Dave Edwards: Jhon Arias will be a welcome addition to the Wolves squad

We've seen Fer Lopez come into the team as well, but he's very much a developmental player, whereas Jhon Arias at 27-years-old really fits the bill of the players Wolves have had a lot of success with in recent years. The South American market has been really good to them. 

Losing Rayan Ait-Nouri and Matheus Cunha, two of our biggest creative outlets on our left-hand side, we needed someone to be able to come in and replace them with the potential to hit the dizzy heights they did.

I really feel that Arias ticks those boxes. We're likely to see him play off one of the sides, whether it's on the right or the left, one of those number 10 positions. I think his best attribute is the way he can handle the ball under pressure.

That's something that may have been overlooked at times with Cunha, but when Wolves are under pressure in games, as you're going to be in the Premier League, to be able to put a difficult pass into a player and for them to retain possession for you, even though they're getting pressed by the other team, is a really tough skill to do. 

Cunha was brilliant at that, but Arias in a different way, can receive it in those tight areas, using his really strong frame.

He's only small, but he's very, very strong to hold off players, and he can wriggle and turn. I think that'll be huge for Wolves. 

The Premier League is tough. There's lots of athletic footballers in there, there's lots of good football teams, and Wolves are going to be under pressure in games. To be able to have an outlet like Arias will be key. 

He's very exciting going forward, can break quickly and travels with the ball extremely well.

He had a wonderful Club World Cup for Fluminense and got in the team of the tournament, while he also has 29 caps for Colombia as well. I think he's a really exciting player.

He works extremely hard and under the guidance of Vitor Pereira, Arias could be another player who really fits the Premier League and gets into his rhythm very, very quickly, and can go on to be a star.

He's hitting his peak years as an attacking midfielder, and hopefully we'll also get the best out of him.

The one concern I would say is that the way the South American season is run is that he's already played 35 games since January, and that going into a Premier League season isn't ideal.

But we've seen it before with other players like Andre, and they've managed to finish the season strongly, so that's a testament to their fitness.

The Premier League is unforgiving, and I'm delighted off the back of what was a really good interview from Liam Keen and Nathan Judah, that Vitor Pereira has committed himself to the club.

He said that with no hesitation, he feels like it's his club, and that's wonderful news, because there's no doubt he'll have suitors because of how impressive he was last year. 

I've been lucky enough to have a long interview with him myself, and I was so, so impressed with him. But you're only as good as your tools, and he needs players, and he's lost some very good players this year.

He needs players to compete in the Premier League. The team's coming up always spend money and other teams are strengthening. But what he did say is you can't rush this situation.

The market dictates what's available to Wolves. I think they are going to support Vitor Pereira but they're not going to be frivolous with their money.

They're going to spend it cleverly, like they have done over the years, and take some risks on players that have been huge successes.

The longer it goes into pre-season, or the closer it gets to the start of the season, and the players don't have this time to gel, then that's going to leave Wolves at a disadvantage. There's no doubt about that. The more signings we can get through the door and the quicker we can do it is obviously going to be better.

But at the same time, you can't rush it for the sake of it and not get the right people. You'd prefer to wait an extra couple of weeks and get the right people in. 

At top level Premier League football, that is increasingly harder to do. There's so much politics which goes into every signing, and that's why, as fans, we have to be patient.

Some of the young lads can also benefit from that in pre-season and get an opportunity.

There's plenty of players in that situation. None more so than Ki-Jana Hoever, who played really well in the friendly against Burnley and set up Jorgen Strand Larsen with a really strong run down the right.

Maybe he is a player who Wolves fans had thought they had already seen his last game in a Wolves shirt. He's gone away on loan, he's played a lot of football and he's got all the attributes to be a really strong wing-back.

We signed him with lots of hope from Liverpool but it was always going to take time for him to develop.

If we haven't got the replacement for Nelson Semedo by the start of the season, Hoever could very well be the man with the shirt.

With his experience already, I feel like he's in the best position. If he can start the season well, you never know, he might be a surprise to everyone.