Fair Lopez’s eyes are expanding to mention possible debut wolves against Manchester City, live on Ski Sports On Saturday. “Especially at home, in front of the fans,” he smiled.
The season opener against the side of PEP Guardiola could easily feel intimidating for a young player of a new in the Premier League. But Lopez shows his nerves in the training room in the training in Volves, rattle answers in English, but in his environment.
“It’s very exciting,” he adds. “The city is one of the world’s best teams, with one of the best managers in the world in Guardiola. My main goal is to do the best I can help beat the team.”
He arrived in the wolves with only seven elderly who starts behind him. His breakthrough in Klub Celta Vigo came late for growth. But two of those began to deviate last season in Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. It was also presented against Barcelona. “I enjoy the big games more,” he says.
It is clear that he is not lacking confidence. Take advantage of and it has a lot of ability. Vitor Pereira has already seen enough to say that Lopez could play for “one of the best clubs in England”. Volvesa’s chief waxed lyrically about “left foot that can give us the magic we need.”
All this helps to explain why wolves were willing to pay £ 19.5m to take him to Molineuk. It was the key to Lopez to leave the Celta, but the staff is impressed with the speed of its integration.
“It is obvious that the big change alone in another country, a different culture, but so far, all staff and teams treated me well,” he says. “Now I feel at home. It’s only been a month since I’ve joined but I feel very good.”
It helps arrived with some previous England experience. Age 14 years old, Lopez spent three months at the school exchange in Suffolk, during which he was coincided with Norwich Bacton United ’89, where she remembered it as if she remembered to reduce players twice as long as his insane skill.
“I was very little, but I helped understand the culture, and especially time, because it differs from Spain,” says Lopez, smiled again. “But that was a great experience for me. It was the first time I lived outside Spain. It was mature and helped me be a person today.”
He didn’t hesitate to take the opportunity to come back. “I think it was an opportunity to play in the premier league in the club, it is similar to the whole of the family club. There are many passions from the fans, I think that is quite similar. Also, Gaffer has a lot of confidence in me, so that was the main things.”
Pereira and his staff used before the season for the lopez to be physically, but the emphasis on the tactical instructions is also. Fortunately, right-handed none in the role that will compete in Vulova’s’ 3-4-2-1 formation is not different from the one he played in Celta.
Lopez in action for Celta Vigo against Real Madrid last season
Lopez bucket next to Eduarda Camaving and Federico Valverde
“What he tells me to do is receive in those pockets,” says Lopez in Pereira. “Then, once I receive the ball, try to be as vertical, I find the final passage and the last shot.
“We played 3-4-3 in Celta and we play a similar system here,” he adds. “I started on the right, but I moved out more central. I wouldn’t consider the right wing, more attacking the middle of the field.
“So, I think similar positions are in a very similar system. The system I prefer is 4-3-3, as well as the wing and the attacker in front of me. But with the back of the wing, it is quite similar, so it is very similar here.”
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Lopez started that Volves lost the final president-adapted against the selt Vigo
Lopez was observed as a successor to the Legend of the Club Iago Aspas in Celta. The former Liverpool player even acted as his mentor. “I tried to learn from him since I was a little”, Lopez says. “He showed me a lot of things, lots of positioning, what should I do when it is a game of hard, things you need to know inside.”
There is an element of succession about his arrival and in wolves, since it comes after Matheaus Cunha in Manchester United. Lopez is played on the opposite side, but it is one of the players who are now in charge of re-posting the attack in his absence.
“I think Cunha is a top player,” he says. “Everyone saw it last season. But I don’t think I’m going to replace anyone. I’m playing in different positions. I like to play more where Pablo Sarabia played last year.”
Then a different position. And a different level of experience. But there are similarities between Cunha and Lopez in terms of their skill and flying. Lopez, like Cunha, has a prone to spectacular. He smiled at the mention of his reputation as a specialist nut.
“I think soccer is a party,” he says. “I like to see that like that. I like players who take me off my seat and I’m trying to make fans.
“It is obvious that the main thing is to achieve goals and winning the games, but I love that I found out to playing Futsal when I was in the park with friends. There was a lot in Spain. There was a lot of it.”
Wolves now I hope Lopez will adapt so quickly on the field as he turned it off. His 6ft 2in frame should help. “It is obvious that the Premier League is much physical than Laliga,” he says. “I think two different styles for playing. Laliga is calmer, controlled ball, tactical. There are many more” Voom-Voom “all the time.
Lopez in Action for Wolves during the before the season
“I’ll have to adjust, but I’ll work as much as possible to reduce my time to take me.”
The presence of Jorgen Strand Larsen, his friend and former partner in Celta, with whom the summer followed in Greece during the summer, another layer of knowledge of wolves added.
“Obviously it was plus to know I wouldn’t be 100 percent himself because I knew him,” Lopez says. “He was not the main factor in my decision, but it’s a nice touch to be here with him again.”
Strand Larsen helps Lopez at the club. So, is the attacker, shooter 14 Premier League goals in the past deadline, asking him to return his affection in assistance?
Jorgen Strand Larsen (left) Played with Lopez on Celta Vigo
“Always, always,” Lopez laughs. “In training always.
“But I try to find him a lot. When the ball turned forward, I will be another guy wide open, I will try to connect with him a lot, with one two. But I try to connect with him.
“How games go and play more together, I think chemistry will start blooming more with all my teams, but especially with him because I know him more.”
It starts on a molineux on Saturday. Lopez first climbed the stadium for the first time within last weekend at his former Celta club. “Vrh, Vrh,” he says about the experience. “It was a shame we couldn’t win,” he added. “But important things now start now.”
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