00:00Hello Nathan Judo, I'm here of course, as I said with Mr Liam Keane, it's day four from Portugal, the sun is shining, there's some beautiful boats, yachts behind us, any that you're fancying at the moment of time?
00:11I can't afford those, I can't afford those. Express the start wages?
00:15The expenses department might have a word with them later, there's a few things to put through.
00:20And that's just the bar bill, yeah, last night. Right, yes, look, we're not at training today, but there's still plenty of news, or plenty of updates for you.
00:29Everyone is talking about one man and one man only, and that was Mr John Arias.
00:34Liam, update on that, I guess there is no update, Wolves are still at this moment in time very confident that he will be Wolverhampton Wanderers player.
00:45Yeah, look, we reported on Monday, wasn't it, Monday, that the Wolves were closing on the signing, £50 million was the fee that they were working towards and hoping to get done.
00:56There's been a lot of chatter since then. A lot of chatter. A lot of nerves.
01:00Yeah, a lot of nerves. You've got to understand from Fluminese's point of view, their fans' point of view, the club's point of view, that they want to look after and protect narrative themselves.
01:08Sure, of course. They don't want to make it seem like they're losing a key player for too little money.
01:12Yeah. All of these things have come out of it. A lot of talk about his previous club and the salons.
01:16All of that noise, regardless of it, Wolves are still confident. It's not done by any means, but Wolves are still confident of getting it done.
01:24Yeah, and that was the story on Monday. They were confident, it wasn't that the deal has been done, but they're extremely confident.
01:29It looks like they're going to the final terms of negotiations and at this moment in time, they're still confident.
01:34Yeah, look, he's not in England, he's not in Portugal, where we are, but the player wants to move to Europe, the player's keen, Wolves want to get it done.
01:43You've got to understand from the saling club that sometimes you've got to massage a few egos, you've got to smooth over a few corners to make sure people are happy with the deal going through.
01:53So, until we can say that it's either 100% done or 100% off.
01:59He's with the pen, with the contracts.
02:00Exactly. Things can change, obviously, but Wolves are confident it's still going to happen.
02:05So, watch this space. Don't be too concerned for the time being.
02:09No.
02:10And if there are any major developments, we'll be the first to bring in.
02:11I think that's important, just to allay the doom-mongers fears that something might not happen.
02:16But no, as we understand it, that hopefully he will be a Wolverhampton Wanderers player.
02:19Of course, there is a game tomorrow night for him, or for his team, his current team, at 11.30pm kick-off.
02:2411.30pm our time, that's right.
02:2611.30pm our time, which you'll be interested to see if he's in the squad or not.
02:29Which is the same time as England, by the way, same time zone, just for people that...
02:32Yes, it is.
02:33I forget this every time, just so people are aware.
02:34Yes, Portugal time is exactly the same as UK time.
02:36So, yeah, it'll be interesting if he's in the squad tomorrow night.
02:39I would suspect not, but we'll see soon.
02:42Right, another one.
02:44A game yesterday against Santa Clara, enjoyable, thought it was a good workout for the boys.
02:482-1 defeat, and no Jose Sarr in the team today.
02:52Yes.
02:53We don't expect him to be in the second game or take part in any more activities in Portugal before they get back to England.
03:00Yes, yes.
03:01He's got a minor eye injury, picked up in training.
03:04We saw it.
03:05We did see it.
03:06He saw it a bit too much.
03:07Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:08He did look a bit sore, bless him.
03:10All to the eye.
03:12Yes.
03:13So, there's no major concerns here.
03:15No.
03:16I know, obviously, fans will see that a certain player is not involved and it becomes a worry or a talking point.
03:20Very minor.
03:21He won't take part in a lot of the rest of the week, but should be totally fine going forward.
03:26I suspect back in the next week he'll be fully involved or at least getting close to that.
03:29So, yeah, there shouldn't be any concerns.
03:31There are lots of players that are involved or not involved for various reasons.
03:34Yeah.
03:35And for Sarr, nothing too major at the moment.
03:36But they're all here.
03:37But one person who is not here, who did not travel with the squad, is Boubacar Traore.
03:41Yes.
03:42A little bit of an update on that as the music starts banging out.
03:46That could not be bad timing.
03:48Heavy metal.
03:49It means get off, get out.
03:50I'm going to get closer to...
03:51Yeah.
03:52Oh, they're turning it down.
03:53Okay.
03:55Appreciate it.
03:56Big bikers, these guys as well.
03:57I want to mess them out with them.
03:58Scary guys, man.
03:59Yeah.
04:00Yeah, Bouba.
04:01Big boobs.
04:02Big boobs.
04:03Yeah, not here with the squad.
04:04Wolves are working on a loan deal for him.
04:07We don't yet know where that will be.
04:09I would suspect there will be a fair few punts that will take a punt on a player that I
04:13think has got something to give.
04:14But it hasn't quite worked out in Walshirt so far with his injury, of course, last season.
04:18So, yeah.
04:19Watch this space again.
04:21We're trying to work out exactly where that will be and how far along he is with the loan.
04:26But Wolves are working on that.
04:28We're expecting that to go through this summer, whether that's sooner rather than later.
04:31Great stuff.
04:32Better go.
04:33We've got some headbanging to get to.
04:35Look, plenty more updates.
04:36We'll be at training tomorrow.
04:37Loads of my interviews.
04:38Loads of my exclusives.
04:39Podcasts this afternoon.
04:40Another game to come as well on this trip.
04:42There's so much.
04:43Make sure you stay with the Express and staff for all the latest Wolves news.
