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Jose Mourinho: Wolves have adapted to the Premier League

Jose Mourinho believes Wolves have adapted to the Premier League quickly and won't have any relegation fears later on this season.

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The former Chelsea boss welcomes Nuno, who played under him at Porto, to Old Trafford this weekend just days after their Champions League win over Young Boys, and expects a tough match after a promising start to the season from Wolves.

“The two days in between [games] are hard." he said.

"We know it’s going to be difficult but we are confident.

“[They were] really good, last season dominant, and we all know that it’s not easy to be dominant in Championship, even if you have the best team, and they were dominant since the beginning until the end,

“Then they had a strong market, great work, great adaptation to the Premier League, getting the points and the performances that makes them feel and everybody feel, I include myself, that they are going to have a very stable season, very far from the problems normally a team that comes from the Championship has.”

Having played under Mourinho during his career, much has been made of Nuno's link with the United boss - with reports in some national papers suggesting he could be eyed up as a future Manchester United manager following his strong start to life in England.

Mourinho was full of admiration for Nuno, insisting he's done 'fantastic work' at Molineux, whilst also touching on the relationship between Wolves and Jorge Mendes.

"When they are players you always have players you have a little bit of a feeling they can become managers, but I don’t think even then think about it, that team at Porto." he said.

“I would say 75 per cent of them are now managers, Nuno reaches the Premier League level and reached it be his own merit and credit.

“He didn’t come direct to the Premier League, he came to the Championship, so he earned the right to be a Premier League manager and fantastic work, the result speaks by itself.

“I don’t speak with him [Mendes] for quite a long time to be honest, but when we speak we don’t speak about my job or his job, he’s my agent and that’s it, but I think the work in Wolves is good because is not just about Portuguese influence, Portuguese manager, staff and players.

“It’s also about getting the right ones and I think they got good young players and got also good experienced, stable players, so they got this season, the Portugal national team goalkeeper, Joao Moutinho, one of the players of the 100 caps club, big stability in the team, the young ones are young boys with good potential and you can see the work of the coaching staff and the team is a really really good team.”