Wolverhampton Wanderers are reportedly concerned about signing Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou in January and the Moroccan’s potential arrival might see the Outdated Gold lastly ditch Matija Sarkic.
In accordance with Spanish information outlet Mucho Deporte, Lopetegui is eager to reunite with the 31-year-old at his new membership, though Aston Villa are additionally stated to be eager on bringing him to the Premier League.
The skilled goalkeeper, who is called Bono, has performed an enormous half in Morocco reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, the place they may face Portugal on Saturday evening.
In his three appearances to date, the ‘keeper has conceded simply as soon as, protecting clear sheets towards Croatia and Spain and incomes a powerful 6.90 common ranking from WhoScored.
His efficiency within the win towards Luis Enrique’s aspect will lengthy be remembered by Moroccan followers, as he saved all three of the Spaniards’ efforts within the penalty shootout, having earned his second clear sheet of the event in regular time.
Former Wolves defender Romain Saiss was filled with reward for the shot-stopper following the full-time whistle, saying:
“It’s wonderful for him. He had a heroic recreation at this time, not solely throughout the penalties. He simply needed to indicate why he was named the most effective LaLiga goalkeeper final season. He is a superb keeper, he proved it towards Spain. We owe him rather a lot at this time.”
Ought to Bono arrive at Molineux subsequent month, he would nearly actually compete with Jose Sa for a beginning spot in Lopetegui’s aspect, which might see Sarkic lastly moved after struggling for normal recreation time since his arrival.
The 25-year-old would be part of the Outdated Gold in 2020 from Aston Villa and has made simply two appearances since then, each of which got here within the EFL Cup this season, which suggests that he’s by no means going to be a daily for the membership.
Whereas he has loved mortgage spells away from Wolves with Shrewsbury City and Birmingham Metropolis, he can not be thought of a promising teen, and would certainly be relegated to third-choice ought to Bono arrive.
Contemplating he earns £10k-per-week at Molineux, he’s hardly value paying to sit down on the bench, so Wolves followers will probably be hoping they’ll safe an improve in Bono to lastly finish Sarkic’s disappointing spell at Molineux.
