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Wolves head coach Nuno Espirito Santo says his squad has no fresh injury problems ahead of the visit of Arsenal.
Rayan Ait-Nouri, Jonny, Marcal and Raul Jimenez are all sidelined, while Romain Saiss remains a doubt.
Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang could return, while fellow forward Alexandre Lacazette is expected to play despite Saturday's blow to his head.
Bukayo Saka and Kieran Tierney are major doubts because of respective hip and calf problems.
Wolves' Cutrone joins Valencia on loan
All of January's transfer deals
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Eight of Wolves' last 10 home goals in all competitions have been scored by different players
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Wolves are aiming to do the league double over Arsenal for the first time since the 1978-79 season.
Arsenal have won eight of their past 10 top-flight away games against Wolves (D1, L1).
This is the 100th top-flight meeting. The Gunners lead by 45 wins to Wolves' 27, with 27 draws.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolves have gone eight league games without a win (D3, L5).
They could lose three home league matches in a row for the first time since November 2018.
Wolves have kept just one clean sheet in their 14 most recent Premier League fixtures.
They have failed to score in seven of their 21 league games this season, just one fewer than they did in the whole of 2019-20.
They are in danger of going three successive league fixtures without scoring for the first time since November 2014 in the Championship under Kenny Jackett.
This is Wolves' 250th Premier League match (W69, D68, L112).
Arsenal
Arsenal are enjoying a seven-match unbeaten league run, winning five of them.
They are aiming for a fourth consecutive away win in the league for the first time since October 2016.
The Gunners have scored eight goals and conceded just one in their previous three league away matches.
Mikel Arteta's side have conceded 20 goals this season, with only Manchester City letting in fewer.
Arsenal have kept six clean sheets in their past eight fixtures in all competitions.
Alexandre Lacazette has scored in each of his last three Premier League away appearances.
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posted on 4/2/21
I think he has potential and its unfair to write him off so soon, that said his age can't be a permanent shield. yes he didn't decide his transfer fee but
Fowler,Owen,Rooney and our very own Robbie Keane we're banging them in for club and country at his age
posted on 4/2/21
We can all think of examples of players that were stars as teenagers but if you look through the players currently holding their own in the premier league it’s a very small percentage that were good enough when they were 18
Even in our squad, only Neves probably. But Boly, Semedo, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Traore, Podence, Jimenez these were all nowhere near ready for top flight football at 18. Even Neto was nearly 20 before he looked the part.
I can see plenty of promise in Silva but whatever we think of him now it will be a good two years before we really know whether he’s a good investment
posted on 4/2/21
comment by Psycho Wolf (U8869)
posted 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
there is no justification to have spent £34 mill on silva. his record at porto was 12 games and 1 goal
haaland's record was 16 games for salzburg and 17 goals. dortmund paid 20 mill euros
silva has scored 2 in 15 games for wolves.
haaland has scored 27 in 29 games for dortmund
the whole situation stinks
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posted on 4/2/21
comment by Amigawolf no longer MIA (U18508)
posted about 7 hours ago
There is far more risk in buying youth with potential than buying established players surely you are not arguing otherwise?
I have no problem with picking up youth talent, what I don't like is when that appears to be the main aim, Vitinha, Silva and RAN will cost us over 75 million. Are you seriously telling me that for a club of our stature after back to back seventh place finishes that is the best use of our money?
Well we have seen the answer, we got a few injuries, had to turn to kids and now will finish considerably lower down the table and more importantly have lost any momentum and will likely see a star or two leave in the summer.
Far more risk buying youth with potential than buying established players. There is actually far less risk financially, and to right anyone off at 18 is ridiculous.
Maybe it would be wiser to big spend on some Barcelona fullback? Oh wait, you have written him off as well.
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There is far less risk financially if we are paying under five million perhaps, but we are not are we? 35 million for one project goes completely against your spending money argument, I don't know why you can't just admit that. Add two possible 20 million projects to that and it gets out of hand.
Bringing through youth is great, we have a few looking decent, Kilman, Otasowie, Corbeanu, Giles, Mir or the lad we lost to Sporting in the summer. They all cost next to nothing but are any of those really that huge a gulf behind the three we would pay 75 million for?
It has to be a balance, we need some wiser heads along with the kids we develop. When you pay 35 million you can't just hope they come good, they have to come good. It is too early for Silva to be judged properly, he may be a late bloomer but there is no way anybody can honestly say they can see why he was valued at 35 million today.
And the whole thing is compounded when because of that fee he has to be used as our back up striker as we didn't bring in anyone else when we should have. It just cost us two months of a season.
posted on 4/2/21
As for Semedo, I think he is alright, he has shown signs of improvement. I questioned the signing before it happened as I had watched him and Barca a good amount in CL games(they are probably my second team) and despite being in one of the most attacking sides in history he barely scored or assisted goals. So far he isn't bringing anywhere near as much to the team as Doherty, nobody can even argue otherwise, and after paying 30+ million that is very disappointing.
posted on 4/2/21
two good posts cinci
posted on 4/2/21
i hope to god that whoever it is who advised us that silva was a great way to spend £34 mill of our transfer budget is sacked or never again allowed to have anything to do with our recruitment.
posted on 4/2/21
comment by Psycho Wolf (U8869)
posted 5 minutes ago
i hope to god that whoever it is who advised us that silva was a great way to spend £34 mill of our transfer budget is sacked or never again allowed to have anything to do with our recruitment.
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if they can take the person that signed off on our away shirt too
posted on 4/2/21
Arsenal appealed against the red card for David Luiz but that appeal was rejected and the sending off stands as the correct decision
posted on 4/2/21
Cinci of course it has to be a balance. But our long term aim is to spend on promising youth and bring them to fruition.
The cost of some of the signings may be big, but the wages will be where major savings are being made.
You work to some pretty basic equations, The trouble is if they were followed, the club could end up in a lot of trouble, if things don't pan out.