There is a reason Wolves spent most of the summer looking for a centre-back. That reason was more apparent than ever last night as they digested the news they had feared since Saturday evening : Yerson Mosquera ’s season is effectively over. Surgery is needed on his medial collateral and anterior cruciate ligaments in his left knee and he is unlikely to return before next season.
Advertisement Whether or not Mosquera was the perfect answer to Gary O’Neil’s centre-back prayers is a debate that will now hang in the air at least until the popular Colombia international returns. Five Premier League appearances is too small a sample size to draw any definitive conclusions about how effective Mosquera could be in England’s top division. But what is not in question is that a part of O’Neil’s squad that was already worryingly short on numbers and experience is now looking decidedly threadbare.
The failure to replace former captain Maximilian Kilman with a player with significant Premier League experience now looks more costly than ever. Wolves did try to boost their centre-back ranks. They enquired about a raft of options in the early days of the transfer window and, in its final knockings, asked about a host of players including Chelsea ’s Trevoh Chalobah , West Ham ’s Nayef Aguerd and Brighton ’s Igor Julio , but they were unable to do deals for any of them.
They came closer to landing Burnley ’s Dara O’Shea but refused to match the deal that took the Ireland .
