Wolves boss Gary O'Neil already knows how to get the best out Rodrigo Gomes

While in different positions, Wolves boss Gary O'Neil says new signing Rodrigo Gomes reminds him of his namesake Joao for their mutual "hunger, desire and humility".

Gomes joined officially this week from Braga and has already made an impression.

O'Neil said on him: “It’s a different part of the pitch and different type of player, but personality wise he reminds me of Joao Gomes, with his hunger and desire, how humble he is. They’re very similar and we saw how successful Joao was last season, in his first full season in the Premier League.

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"There’s a lot of work needed with Rodrigo to get him up to speed and you don’t want to put too much pressure on a player of that age coming into the toughest league in the world.

“We need to understand the difficulties of it, but there’s no reason with what he has available and the skill set he has, that we can’t make him affective in the Premier League very quickly.

"I’ve spoken a lot about the culture of the football club since I arrived, and we worked hard to push it in a certain direction, and this signing continues to do that for us.”

O'Neil says bringing him in so soon will help with many players missing the start of pre-season: “Obviously, a lot of the planning’s gone into place now for pre-season and, depending how our players get on in the tournaments, we’re not going to have many of them initially.

"So, being able to get Rodrigo in adds to the numbers, and the understanding of what we do and how we play will be really important to him. Without wishing bad on the lads away at their tournaments, hopefully, they come back as soon as possible, and we can start to blend something.

“The understanding is really important and you saw how, for example Rayan and Cunha played together down the left, the more understanding they had, the more trouble they caused teams.

"Chemistry takes time sometimes, so it’s really important we get people in, we get our players back and we start to do some really good work, making sure pre-season sets us up for a successful Premier League campaign. We know how tough it’s going to be, it was unbelievably though last year, as we saw towards the end when we lost some bodies. We all understand the need to depth this season and hopefully this is the first part of that.”