Fer López - Back stronger

What's it been like, uh, with the new manager? Obviously, he's been there for a while now, but how much has, how much have you enjoyed learning and playing with, playing off him?

Well, what's it been like, uh, with the new manager? Obviously, he's been there for a while now, but how much has, how much have you enjoyed learning and playing with, playing off him?

No, a lot, a lot, because I think, uh, him being Portuguese, me being Spanish, I think, uh, tactically we have, uh, similar principles of how we, we, we understand the game, of how we grew up, uh, with the game because he was also a player.

So it reminds me a lot of the training sessions and stuff from the things I used to do in Spain.

So for me, it's been, been very good.

And how have you found it since you've been back in England? Because obviously you spent the second half of last season back in Spain, and that was a, sort of a readjustment period.

But w- was there always the plan to obviously come back here? And I imagine you obviously would have wanted to come back and play in the Premier League, but just coming back to England and, and enjoying your football again, how much have you kind of re-embraced the challenge of playing here?

English leagues, Championship and Premier League are, are very different from, from Spain.

They are very, very physical.

Uh, the only thing I needed time, I think, to was adapt and, um, play minutes.

So that's why I left on loan because I, I wanted to play.

Uh, that was the best decision I could have done because thanks to that I've evolved a lot as a player.

I haven't played a lot of minutes for my age.

Uh, only, I think before the start of the season, I only played like 2,500 or something like that.

That's, that's [laughs] half a season.

But yeah, I think that's helped me a lot.

Um, I've improved a lot and yeah, now I am, I'm ready to, to accept these challenges and hopefully we can, we can win the league and we can go back to the Premier League.

Why, why do you think things weren't quite right for you at Wolves in the first half of last season? Obviously, it was, it was a challenging time for the club in general, but for you personally, was it just a case of coming to England? I know you've lived in England when you were younger.

We'll get onto that later.

But, but in terms of coming to England as a professional footballer and, and was it just a case of just it being difficult to adapt and obviously the surroundings of the club being a challenging time as well?

I think it's a lot of things, you know.

First of all, um, uh, I hadn't played a lot of football.

Maybe I wasn't ready to come and, and set the ground running, like come and start playing everything and stuff.

I think I needed a bit of, of, how you say, a bit of, of love from the club and, uh, knowing my situation, like going a little bit like 20 minutes, then 20, 30 minutes playing every game.

But at the end, so I was g- getting used to, to the players, to, to how the team wanted to play.