Wolverhampton Wanderers have once again leaned on super-agent Jorge Mendes, marking a notable return to a familiar playbook as the club parted ways with Gary O’Neil. Mendes, whose influence has been inextricably linked to Wolves since Fosun’s takeover in 2016, helped to secure Vitor Pereira as O’Neil’s successor after an increasingly fractured situation at Molineux reached its breaking point.