Wolves winger Daniel Podence enjoyed a terrific 2023/24 season – and a journalist has now shared the position of Olympiacos regarding their hopes of signing the player permanently.
Podence spent the whole of 2023/24 on loan with his former club, after Wolves couldn’t offload him last summer.
Podence had not featured for Wolves in pre-season, and the intention was to find a buyer.
But suitable offers were not forthcoming and in the end, Wolves took the decision to loan him out, extending his contract at Molineux in the process.
Podence went on to have a final campaign, and he ended the season by becoming a European champion, winning the Europa Conference League.
Olympiacos would like to re-sign him, and a journalist has now shared an update on the current situation.
Olympiacos ‘optimistic’ they will sign Daniel Podence from Wolves this summer
Podence spoke of his happiness at Olympiacos earlier this year, and there has long been a feeling that he is not going to come back to Wolves and be reintegrated.
Especially after he made some comments recently suggesting he did not feel as though Wolves wanted him.
Ideally, Wolves will sell the player – who scored 15 goals and made 13 assists in 47 appearances last season – this summer and bring in some money for him.
If he doesn’t want to return, then he simply must be moved on – facilitating another loan move should not be entertained.
According to journalist Giannis Chorianopoulos, ‘Olympiacos are optimistic that there will be a deal with Wolves for Daniel Podence’.
Presumably, he is talking about the potential for a permanent deal.
After the Olympiacos’ final home game of the 2023/24 season, the club’s vice president Konstantinos Karapapas played down Podence crying after the game. Some had suggested the tears were because he would not be returning.
Karapapas said on social media though that the club wanted Podence back.
Wolves need to sell Podence
If Podence is not 100% set on playing for Wolves again then he needs selling as soon as possible.
Gary O’Neil has said publicly that he does not want to work with players who are not fully committed to the project, and the player’s recent comments don’t really suggest that he is.
It’s now about whether Wolves and Olympiacos can agree a deal. From what Chorianopoulos has said, it sounds as though there is a decent chance of a permanent deal happening.
It would be something of a shame to see £62,000-a-week star Podence go, despite his current position.
At the end of the day, he had made some important contributions for Wolves over the years and, on his day, he is a phenomenal player and probably the most naturally gifted star in the whole squad.
