Welcome to Wolves Matheus Cunha

[Tony Towner]

From my point of view getting his head right to keep us up is worth a hell of a lot more than potentially losing £10m in his sale fee.
It doesn’t sit well with me but that’s the power he effectively had over the club.

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[Elephant Pyjamas]

You even liked the post

Yeah?

I'm saying no one mentioned relegation.

And I can't see where they did?

 

[Tony Towner]

I'm not doing another conversation with you where you argue black is white. Have a good day.

 

[Deano]

Someone is going to trigger that clause early in the Summer so you'd expect work to be underway already to line up potential replacements.......

 

[The Bear]

Someone is going to trigger that clause early in the Summer so you'd expect work to be underway already to line up potential replacements.......

Already here. Carlos Forbs innit.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Already here. Carlos Forbs innit.

No. Cunha’s replacement is on loan at Las Palmas.

 

[Carsy]

BBC has it that release clause is still the same if we go down. Obviously doesn’t mean we won’t accept lower than the release clause as he definitely won’t be plying his trade in the championship next season

 

[Jinky]

No. Cunha’s replacement is on loan at Las Palmas.

There's actually a 'reasonably' interesting piece about him on The Athletic at the moment.

 

[Dire Wolf]

There's actually a 'reasonably' interesting piece about him on The Athletic at the moment.

For the non-subscribers can you give us the gist of what it says?

 

[PuntsWolf]

As I said last week, there isn’t really any benefit to the club. We’ve given him a big pay rise only to allow him and easy out in the summer. So he’s got a 4.5yr deal but we all know it’s only 6 month with the release clause being so achievable.

So a pay rise to “get his head right” to hopefully keep us up but he already had 3 years left on his deal so we’ve increased his wages, reduced our bargaining power all to do a job he was already being paid to do.

As I said, I get why we’ve done it as he had us over a barrel. But the new deal isn’t really good for Wolves, it’s good for Cunha. We’re worse off he’s just now doing a job he should have already been doing.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

As I said, I get why we’ve done it as he had us over a barrel. But the new deal isn’t really good for Wolves, it’s good for Cunha. We’re worse off he’s just now doing a job he should have already been doing.

Agreed, i don't think he'd have gone on strike if he hadn't got the contract either.

Him performing increases the likelihood of a move.

 

[Kenny]

For the non-subscribers can you give us the gist of what it says?

He is happy with where he is
Does hope the Atleti link is true but his goal is to keep LP in the top division
Feels like he has finally arrived after winning a full cap for Portugal
People forget his age and think he is 26 as his name has been out there for so long
Wanted to stay in Portugal but being young got forced in the Wolves move and let it happen.
Loves Nuno (lack of comments on Lage and GO will presume he thinks they are twats)
Thinks people expected more of him at Wolves. Had no room for mistakes.
Found, as a kid, playing against the likes of Zouma, T Silva etc was a struggle. They just bullied him.
Found the SPL physical and playing out of position not great but has helped him get to where he is this season.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

So a pay rise to “get his head right” to hopefully keep us up but he already had 3 years left on his deal so we’ve increased his wages, reduced our bargaining power all to do a job he was already being paid to do.

Another consequence of giving GON a stupidly long contract!

As we'd have sacked him sooner without that pay off!

Was just so needless.

Cunha's and GON's agents must be pissing themselves.

 

[AndyWolves]

No issue giving someone like Cunha a pay rise if we're getting better performances as a result.

 

[Jinky]

For the non-subscribers can you give us the gist of what it says?

“Sometimes people forget the age I am because I started early,” he says. “I had to improve too quickly at Wolves. People expected one thing and sometimes forgot my age because of the price. When people come from other places or to take pictures they say, ‘I’ve seen you for many years, you must be 25 or 26 now’, but I have to say, ‘No, I’m only 22’.”

“Everything around me in my life was too quick,” Silva reflects. “The idea was to stay two or three years at Porto and play some games. But in football I didn’t control some things and, in that moment, I couldn’t do anything.”

“It was very difficult because playing in a team like Wolves you don’t have the ball all the time, so you have to suffer and play counter attacks. Some times the centre-backs and midfielders would play the ball to me to hold it up, but I was not so strong. I was up against players like Kurt Zouma and Thiago Silva (when Wolves played Chelsea) who were big and strong. I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is a big level’. I was putting too much pressure, but I had to manage that in my head.”

“I came at 18 to the best league in the world and with all the noise around me. I feel like I didn’t have time and space to make mistakes. Everything had to be perfect. I think I’m different because of that, so I have to live with it. But I like to live with that pressure.”

“The year I spent with Nuno was really good,” says Silva. “He was the coach who empowered me and, from the first day, he was very honest with me. He said I had to wait for my opportunity and to trust him that it was going to come. He always gave me the words to keep me happy.

“Sometimes, when I didn’t play, he came and spoke to me. I give him a lot of credit as he knew I was young and away from my family in a different country. He always had that love for me so he was a special coach for me and I am happy to see him doing well (at Nottingham Forest). He is a very good person.”

“When you go through those moments you have to try to find something to turn around the situation. I was not so strong so I had to see what I could change to be better. If you are not good mentally your body is not going to be good on the pitch, so I started doing some things with a mental coach and working with a nutritionist and personal trainer.”

“You can stay in a bad moment or you can look at it in a new way and say, ‘OK, I am not blaming things for not going the way I want. I’m going to look at myself and change the situation’. Sometimes it is important to be alone and find ways to change the situation.”

“Now I am more of a man and more mature.”

“Over the last few years I don’t put that pressure on myself,” he adds. “I like to appreciate the small things and enjoy the small things day by day.

“I have to live in the present. The noise around me before… I don’t read nothing now. I know what I can bring to my team.”

 

[Dire Wolf]

Thanks @Jinky @Kenny

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Nothing there that offends me.

 

[BillyDee]

Are you sure..?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Are you sure..?

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What has he said that's controversial?

 

[wanderer89]

I thought the comment was about you not finding anything offensive… I was equally as shocked.