Matheus Nunes: Wolves agree club record £38m fee for Sporting Lisbon and Portugal midfielder

Wolves have agreed a club record fee for a player.

A number of leading clubs in Europe have been watching the young man.

Wolves are hopeful of concluding a deal that would be a major coup for the club.

He has eight caps for his country and is expected to be in the World Cup squad.

In Portugal's Primeira Liga, he has made 76 appearances and scored 7 goals.

In the first two games of the season, he scored and assisted.

It is thought that completing the transfer will help ease some of the tension within Wolves' fan base.

Wolves dropped to 13th in the league after achieving promotion and finishing seventh.

Bruno Lage enjoyed huge success in the first half of his debut campaign as manager, but the club failed to win any of their last seven matches and finished tenth.

The departure of long-serving duo Conor Coady and Roman Saiss and a relatively slow transfer window for new signings has attracted criticism of the club's Chinese owners.

Wolves are currently 14th in the table, having opened their season with a defeat at Leeds and a draw with Cottagers.