Saiss on six years at Wolves as exit looms

Romain Saiss is out of contract in the summer and he admits that after six years as a Wolves player his time at the club could soon be coming to an end.

"More or less," Saiss tells Sky Sports when asked if his future has been decided. Does that mean he will be staying? Though he has been offered a new deal, he suggests that the opposite is more likely to be true. "No, more away than staying," he adds.

"I think if everything is not done before the end of the season it just means it is time to go because I want to be fixed for next season. With the World Cup, I need to start the season at the right time. I need to know what will happen with me as soon as possible."

Saiss will be a loss to Wolves. The Morocco international has made more than 200 appearances for the club since joining from French club Angers in the summer of 2016, among the most by any player outside the British Isles in the club's 145-year history.

He was a key midfielder in Wolves' promotion to the Premier League in 2018, playing 42 games that season, and has since redefined himself as a ball-playing centre-back operating either side of Conor Coady in one of the meanest defences in the country.

It is all the more remarkable given that he had found himself out of favour in his first season at the club under Paul Lambert. "The first year was a nightmare," he laughs. And though he must have been tempted by a swift return to France, the project soon took shape.

"It was not good at first, but I think also it was because the owners had just bought the club in the summer so it was hard also for them to do what they wanted to do in terms of bringing the right players, the right coach, all these things. It took time."

For him and for Wolves, everything changed