For a long time, it seemed like Matheus Nunes wouldn’t be moving this summer, until a final, rather large bid, from Wolverhampton Wanderers changed everything.
Wolves had already tried their luck earlier on in the window, but having failed to sign Joao Palhinha, who headed to Fulham, the Molineux side decided to make a new bid for the Portuguese midfielder, who had also been a target for West Ham.
In the end, Bruno Lage got his man for an initial fee of just over £40m, who immediately made his way into the starting line up, starting all five games since his arrival.
He even provided the assist for the sole goal in the 1-0 win over Southampton last weekend, and while he’s making Wolves fans happy, his transfer also pleased Sporting CP, at least on a financial level.
Despite Rúben Amorim publicly voicing his frustration at losing Nunes, the club have since made it clear there wasn’t much else they could have done when faced with the money from the Premier League club.
Releasing their Report and Accounts, the Portuguese club wrote: “Without this sale, Sporting SAD (…) would compromise the strategic model currently underway, which has economic and financial sustainability as a guideline in the medium and long term”.
Thus, Sporting made a profit of €25m in their accounts after recording the highest turnover of their history of €181.9m.
That’s why A Bola put in their title that the sale of Nunes to Wolves ‘saved’ the club’s bank balance.
