Mateus Mané

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Wolverhampton
8 Nov 2026
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Marked for Mateus Mané

12 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Oct 2026

The knee: Makenzie Bradbury out for 35 days

35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wolverhampton lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Mateus Mané is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Wolverhampton

Fer López and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Rodrigo Gomes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Jean-Ricner Bellegarde did the work nobody counts — 6.77

11 combined actions and 6.77. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Hugo Bueno makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Nicholas Harris: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

No hiding place for João Virgínia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to João Virgínia, and the manager let it.

Match17 Oct 2026

Wolverhampton draw a blank against Crystal Palace

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Crystal Palace defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

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8 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets21 Sep 2026

No deal for David Kasumu at that price

Wolverhampton offered $1.4M; Huddersfield Town said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Kieran Trippier in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wolverhampton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Mateus Mané

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Hwang Hee-Chan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hwang Hee-Chan, and the manager let it.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Wolverhampton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathan Fraser is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Nicholas Harris: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Wolverhampton pick somebody else ahead of Hugo Bueno

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market21 Sep 2026

André placed on the list

Wolverhampton have made André available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Rodrigo Gomes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

4 Edition

The Wolverhampton Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market24 Aug 2026

Thierno Barry arrives at Wolverhampton in a $35.3M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Wolverhampton have paid $35.3M for Thierno Barry, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market24 Aug 2026

Jean-Ricner Bellegarde puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Wolverhampton, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Derby County tell Wolverhampton: Max Johnston is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market24 Aug 2026

Wolverhampton say no — this time

The offer from Bradford City for Mateus Mané was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

$35.3M for Thierno Barry, and Wolverhampton supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Thierno Barry from Everton for $35.3M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Wolverhampton

Fer López and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ladislav Krejčí

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market24 Aug 2026

Pedro Lima wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Sean Neave falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief