With pre-season testing completed on the first two days back, it was a shorter day for the players on Wednesday, with just a single session on the grass in the morning.

Pereira had a watchful eye over proceedings as the intensity of the session was taken up a notch now the players had got used to being back into the swing of things.

Watch our first training session back after the break 💪

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One player who didn’t return to Compton this week as he was on his way to Scotland to agree a loan move with Rangers was defender Nasser Djiga – who became the second player to leave on loan this summer after Tommy Doyle.

Djiga’s move was confirmed on Wednesday afternoon, with the season-long loan aiming to give the Burkina Faso international plenty of experience in the British game after he featured just six times for Wolves following his signing in January.

Pereira has had several promising young players from the academy train with the first-team during the opening few days of pre-season, but having officially made the step up to the senior squad this season, Mateus Mane put pen to paper on a new contract this week.

After impressing in training in the later months of 2024/25, Mane made his Premier League debut at home to Brighton & Hove Albion in May, and the 17-year-old forward has committed his future to the Old Gold.

Following three days at Compton, Thursday also started at the training ground for Pereira and his squad, before they got on a plan and jetted off to Portugal for a 10-day warm weather training camp.

However, before they boarded the flight for the Algarve, the players and coaching staff took a visit to Molineux to see the emotional tributes laid by supporters towards former Wolves forward Diogo Jota who tragically lost his life seven days previously, while also paying their own respects to the Portuguese.

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Having arrived at their pre-season base camp on Thursday evening, Friday morning offered the squad a chance to acclimatise to the conditions in the south of Portugal.

Although many of them would not have needed it having spent four days roasting in the Wolverhampton sun back at Compton.

The playing squad has also grown in size in Portugal from 20 to 28, as eight of the players who were on international duty earlier this summer joined up with the team.

This group included Emmanuel Agbadou, Santi Bueno, Matt Doherty, Hee Chan Hwang, Pedro Lima, Jose Sa and Jorgen Strand Larsen, as well as the returning Fabio Silva, who spent last season out on loan in La Liga with Las Palmas.