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Vitor Pereira unveiled as Wolves head coach - Liam Keen and Nathan Judah analysis

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00:00Hello, I'm Nathan Judah, I'm here with Wolves supporters, Mr Liam Keane, live from Compton

00:13Park, although you're not watching it live, you're watching it pre-recorded, but we are

00:16live as it happens. We've been speaking to Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach, Mr Vitor

00:22Pereira, his first press conference, pre-match press conference, unveiling I guess, you could

00:30say unveiling, ahead of the big game, and it is huge on Sunday against Leicester City.

00:38But first of all, the man himself, we got to see him, got to see his lovely mug, he

00:41sat down, I thought he actually spoke very, very well. Yeah, I think so, he came across

00:45pretty well, pretty firm, polite, you know, the kind of things you want from a press conference

00:51with a manager, but the fans will be more interested in what he can do with the players

00:54on the pitch, and he was very clear in his tactical identity, about his attention to

00:59detail, about demanding more from the players, and he came across pretty well, his English

01:04was pretty good, I mean there was a couple of small moments, but otherwise. As always

01:07with you. Yeah, absolutely, and a few of our journalist friends in there, but absolutely

01:14spot on. Yeah, look, he was, he came across well, it was no thrills, no spills, middle

01:24of the ground, kind of the way he wanted to play it. Don't promise the world, but enough

01:29to gee fans up and get them ready for Sunday. I guess one of the main topics that were discussed

01:33was discipline, you know, of course, we'll come on to Mateusz Kunia in a bit, but look,

01:37this is a running trend, isn't it, and he was quite strong on that. He was, in the embargo

01:43section, so I can't talk about it. No, I'm joking. He was very clear on it, he was very

01:48clear that Wolves cannot continue down the path they're going on with players, stepping

01:53out of line really, and there will be repercussions for that, but he seems like someone who would

01:57be quite close with his players, I think the vibe he was giving off, someone who I think

02:01would not tolerate it, but certainly speak to them and try and come to a conclusion for

02:08it, and look, he's got big decisions to make, not only with team selections, captaincy,

02:12things like that, there's lots of things going to be happening with Wolves, and I think

02:15it'll be exciting. And wants to create an identity as well at this football club. He's

02:20not here, you know, whether we can speculate, and we did on the podcast this week, whether

02:23he'll be here for six months, whether he'll be here for 18 months, or beyond that. Look,

02:27let's hope he's beyond that, because that means that Wolves have stayed in the Premier

02:30League and they're doing very, very well in the league, but I think he's quietly confident

02:34in what he's seen on the training ground as early as it is, that he can do something special

02:38with this team. He's been desperate, and I think that was the main thing to come across

02:41in the press conference, desperate to get, to prove himself in the Premier League. It's

02:45been, Everton's been very, very close, but he's got this opportunity with Wolves-Hamilton

02:49Wanderers that probably a week ago he didn't expect, and he wants to grasp it with both

02:53hands. I think even though we've seen him have a lot of different clubs in his career,

02:57a lot of different clubs for one season, this is where he wants to be, and he's desperate

03:01to prove what he can do.

03:02Yeah, he kept going back to the 14 years, this has been a long time coming, it's been

03:10a lot of hard work, this is a job he's been ready for and desperate for for such a long

03:14time. Now that is going to breed the kind of enthusiasm for this job that you're going

03:20to need, because it's going to be tough. He's going to have to want to be there and want

03:26to make it happen. Some interesting points, like the captaincy thing, I don't know how

03:31you're going to bring that up, interesting to say that he's going to have to make a decision

03:34on that, so it's not guaranteed to be announced for Smedley.

03:36We were expecting it, weren't we? I think when Gary O'Neill came in, you know, he's

03:40said that he'd go with Max Killman as well as the club captain, because he was already

03:45in place, wasn't he?

03:46After Lopetegui left the A-Z.

03:47And so you expect that really to come in, Vito Pereira, Portuguese coach, so it was

03:50a bit of a surprise that he left that door open, he says he wants to assess his players

03:54and then he'll make a decision in maybe two, three, four weeks.

03:56Yeah, he said he wanted to look at who are the leaders on the pitch, who emerges as the

04:00candidates, so look, it may be Samedo, it may not be, so that'll be an interesting one

04:03to watch, and of course interesting to see how the line-up is on Sunday and who captains

04:07the team.

