Several Wolves players set to miss the start of pre-season

The squad will report back to Compton Park on Monday as Vitor Pereira begins his first full season as head coach.

However Wolves will be without several players following summer endeavours with their respective countries.

Jose Sa, Matt Doherty, Santiago Bueno, Pedro Lima, Hwang Hee-Chan and Jorgen Strand Larsen are all expected to miss the start of next week.

Instead, the players will link up with the rest of the squad in Portugal as they fly out to begin the first of two warm weather camps.

Wolves will play two behind-closed-doors friendlies during their time in Portugal.

Two players that will miss the Algarve training camp entirely are Hugo Bueno and Rodrigo Gomes.

Both players were involved in the recent Euro U21 Championships for Spain and Portugal respectively.

Bueno and Gomes exited at the quarter-final stage following defeats to Holland and eventual winners England.

Both are expected back in Wolverhampton shortly after the team return back from Portugal on July 20.

Wolves face Stoke City at the Bet365 Stadium before hosting Ligue 1 side RC Lens at Walsall's Bescot Stadium with both games open to fans.

Pereira's men will then fly to Spain for their second shorter camp and will play La Liga outfit Girona at the Estadi Montilivi on August 3.

Kick-off in Girona is 7pm UK time with many fans expected to travel to the game.

It is not clear at this present time if Fabio Silva will link up with the squad ahead of his expected departure this summer.

Nelson Semedo will also not be present after he became a free agent on July 1.

Wolves are actively working on defensive reinforcements as they continue to wait on Semedo to decide on his future.

The 31-year-old has a lucrative four-year contract extension offer on the table, with head coach Vitor Pereira hopeful of keeping his club captain at Molineux.

But Semedo has yet to give the club an answer,  however the club will not withdraw their current offer to wing-back out of respect for the player. 

One of the players who will at Compton on Monday is new £19.5m signing Fer Lopez.

The 21-year-old Spaniard has already been to Wolverhampton to sign a five-year deal from following his mover from Celta Vigo.

“It's an amazing opportunity for my career to play in the Premier League, and I'm very happy," said Lopez. 

"The club told me, and Vitor told me that they thought that I was a good fit in the squad. 

"When it’s a club like this, you have little to think about. 

"It's true, it was very hard to leave my boyhood club, but I was very pleased to come here and play in, with La Liga I think, the best league in the world."

Wolves will finish of their pre-season programme against Lopez' former club Celta Vigo on August 9 at Molineux.