Emmanuel Agbadou, the centre-back Wolves could finally be set to sign this week, looks like a strapping lad.
That's good because he'll need biceps the size of watermelons and shoulders made of titanium given the weight of expectation that's about to be lowered onto him.
Christmas has come and gone but in the transfer stakes it's still Christmas Eve for Vitor Pereira, who will be hoping that chairman Jeff Shi, sporting director Matt Hobbs and perhaps even agent Jorge Mendes can leave a few more presents under the tree.
Without the additions desperately needed to improve a soft, slow, pliable and oh-so submissive defence, or beef up a squad short in quality, Wolves will at best be horribly inconsistent. At worst there's a decent chance they'll be relegated.
Pereira has only had four games in charge and his team have already lurched from one extreme to the other.
Specifically, Wolves have gone from successive victories and clean sheets and looking up the table and sunshine and lollipops and good times ahead, to conceding five goals in two games and oh no it's Newcastle (a) and Chelsea (a) next and they've started a run of seven matches against teams in the top eight and good lord it's dark outside and so, so cold.
Where is the middle ground? Where is normality and consistency and a safe space?
Not here. Not against Nottingham Forest.
It had to be Nuno Espirito Santo, who has now won all three of his visits to Molineux since leaving the club in 2021.
And yet, even without Cunha, they played some good stuff, cracked open Forest's safe of a defence created ample opportunities in the first hour to win two games, let alone one.
If Jorgen Strand Larsen laid awake on Sunday night picturing the chances he wanted to have presented to him, a free shot from five yards with the keeper out of his goal, a free header from six yards and a perfect cross smack bang onto his right foot may all have flitted across his brain. In real life, he shanked all three.
Pedro Lima, Rodrigo Gomes and Rayan Ait-Nouri all did their bit, creating quality chances with quality deliveries. It was Wolves' biggest strength of the night, high-flying wing-backs taking the game to the opposition, but it was also their biggest weakness, with Forest enjoying the spaces left behind them.
If any image summed up Wolves' painful inadequacies in an admittedly weakened back line, it was Doherty, with his back to Bueno who was stood three yards behind him, forlornly raising his arm for offside as a pass from goalkeeper Mats Selz sent Callum Hudson-Odoi racing away. Doherty was left trailing as Hudson-Odoi teed up the inevitable Wood goal.
That was Forest's second (they probably should have had another when Ait-Nouri handled a cross in the penalty area) but the first was worse.
With Wolves on the attack and a Strand Larsen knock-down going awry, it took just one simple pass to release Gibbs-White beyond the entire Wolves midfield. A smart one-two later, and Wolves' defence could only watch as he opened the scoring.
Why on earth Wolves weren't wise to this most basic of Forest ploys, launching a counter via Gibbs-White, is pretty inexplicable.
Pereira, interestingly, blamed Tommy Doyle. "Doyle was missing - to play against this kind of team - the tactical knowledge to be connected with Joao (Gomes)," he said. "Sometimes, they were in the same line, not in different lines."
Pereira also had a very slight dig at teenage Premier League debutant Lima for not stopping crosses. The Portuguese manager does have a bit of history of falling out with players and you wonder if this was the first hint of why that happens.
Anyway, for now that's an aside. The focus is whether he can be given any new players to potentially fall out with in the first place and, on that front, Wolves are in familiar territory, i.e. they have a manager doing his bit to show that he and the team have promise, but they need to be backed with smart additions in the transfer market.
Bruno Lage, Julen Lopetegui and Gary O'Neil can tell you a tale or two along those lines.
Beating a dreadful Leicester team four games ago didn't mean Wolves were heading for mid-table, while losing to third-placed Forest doesn't mean Wolves are going down.
But this was a reality check. A red warning sign. An air raid klaxon that needed to be sounded very loudly in Shi's office.
"If we want to be honest and we look at the squad, we know, everybody knows, that we need some positions that we need to bring players to help us," Pereira said, before echoing one of Nuno's favourite sayings: "More solutions, more solutions, to face this league."
He wants two or three additions because he likes a small squad. Will that be enough? In a perfect world they'd have an entirely new central defensive backline; even if Dawson and Toti return soon, they haven't shown the form or fitness to suggest they can keep goals out.
As a club, Wolves have chased their tail on recruitment for some time now. They took three years to buy a proper striker fit to lace Raul Jimenez's boots. They have perennially been two, three or four players short of what the manager has wanted and needed.
If they leave Pereira short, the potential consequences are obvious.
The bare facts are that they are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference, they have a brutal run of fixtures coming up and they have not only the worst defence in the Premier League, but the worst in the entire country. Their current rate of letting in 2.25 goals-per-game will see them concede 85 before the season is done.
Agbadou, whose career clubs to date read as Monastir, Eupen and Reims, could be better than Franco Baresi in his pomp and he'd struggle to sort that out.
Shi, Hobbs (and Mendes), it's over to you.