"The magic that we need" - Wolves boss has faith in young attacker
Vitor Pereira has backed Fer Lopez to impact the Premier League and believes the Spaniard has the 'quality' to succeed.
The 21-year-old became Wolves' first summer signing in a £19.5million switch from Celta Vigo earlier this summer and has since played a big role in pre-season.
Lopez is now preparing to face his former club in a friendly at Molineux on Saturday and Pereira has full faith in the forward - while also conceding that he needs time to adapt.
"In my opinion, Fer Lopez, he has the quality," Pereira said.
"He's a player that in the future can play in the top clubs in England.
"He has the talent, he's a technical player, intelligent player, with the left foot that can give us the magic that we need.
"Sometimes we need a last pass and this is the player.
"But he's young and he needs time.
"We cannot demand a lot of things. We need to give him time to adapt.
"But I believe that we did a very good signing.
"This is a player for the present and the future, in my opinion.
"I think the club wants to give a signal that we are looking for the present and the future."
Team-mate Jean-Ricner Bellegarde has echoed the thoughts of his head coach and has picked out Lopez's technical ability, but also admits patience may be needed.
"He's a good player," Bellegarde said.
"Good ability and with the ball he's a very good player.
"He needs to play more with the team and you can know his adaptation for the team, but he's a very good player and I think he can help the team a lot."
Meanwhile, Bellegarde has heaped praise on Emmanuel Agbadou for his impact on the team.
The January signing quickly became one of the first names on the team sheet as he helped fix Wolves' leaky defence.
The Ivorian is now going into his first full season at Wolves and fellow French-speaker Bellegarde, who is good friends with Agbadou, has praised the defender's physical presence and how he has helped the players around him.
"With Agbadou, you need to play with intelligence, if you play physically, you're dead," Bellegarde laughed.
"He's a big guy.
"He's very good, he brings a lot of confidence and I see Toti and Doc have more confidence because he's good at defending.
"This helps the team a lot."
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