How are the two defenders doing at their new teams now that they left Molineux in the summer?
Following their promotion from the Championship in 2018, Wolves will play in the Premier League for the sixth consecutive season in 2023–24. Since then, the club has undergone significant transition, with three managers, including Nuno Espirito Santo, Bruno Lage, and Julen Lopetegui, leaving Molineux.
Only a few days before the start of the 2023–2024 Premier League season, the latter was replaced by former Bournemouth manager Gary O’Neil. Since the clubs’ re-entry into the top division, there have been substantial personnel changes throughout the team, and not just in the dugout.
The most recent transfer window has seen several members of the first-team squad move on in the pursuit of new challenges with Ruben Neves, Joao Moutinho and Raul Jiminez departing after spending many years at the club among others.
Former club captain, Conor Coady, brought his nine-year stay at Molineux to a close while Dion Sanderson – who came through the youth ranks at the club – also found a new club in a search for first-team football. We decided to take a look at the careers of Coady and Sanderson since leaving Wolves as well as the impact their loss has had on the team.
Conor Coady – Leicester City
The English centre-back actually hasn’t been seen in Wolves colours for well over 12 months now as he spent the 2022/23 campaign on loan at Everton. It came as a surprise to see Coady firstly loaned out, and then sold on a permanent deal to Leicester the following summer after the defender was a mainstay at the heart of the defence upon their promotion.
Conor Coady’s Wolves career
Having come through the academy at Liverpool, Coady never really made it at the Merseyside club and was allowed to leave for Huddersfield Town in 2014 for a nominal fee. At the time, he was playing as a defensive minded midfielder but his move to Wolves the following year was the start of his redemption arc in the game. Reinventing himself as a rock solid centre-back, Coady slowly grew in confidence and leadership qualities on his way to becoming the captain of the club.
There were a lot of games played in the youth teams at Wolves, with many perhaps believing he had a big future at the club and maybe the fact the club reached the Premier League when they did held him back slightly. If they had still been in the Championship when he reached an age to play senior football, he may have got his chance at Molineux.
Sanderson looks like he could be on track to make it back into the Premier League at some point in his career, particularly with Birmingham performing so well in the second tier of English football, and a match against Wolves could therefore be on the cards,
He is impressing so much at the level he is playing, that a move back to the club could also be within the realm of possibility.
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