04:08Alongside that, Gary O'Neill's final press conference at the end of Ipswich, before he

04:11left the club, was to say that essentially the answers are not really in this dressing

04:16room, the players are struggling, he needs more, Vito Pereira was very clear there that

04:21yes, we're going to have to do some stuff in January, but I think the answers are here,

04:26I think the players are good enough, I think we can get more out of the players, that's

04:29a very interesting, deliberate message to get across, because he spoke a lot about confidence

04:34and I think that's going to be really, really important to these players, and that new lease

04:38of life, breath of fresh air going into Sunday, hopefully will help them up the stairs.

04:41Yeah, you can talk about the players being emotional and too emotional, we've been there

04:44and done that, but I think confidence almost goes hand in hand, it's that confidence that

04:48some of these players need to return, some of these players are just bang out of form,

04:51aren't they?

04:52Yeah.

04:53And that's what you need to get, the likes of Wang Yi-Chan, the likes of a lot of the

04:56players who've been on the bench recently, it's instilling that confidence and instilling

04:59them into the play so they can show what they can do, because this is a talented bunch,

05:02and you look at it, and you start the season, I don't think we expected Wolves to be in

05:0619th, I don't think many fans expect them to be 19th, you can say, some people can say

05:10in hindsight, well we did, but we didn't expect them to be in this position, but what they

05:13can do on Sunday, and most importantly, is if they can beat Leicester City, they are

05:16right back in that mix, but what they cannot do, fingers crossed, is lose that game, and

05:21then there's a big gap.

05:22Most importantly is the news after the press conference, that Mateus Cunha hopefully should

05:27be available for this game.

05:29Yes, it looks likely that will be the case, they have yet to hear back from the FA on

05:33any potential ban, until they do hear back from him, he's free to play, now it's likely

05:39somebody could come in later today, but it seems unlikely, no, no, no, it's possible,

05:43sorry, that's what I meant, possible that somebody could come in later today, but at

05:46the moment it seems likely that he will be available to play on Sunday, so massive bonus,

05:51I think when he does get a ban, I say when, because it's likely he will do, it's probably

05:55going to be a minimum three games you would expect, that hopefully would include the Bristol

06:00City FA Cup game, depending on when this comes in and how long the ban is, which will take

06:04a little bit of the blow off, but yeah, it's one that we're expecting probably to get banned,

06:10but it's when, and at the moment it looks like he'll be available for Sunday.

06:14No Pablo Sarabia, but Jose Sar has trained this week.

06:17Sar has trained, Sarabia he said it's not possible for him to be available with his

06:21calf issue, so that's not a major surprise, and as far as we're aware, no other concerns,

06:27but I mean it's anyone's guess what this team's going to be, it's anyone's guess.

06:32You should nail the 11 here.

06:33Okay, I'll go what I said on the poddy, I'm going to go through, Sar, a back five, Tomedo,

06:40all three centre-halves, Bueno, Dawson, Totti, Dock a left wing-back.

06:44Has he got a track record of playing a three, five wing-backs?

06:46Yes, I mean he's played a four as well, but it is his last club, but Sarabia has played

06:49that as well.

06:50I will go with Thurgood Field, Lamina and Charles Gomez, and Charles Gomez will be his

06:56boy by the way.

06:57I'm going to go Cunha, Larsen, and that third spot is difficult, Goncalo Guedes, it could

07:06be anyone, it could be you playing up there with the two of them, it could be, God knows,

07:09but we'll go with that.

07:10I mean to be honest, with a third person, some of these games this season I might be

07:13more used to them.

07:14To be fair, you'd probably be better than Bela Guardiola against him.

07:16Oh!

07:17My eyes!

07:18Absolutely clear.

07:19Just saw him, you said hello to him in the corridor.

07:20He doesn't know who I am, he's got no idea.

07:23Final score prediction?

07:24I'm going to go Big Five Golf Thriller, Leicester City 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3.

07:30We're both staying positive, we're both excited, 3-1 Wolves, let's go.

07:33And it's just nice to get the fans back on board and something to hopefully look forward

07:35to, big game.

07:36If they can win this, it changes a lot, doesn't it?

07:39Going into a big Boxing Day game at home, first home game with the new manager, it's

07:43a massive game for a lot of reasons, just don't lose it, please.

07:45Peter Pereira is the new Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach for all to build upon the big game

07:49against Leicester.

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