Wolves eye up double deadline day swoop
Wolves will today look to complete a double deadline day swoop as they bid to snap up Monaco forward Ivan Cavaleiro and re-sign former defender Richard Stearman.
Portuguese international winger Cavaleiro is poised to join on a big-money permanent deal.
And Stearman is set to sensationally rejoin the club he left almost a year ago to the day.
The 29-year-old defender is on the verge of a season-long loan move just 12 months after Wolves sold him to Fulham for £2m.
Stearman has fallen out of favour at Craven Cottage and fits the bill for Wolves who have been chasing an experienced centre half.
However it represents a remarkable u-turn from a year ago when Stearman was sold for 'footballing reasons', with Wolves saying at the time they didn't want the defender to stop the progress of Dominic Iorfa and Kortney Hause.
Then chief executive Jez Moxey said at the time: "There was a genuine concern that he would very quickly be overtaken by the players that are currently in the team.
"The decision was taken to sell him because we didn't want Richard Stearman sitting on the bench if the young players that have been overtaking other players over the last year or two overtake him and he's sitting on the bench as a senior player, not playing."
More than 80 per cent of 6,000 fans voted in an Express & Star poll that it was the wrong decision to sell 2014/15 player of the year Stearman.
He made 30 appearances for Fulham last season but hasn't appeared in the league in 2016/17.
Stearman has though featured in both of Fulham's EFL Cup matches, playing 90 minutes against Leyton Orient and 120 minutes in the extra time victory over Middlesbrough last week.
Meanwhile the highly-rated Cavaleiro is set to become Wolves' most expensive signing of the summer.
He cost Monaco around £13m when he joined from Benfica last summer but it's believed the fee Wolves are paying is substantially less than that.
Cavaleiro, aged 22, has won two caps for Portugual and was team-mates with current Wolves loanee Helder Costa in 2015/16.
With the imminent signing of Cavaleiro it's believed that a move for Derby striker Chris Martin is now off.
However there are likely to be departures from the club on deadline day.
Winger Nathan Byrne is widely expected to leave Molineux, with Wigan Athletic and Brentford interested in the winger.
Wolves have until 11pm tonight, when the transfer window closes, to finalise their transfer business.
So far they have signed 11 players this summer – Andy Lonergan, Helder Costa, Silvio, Joao Teixeira, Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, Prince Oniangue, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Ola John, Paul Gladon, Jack Ruddy and Romain Saiss.
