Gary O'Neil sends message to Arsenal and Tottenham over Pedro Neto pursuit | KIELSAF | 2024-02-18 16:08:01
Gary O'Neil is adamant Wolves will attempt to cling on to Arsenal and Tottenham goal Pedro Neto this summer time despite previous recommendations they won't stand in the best way of a big-money transfer.
The 23-year-old loved another wonderful efficiency towards Spurs on Saturday, establishing the visitors' winner in north London with a blistering run and neat reduce for Joao Gomes – and certainly handed any potential audition with flying colors.
Neto now has two objectives and nine assists in just 16 Premier League appearances this season, a aim contribution each 120 minutes.
It was instructed last week that Wolves would be prepared to cash in on Neto on the finish of the campaign to ease monetary truthful play worries, with a determine in excess of £53million sufficient to land the Portuguese winger.
However O'Neil has now shut down any suggestion that Wolves are already bracing themselves for Neto's exit and insists they may do the whole lot to attempt to maintain him.
Speaking concerning the teenager after his starring position towards Spurs, O'Neil stated: 'I feel his strengths are incredibly robust. Obviously his athleticism and his pace are wonderful, his quality on the ball – when he's dribbling or when he's trying to find a cross at the finish of it – is superb.
'I'm still working actually onerous on enhancing sure bits of him that I feel he needs to improve, for my part.
'He is aware of that, we've spoken about it already, about how a lot he can do for the workforce, out of possession stuff and nonetheless some understanding with the ball.
'So he is aware of that we need to enhance him. I feel it will be really lazy of me to say, "Oh he's incredible, let's just let him get on with it and we'll see how nicely he does".
'I nonetheless need to push him and get him as near good as a large player as we will.
'And I've been asked a couple of occasions this week concerning the summer time already and I'm not taken with discussing Pedro Neto leaving the soccer membership.
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'He's a unbelievable player that we spent a lot of money on, that we work very arduous on, and so far as I'm concerned we don't need to lose our best players.
'So we now have an extended approach to go yet this season and then hopefully he stays with us and we will maintain pushing in the direction of the highest half of the table.'
Asked earlier than the match about claims Wolves had already named their worth for Neto, O'Neil stated: 'I noticed a few of the stuff out there and none of that came from me or the club.
'There will probably be rumours circulating around lots of our gamers hopefully due to the work they're doing. However the membership's stance might be determined in the summertime on who we expect we will lose – whether that's anybody – and what the worth needs to be.'
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