Wolves near loan signing of RB Leipzig's Hwang Hee-Chan
By Tim Spiers
Wolves are closing in on the loan signing of South Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan.
The 25-year-old RB Leipzig player is set to undergo a medical tomorrow ahead of a season-long loan at Molineux with Wolves having a £12 million option to buy.
Wolves have had a long-held interest in him. They watched him regularly during the 2019-20 season with Salzburg in Austria when Hwang, as part of a title-winning team which scored 110 goals in 32 games, notched 16 times and provided 22 assists in 40 matches in all competitions.
Salburg played 4-4-2 or a 4-2-2-2 and he briefly struck up a prolific partnership with Erling Haaland, with the pair combining for goals on 11 occasions in the 17 matches they played together.
Hwang has find life tougher in the Bundesliga in the past 18 months, scoring only three times in 29 matches. For South Korea he's earned 37 caps and scored six goals.
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