Matheus CunhaBrazilian international striker, completed this Sunday his signing for the Wolverhampton from the Atletico Madridas confirmed by both entities, that they do not specify the amounts of an assignment that “will automatically become a permanent agreement until 2027in the event that certain clauses are activated”, as explained by the English entity.
“Matheus Cunha will become the first signing of Julen Lopetegui as Wolves coach, assigned as of January 1, subject to work permit. The Brazilian international flew to the UK and completed his medical earlier in the week, finalizing a loan move that will automatically become a permanent deal until 2027, should certain clauses be activated,” Wolves said in a statement. statement on its official website.
“Atlético de Madrid has reached an agreement with Wolverhampton Wanderers for the assignment, with purchase optionby Matheus Cunha. From Atlético de Madrid we wish the greatest success in this new professional stage to Matheus Cunha, whose loan agreement is conditioned by the resolution of some last fringes of the player’s documentation,” announced the rojiblanco club.
Matheus Cunha leaves Atlético through the back door, between the financial need of the club and the attraction that it could arouse in the market, as it has been. In the balance between supply and demand. He is the player who is not transcendental or more headlines in Diego Simeone’s scheme for which he could get more money, not counting Joao Félix.
“About loving and feeling loved. Things like that will never change. Feeling identified with something, feeling important, feeling affection and feeling part of a whole family is different.. To you, athletics, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have fantastic players as athletes and people. You have fans who make you feel as if you were at home even on the other side of the world”, Cunha said goodbye last Thursday on ‘Instagram’.
“Football is like that, like any other job, there are those who are in charge because at some point it was very importantit has its hierarchies and there are those who make the decisions and then you also have to make yours“He later launched in his publication, without specifying to whom such a phrase is addressed, whether to Diego Simeone, his coach; the board or another person.
“My heart will always have a piece of Atleti! You always had my everything, simply because I felt that you gave me everything. Thank you very much, Cunha”, he concluded.
The 23-year-old striker, an international with Brazil, although he finally fell from Tite’s final list for the Qatar 2022 World Cup By technical decision, he arrived at the rojiblanco club a year and a half ago, for the 2021-22 campaign and leaves ahead of schedule, in the current January market, with 54 games with the team, 11 starts, seven goals and six assists.
In his promising first year, Cunha played 37 games, nine as a starter, with the aforementioned seven goals and the four decisive passes to his teammates.
In the last semester, already corresponding to the 2022-23 campaign, he played 17 duels, just two since eleven (the 0-2 win against Sevilla, as a left winger, and the 2-1 win against Girona in the Metropolitan), with a total of 510 minutes, without a single goal. He gave two assists.
Atlético paid 30 million euros for his transfer from Hertha, in which he also played for a year and a half, from the winter market of the 2019-20 season to 2020-21, with 40 games, 35 starts, and 14 goals.
He had previously served in the Leipzigfrom 2018-19 to the middle of the 2019-20 season, with 52 games and nine goals.
