Liam Keen and Nathan Judah on Jhon Arias and the return of Yerson Mosquera and Sasa Kalajdzic

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00:00Hello I'm Nathan Judah and that my friend is Mr. Liam Keane and we are in the beautiful Algarve,

00:16Portugal. Pre-season again baby. Oh mate, he comes around quick doesn't he? We've got two models

00:20behind us. About as useful as you really aren't they? Pretty good, pretty decent in defence

00:24actually from training this morning. Yes we're here, we're back. We're going to be in Portugal,

00:29we're going to be in Spain, seven days here, first day at training today and look good

00:34to see Vitor, good to see some of the players back in action as well and there were lots

00:37of positives weren't there? Yeah definitely, considering that Wolves haven't been able

00:42to bring a lot of players in just yet, which we will come on to in a second, the atmosphere

00:46was pretty good amongst the players, it's a good sort of core group, a few youngsters in

00:49there and the atmosphere was good and Vitor seemed to be in good spirits, we had a brief

00:54chat with him off camera before everything got underway and yeah they were very generous

00:59with allowing us to have the run of the place really. Yeah absolutely, look I mean everybody

01:03wants more signings, we all want more signings, we'll maybe come on to that a little bit later

01:06on in this video, but in terms of the personnel that are here it's important for some of these

01:10players who haven't had a lot of action to prove their fitness, two of those players in particular

01:15being Sasha Kolajdic and Yusin Moskera. Yes both of them fully involved in this full session today.

01:22Full session? Full session, not any part of that session they didn't take part of, what we could

01:25see at least, and that is attacking drills, full length pitch drills, a very interesting four goal

01:33mini drill they did here. Very intimate game. Yeah a very intimate competitive game which we'll be

01:37writing a bit about as well and giving a bit more detail on, set pieces and everything as well,

01:41he was involved in all of it, both of them Moskera and Kolajdic. We knew that they were getting

01:46you know back and getting fit, they were back in training a little bit towards the back end of last

01:50season, but to see them here and to see them involved and obviously you don't know what's

01:54quite going on in their minds but at least from the outside looking in, mentally they look like

01:59they're in a good condition as well as physically, they're not sort of stepping out of tackles or

02:04being too tentative, they're both getting fully involved and then also Moskera was doing some extra

02:08running with one of the coaches at the very end of the session as well, the players are all heading off now

02:12as we speak. So yeah good to have them both in and around the place, their futures obviously are going

02:17to be probably a little bit different the two of them, but considering the injuries they've had

02:21to have them back in and playing and performing hopefully will be a good thing. And one big fresh

02:26face, 19.5 million times fresh face in Mr. Fir Lopez, look tidy, look good, some nice finishes as well,

02:33I mean look he'll be blending in, he'll be looking to get to know his teammates, get to know Vito Perreo

02:37in the way that he works as well, but look all signs are good going forward. For sure, the attack injury

02:42drill over there where they were sort of working through the thirds in midfield into attack,

02:46different groups that were coming in and playing. Came alive a bit didn't it? Yeah it did and

02:50before him actually, I mean Larson scored a fantastic goal top corner, Goncalo Geddes! I tell you what,

02:55a couple of worldies! With a couple of really good finishes. We can't go there again, but it's nice to see,

03:01you'd rather that than banging them onto the road wouldn't you? Exactly, and then Fir Lopez as you mentioned,

03:05he's all left foot, technically gifted, cuts inside, curls it right round one of these lovely fellas,

03:11yeah right that top corner left foot, beautiful beautiful finish, and if we can see some of that

03:15Molyneux going forward then hopefully he'll reward for that 19.5 million expenditure. Yeah look,

03:22important pre-season for the players, important pre-season for Vito Perreo, of course his first

03:27pre-season as Wolves head coach and now with Domenico Catetti here as well, which we saw and had a

03:32quick chat with him as well. Yeah we did yeah, I had a very quick sort of introduction to him. Your technical

03:37director Domenico Catetti. Yes, nice chap and he seemed busy, he was on the phone a lot pacing up

03:44and down all over the place and obviously Wolves are looking like they're doing a little bit of

03:48business now as well so hopefully going to be a bit busier in the coming weeks. Well there you go,

03:51I mean you've insinuated there, let's go straight on to it. We've been waiting for a bit more business

03:55and things look like they're starting to hot up. Yeah we knew that they were looking at John Arias,

03:59we looked in for a little while, the Fluminese, Winger, Colombian International and we're sat here

04:05hiding from the sun, get wind of the information, start putting tweets together, myself and other

04:10journalists have all put it all out at the same time and Wolves are moving closer, £15 million

04:15is going to be the fee, looking like they're getting that one over the line and in terms of look,

04:20he's never played in Europe which of course is going to be potentially a sticking point, I don't

04:25know if it sounds too negative but what he does bring at 27 years old is experience, he brings

04:30goals assists, he brings numbers in those forward areas and he's a senior player in those forward

04:35areas that Wolves desperately needed, you know you lost Kunio, you lost other players, he needed a

04:39statement signing in there and don't get me wrong, they expect more money on furlough but he's 21 years

04:43old, he's going to need a bit of time. John Arias is the kind of player that you come in and think,

04:47right, you've got to perform pretty quickly. So it seems like a very good signing on the face of it,

04:51we'll see how he gets on. And look, Wolves are very good, they've had a lot of success

04:54about buying young and then selling on a profit, like you say, at 27 years old, someone who's

04:59coming into the best part of their career you would say, you know, and obviously we've seen him

05:03in the Club World Cup as well, will add a lot to this side and playing regularly, which is good,

05:07I mean, he might need some time off, we don't know, we don't know the specifics, obviously when the

05:10deals are finally agreed and he can come over, whether that's in England, whether we see him in

05:13Spain, whether we see him in Portugal, we're not sure yet, but he will add value to this first team

05:18straight away, won't he? Yeah, exactly, and that's the, particularly the position and the area

05:24and the kind of player that they need in this squad, it does look light, it does look short,

05:29there'll be a few players that may move on still as well, so to bring a senior player in that's got

05:33good numbers, yeah, Brazilian league, don't get me wrong, it's a good league, but it's not the Premier

05:37League as well, so you've got to bear that in mind, but he's gone and done the Club World Cup and done

05:40really well there for Fluminese as well, and there's a lot of hype around the player at the moment,

05:44so for Wolves it feels like a very, very good signing, but the proof will be in the pudding when he's in England.

05:50Good for us as well on day one, we get good news as well, yeah? Yeah, yeah, great for us,

05:54great to get it out there, at a similar time as a lot of other journalists, as I say,

05:57we all sort of got wind of the information at the same time, we're going round, we're bobbing

06:00around here, speaking to Wolves staff and trying to get all the piece of everything together,

06:03we got it, we got it out there, and I need to go write the story because you've come straight to

06:07this video, but yeah, it's been intense, but it's a good start. Yeah, and look, we're going to be back

06:14at the team hotel this afternoon, we've got a certain interview as well, maybe divulge yet who that

06:18interview is with, but there's a lot of action, we've got the daily diary, we've got the daily

06:22videos as well, we've got some transfer exclusives, we've got some big interviews, there's loads to

06:26come, isn't there, in this week? A lot to come, it's an action-packed week, we sort of ran through

06:30our schedule yesterday, which we won't go into too much detail on, as I say, some more things to come

06:33later today, but there's a hell of a lot going on, so I'm looking forward to it, bring it on, let's just

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