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Magician Mendez haunts Wolves

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The LeaguePaper Team
20 August 2017

By Michael Beardmore

KEY MOMENT: Cardiff City’s Nathaniel Mendez-Laing scores the winner
PICTURES: Action Images

AFTER splurging millions in the summer, the irony will not be lost on Wolves that their 100 percent start to the season was ended by a man they let go for next to nothing.
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing never played a league game for Wolves after coming through the ranks – but he came back to haunt them with the winner in this battle of the Championship’s early pacesetters.
It continued the 25-year-old Brummie winger’s remarkable start to life at Cardiff,...

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