Wolves have Adama Traore transfer choice to make as Fosun weigh up £16m striker loss

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Adama Traore has only played 25 minutes of La Liga football since February and the Wolverhampton Wanderers loanee was an unused substitute for Barcelona again on Sunday.

The livewire winger made a superb start to life back at the Camp Nou with four assists in his first six appearances, including a sublime display in Barcelona’s 4-2 Europa League win away to Napoli. But he is now struggling to get a look in under Xavi and sat on the bench as Barcelona edged past Sevilla 1-0 at the weekend.

Barcelona are on a six-game winning run in La Liga and recently walloped rivals Real Madrid 4-0 at the Bernabeu, so Traore can have few complaints over his lack of playing time. Traore’s lack of involvement will be of great concern to his parent club though.

Joan Laporta’s recent revelation that Barcelona aren’t in a position to make Traore’s loan permanent for the agreed £25million, coupled with the 26-year-old’s demotion to the bench, has left Wolves in a difficult position. The chances of Wolves receiving financial compensation for Traore appear almost non-existent.

Patrick Cutrone arrived to such fanfare in 2019 that it’s hard to fathom how quickly his Wolverhampton Wanderers career unravelled.

When Wolves agreed to pay AC Milan £16million for Cutrone, almost everyone was in agreement that Fosun had struck gold. Admittedly, Cutrone’s final season in Milan - where he scored nine goals in 43 games across 2018/19 - wasn’t as impressive as the one which preceded it.

But the deal, on paper at least, looked exceptional. Wolves would be signing a 21-year-old Italy international with top-level European experience for a relatively modest transfer fee. “In Italy he is