Wolves sporting director Matt Hobbs said the club was “pleased” with the €63 million sale of Pedro Neto to Chelsea, insisting it was “the right deal at the right time”.
Neto has signed for Chelsea after five seasons at Wolves and the Portuguese international officially completed his transfer to Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
The 24-year-old has been an important part of the Wolves team in recent seasons and, despite fitness issues, recorded nine assists in the Premier League in 2023/24.
Neto has been hampered by injury problems during his time in the Premier League and Hobbs believes Wolves have approved a sale that “is fine with everyone”.
“Everyone knows what kind of player Pedro is – he’s a world-class winger who has had so much bad luck with injuries, so of course we’ll miss him on the pitch, but also on the training ground with his energy and the relationship he had with so many people. The deal is fine for us and Pedro, but it certainly doesn’t make it any easier,” Hobbs told the club’s official website.
“The reason we bring in players like Pedro is because that’s our model and not everyone is going to be happy with it, but we can take a lot of credit for how we recruit players, how we look after them, how much they love the football club and the clubs they go to and the transfer fees they pay.”
“For the club, it’s the right deal at the right time. It’s hard to look at it as a business deal when it’s someone that everyone has so much sympathy for as a person, but football is a business and it was the right time and the right deal. So from that perspective, the football club is happy.
“We’ve been working on options and goals and that work continues. Gary and I have sat down several times since then, but we sat down and talked about it beforehand because we thought there was a good chance it would happen this summer.”
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