"Steal" is correct.
Jorge Mendes is up to his old tricks involving Wolves, with whom he has a long term relationship.
With Matheus Nunes moving to Wolves despite bigger clubs being interested, I suspect this means there's a buyer for Ruben Neves at a much bigger price.
Could be manure or the chavs or even the dippers given their injury crisis. Barca were interested earlier in the window, but they surely can't sell any more of their future income.
Anyway, for me this is less of a transfer, and more an agent moving his assets around, like some capitalist game of musical chairs.