Wolves 'make contact' with £17m-rated midfield sensation amid 'door open' transfer claim

Wolves won 2-1 away at Southampton in their last Premier League outing before the international break. Striker Jorgen Strand-Larsen scored both of their goals against the Saints as they secured a useful three points in their quest for survival. Vitor Pereira’s side are sat in 17th place in the table as they look to stay up. Southampton, Leicester City and Ipswich Town currently make up the bottom three and all three are cut adrift at this moment in time. Pereira’s men had a break from the action this past weekend and are back next Tuesday at home to West Ham as they look to keep their momentum going. According to Bild, Wolves are interested in Nurnberg midfielder Casper Jander. Brentford, Club Brugge and Bayer Leverkusen are also said to be keen on the player. The report suggests his current club value him at around €20million (£17million). Jander, 22, could be seen by Pereira as someone to boost his midfield ranks. He is still young, has potential to get better and would give them another option to pick from in the middle of the park. However, there appears to be a lot of competition for his signature. The Germany youth international joined Nurnberg in 2024 and has since become a key player. The Bundesliga.2 club are likely to face a battle to keep hold of him down the line. He is under contract until June 2028 so they are under no pressure to sell him immediately and can wait for the right offer to come in for his services. Jander had spells at DJK Germania Mauritz, SC Preußen Münster, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke as a youngster. MSV Duisburg then snapped him up in 2021. He went on to break into their first-team and he made 60 outings for the 3.Liga club, finding the net on two occasions. Wolves’ win over Southampton leaves them nine points above the relegation places. They will be hoping for more of the same against Graham Potter’s West Ham. The Midlands outfit then take on Ipswich this weekend. Speaking after their victory over the Saints, Pereira said: Speaking after the victory, Pereira said: “It's a fantastic result for us. I suffered a little bit in the last 10 minutes because we had chances to score the third goal twice, and I believe with the third goal, we would have had more tranquillity to play, to keep the ball, to make the pace of the game with the ball, to control the game with the ball. “But in this in this league, we cannot have a chance to score and after we concede the goal. We concede the counter transition and they score. After 30 seconds, the result was not three-zero, but two-one, and two-one is just one goal difference, and we needed to get these three points. It's normal that for a team it’s time to suffer, time to compact, time to not concede another goal and to get the three points, and we did well.” He added: “We had, in my opinion, two big chances – if the last pass goes in the right player, because we have had a situation, just before they scored, I think we had four against two. In this kind of situations, we must score the third goal.”

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