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O'Neil excited about Wolves future: Look at Silva and Gomes

Wolves manager Gary O'Neil admits he is still doing a lot of work to improve his team behind the scenes.

The Midlands club enjoyed a famous win over Manchester City in the Premier League at the weekend.

However, O'Neil knows that one game does not make a season, which is why he is focused on improving the leadership and mentality of his young side.

"There's leaders within the group, definitely," O'Neil said, per the Express and Star.

"Some are vocal, some lead by example. The shouting and screaming has died down a lot from when I played and there's a slightly different feel around society in general, not just football.

"It's slightly different but there's leadership in there. I see it in training and on the pitch.

"When you don't have enough of them on there, things can start to get away from you and you feel you need to get them in the dressing room to help, but when we have key ones on there I'm really confident we can get the boys to a good understanding of situations to manage things themselves.

"The experience we lost, it's a very different group to what it was. Moutinho, Neves, Nunes, Jimenez, Diego Costa, Adama Traore – all lads that know their way around the Premier League and are experienced.

"This is a very different group. Joao Gomes is a fantastic talent, I love him to bits, but he's getting used to it.

"Fabio Silva is young and getting used to it too.

"I'm trying to move these lads along. They have fantastic ability and it's my job to make sure we get the most out of every single one of them and bring the whole thing together.

"The group are absolutely fine. We understand when we come up short of our standards and understand when we hit them.

"We know we need to be hitting them as often as we can, but they're fine and ready to go.

"There's absolutely no problem in the group. It's a fantastic group, who are fully committed and positive around where we're trying to get to."

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