tight boxes, nobody wants to go near him because he can make you look silly. He's that good.

Last season he also added some numbers to his game and he's been excellent. He finished the season very strong, playing in a more attacking role and I still think playing him a little higher up the pitch could be his best position.

He's had a really good season, up there in the top two or three performers without a doubt and maybe Wolves deserved a bit more money for him. I was thinking in the £40million to £50million range.

But I do think it's a position that Wolves will be able to replace him, although maybe not to the same level straight away.

Hugo Bueno is coming back and a couple years ago he was level pegging with Ait-Nouri and it was a flip of a coin on who was going to start.

They both offer different skills but both are very good on the ball and I hope Bueno can stay injury free and take his chance because he could be an excellent option.

I'm more worried about what's going to happen on the right side of defence if Semedo does leave, like we anticipate he will do, because I don't think we've got a ready-made replacement there.

I hope that Hugo Bueno can come in and do a job on the left. We don't necessarily need to then go into the market and really splash out on a left-sided player, but we'll see what happens and the recruitment team will have their plan.

I'm sure we'll see a player coming in for that position, but I'd be interested to see whether it's back up or whether it's someone to start. 

I'm sad to see Ait-Nouri go but he fully deserves the opportunity to play Champions League football.

Another departure has seen Matt Hobbs leave and Domenico Teti is coming in and it's very interesting to see the changes behind the scenes.

Matt Hobbs has always seemed like a really good guy and every time I've come across him he's been great and it will be interesting to see the direction they go in. 

Teti has worked with Vitor Pereira before so we can take a lot of positives from that. They must have a very good working relationship for them to be put back together again.

He'll know the type of players that Vitor Pereira wants to use in his system, the types of characters he wants, because it's not all about ability, it's about having the right characteristics, the right mindset to fit into the team. So I think that's a big positive.

It will be interesting to see if the direction of the types of players changes. Wolves have had a lot of luck in recent years in the South American market and I do like the model of buying younger players and developing them like they did with Ait-Nouri.

This is an important summer for Wolves, losing Ait-Nouri and Matheus Cunha, the two most productive players. That left-hand side has been the best avenue for success for Wolves last season and they've now taken the two key parts out of it. 

That can't be replaced with development players, that has to be replaced with players who are Premier League ready. 

So there is a big job on the hands of the recruitment team and it will be fascinating to see what happens. It's going to be a really interesting summer for Wolves, a big summer.