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He has taken charge of only seven matches, but already Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui is showing he is one of the Premier League’s most combustible characters.

Whether he is making spicy remarks before and after a match, haranguing officials or clashing with rival managers, Lopetegui appears determined to be in the thick of it.

In less than a month of competitive football, he has shown his anger in public when Wolves have been on the wrong end of calls in their matches at Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The Spaniard was on the pitch as players brawled in the aftermath of Forest’s victory on penalties in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, and held a 90-minute briefing with referees’ chief Howard Webb to discuss his grievances at the Wolves training ground last week. If that conversation was designed to calm Lopetegui, it has not had the desired effect.