Steve Bull: Wolves will be in for a gruelling pre-season

When I used to play, not many players were on the international scene and we were all back on the same day doing fitness tests.

Now, it's totally different and some players hardly get a break at all! That makes it a strange start to pre-season with some players getting more of a rest.

I hope they recharged well during the break because they deserved it and it will be a tough pre-season, particularly with the heat we are experiencing.

But the players have got to get themselves into peak physical condition and be ready for the first game of the season.

Vitor Pereira will make sure to put the players through their paces and the first two weeks are crucial at improving fitness - there's a lot of running involved!

But we all want to see a few more additions as soon as possible and fingers crossed we can get them in.

The players are in Portugal and pre-season is well under way, so the club needs to get some signings in. We can't have a handful of players leave and only replace them with one player.

We need to strengthen and I hope Pereira is backed properly to get the right signings in - but I am confident the club will be fishing around in the market for the players Pereira wants, I'd just rather they get them done sooner rather than later.

Tommy Doyle and Nasser Djiga have since both left on loan to Birmingham and Rangers respectively and fair play to them. It must be boring sitting on the bench every week and the more game time they get the better - they may come back stronger players.

I would rather let them go once we have other players coming in, but it tends to be the other way around.

Mateus Mane and Wes Okoduwa have also signed their first professional contracts and it's great to see young players coming through.

We know Pereira likes to work with young players but, no disrespect to them, they will have a tough time getting into the team and we need experienced players as these youngsters are still learning.

They are very talented, but you have to be something really special to slot into a team in the Premier League. You need the experienced players to help them.