Wolves youngster Enso Gonzalez has said that the club’s assistant manager always goes to watch him, as he seeks to get himself ready for first-team action.
The South American starlet has been settling in since joining the club three months ago from Libertad.
Wolves signed Gonzalez for around £5 million, and the feeling is that they have a young player with big potential on their hands.
Just at the moment though, Gonzalez is not quite ready to play for the first-team.
So far, he has turned out for the U21s a few times.
But Gary O’Neil said recently that the Paraguayan is not ready for first-team minutes just at the moment, and that he needs ‘a lot of work’.
Gonzalez is working hard though, and has revealed the club’s assistant manager watches him regularly…
Enso Gonzalez says Wolves’ assistant manager comes to watch him for the U21s
Gonzalez has given an interview with Paraguayan media outlet Versus, and reflected on his time at Molineux so far.
He spoke about a variety of things, and also admitted that Jean-Ricner Bellegarde has really surprised him in training for the quality he is showing already.
Gonzalez provided an update on where he’s at, saying (quoted by journalist Roberto Rojas): “I’m training with the first-team & one day before the match, Gary O’Neil lets me know that I’ll play for the U21s.
“The first U21 game I had it was a bit difficult to get used to the pace, but I’m getting better game after game. The assistant coach always goes & watches me.”
The current assistant manager of the first-team at Wolves is Tim Jenkins.
Wolves announced on August 17 that Jenkins had joined Gary O’Neil’s backroom staff. He had worked with O’Neil at Bournemouth.
Wolves clearly keen for Gonzalez to become first-team ready
It sounds as though Gary O’Neil is keen to keep tabs on Gonzalez.
The club have high hopes for him but at the moment he isn’t quite ready. Clearly, O’Neil wants to be kept informed about his development though.
The youngster is training with the first-team, and Matt Hobbs did say when the club signed him that ‘we expect him to come in and compete, challenge and play first-team football’.
Hopefully, he won’t be too far away from getting minutes under O’Neil. It’s definitely a very difficult thing to come to a Premier League club from South America as a young player.