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Wolves' rising stars have a chance to earn first team chance

Vitor Pereira has revealed there is a handful of academy stars that have a chance to be in the Wolves first team next season.

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The head coach, who previously worked in Porto's academy earlier in his career, is keen to give rising stars an opportunity to break into the Premier League squad.

Wolves have a number of promising youngsters - including 17-year-old Luke Rawlings who recently signed his first professional contract - and Pereira is preparing some of them for a chance in pre-season.

"Every week, we bring a few players from the academy to work with us, and at this moment, there are three, four or five players who can do the pre-season with us and maybe make part of the squad for next season," Pereira said.

"We have some good players, and we do good work in the academy.