Tottenham are but to finalise a deal for Wolves winger Adama Traore who will journey with the midlands membership for his or her sport at Brentford on Saturday.
Spurs are eager on signing the 25-year-old Spain worldwide and are understood to have had a £15million bid rejected earlier this week.
However the PA information company understands talks are nonetheless ongoing because the London membership attempt to lastly land a participant additionally they tried to signal in the summertime.
Traore, who’s out of contract subsequent summer season and won’t be renewing at Molineux, has been recognized as a goal by managing director of soccer Fabio Paratici, with boss Antonio Conte intending to show him right into a proper wing-back.
Regardless of the hypothesis, Traore is a part of the Wolves squad that’s travelling to London for Saturday’s Premier League sport.
Boss Bruno Lage mentioned: “We’ve a prime participant with us, a stunning man.
“I keep in mind how a lot Tottenham protected Harry Kane in the beginning of the season. And we’ll defend our participant as a result of we imagine rather a lot in Adama.
“That’s enterprise. It’s not my concern. However I’ll defend my gamers. The way in which they work, the worth for me may be very excessive.
“I don’t see any distinction in his behaviour, his mentality, the way in which he works. So I’m proud of him. He continues to be the identical participant.
“He simply has another 12 months left. The membership speak with him and he talks with them and they’re going to determine the long run. I’m proud of him, it’s the one factor I can say. He’s centered, he’s prepared.”
When requested if the uncertainty over Traore made it tough to plan forward, Lage added: “I don’t give it some thought, I simply take into consideration the following sport.
“It is going to be a tough sport and we attempt to put together in one of the simplest ways as a result of Brentford are a powerful crew to play towards, particularly at residence.
“My consideration and focus is each time on the following sport and I don’t take into consideration if Adama stays with us or not. For now, he’s with us so I’m making ready the sport with him.”
Wolves will nonetheless be with out injured gamers Jonny Castro Otto, Pedro Neto (each knee), Willy Boly (calf), Hwang Hee-chan and Yerson Mosquera (each hamstring) on Saturday.
Defender Romain Saiss stays with Morocco on the Africa Cup of Nations however Lage will probably be boosted by the return of midfielder Ruben Neves and Dutch defender Ki-Jana Hoever, who’re each again from Covid-19 isolation.
The Portuguese confirmed Spanish defender Otto and midfielder Bruno Jordao had been again coaching, whereas ahead Neto hoped to return in round two weeks.
Wolves, eighth within the desk, have dropped solely two factors of their final 4 Premier League video games and are six factors behind fourth-placed West Ham with two video games in hand.
Kaynak: briturkish.com