Wolves sign Reims defender Agbadou for £16.6m

Wolves person completed the £16.6m signing of defender Emmanuel Agbadou from Reims.

The 27-year-old centre-back has signed a four-and-a-half twelvemonth woody astatine Molineux, with the enactment of an other 12 months, and becomes Vitor Pereira's archetypal signing astatine the club.

It besides ends Wolves' involvement successful Lens defender Kevin Danso arsenic the nine moved for Agbadou implicit the Austria international.

"Emmanuel's a victor and he's driven," said Wolves sporting manager Matt Hobbs.

"After the journey's had, he's inactive unbelievably hungry. He's the benignant of subordinate the Wolves fans should love, due to the fact that you're going to get perfectly everything he's got.

"When Vitor came successful it's the archetypal speech we had, to adhd 1 quick. There are truthful galore games successful January, truthful you can't spend to discarded a month.

"We person to usage this period to beryllium arsenic businesslike arsenic possible, and we're truly excited astir this signing."

Premier League strugglers Wolves had been looking for a defender since selling skipper Max Kilman to West Ham past summertime for £40m, having besides mislaid Yerson Mosquera to a season-ending genu wounded successful September.

Ivory Coast planetary Agbadou has spent the past two-and-a-half twelvemonth astatine Reims aft joining from Belgium broadside KAS Eupen successful 2022.

He made 76 appearances, scoring 3 goals, for the Ligue 1 nine and leaves with the French broadside 11th, 8 points adrift of the apical four.

Agbadou joins Wolves with the nine retired of the Premier League relegation portion connected extremity quality pursuing Monday's 3-0 decision to Nottingham Forest.

They person conceded 45 goals, a league high, but person scored 31, the eighth champion successful the division.

Wolves question to Bristol City successful the FA Cup 3rd circular connected Saturday earlier going to Newcastle connected 15 January.