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According to Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet, via Sport Witness, Wolves have been regularly scouting Lyngby BK centre-back Frederik Winther this season after making a fourth trip to watch him over the weekend.
What’s the word?
The reports suggest that the west Midlands side sent scouts to Denmark on Sunday as Lyngby BK were defeated 3-0 at home by Brondby IF in the Superliga.
The 18-year-old has started 13 matches this campaign for the first division playoff winners, but Ekstra Bladet (via Sport Witness) claim he is ‘far from fully developed’ with them also stating that the club’s sporting director Birger Jørgensen would find it hard to say no to any Premier League advances.
Birmingham Live understands that Wolves want to add a central defender in the January transfer window, so with them checking out the young Danish starlet on more than one occasion, he could well be high on Nuno Santo’s shortlist.
An unlikely future
All these reports surrounding Wolves and potential centre-backs can only mean one thing for Jesus Vallejo.
He is currently on loan at the west Midlands club, but having played just 522 minutes of football this season, his spell is unlikely to extend beyond its current terms.
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He has failed to live up to the hype that a Real Madrid and Euro U21 winning player should command, as seen with the Molineux faithful blasting his performances on multiple occasions this season.
The 22-year-old put in a dire display last time out against Southampton as he was partly at fault for their opening goal after his aimless clearance soon found its way back past Rui Patricio. As well as that, he made just one tackle and gave away a foul in the process too.
It’s clear his time in the Midlands hasn’t gone well but this could mean Wolves are planning for his exit, rather than thinking about possible plans to bring him in permanently.
With Nuno sending scouts to watch Winther, he is surely planning for when the Spaniard’s loan deal expires at the end of the season – that’s if he doesn’t want the emerging talent to make an immediate impact as early as January.
