Wolverhampton Wanderers centre-back Yerson Mosquera could be set for a departure from Molineux in the January transfer window.
What’s the talk?
That’s according to a report by Turkish publication Takvim (via Sport Witness), who claim that Galatasaray are interested in a deal to take the 21-year-old on loan this winter, with the Super Lig side’s manager Okan Buruk said to have ‘already approved this transfer’.
The report adds that, with the Colombian defender yet to make his Premier League debut for Wolves, he is ‘willing to go to another team’ for the second half of the campaign, although it remains unclear as to whether Julen Lopetegui would approve Mosquera’s departure.
Big mistake
Mosquera has not featured overly regularly since his £4.5m move to Wolves last summer, while Lopetegui is reported to be targeting the signing of a new centre-back in January.
However, considering just how short the Spaniard currently is in terms of central defensive options, it’s easy to argue that it would be a big mistake to let the 21-year-old leave.
Indeed, Wolves’ decision to sanction the departures of Conor Coady, Willy Boly and Romain Saiss in the summer already appears to have been a disastrous call by the club’s transfer team. Toti’s injury leaves the Old Gold with just three senior centre-backs, and the backline has already shipped 24 goals in 15 league fixtures this term.
Also, with Lopetegui having already deployed a three-man backline in the 2-0 defeat to Arsenal last time out, it seems likely that this is a formation the 56-year-old will be calling upon once again when Premier League football resumes after the break for the World Cup. Therefore, in an ideal world, Wolves would possess at least six centre-back options to cover each role.
As such, even if the club were to sign two central defenders in January, greater depth would still be required in order to avoid the predicament in which the club currently find themselves, leading us at Football FanCast to believe that sanctioning Mosquera’s departure – even on a temporary basis – would indeed be a big mistake on the part of Lopetegui and his transfer team.