Wolves boss Vitor Pereira reveals Mario Lemina wants OUT after being left out of the defeat to Newcastle, after the midfielder was stripped of the captaincy following an on-field row with Jarrod Bowen last month.

Wolves manager Vitor Pereira has revealed that former captain Mario Lemina wants to leave the club.

Lemina missed Wolves' 3-0 defeat to Newcastle on Wednesday night as Pereira suffered just his second defeat in six games since replacing Gary O'Neil.

After the game, Pereira explained why Lemina was not called up in the matchday squad.

“I can't bring in a player who tells me he's not mentally fit to help the team,” Pereira said. 'He (Lemina) wants to leave.

'I don't know what happened before me, but with this energy and this mentality, I don't need it.

“He told me that he wants to leave and communicated this decision to the club a month ago.”

Mario Lemina was not named in Wolves' squad to face Newcastle on Wednesday night

Vitor Pereira revealed after that Lemina has told him that he wants to leave the club

Lemina was stripped of the captaincy after an on-field brawl with Jarrod Bowen last month.

Pereira's revelation suggests that Lemina has been considering her future for some time.

The 31-year-old held the captain's armband at Molineux until last month but was stripped of the honor after having an on-field row with Jarrod Bowen following a 2-1 defeat at West Ham.

Lemina later apologized for his behavior, but O'Neil chose to appoint Nelson Semedo as his new captain.

O'Neil was sacked just a week after the debacle at West Ham, but Lemina was not given the captaincy back following Pereira's arrival.

Now he could leave the club in the last two weeks of the transfer market.

Wolves were unable to cope without the experienced midfielder on Wednesday night as a brace from Alexander Isak and a goal from Anthony Gordon condemned them to a 3-0 defeat which leaves the Midlands side in the bottom three by a difference of goals.