Wolves have reportedly made an offer for Atletico Madrid forward Angel Correa, who is seeking an exit from his current club.
Spanish publication Sport claimed that the La Liga club have received several offers for the 24-year-old, with Wolves among those who have tabled a bid.
According to Sport, Tottenham, AC Milan and Napoli are also interested in the Argentina international as an option to strengthen their respective attacks.
AS reported that Correa has asked to leave Atletico, feeling that the summer arrivals of Joao Felix and Ivan Saponjic will make it even harder for him to get regular gametime at the Wanda Metropolitano.
Correa, who usually plays as either a right-wing forward or second striker, has struggled for goals and regular starts at Atletico since making his debut for the club in 2015.
Last season he managed only three goals in 36 La Liga appearances, 16 of which came from the bench. That was a notable decline from the previous campaign when he started 27 league games, in which he scored a total of eight goals. In his first two seasons in Madrid, Correa had only 18 league starts.
His overall record for Atletico reads just 30 goals in 188 appearances for the club, an average of 0.16 per game. Correa’s 2018/19 return of five goals from 49 appearances does not augur well, averaging only 0.1 per game.
By contrast, the Wolves pair of Raul Jimenez and Diogo Jota scored 17 in 44 games and 10 in 37 games respectively, with averages of 0.39 goals per game for Jimenez and 0.27 goals per game for Jota.
However, neither of those play in Correa’s favoured role of right-sided attacker. Last season, Nuno’s options in this position were Helder Costa, Ivan Cavaleiro and Adama Traore.
The former two have since gone on loan to Leeds and Fulham respectively, while Traore managed only one goal from 36 appearances last season, an average of 0.02 per game.
Like Correa, though, Traore relied mainly on substitute appearances, coming off the bench in 21 of his 29 Premier League games, so minutes may be a better comparison than appearances.
In that regard, Traore scored his one goal in 1,255 minutes of gametime. Correa netted five in 2,590 minutes, working out at one goal every 518 minutes.
The dearth of natural right wingers and second strikers at Wolves could be helped by the possible arrival of Correa, whose scoring return is better than that of Traore.
However, according to AS, his release clause is an eye-watering €100million (£89.96m), which would be unheard of for a club like Wolves whose record signing is £30m for the far more prolific Jimenez.
Considering his level of end product at Atletico, Correa’s release clause seems vastly excessive and Wolves would likely get more effective options for a much lower fee, so perhaps it is best for Nuno Espirito Santo to let other clubs battle it out for the 24-year-old Argentina forward.
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