Steve Bull: Pre-season crucial to Wolves rebuild

Cesar Peixoto is now in at Wolves during pre-season and he needs time to assess his players.

The new head coach welcomed most of the squad back to Compton earlier this week as training began ahead of the Championship season.

The players don't know him, and vice versa, so it's a learning curve for both sides, but as a footballer you get your head down and play for whoever is in charge.

It's a slightly different situation because of the World Cup and he's missing quite a few members of the squad but it's nice for him to get his feet under the table.

It's important that he has a big say over the squad and we still need a lot of incomings and outgoings as part of the rebuild.

Pre-season is very important to get the players' fitness up and while a lot of their futures are up in the air, Peixoto can only work with what he has and hopefully we can add to the pack as the days go on.

Meanwhile, I was so impressed with England's performance against Mexico.

We showed true grit and determination with 10 men to get through that game and I'm so glad I stayed up late to watch it because it was an unbelievable game.

It was like draining all of the water out of a sponge, the players put everything into it and had nothing left at the end, but they got the result they deserved.

It was nice to see Raul Jimenez score, but it was all about England getting through and I think winning this game now gives us a good chance of winning the World Cup.

To take on Mexico in Mexico, with all the support against you and you put on a performance like that, that is the sign of a very good team that will go even further.

But to do that we first have to beat Norway tonight.

It will be a very tough game against a good side and a star striker in Erling Haaland, but our defenders have played against him in the Premier League and will know what runs he will do and all his tricks.

I think they will be more determined to stop him because of that and I'm hopeful.