Here is a translation of the headline story in the Portugese press today


Wolverhampton are in the final stages of negotiations to hire striker Shoya Nakajima from Portimonense. BOLA knows that the transfer is around € 20 million and should be implemented at any time.


A recent target of Southampton and Leicester, also the Premier League, the Japanese international has been one of the highlights of Portuguese football since last season, when he arrived at the emblem of Portimão coming from FC Tokyo.


"The harassment has been enormous, so it will be difficult to secure it, but we only release it for an irrefutable proposal," said Robson Ponte, vice president of SAD Portimonense, at the end of October.

Nakajima, 24, has a contract valid until 2020 and a termination clause of € 40 million. In Wolves, today directed by the Portuguese Nuno Espírito Santo, it seems that he will join a cast full of well-known names, among them Rui Patrício, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Hélder Costa, Raúl Jiménez and Diogo Jota

but is he any good?

What we need is lot's more performances like yesterday's.
If Nuno sticks with his new system and brings in this Japanese striker to partner Jimenez it will pretty much make Costa Bonatini and Traore redundant and confine Jota and Cavaleiro as striking subs.

comment by Wulfrunnut (U17298)
posted 48 minutes ago
but is he any good?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WseD2vt8YE

comment by GeminMallorca (U18318)
posted 22 minutes ago
What we need is lot's more performances like yesterday's.
If Nuno sticks with his new system and brings in this Japanese striker to partner Jimenez it will pretty much make Costa Bonatini and Traore redundant and confine Jota and Cavaleiro as striking subs.
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I just think we need to increase the number of genuine Premier League quality players we have. The reason Nuno has kept largely to the same players is that he doesn't think some of the other players in the squad are as good. We need to get to the point of having 20 really good players and then we can have confidence that if a player loses form, gets suspended, gets injured then we can carry on playing at a high standard. If that means some of the players you mention getting less games then so be it.

I think with the players we have now, Costa will always be a contender for a start and Traore and Cavaleiro will always be good options as impact subs. But if we bring in better players they may well all fall out of the picture. That's the only way we will progress from being a team that might finish mid table to a team that might get into europe

Seems like Nakajima has been playing as a left sided winger and if the rumours are true about us looking at Origi from Liverpool, he too is a left sided winger and started for Liverpool last night, but came off after 66 mins.

I believe we will start to get better players of Premier League standard and gradually fade out those who got us to the top flight. Bonatini, the most likely to go first.

I also don't expect to see any of our players out on loan right now, featuring for us in the future. Any gems like Gibbs-White will surely have been identified by our coaching staff and are playing regularly for the U21's.

Have u had permission to start a transfer thread ?

I was getting physical and verbal threats about putting transfer rumours on gem's threads so for my own personal well being I thought I better had

And when pertonwolf had a malfunction a vacancy arose

comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted 22 minutes ago
I was getting physical and verbal threats about putting transfer rumours on gem's threads so for my own personal well being I thought I better had
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comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
And when pertonwolf had a malfunction a vacancy arose
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What’s happened to Perton?

comment by Sir Halfy ...Premier League Thread Master (U11570)
posted 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
Have u had permission to start a transfer thread ?
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I was referring to Perton more Gem

....surely you didn’t think you’d get away with this thread ?

I have always been good at tempting animals out of hibernation

With regard to this Japanese player from Portimonense, Nuno was asked about him today and said he was not a player he knows. So that wont happen then. Number one of many false rumours